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Top of Month - Jul 2010

1. The Top Idea in Your Mind
   (21 Jul 2010 | 650 points | Comments)

2. Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning
   (6 Jul 2010 | 611 points | Comments)

3. Wikileaks To Leak 5000 Open Source Java Projects
   (28 Jul 2010 | 487 points | Comments)

4. The Acceleration of Addictiveness
   (26 Jul 2010 | 470 points | Comments)

5. How to Lose Time and Money
   (6 Jul 2010 | 467 points | Comments)

6. Ask HN: Does reading HN ever make you feel like shit?
   (22 Jul 2010 | 441 points | Comments)

7. Told to remove blog posts describing patented algorithm
   (8 Jul 2010 | 429 points | Comments)

8. How to Destroy Someone's Life or They called me a child pornographer
   (20 Jul 2010 | 428 points | Comments)

9. Growing Number of Prosecutions for Videotaping the Police
   (20 Jul 2010 | 398 points | Comments)

10. One of the most amazing physics engines I’ve ever seen
    (20 Jul 2010 | 377 points | Comments)

11. Will it optimize?
    (23 Jul 2010 | 357 points | Comments)

12. My loss
    (3 Jul 2010 | 348 points | Comments)

13. I assume I'm below average
    (2 Jul 2010 | 340 points | Comments)

14. Now legal in the U.S.: Jailbreaking your iPhone, ripping a DVD for education
    (26 Jul 2010 | 325 points | Comments)

15. Google agrees to buy ITA Software for $700 million
    (1 Jul 2010 | 316 points | Comments)

16. Woot To The AP: Nice Story About Our Sale — You Now Owe Us $17.50
    (6 Jul 2010 | 314 points | Comments)

17. Everyone Who Tried to Convince Me to Use Vim Was Wrong
    (29 Jul 2010 | 309 points | Comments)

18. I am doing a startup (putting virtual machines on the web)
    (21 Jul 2010 | 299 points | Comments)

19. Too many laws, too many prisoners
    (23 Jul 2010 | 293 points | Comments)

20. What's wrong with 1975 programming
    (28 Jul 2010 | 293 points | Comments)

21. Richard Stallman answers Reddit's top 25 questions.
    (29 Jul 2010 | 285 points | Comments)

22. Old School Color Cycling with HTML5
    (25 Jul 2010 | 284 points | Comments)

23. Ask PG & other successful folks: how did your life change after FU money?
    (13 Jul 2010 | 277 points | Comments)

24. Back Office Exposed: Bingo Card Creator
    (30 Jul 2010 | 274 points | Comments)

25. Because Spain won, jQuery: Novice to Ninja is free for 24 hours
    (11 Jul 2010 | 273 points | Comments)

26. Did Americans in 1776 have British accents?
    (4 Jul 2010 | 268 points | Comments)

27. Unlocking and jailbreaking are now legally protected in the U.S.
    (26 Jul 2010 | 266 points | Comments)

28. My experiment with smart drugs (2008)
    (17 Jul 2010 | 264 points | Comments)

29. A prescient footnote
    (15 Jul 2010 | 261 points | Comments)

30. World War II was totally unrealistic
    (12 Jul 2010 | 255 points | Comments)

31. Tell HN: AeroFS - File Syncing Without Servers
    (22 Jul 2010 | 248 points | Comments)

32. Translation From Apple's PR-Speak to English of the Letter Regarding iPhone 4
    (2 Jul 2010 | 247 points | Comments)

33. HTC 1
    (12 Jul 2010 | 247 points | Comments)

34. Ask HN: My brain refuses to think, what should I do?
    (25 Jul 2010 | 247 points | Comments)

35. The truth about cold water
    (9 Jul 2010 | 244 points | Comments)

36. Aldous Huxley was right, not George Orwell
    (28 Jul 2010 | 240 points | Comments)

37. Reddit needs help
    (9 Jul 2010 | 235 points | Comments)

38. Blogger Finger
    (15 Jul 2010 | 235 points | Comments)

39. 1099 will end the world in 2012
    (23 Jul 2010 | 235 points | Comments)

40. Tell HN: I'm launching in 30 days. No matter what. Hold me to it
    (29 Jul 2010 | 234 points | Comments)

41. Software will be unpatentable in New Zealand
    (15 Jul 2010 | 229 points | Comments)

42. My Google Interview
    (16 Jul 2010 | 228 points | Comments)

43. Stop complaining and pay programmers more
    (1 Jul 2010 | 227 points | Comments)

44. High Ground Maneuver (Scott Adams on the iPhone 4 press conference)
    (19 Jul 2010 | 227 points | Comments)

45. AP Not Amused By The Woot Story, Tries To Play The Oil Spill Card
    (6 Jul 2010 | 226 points | Comments)

46. Technical cofounder wanted for disrupting the wedding industry
    (27 Jul 2010 | 224 points | Comments)

47. You Can’t Take It With You
    (26 Jul 2010 | 222 points | Comments)

48. Show HN: HackerNewsers,com, find other hackers near you
    (16 Jul 2010 | 221 points | Comments)

49. If You Build It, They Won’t Come.
    (27 Jul 2010 | 216 points | Comments)

50. Useful things you can make SSH do
    (21 Jul 2010 | 214 points | Comments)

51. Diaspora: One Month In
    (2 Jul 2010 | 212 points | Comments)

52. Apple letter about iPhone 4
    (2 Jul 2010 | 212 points | Comments)

53. Startup Competitive Advantages that Work
    (19 Jul 2010 | 211 points | Comments)

54. Old Spice on Twitter
    (13 Jul 2010 | 210 points | Comments)

55. -2000 Lines of Code (2004)
    (25 Jul 2010 | 210 points | Comments)

56. You should blog even if you have no readers
    (30 Jul 2010 | 207 points | Comments)

57. How to be a Programmer
    (11 Jul 2010 | 206 points | Comments)

58. The Men Who Stare At Screens (why going to the gym might not be good enough)
    (14 Jul 2010 | 206 points | Comments)

59. Three years ago, I sold my startup because I was an idiot
    (30 Jul 2010 | 204 points | Comments)

60. Zed Shaw on C++
    (16 Jul 2010 | 202 points | Comments)

61. For God's sake, follow your dreams
    (23 Jul 2010 | 201 points | Comments)

62. It’s Faster Because It’s C
    (13 Jul 2010 | 200 points | Comments)

63. If You’re So Damn Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich?
    (28 Jul 2010 | 200 points | Comments)

64. The pros and cons of 'fuck you' money.
    (13 Jul 2010 | 199 points | Comments)

65. How the Old Spice Videos Are Being Made
    (14 Jul 2010 | 197 points | Comments)

66. Apple’s Antenna Design and Test Labs
    (16 Jul 2010 | 197 points | Comments)

67. In what language do deaf people think?
    (11 Jul 2010 | 196 points | Comments)

68. Hacker News Daily (announcement)
    (14 Jul 2010 | 195 points | Comments)

69. CouchDB 1.0
    (14 Jul 2010 | 194 points | Comments)

70. Guy crafts a Daft Punk helmet in 17 months
    (22 Jul 2010 | 194 points | Comments)

71. Ask HN: Share a gem. Teach me and you.
    (29 Jul 2010 | 194 points | Comments)

72. My experience as the first employee of a Y Combinator startup
    (12 Jul 2010 | 192 points | Comments)

73. To-do app + RPG = EpicWin
    (8 Jul 2010 | 189 points | Comments)

74. Why the Mythbusters won't do RFID (2008)
    (22 Jul 2010 | 188 points | Comments)

75. The Most Important Algorithms
    (5 Jul 2010 | 187 points | Comments)

76. How grep got its name
    (29 Jul 2010 | 186 points | Comments)

77. "Uh-oh. I didn't know conversation had rules."
    (20 Jul 2010 | 185 points | Comments)

78. Big Bang Abandoned In New Model of the Universe
    (27 Jul 2010 | 185 points | Comments)

79. Hacker Monthly #3 [pdf]
    (31 Jul 2010 | 185 points | Comments)

80. Node and Scaling in the Small vs Scaling in the Large
    (27 Jul 2010 | 184 points | Comments)

81. Jeff Bezos to Princeton's class of 2010 :"We are What We Choose"
    (5 Jul 2010 | 182 points | Comments)

82. Guido van Rossum: Thoughts about Python Future
    (27 Jul 2010 | 182 points | Comments)

83. Guide to where your cofounders should live in the SF Bay
    (13 Jul 2010 | 179 points | Comments)

84. Openstack: Open source cloud computing software
    (19 Jul 2010 | 179 points | Comments)

85. * cures (or causes) cancer
    (7 Jul 2010 | 178 points | Comments)

86. Damn Vulnerable Linux - The most vulnerable and exploitable distro
    (17 Jul 2010 | 178 points | Comments)

87. Where does a tree get its mass?
    (1 Jul 2010 | 176 points | Comments)

88. Post from "weev" (AT&T/ipad data hacker) on his arrest and treatment
    (7 Jul 2010 | 176 points | Comments)

89. Mathematics for Computer Science - Lecture Notes
    (15 Jul 2010 | 176 points | Comments)

90. What Do You Lack? Probably Vitamin D
    (27 Jul 2010 | 175 points | Comments)

91. Out Of Nowhere, The iPad Has A Real Competitor
    (12 Jul 2010 | 174 points | Comments)

92. Peter Norvig's Library
    (23 Jul 2010 | 174 points | Comments)

93. App Inventor for Android - Android Software Development for Everyone
    (12 Jul 2010 | 172 points | Comments)

94. Google Secretly Invested In Zynga, Preparing To Launch Google Games
    (11 Jul 2010 | 171 points | Comments)

95. We’re Apple. We don’t wear suits. We don’t even own suits.
    (19 Jul 2010 | 171 points | Comments)

96. Experimenting with Node.js
    (26 Jul 2010 | 171 points | Comments)

97. Follow-up to: Did Americans in 1776 have British accents?
    (6 Jul 2010 | 170 points | Comments)

98. The absolute bare minimum every programmer should know about regular expressions
    (20 Jul 2010 | 167 points | Comments)

99. Rate my startup: ChompStack, a mobile website builder for restaurants
    (6 Jul 2010 | 166 points | Comments)

100. No, that is not a competitive advantage
     (12 Jul 2010 | 166 points | Comments)