top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-07-31

Another Airbnb Victim Tells His Story: “There Were Meth Pipes Everywhere”

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/31/another-airbnb-victim-tells-his-story-there-were-meth-pipes-everywhere/

15 years ago

394 upvotes – 231 comments

Understanding the Git Workflow

http://sandofsky.com/blog/git-workflow.html

15 years ago

378 upvotes – 76 comments

I am an HFT Programmer

http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2357190&cid=36936764

15 years ago

326 upvotes – 229 comments

A Billion Dollars Isn’t Cool. You Know What’s Cool? Basic Human Decency

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/30/humbug/

15 years ago

311 upvotes – 133 comments

I Want To Unsubscribe, Not "Manage My Preferences"

http://www.georgesaines.com/?p=484

15 years ago

259 upvotes – 116 comments

A game with a windfall for a knowing few

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/07/31/a_lottery_game_with_a_windfall_for_a_knowing_few/?p1

15 years ago

200 upvotes – 36 comments

Flame from Bill Gates Re: Windows Usability

http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/7000/PX07199.pdf

15 years ago

195 upvotes – 93 comments

My Standing Desk Experiment

http://zenhabits.net/stand/

15 years ago

189 upvotes – 120 comments

Show HN: Monster Coloring Book, my first App just launched. What do you think?

http://www.monstercoloringbook.com

15 years ago

169 upvotes – 67 comments

Deployinator: Etsy's deploy tool open sourced

http://www.slideshare.net/OReillyOSCON/put-a-button-on-it-removing-barriers-to-going-fast

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 26 comments

3rd largest Bitcoin exchange lost its wallet.dat

https://bitomat.pl/Home/Statement

15 years ago

117 upvotes – 98 comments

Bootstrapping an Ultra Low Latency Trading Firm, Part 1

http://veyronb.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/bootstrapping-an-ultra-low-latency-trading-firm-part-1/

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: Weekend Project - Create Simple Android mockup

http://yeblon.com/androidmockup/

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 35 comments

Columnal: a fluid CSS grid, that scales from widescreen laptops down to phones

http://www.columnal.com/

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 26 comments

Foxconn to replace workers with 1 million robots in 3 years

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-07/30/c_131018764.htm

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 118 comments

Throwing dice gets to the truth about killing leopards

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20746-throwing-dice-gets-to-the-truth-about-killing-leopards.html

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 24 comments

A lot of tech companies in NYC are hiring, here's a list

http://nytm.org/made/

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 16 comments

Markdown.css: let's make the Web prettier

http://kevinburke.bitbucket.org/markdowncss?

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 23 comments

Cdnjs - the missing cdn

http://www.cdnjs.com?

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 39 comments

Square Now Processing $4 Million In Mobile Payments Per Day

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/31/square-now-processing-4-million-in-mobile-payments-per-day/

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 29 comments

Ask HN: Windows phone dev success/failure stories?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2828273

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 41 comments

The rise of the startup landing pages

http://www.naivehack.com/2011/07/30/startups-landing-pages/

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 18 comments

From 1890: The First Text Messages

http://sundaymagazine.org/2010/08/from-1890-the-first-text-messages/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 16 comments

Gevent, Long-Polling & You

http://toastdriven.com/blog/2011/jul/31/gevent-long-polling-you/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 9 comments

Chronic fatigue syndrome

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/07/chronic-fatigue-syndrome

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 51 comments

Len Sassaman memorialized in the Bitcoin block-chain

http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=BUB3dygQ

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: Would a startup sponsor my visa?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2828161

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 56 comments

What tiny thing in Lion makes you smile or has caught you off guard?

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/17759/what-tiny-thing-in-lion-makes-you-smile-or-has-caught-you-off-guard

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 75 comments

Ruby 1.9.3 preview1 released

http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/2258299

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 24 comments

Google Native Client 0.5 : released with stable ABI

http://code.google.com/intl/el-GR/chrome/nativeclient/docs/releasenotes.html

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 18 comments

23 Year Old Mark Andreessen Explains the Web (29:55)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5046297730700144952

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 13 comments

Infographic: How the public debt was acquired and who owns it

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Globe_Graphic/2011/07/31/31debtlimit_graphic1A__1312092683_2361.gif

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 7 comments
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