Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | 2011-08-01login
Stories from August 1, 2011
Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day, month, or year.
1.Our Commitment to Trust & Safety (airbnb.com)
416 points by mikecaron on Aug 1, 2011 | 163 comments
2.Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (August 2011)
282 points by whoishiring on Aug 1, 2011 | 306 comments
3.The future Firefox UI (people.mozilla.com)
264 points by paulrouget on Aug 1, 2011 | 185 comments
4.Getting Bin Laden: What happened that night in Abbottabad (newyorker.com)
245 points by AngryParsley on Aug 1, 2011 | 140 comments
5.I don't know how to IE6 (colbyrabideau.com)
234 points by crabideau5691 on Aug 1, 2011 | 156 comments
6.Game of Thrones CGI (all-things-andy-gavin.com)
210 points by agavin on Aug 1, 2011 | 67 comments
7.Why I'd never work for Google, Twitter, or Facebook (naildrivin5.com)
205 points by ssclafani on Aug 1, 2011 | 163 comments
8.Meet Comex, The 19-Year-Old iPhone Uber-Hacker Who Keeps Outsmarting Apple (blogs.forbes.com)
197 points by rjim86 on Aug 1, 2011 | 71 comments
9.Learn Perl in about 2 hours 30 minutes (qntm.org)
175 points by utkarshkukreti on Aug 1, 2011 | 105 comments
10.Patents against prosperity (economist.com)
159 points by chaostheory on Aug 1, 2011 | 38 comments
11.How to Launch Your Startup Idea for Less than $5K (mikekarnj.com)
159 points by ccarella on Aug 1, 2011 | 27 comments
12.Dulwich: Pure Python implementation of git (samba.org)
151 points by DanielRibeiro on Aug 1, 2011 | 33 comments
13.Why you can't search for phpBB on Bing (blamcast.net)
149 points by chaosmachine on Aug 1, 2011 | 42 comments

IMO the problem isn't that he looks 20, but rather that he looks pretty douchey in that photo. Looking young isn't so bad in this context, but looking like you just stepped off of the set of one of those MTV 'reality' shows is.

I'm fairly certain this is going to get me down-voted through the floor, but please at least view the picture in question prior to down-voting me for saying this.


"The owner of the house, who we reached for comment, had been residing in the UK, and was not aware of current events, and was distraught to discover the state of the home on his return. 'Between the crashed helicopter, burned animal stalls, and bullet marks everywhere, I can safely say I will not be utilizing AirBnB again - the place is completely trashed', Haddad told us"
16.The Art of Computer Programming (interview with Don Knuth) (bcs.org)
140 points by tjr on Aug 1, 2011 | 25 comments
17.Protocol Buffers, Avro, Thrift & MessagePack (igvita.com)
135 points by igrigorik on Aug 1, 2011 | 24 comments
18.Airbnb Offers Unconditional Apology, And $50,000 Insurance Guarantee (techcrunch.com)
135 points by sahillavingia on Aug 1, 2011 | 62 comments
19.Stop A/B Testing and Make Out like a Bandit (untyped.com)
131 points by fezzl on Aug 1, 2011 | 66 comments

What a wonderful approach to development.

Skip the ideological critiquing and start shipping some awesome products..

I guess that is really what separates the great developer from the good developer.

21.Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2011)
115 points by whoishiring on Aug 1, 2011 | 128 comments
22.IOS devs put out a call to unite against Lodsys, other patent trolls (arstechnica.com)
115 points by DeusExMachina on Aug 1, 2011 | 34 comments
23.Show HN: An intuitive, offline capable HTML5 mind mapping application (drichard.org)
112 points by drichard on Aug 1, 2011 | 39 comments
24.iCloud beta (icloud.com)
107 points by sahillavingia on Aug 1, 2011 | 48 comments
25.Adobe Launches "Adobe Edge" - HTML5 Animation Tool (adobe.com)
102 points by dglassan on Aug 1, 2011 | 55 comments
26.Netflix Instant is coming to the entire Linux Community (benjaminkerensa.com)
97 points by taylorbuley on Aug 1, 2011 | 40 comments
27.Patents are about to become a bigger problem
95 points by AustinEnigmatic on Aug 1, 2011 | 52 comments
28.Google’s YouTube Uses FFmpeg (multimedia.cx)
92 points by naryad on Aug 1, 2011 | 40 comments
29.Taazr: Optimize and Monitor your Javascript (taazr.com)
90 points by unignorant on Aug 1, 2011 | 9 comments
30.WSGI Is Dead: Long Live WSGI Lite (dirtsimple.org)
88 points by jp_sc on Aug 1, 2011 | 16 comments

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: