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The Best Hacker News Posts of July 2011

We track 525 stories from July 2011, averaging 197 points each. techcrunch.com was the most linked source, with 23 stories. Together they drew 41,552 comments.

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1
Airbnb Nightmare: No End In Sight ejroundtheworld.blogspot.com · moonlighter · 29 Jul 2011
1k pts 482 comments
2
Violated: A traveler’s lost faith, a difficult lesson learned ejroundtheworld.blogspot.com · foxit · 27 Jul 2011
952 pts 380 comments
3
Chosen: A javascript plug-in that makes long select boxes user-friendly. harvesthq.github.com · utkarshkukreti · 22 Jul 2011
923 pts 76 comments
4
33GB of public domain JSTOR articles, and a manifesto thepiratebay.org · sp332 · 21 Jul 2011
840 pts 179 comments
5
Bored People Quit randsinrepose.com · filament · 12 Jul 2011
840 pts 151 comments
6
A lesson on the importance of encouraging your children with their projects gamesbyemail.com · TamDenholm · 13 Jul 2011
821 pts 103 comments
7
You are not running out of time rahulbijlani.com · complexmango · 18 Jul 2011
696 pts 125 comments
8
Why I will never pursue cheating again behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com · Panos · 17 Jul 2011
691 pts 482 comments
9
Aaronsw indicted for hacking MIT network to download millions of JSTOR docs documentcloud.org · Estragon · 19 Jul 2011
603 pts 313 comments
10
Google made my son cry sunpig.com · rostayob · 4 Jul 2011
583 pts 265 comments
11
Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku blog.heroku.com · jamesheroku · 12 Jul 2011
578 pts 75 comments
12
Steve Yegge quits Google in the middle of his speech [OSCON Data 2011] youtube.com · kodisha · 27 Jul 2011
546 pts 130 comments
13
Nobody Understands REST or HTTP blog.steveklabnik.com · dermatthias · 3 Jul 2011
520 pts 133 comments
14
User testing in the wild: he has never used a computer jboriss.wordpress.com · tbassetto · 7 Jul 2011
513 pts 199 comments
15
Greece defaults blogs.reuters.com · MaysonL · 21 Jul 2011
500 pts 145 comments
16
How The Hell Is This My Fault? techcrunch.com · jamesgagan · 30 Jul 2011
481 pts 281 comments
17
How Running A Business Changes The Way You Think kalzumeus.com · JacobAldridge · 8 Jul 2011
477 pts 98 comments
18
Webdesigners: please make text readable contrastrebellion.com · bmaeser · 26 Jul 2011
467 pts 106 comments
19
A pound of flesh: how Cisco's "unmitigated gall" derailed one man's life arstechnica.com · diogenescynic · 21 Jul 2011
467 pts 101 comments
20
XKCD's Randall Munroe on Google+ requiring your gender to be public plus.google.com · macrael · 8 Jul 2011
463 pts 283 comments
21
Nginx established as a company nginx.org · rplnt · 18 Jul 2011
463 pts 71 comments
22
Anonymous & Lulz Security Statement to the FBI pastebin.com · p4bl0 · 21 Jul 2011
459 pts 241 comments
23
Remove any Site From Google (even if you don't control it) jamesbreckenridge.co.uk · feydr · 20 Jul 2011
447 pts 93 comments
24
Code.Google.com now supports git code.google.com · pixelbeat · 15 Jul 2011
445 pts 77 comments
25
What every programmer should know about time unix4lyfe.org · enneff · 4 Jul 2011
444 pts 126 comments
26
The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress nytimes.com · pcestrada · 22 Jul 2011
442 pts 144 comments
27
Ex-Wave, Ex-Plus engineer on Google Plus rethrick.com · nl · 11 Jul 2011
441 pts 150 comments
28
When Patents Attack npr.org · simon_weber · 26 Jul 2011
435 pts 131 comments
29
Warren Buffett: I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. ritholtz.com · pitdesi · 8 Jul 2011
434 pts 180 comments
30
The Moment Of Truth For Airbnb As User’s Home Is Utterly Trashed techcrunch.com · ssclafani · 27 Jul 2011
432 pts 226 comments
31
Learn C The Hard Way learncodethehardway.org · mcantelon · 3 Jul 2011
419 pts 246 comments
32
My experiences as a Recruiter on Hacker News voltsteve.blogspot.com · Peroni · 12 Jul 2011
402 pts 114 comments
33
Airbnb Victim Speaks Again: Homeless, Scared And Angry techcrunch.com · jamesgagan · 29 Jul 2011
397 pts 132 comments
34
Auditor's response to "Our security auditor is an idiot" (Update 3) serverfault.com · sharjeel · 29 Jul 2011
395 pts 137 comments
35
Another Airbnb Victim Tells His Story: “There Were Meth Pipes Everywhere” techcrunch.com · jasonlbaptiste · 31 Jul 2011
394 pts 231 comments
36
Free online version of Stanford's Fall 2011 Intro to AI course ai-class.com · finin · 30 Jul 2011
381 pts 44 comments
37
Understanding the Git Workflow sandofsky.com · RSkuja · 31 Jul 2011
378 pts 76 comments
38
Why I read Hacker News even though I understand very little of it alexrosen.com · alexmr · 5 Jul 2011
373 pts 89 comments
39
John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review arstechnica.com · thisisblurry · 20 Jul 2011
371 pts 212 comments
40
Introducing BrowserID: A better way to sign in identity.mozilla.com · joeshaw · 14 Jul 2011
364 pts 180 comments
41
Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast? cafbit.com · timdoug · 12 Jul 2011
354 pts 180 comments
42
Andy Rutledge Redesigns NYTimes.com andyrutledge.com · ecaron · 26 Jul 2011
350 pts 127 comments
43
PuTTY 0.61 released lists.tartarus.org · yankcrime · 13 Jul 2011
342 pts 102 comments
44
Java 7 is now available oracle.com · Mitt · 28 Jul 2011
341 pts 204 comments
45
Very clever story telling using HTML and Javascript... hobolobo.net · dclaysmith · 4 Jul 2011
341 pts 28 comments
46
Life lessons learned in travelling the world for 8 years straight fluentin3months.com · fezzl · 19 Jul 2011
340 pts 115 comments
47
Hacker News Fires Steve Yegge steve-yegge.blogspot.com · DanielRibeiro · 27 Jul 2011
340 pts 92 comments
48
The Secret Ingredient In Your Orange Juice foodrenegade.com · bradly · 29 Jul 2011
338 pts 188 comments
49
EBay Patents 10-Click Checkout steve-yegge.blogspot.com · timruffles · 22 Jul 2011
337 pts 40 comments
50
A preview of Gmail’s new look gmailblog.blogspot.com · sahillavingia · 1 Jul 2011
336 pts 173 comments
51
Humble Bundle #3 is Live humblebundle.com · Dysiode · 26 Jul 2011
336 pts 122 comments
52
Is There Anything Good About Men? psy.fsu.edu · simonsarris · 15 Jul 2011
333 pts 223 comments
53
I am an HFT Programmer developers.slashdot.org · marksu · 31 Jul 2011
326 pts 229 comments
54
How I Raised $350k as a Solo Founder using these 4 Email Templates library.toutapp.com · revorad · 21 Jul 2011
326 pts 47 comments
55
How To Safely Store A Password codahale.com · shawndumas · 1 Jul 2011
325 pts 209 comments
56
Why the #AskObama tweet was garbled on screen hanselman.com · brianwillis · 7 Jul 2011
322 pts 76 comments
57
GoDaddy SSL Cert Scam rentzsch.tumblr.com · dchest · 11 Jul 2011
321 pts 119 comments
58
Why I left Google. What happened to my book. What I work on at Facebook. thinkoutsidein.com · csmajorfive · 13 Jul 2011
321 pts 80 comments
59
Create a Robot Image from any text string robohash.org · e1ven · 8 Jul 2011
319 pts 101 comments
60
Estimate your English vocabulary size testyourvocab.com · mike_esspe · 17 Jul 2011
318 pts 311 comments

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