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Top of Month - Jul 2011

1. Airbnb Nightmare: No End In Sight
   (29 Jul 2011 | 1017 points | Comments)

2. Violated: A traveler’s lost faith, a difficult lesson learned
   (27 Jul 2011 | 952 points | Comments)

3. Chosen: A javascript plug-in that makes long select boxes user-friendly.
   (22 Jul 2011 | 923 points | Comments)

4. Bored People Quit
   (12 Jul 2011 | 840 points | Comments)

5. 33GB of public domain JSTOR articles, and a manifesto
   (21 Jul 2011 | 840 points | Comments)

6. A lesson on the importance of encouraging your children with their projects
   (13 Jul 2011 | 821 points | Comments)

7. You are not running out of time
   (18 Jul 2011 | 696 points | Comments)

8. Why I will never pursue cheating again
   (17 Jul 2011 | 691 points | Comments)

9. Aaronsw indicted for hacking MIT network to download millions of JSTOR docs
   (19 Jul 2011 | 603 points | Comments)

10. Google made my son cry
    (4 Jul 2011 | 583 points | Comments)

11. Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku
    (12 Jul 2011 | 578 points | Comments)

12. Steve Yegge quits Google in the middle of his speech [OSCON Data 2011]
    (27 Jul 2011 | 546 points | Comments)

13. Nobody Understands REST or HTTP
    (3 Jul 2011 | 520 points | Comments)

14. User testing in the wild: he has never used a computer
    (7 Jul 2011 | 513 points | Comments)

15. Greece defaults
    (21 Jul 2011 | 500 points | Comments)

16. How The Hell Is This My Fault?
    (30 Jul 2011 | 481 points | Comments)

17. How Running A Business Changes The Way You Think
    (8 Jul 2011 | 477 points | Comments)

18. A pound of flesh: how Cisco's "unmitigated gall" derailed one man's life
    (21 Jul 2011 | 467 points | Comments)

19. Webdesigners: please make text readable
    (26 Jul 2011 | 467 points | Comments)

20. XKCD's Randall Munroe on Google+ requiring your gender to be public
    (8 Jul 2011 | 463 points | Comments)

21. Nginx established as a company
    (18 Jul 2011 | 463 points | Comments)

22. Anonymous & Lulz Security Statement to the FBI
    (21 Jul 2011 | 459 points | Comments)

23. Remove any Site From Google (even if you don't control it)
    (20 Jul 2011 | 447 points | Comments)

24. Code.Google.com now supports git
    (15 Jul 2011 | 445 points | Comments)

25. What every programmer should know about time
    (4 Jul 2011 | 444 points | Comments)

26. The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress
    (22 Jul 2011 | 442 points | Comments)

27. Ex-Wave, Ex-Plus engineer on Google Plus
    (11 Jul 2011 | 441 points | Comments)

28. When Patents Attack
    (26 Jul 2011 | 435 points | Comments)

29. Warren Buffett: I could end the deficit in 5 minutes.
    (8 Jul 2011 | 434 points | Comments)

30. The Moment Of Truth For Airbnb As User’s Home Is Utterly Trashed
    (27 Jul 2011 | 432 points | Comments)

31. Learn C The Hard Way
    (3 Jul 2011 | 419 points | Comments)

32. My experiences as a Recruiter on Hacker News
    (12 Jul 2011 | 402 points | Comments)

33. Airbnb Victim Speaks Again: Homeless, Scared And Angry
    (29 Jul 2011 | 397 points | Comments)

34. Auditor's response to "Our security auditor is an idiot" (Update 3)
    (29 Jul 2011 | 395 points | Comments)

35. Another Airbnb Victim Tells His Story: “There Were Meth Pipes Everywhere”
    (31 Jul 2011 | 394 points | Comments)

36. Free online version of Stanford's Fall 2011 Intro to AI course
    (30 Jul 2011 | 381 points | Comments)

37. Understanding the Git Workflow
    (31 Jul 2011 | 378 points | Comments)

38. Why I read Hacker News even though I understand very little of it
    (5 Jul 2011 | 373 points | Comments)

39. John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review
    (20 Jul 2011 | 371 points | Comments)

40. Introducing BrowserID: A better way to sign in
    (14 Jul 2011 | 364 points | Comments)

41. Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast?
    (12 Jul 2011 | 354 points | Comments)

42. Andy Rutledge Redesigns NYTimes.com
    (26 Jul 2011 | 350 points | Comments)

43. PuTTY 0.61 released
    (13 Jul 2011 | 342 points | Comments)

44. Very clever story telling using HTML and Javascript...
    (4 Jul 2011 | 341 points | Comments)

45. Java 7 is now available
    (28 Jul 2011 | 341 points | Comments)

46. Life lessons learned in travelling the world for 8 years straight
    (19 Jul 2011 | 340 points | Comments)

47. Hacker News Fires Steve Yegge
    (27 Jul 2011 | 340 points | Comments)

48. The Secret Ingredient In Your Orange Juice
    (29 Jul 2011 | 338 points | Comments)

49. EBay Patents 10-Click Checkout
    (22 Jul 2011 | 337 points | Comments)

50. A preview of Gmail’s new look
    (1 Jul 2011 | 336 points | Comments)

51. Humble Bundle #3 is Live
    (26 Jul 2011 | 336 points | Comments)

52. Is There Anything Good About Men?
    (15 Jul 2011 | 333 points | Comments)

53. How I Raised $350k as a Solo Founder using these 4 Email Templates
    (21 Jul 2011 | 326 points | Comments)

54. I am an HFT Programmer
    (31 Jul 2011 | 326 points | Comments)

55. How To Safely Store A Password
    (1 Jul 2011 | 325 points | Comments)

56. Why the #AskObama tweet was garbled on screen
    (7 Jul 2011 | 322 points | Comments)

57. GoDaddy SSL Cert Scam
    (11 Jul 2011 | 321 points | Comments)

58. Why I left Google. What happened to my book. What I work on at Facebook.
    (13 Jul 2011 | 321 points | Comments)

59. Create a Robot Image from any text string
    (8 Jul 2011 | 319 points | Comments)

60. Estimate your English vocabulary size
    (17 Jul 2011 | 318 points | Comments)

61. Vandalised home puts pressure on Airbnb
    (29 Jul 2011 | 318 points | Comments)

62. The Node Beginner Book, an introduction to Node.js, is now complete
    (10 Jul 2011 | 314 points | Comments)

63. Advanced Javascript tips and tricks
    (5 Jul 2011 | 311 points | Comments)

64. A Billion Dollars Isn’t Cool. You Know What’s Cool? Basic Human Decency
    (31 Jul 2011 | 311 points | Comments)

65. How not to design a CAPTCHA
    (12 Jul 2011 | 310 points | Comments)

66. Google Deletes Last 7 Years Of User's Digital Life, Shrugs
    (22 Jul 2011 | 308 points | Comments)

67. Steve Jobs Sometimes Lies to You
    (28 Jul 2011 | 306 points | Comments)

68. Instantly Add Chat To Hacker News
    (12 Jul 2011 | 304 points | Comments)

69. Aaron Swartz v. United States
    (25 Jul 2011 | 304 points | Comments)

70. 30kloc and $0 revenue. Lessons from my failed startup (& code release)
    (9 Jul 2011 | 301 points | Comments)

71. Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result
    (28 Jul 2011 | 301 points | Comments)

72. Once Greece goes...
    (3 Jul 2011 | 300 points | Comments)

73. The fanless spinning heatsink: more efficient, and immune to dust and detritus
    (12 Jul 2011 | 299 points | Comments)

74. The Problem With Silicon Valley Is Itself
    (13 Jul 2011 | 299 points | Comments)

75. ClojureScript
    (20 Jul 2011 | 299 points | Comments)

76. WebPutty: CSS editing goes "boink"
    (20 Jul 2011 | 296 points | Comments)

77. The Supreme Court Should Invalidate Software Patents
    (28 Jul 2011 | 296 points | Comments)

78. If Dropbox Used GitHub’s Pricing Plan
    (19 Jul 2011 | 295 points | Comments)

79. Fake apple stores
    (20 Jul 2011 | 291 points | Comments)

80. Why my Mom Bought an Android, Returned It, and Got an iPhone
    (29 Jul 2011 | 291 points | Comments)

81. Unannounced Facebook feature uncovered
    (7 Jul 2011 | 289 points | Comments)

82. Nginx doesn't suck at SSL after all
    (13 Jul 2011 | 288 points | Comments)

83. Google Labs Winding Down
    (20 Jul 2011 | 283 points | Comments)

84. What happened to all the female developers?
    (26 Jul 2011 | 279 points | Comments)

85. Could You Modify It ‘To Stop Students From Becoming This Advanced?’
    (28 Jul 2011 | 279 points | Comments)

86. Google+ for iOS is out
    (19 Jul 2011 | 275 points | Comments)

87. Comcast cuts off customer for going over 250GB of legitimate use
    (13 Jul 2011 | 274 points | Comments)

88. What everyone should know about the human eye
    (22 Jul 2011 | 274 points | Comments)

89. Skeleton: A Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development
    (17 Jul 2011 | 271 points | Comments)

90. OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store
    (20 Jul 2011 | 271 points | Comments)

91. How Stuxnet was deciphered
    (14 Jul 2011 | 267 points | Comments)

92. Airbnb Competitor Checks IDs: 'We Don't Want to Trade Security for Volume'
    (29 Jul 2011 | 265 points | Comments)

93. Twitter acquires BackType (YC S08)
    (5 Jul 2011 | 263 points | Comments)

94. NYT Skimmer
    (26 Jul 2011 | 263 points | Comments)

95. So you want to write a fast Python?
    (11 Jul 2011 | 262 points | Comments)

96. MIT 6.006: Algorithms in Python
    (5 Jul 2011 | 260 points | Comments)

97. Tilt: Visualize your web page's DOM in 3D
    (20 Jul 2011 | 260 points | Comments)

98. I Want To Unsubscribe, Not "Manage My Preferences"
    (31 Jul 2011 | 259 points | Comments)

99. JQuery 1.6.2 syntax error? You may be the victim of SEO.
    (6 Jul 2011 | 257 points | Comments)

100. US claims all .com and .net websites are in its jurisdiction
     (5 Jul 2011 | 253 points | Comments)