The Best Hacker News Posts of July 2010
We track 269 stories from July 2010, averaging 172 points each. techcrunch.com was the most linked source, with 11 stories. Together they drew 20,846 comments, 77 per story on average.
1
The Top Idea in Your Mind
paulgraham.com · tarunkotia · 21 Jul 2010
650 pts
191 comments
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2
Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning
mariovittone.com · msg · 6 Jul 2010
611 pts
127 comments
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3
Wikileaks To Leak 5000 Open Source Java Projects
steve-yegge.blogspot.com · rimantas · 28 Jul 2010
487 pts
126 comments
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4
The Acceleration of Addictiveness
paulgraham.com · j_baker · 26 Jul 2010
470 pts
269 comments
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5
How to Lose Time and Money
paulgraham.com · michael_nielsen · 6 Jul 2010
467 pts
175 comments
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6
Ask HN: Does reading HN ever make you feel like shit?
photon_off · 22 Jul 2010
441 pts
202 comments
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7
Told to remove blog posts describing patented algorithm
sites.google.com · willvarfar · 8 Jul 2010
429 pts
147 comments
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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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9
Growing Number of Prosecutions for Videotaping the Police
abcnews.go.com · mikecane · 20 Jul 2010
398 pts
114 comments
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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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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
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15
Google agrees to buy ITA Software for $700 million
googleblog.blogspot.com · alec · 1 Jul 2010
316 pts
121 comments
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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
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17
Everyone Who Tried to Convince Me to Use Vim Was Wrong
yehudakatz.com · mattyb · 29 Jul 2010
309 pts
208 comments
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18
I am doing a startup (putting virtual machines on the web)
catonmat.net · pkrumins · 21 Jul 2010
299 pts
103 comments
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19
Too many laws, too many prisoners
economist.com · gruseom · 23 Jul 2010
293 pts
167 comments
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20
What's wrong with 1975 programming
varnish-cache.org · dchest · 28 Jul 2010
293 pts
115 comments
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21
Richard Stallman answers Reddit's top 25 questions.
blog.reddit.com · abstractbill · 29 Jul 2010
285 pts
257 comments
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22
Old School Color Cycling with HTML5
effectgames.com · jhuckaby · 25 Jul 2010
284 pts
51 comments
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23
Ask PG & other successful folks: how did your life change after FU money?
resdirector · 13 Jul 2010
277 pts
174 comments
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24
Back Office Exposed: Bingo Card Creator
resultsjunkies.com · paulsingh · 30 Jul 2010
274 pts
54 comments
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25
Because Spain won, jQuery: Novice to Ninja is free for 24 hours
sale.sitepoint.com · superduper · 11 Jul 2010
273 pts
60 comments
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26
Did Americans in 1776 have British accents?
nicholasjohnpatrick.com · icey · 4 Jul 2010
268 pts
168 comments
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27
Unlocking and jailbreaking are now legally protected in the U.S.
eff.org · isamuel · 26 Jul 2010
266 pts
35 comments
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28
My experiment with smart drugs (2008)
johannhari.com · pw · 17 Jul 2010
264 pts
142 comments
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30
World War II was totally unrealistic
squid314.livejournal.com · goodside · 12 Jul 2010
255 pts
152 comments
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31
Tell HN: AeroFS - File Syncing Without Servers
aerofs.posterous.com · yurisagalov · 22 Jul 2010
248 pts
75 comments
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32
Ask HN: My brain refuses to think, what should I do?
DeusExMachina · 25 Jul 2010
247 pts
147 comments
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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
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36
Aldous Huxley was right, not George Orwell
recombinantrecords.net · dotcoma · 28 Jul 2010
240 pts
81 comments
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38
1099 will end the world in 2012
academicvc.com · ajaimk · 23 Jul 2010
235 pts
153 comments
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40
Tell HN: I'm launching in 30 days. No matter what. Hold me to it
kabuks · 29 Jul 2010
234 pts
129 comments
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41
Software will be unpatentable in New Zealand
nzcs.org.nz · brehaut · 15 Jul 2010
229 pts
28 comments
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43
Stop complaining and pay programmers more
wake_up_sticky · 1 Jul 2010
227 pts
272 comments
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44
High Ground Maneuver (Scott Adams on the iPhone 4 press conference)
dilbert.com · salar · 19 Jul 2010
227 pts
89 comments
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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
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46
Technical cofounder wanted for disrupting the wedding industry
limedaring.com · joshfraser · 27 Jul 2010
224 pts
143 comments
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47
You Can’t Take It With You
steveblank.com · jason_tko · 26 Jul 2010
222 pts
37 comments
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48
Show HN: HackerNewsers,com, find other hackers near you
phpnode · 16 Jul 2010
221 pts
111 comments
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49
If You Build It, They Won’t Come.
jasonlbaptiste.com · jasonlbaptiste · 27 Jul 2010
216 pts
54 comments
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50
Useful things you can make SSH do
derwiki.tumblr.com · derwiki · 21 Jul 2010
214 pts
71 comments
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53
Startup Competitive Advantages that Work
blog.asmartbear.com · stakent · 19 Jul 2010
211 pts
39 comments
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55
-2000 Lines of Code (2004)
folklore.org · aycangulez · 25 Jul 2010
210 pts
50 comments
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56
You should blog even if you have no readers
nathanmarz.com · nathanmarz · 30 Jul 2010
207 pts
54 comments
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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
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58
How to be a Programmer
samizdat.mines.edu · ronnier · 11 Jul 2010
206 pts
28 comments
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59
Three years ago, I sold my startup because I was an idiot
peterc.org · briandoll · 30 Jul 2010
204 pts
89 comments
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