top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-08-01

An iOS Developer Takes on Android

http://nfarina.com/post/8239634061/ios-to-android

15 years ago

720 upvotes – 116 comments

Our Commitment to Trust & Safety

http://blog.airbnb.com/our-commitment-to-trust-and-safety

15 years ago

416 upvotes – 163 comments

Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (August 2011)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2831646

15 years ago

282 upvotes – 306 comments

The future Firefox UI

http://people.mozilla.com/~shorlander/ux-presentation/ux-presentation.html

15 years ago

264 upvotes – 185 comments

Getting Bin Laden: What happened that night in Abbottabad

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/08/08/110808fa_fact_schmidle?currentPage=all

15 years ago

245 upvotes – 140 comments

I don't know how to IE6

http://blog.colbyrabideau.com/post/8317497197/i-dont-know-how-to-ie6

15 years ago

234 upvotes – 156 comments

Game of Thrones CGI

http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/07/29/game-of-thrones-cgi/

15 years ago

210 upvotes – 67 comments

Why I'd never work for Google, Twitter, or Facebook

http://www.naildrivin5.com/blog/2011/08/01/why-i-wont-work-for-google-twitter-facebook.html

15 years ago

205 upvotes – 163 comments

Meet Comex, The 19-Year-Old iPhone Uber-Hacker Who Keeps Outsmarting Apple

http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/08/01/meet-comex-the-iphone-uber-hacker-who-keeps-outsmarting-apple/

15 years ago

197 upvotes – 71 comments

Learn Perl in about 2 hours 30 minutes

http://qntm.org/files/perl/perl.html

15 years ago

175 upvotes – 105 comments

Patents against prosperity

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/08/intellectual-property?fsrc=rss

15 years ago

159 upvotes – 38 comments

How to Launch Your Startup Idea for Less than $5K

http://www.mikekarnj.com/blog/2011/08/01/how-to-launch-your-startup-idea-for-less-than-5k/

15 years ago

159 upvotes – 27 comments

Dulwich: Pure Python implementation of git

http://samba.org/~jelmer/dulwich/

15 years ago

151 upvotes – 33 comments

Why you can't search for phpBB on Bing

http://blamcast.net/articles/bing-crash

15 years ago

149 upvotes – 42 comments

The Art of Computer Programming (interview with Don Knuth)

http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/40462

15 years ago

140 upvotes – 25 comments

Protocol Buffers, Avro, Thrift & MessagePack

http://www.igvita.com/2011/08/01/protocol-buffers-avro-thrift-messagepack/

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 24 comments

Airbnb Offers Unconditional Apology, And $50,000 Insurance Guarantee

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/01/airbnb-offers-unconditional-apology-and-50000-insurance-guarantee/

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 62 comments

Stop A/B Testing and Make Out like a Bandit

http://untyped.com/untyping/2011/02/11/stop-ab-testing-and-make-out-like-a-bandit/

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 66 comments

IOS devs put out a call to unite against Lodsys, other patent trolls

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/08/ios-devs-put-out-a-call-to-unite-against-lodsys-other-patent-trolls.ars

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 34 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2011)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2831651

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 128 comments
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