The Best Hacker News Posts of July 2010

1

The Top Idea in Your Mind paulgraham.com · tarunkotia · 21 Jul 2010

650 pts 191 comments

2

Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning mariovittone.com · msg · 6 Jul 2010

611 pts 127 comments

3

Wikileaks To Leak 5000 Open Source Java Projects steve-yegge.blogspot.com · rimantas · 28 Jul 2010

487 pts 126 comments

4

The Acceleration of Addictiveness paulgraham.com · j_baker · 26 Jul 2010

470 pts 269 comments

5

How to Lose Time and Money paulgraham.com · michael_nielsen · 6 Jul 2010

467 pts 175 comments

6

Ask HN: Does reading HN ever make you feel like shit? photon_off · 22 Jul 2010

441 pts 202 comments

7

Told to remove blog posts describing patented algorithm sites.google.com · willvarfar · 8 Jul 2010

429 pts 147 comments

8

How to Destroy Someone's Life or They called me a child pornographer salon.com · georgecmu · 20 Jul 2010

428 pts 210 comments

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Growing Number of Prosecutions for Videotaping the Police abcnews.go.com · mikecane · 20 Jul 2010

398 pts 114 comments

10

One of the most amazing physics engines I’ve ever seen vimeo.com · jmillerinc · 20 Jul 2010

377 pts 49 comments

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Will it optimize? ridiculousfish.com · mark_h · 23 Jul 2010

357 pts 59 comments

12

My loss sivers.org · grep · 3 Jul 2010

348 pts 105 comments

13

I assume I'm below average sivers.org · mahipal · 2 Jul 2010

340 pts 106 comments

14

Now legal in the U.S.: Jailbreaking your iPhone, ripping a DVD for education crunchgear.com · yanw · 26 Jul 2010

325 pts 85 comments

15

Google agrees to buy ITA Software for $700 million googleblog.blogspot.com · alec · 1 Jul 2010

316 pts 121 comments

16

Woot To The AP: Nice Story About Our Sale — You Now Owe Us $17.50 techcrunch.com · dwynings · 6 Jul 2010

314 pts 46 comments

17

Everyone Who Tried to Convince Me to Use Vim Was Wrong yehudakatz.com · mattyb · 29 Jul 2010

309 pts 208 comments

18

I am doing a startup (putting virtual machines on the web) catonmat.net · pkrumins · 21 Jul 2010

299 pts 103 comments

19

Too many laws, too many prisoners economist.com · gruseom · 23 Jul 2010

293 pts 167 comments

20

What's wrong with 1975 programming varnish-cache.org · dchest · 28 Jul 2010

293 pts 115 comments

21

Richard Stallman answers Reddit's top 25 questions. blog.reddit.com · abstractbill · 29 Jul 2010

285 pts 257 comments

22

Old School Color Cycling with HTML5 effectgames.com · jhuckaby · 25 Jul 2010

284 pts 51 comments

23

Ask PG & other successful folks: how did your life change after FU money? resdirector · 13 Jul 2010

277 pts 174 comments

24

Back Office Exposed: Bingo Card Creator resultsjunkies.com · paulsingh · 30 Jul 2010

274 pts 54 comments

25

Because Spain won, jQuery: Novice to Ninja is free for 24 hours sale.sitepoint.com · superduper · 11 Jul 2010

273 pts 60 comments

26

Did Americans in 1776 have British accents? nicholasjohnpatrick.com · icey · 4 Jul 2010

268 pts 168 comments

27

Unlocking and jailbreaking are now legally protected in the U.S. eff.org · isamuel · 26 Jul 2010

266 pts 35 comments

28

My experiment with smart drugs (2008) johannhari.com · pw · 17 Jul 2010

264 pts 142 comments

29

A prescient footnote blog.oddhead.com · jplewicke · 15 Jul 2010

261 pts 79 comments

30

World War II was totally unrealistic squid314.livejournal.com · goodside · 12 Jul 2010

255 pts 152 comments

31

Tell HN: AeroFS - File Syncing Without Servers aerofs.posterous.com · yurisagalov · 22 Jul 2010

248 pts 75 comments

32

Ask HN: My brain refuses to think, what should I do? DeusExMachina · 25 Jul 2010

247 pts 147 comments

33

HTC 1 designfabulous.blogspot.com · ecaron · 12 Jul 2010

247 pts 127 comments

34

Translation From Apple's PR-Speak to English of the Letter Regarding iPhone 4 daringfireball.net · earcar · 2 Jul 2010

247 pts 92 comments

35

The truth about cold water gcaptain.com · helwr · 9 Jul 2010

244 pts 57 comments

36

Aldous Huxley was right, not George Orwell recombinantrecords.net · dotcoma · 28 Jul 2010

240 pts 81 comments

37

Reddit needs help blog.reddit.com · icey · 9 Jul 2010

235 pts 242 comments

38

1099 will end the world in 2012 academicvc.com · ajaimk · 23 Jul 2010

235 pts 153 comments

39

Blogger Finger steve-yegge.blogspot.com · alexkay · 15 Jul 2010

235 pts 68 comments

40

Tell HN: I'm launching in 30 days. No matter what. Hold me to it kabuks · 29 Jul 2010

234 pts 129 comments

41

Software will be unpatentable in New Zealand nzcs.org.nz · brehaut · 15 Jul 2010

229 pts 28 comments

42

My Google Interview cforcoding.com · cletus · 16 Jul 2010

228 pts 133 comments

43

Stop complaining and pay programmers more wake_up_sticky · 1 Jul 2010

227 pts 272 comments

44

High Ground Maneuver (Scott Adams on the iPhone 4 press conference) dilbert.com · salar · 19 Jul 2010

227 pts 89 comments

45

AP Not Amused By The Woot Story, Tries To Play The Oil Spill Card techcrunch.com · jasonlbaptiste · 6 Jul 2010

226 pts 34 comments

46

Technical cofounder wanted for disrupting the wedding industry limedaring.com · joshfraser · 27 Jul 2010

224 pts 143 comments

47

You Can’t Take It With You steveblank.com · jason_tko · 26 Jul 2010

222 pts 37 comments

48

Show HN: HackerNewsers,com, find other hackers near you phpnode · 16 Jul 2010

221 pts 111 comments

49

If You Build It, They Won’t Come. jasonlbaptiste.com · jasonlbaptiste · 27 Jul 2010

216 pts 54 comments

50

Useful things you can make SSH do derwiki.tumblr.com · derwiki · 21 Jul 2010

214 pts 71 comments

51

Apple letter about iPhone 4 apple.com · ukdm · 2 Jul 2010

212 pts 141 comments

52

Diaspora: One Month In joindiaspora.com · iwani · 2 Jul 2010

212 pts 86 comments

53

Startup Competitive Advantages that Work blog.asmartbear.com · stakent · 19 Jul 2010

211 pts 39 comments

54

Old Spice on Twitter twitter.com · oneplusone · 13 Jul 2010

210 pts 76 comments

55

-2000 Lines of Code (2004) folklore.org · aycangulez · 25 Jul 2010

210 pts 50 comments

56

You should blog even if you have no readers nathanmarz.com · nathanmarz · 30 Jul 2010

207 pts 54 comments

57

The Men Who Stare At Screens (why going to the gym might not be good enough) well.blogs.nytimes.com · kscaldef · 14 Jul 2010

206 pts 106 comments

58

How to be a Programmer samizdat.mines.edu · ronnier · 11 Jul 2010

206 pts 28 comments

59

Three years ago, I sold my startup because I was an idiot peterc.org · briandoll · 30 Jul 2010

204 pts 89 comments

60

Zed Shaw on C++ librelist.com · mattrepl · 16 Jul 2010

202 pts 200 comments