top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-08-11

Can we believe our eyes? Misleading people with Unicode.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2011/08/10/can-we-believe-our-eyes.aspx

15 years ago

487 upvotes – 122 comments

Xkcd Password Generator

http://preshing.com/20110811/xkcd-password-generator

15 years ago

347 upvotes – 291 comments

New leukemia treatment "exceeded our wildest expectations"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44090512/

15 years ago

289 upvotes – 106 comments

2011 Startup School

http://startupschool.org/

15 years ago

282 upvotes – 82 comments

Google releases Games for Google+

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/games-in-google-fun-that-fits-your.html

15 years ago

259 upvotes – 95 comments

Google Admits Handing over European User Data to US Intelligence Agencies

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Admits-Handing-over-European-User-Data-to-US-Intelligence-Agencies-215740.shtml

15 years ago

255 upvotes – 86 comments

Rbenv, an unobtrusive rvm replacement

https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv

15 years ago

★ 16.6k Shell MIT
251 upvotes – 112 comments

Death to the 'noreply' mailbox

http://www.josscrowcroft.com/2011/random/death-to-the-noreply-mailbox/

15 years ago

244 upvotes – 87 comments

Facebook Wins “Worst API” in Developer Survey

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/11/facebook-wins-worst-api-in-developer-survey/

15 years ago

190 upvotes – 49 comments

An Idea for the Economy that will Freak Out a lot of People

http://blogmaverick.com/2011/08/10/an-idea-for-the-economy-that-will-freak-out-a-lot-of-people-but-could-be-fun-to-discuss/

15 years ago

186 upvotes – 190 comments

In wake of riots, British PM proposes social media ban

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/08/11/london.riots.social.media/index.html

15 years ago

156 upvotes – 135 comments

Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory

http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-pick/firefox-7-will-use-up-to-50-less-memory-20110811/

15 years ago

149 upvotes – 99 comments

Someone patented linked lists

http://www.google.com/patents?id=26aJAAAAEBAJ

15 years ago

146 upvotes – 88 comments

The Art of Assembly Language Programming

http://www.arl.wustl.edu/~lockwood/class/cs306/books/artofasm/toc.html

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 40 comments

A lack of sleep can kill you

http://www.usmansheikh.com/random/a-lack-of-sleep-can-kill-you

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 48 comments

Why software patents are not fixable

http://www.marco.org/2011/08/11/patents-cant-be-fixed

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 61 comments

The patent system isn’t broken — we are

http://thisismynext.com/2011/08/11/broken-patent-system/

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 73 comments

Django Offline Docs

http://sramana.in/dod/

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 22 comments

HIV virus used to turn white blood cells into cancer serial killers

http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-pick/hiv-virus-used-to-turn-white-blood-cells-into-cancer-serial-killers-20110811/

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 35 comments

MoonScript - A programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua.

http://moonscript.org/

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 67 comments
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