top 50% 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

Street Fighting Mathematics: The art of educated guessing

http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/full_pdfs/Street-Fighting_Mathematics.pdf

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 7 comments

MoonScript - A programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua.

http://moonscript.org/

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 67 comments

LinkedIn opts 100 million users into sharing information with ads

http://news.yahoo.com/linkedin-opts-100-million-users-sharing-private-information-050409746.html

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 25 comments

Opez (YC S11) Is Yelp Meets Facebook, For Service Professionals

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/11/yc-backed-opez-is-yelp-meets-facebook-for-service-professionals/

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 22 comments

Munch On Me (YC S11) Helps You Discover Tasty Dishes

http://mashable.com/2011/08/10/munch-on-me/

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 35 comments

How to be a faster writer

http://www.slate.com/id/2301243/

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 27 comments

Git: fetch and merge, don’t pull

http://longair.net/blog/2009/04/16/git-fetch-and-merge/

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 20 comments

Fast and free Speech Recognition with Google's Voice API

http://fennb.com/fast-free-speech-recognition-using-googles-in

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 15 comments

Understanding JavaScript function invocation and "this"

http://yehudakatz.com/2011/08/11/understanding-javascript-function-invocation-and-this/

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: My First Commercial Game Is Now Online

http://www.cardinalquest.com/

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 52 comments

How we used Node.js to build real-time award flight search

http://blog.milewise.com/post/8792373531/how-we-used-node

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 38 comments

Eight years ago today, an RC plane became the first to fly across the Atlantic

http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=2889002ad89d45ca21f50ba46&id=ba6653a410

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 31 comments

Building Lanyrd

http://lanyrd.com/2011/brightonpy-building-lanyrd/sgptt/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 26 comments

Silicon Valley’s Undertaker: "We're Anticipating a Major Fallout"

http://www.pehub.com/115158/silicon-valley’s-undertaker-‘we’re-anticipating-a-major-fallout’/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 17 comments

Google+ Wastes No Time: Angry Birds, Bejeweled, Zynga On Board

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/11/google-plus-games/

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 29 comments

Linux 20 Years: Anecdotes from 1998

http://liw.fi/linux-anecdotes/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 16 comments

Iron Man-Like Exoskeleton Nears Production

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/helloworld/27055/?p1=A3

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 31 comments

Exodus: Israeli Army's Elite Programmers Head to Silicon Alley

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/08/09/israeli-start-ups-skip-the-valley-go-direct-to-new-york/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 29 comments

Avoid Customer Feedback Before Version 1.0

http://adii.me/2011/08/avoid-pre-v1-feedback/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: LazyMeter is the only to-do list you'll finish every day

http://www.lazymeter.com

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 53 comments

Hacker CS: Computer Science Challenges

http://hackercs.com/streams/Computer-Science-Challenges/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 21 comments

The See-Invisibility Exploit in Games: How it works

http://shenglong.posterous.com/interlude-the-see-invisibility-exploit

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 39 comments

Visualizing your email box using R

http://www.r-bloggers.com/sna-visualising-an-email-box-with-r/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 11 comments

Wikipedia traffic statistics for Hacker News (or any other article)

http://stats.grok.se/en/201108/Hacker_News

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 13 comments

For-Profit College Group Sued as U.S. Lays Out Wide Fraud

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/09/education/09forprofit.html

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 16 comments

Algorithmic trading -- the positive side

http://physicsoffinance.blogspot.com/2011/08/algorithmic-trading-positive-side.html

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 22 comments

The Google+ Platform Blog

http://googleplusplatform.blogspot.com

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 8 comments

Facebook is sharing your phone number

http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/192399/facebooks-phonebook-fiasco

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 31 comments
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