top 50% 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

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

Patents against prosperity

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

15 years ago

159 upvotes – 38 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

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

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

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 128 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

Show HN: An intuitive, offline capable HTML5 mind mapping application

http://drichard.org/mindmaps/

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 39 comments

iCloud beta

https://www.icloud.com/

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 48 comments

Adobe Launches "Adobe Edge" - HTML5 Animation Tool

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/edge/?v=2

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 55 comments

Netflix Instant is coming to the entire Linux Community

http://benjaminkerensa.com/netflix-instant-is-coming-to-the-entire-linux

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 40 comments

Patents are about to become a bigger problem

http://ownlocal.com/newspaper-support-group/patents-are-about-to-become-a-bigger-problem/

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 52 comments

Google’s YouTube Uses FFmpeg

http://multimedia.cx/eggs/googles-youtube-uses-ffmpeg/

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 40 comments

Taazr: Optimize and Monitor your Javascript

https://www.taazr.com/

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 9 comments

WSGI Is Dead: Long Live WSGI Lite

http://dirtsimple.org/2011/07/wsgi-is-dead-long-live-wsgi-lite.html

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 16 comments

Wicked

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/07/wicked-1.html

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 16 comments

Was Steve Yegge Right?

http://regularlyexpressed.com/was-steve-yegge-right/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 41 comments

The Blueseed Project - Opening Silicon Valley To The World

http://www.blueseed.co/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 33 comments

Mythbusters: Stored Procedures Edition

http://ora-00001.blogspot.com/2011/07/mythbusters-stored-procedures-edition.html

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 88 comments

Myths about entrepreneurs

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-entrepreneurs/2011/06/29/gIQALtCBhI_story.html?hpid=z3

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 32 comments

Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

http://bhorowitz.com/2010/04/28/why-we-prefer-founding-ceos/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 7 comments

Need Help. Going through late 20 career crisis.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2831846

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 44 comments

The real story behind the Java 7 GA bugs affecting Apache Lucene / Solr

http://blog.thetaphi.de/2011/07/real-story-behind-java-7-ga-bugs.html

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 10 comments

A new kind of interchange eliminates left turns.

http://www.slate.com/id/2300425/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 23 comments

Introducing Clojure to an Organisation

http://oobaloo.co.uk/introducing-clojure-to-an-organisation

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 3 comments

Diablo 3 Real Money Auction House Details

http://www.ausgamers.com/features/read/3093728

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 53 comments

Google's New Patents

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110731130800781

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 21 comments

Tell HN: We made a Forrst invite code for you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2834051

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 22 comments

What is the Higgs boson and why it's important

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/91482-what-is-the-higgs-boson-and-why-is-it-important-to-science

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 3 comments

I tried DomainPolish. Here are the results

http://iainmcqueen.posterous.com/swiperoos-domain-polish-results

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 30 comments

AMA HN: I launched my profitable startup one year ago today.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2832638

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 37 comments

How Facebook determines the list of 10 Friends to display on your profile?

https://plus.google.com/u/0/111297306144520956414/posts/FJRYJaDMWbb

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 20 comments

Products Don't Spread Virally

http://messymatters.com/2011/07/31/viral/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 15 comments

GiftRocket's new design has launched

http://mikekus.com/archive/giftrocket-has-launched/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 17 comments

Bassnectar responds regarding music piracy

http://www.bassnectar.net/2011/08/fan-bass-leaked-music/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 18 comments

The Consumer Web is Deflationary

http://www.digital-dd.com/the-growth-of-the-internet-and-the-happy-recession/

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 24 comments
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