HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Airbnb Nightmare: No End In Sight (ejroundtheworld.blogspot.com)

1017 points by moonlighter on Jul 29, 2011 | 482 comments

2.

Violated: A traveler’s lost faith, a difficult lesson learned (ejroundtheworld.blogspot.com)

952 points by foxit on Jul 27, 2011 | 380 comments

3.

Chosen: A javascript plug-in that makes long select boxes user-friendly. (harvesthq.github.com)

923 points by utkarshkukreti on Jul 22, 2011 | 76 comments

4.

33GB of public domain JSTOR articles, and a manifesto (thepiratebay.org)

840 points by sp332 on Jul 21, 2011 | 179 comments

5.

Bored People Quit (randsinrepose.com)

840 points by filament on Jul 12, 2011 | 151 comments

6.

A lesson on the importance of encouraging your children with their projects (gamesbyemail.com)

821 points by TamDenholm on Jul 13, 2011 | 103 comments

7.

You are not running out of time (rahulbijlani.com)

696 points by complexmango on Jul 18, 2011 | 125 comments

8.

Why I will never pursue cheating again (behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com)

691 points by Panos on Jul 17, 2011 | 482 comments

9.

Aaronsw indicted for hacking MIT network to download millions of JSTOR docs (documentcloud.org)

603 points by Estragon on Jul 19, 2011 | 313 comments

10.

Google made my son cry (sunpig.com)

583 points by rostayob on Jul 4, 2011 | 265 comments

11.

Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku (blog.heroku.com)

578 points by jamesheroku on Jul 12, 2011 | 75 comments

12.

Steve Yegge quits Google in the middle of his speech [OSCON Data 2011] (youtube.com)

546 points by kodisha on Jul 27, 2011 | 130 comments

13.

Nobody Understands REST or HTTP (blog.steveklabnik.com)

520 points by dermatthias on Jul 3, 2011 | 133 comments

14.

User testing in the wild: he has never used a computer (jboriss.wordpress.com)

513 points by tbassetto on Jul 7, 2011 | 199 comments

15.

Greece defaults (blogs.reuters.com)

500 points by MaysonL on Jul 21, 2011 | 145 comments

16.

How The Hell Is This My Fault? (techcrunch.com)

481 points by jamesgagan on Jul 30, 2011 | 281 comments

17.

How Running A Business Changes The Way You Think (kalzumeus.com)

477 points by JacobAldridge on Jul 8, 2011 | 98 comments

18.

Webdesigners: please make text readable (contrastrebellion.com)

467 points by bmaeser on Jul 26, 2011 | 106 comments

19.

A pound of flesh: how Cisco's "unmitigated gall" derailed one man's life (arstechnica.com)

467 points by diogenescynic on Jul 21, 2011 | 101 comments

20.

XKCD's Randall Munroe on Google+ requiring your gender to be public (plus.google.com)

463 points by macrael on Jul 8, 2011 | 283 comments

21.

Nginx established as a company (nginx.org)

463 points by rplnt on Jul 18, 2011 | 71 comments

22.

Anonymous & Lulz Security Statement to the FBI (pastebin.com)

459 points by p4bl0 on Jul 21, 2011 | 241 comments

23.

Remove any Site From Google (even if you don't control it) (jamesbreckenridge.co.uk)

447 points by feydr on Jul 20, 2011 | 93 comments

24.

Code.Google.com now supports git (code.google.com)

445 points by pixelbeat on Jul 15, 2011 | 77 comments

25.

What every programmer should know about time (unix4lyfe.org)

444 points by enneff on Jul 4, 2011 | 126 comments

26.

The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress (nytimes.com)

442 points by pcestrada on Jul 22, 2011 | 144 comments

27.

Ex-Wave, Ex-Plus engineer on Google Plus (rethrick.com)

441 points by nl on Jul 11, 2011 | 150 comments

28.

When Patents Attack (npr.org)

435 points by simon_weber on Jul 26, 2011 | 131 comments

29.

Warren Buffett: I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. (ritholtz.com)

434 points by pitdesi on Jul 8, 2011 | 180 comments

30.

The Moment Of Truth For Airbnb As User’s Home Is Utterly Trashed (techcrunch.com)

432 points by ssclafani on Jul 27, 2011 | 226 comments