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1.SearchYC is shutting down (searchyc.com)
303 points by chengmi on June 27, 2011 | 59 comments
2.Why mobile apps suck when you're mobile (TCP over 3G) (davidsingleton.org)
298 points by dps on June 27, 2011 | 68 comments
3.Paper.js — The Swiss Army Knife of Vector Graphics Scripting (paperjs.org)
267 points by hakim on June 27, 2011 | 41 comments
4.Learn Python The Hard Way 2nd Edition Released (learnpythonthehardway.org)
243 points by Ntagg on June 27, 2011 | 58 comments
5.Why founding a 3-person startup with 0 revenue is better than working for GS (adgrok.com)
211 points by pitdesi on June 27, 2011 | 51 comments
6.The case of the 500-mile email (ibiblio.org)
169 points by kachnuv_ocasek on June 27, 2011 | 18 comments
7.Google's War on Nonsense (nytimes.com)
157 points by dirtyaura on June 27, 2011 | 71 comments
8.You Can’t Make Money Charging $1 Per Month (softwarebyrob.com)
154 points by joshuacc on June 27, 2011 | 62 comments
9.GitHub open sources Linguist (github.com/blog)
153 points by DanielRibeiro on June 27, 2011 | 2 comments
10.Groupon May Expire Sooner Than Expected (seekingalpha.com)
148 points by Cmccann7 on June 27, 2011 | 41 comments
11.A cron pitfall that will probably snare you at least once in your career (reddit.com)
136 points by raldi on June 27, 2011 | 67 comments
12.Firefox update policy: the enterprise is wrong, not Mozilla (arstechnica.com)
134 points by abraham on June 27, 2011 | 95 comments
13.Sitting for hours can shave years off life (cnn.com)
126 points by nswanberg on June 27, 2011 | 130 comments
14.Among the costs of war: $20 Billion in Air Conditioning (npr.org)
121 points by wallflower on June 27, 2011 | 72 comments
15.Android's Log.wtf Method
120 points by chuinard on June 27, 2011 | 23 comments
16.HN Points (hnpoints.com)
119 points by karlzt on June 27, 2011 | 48 comments
17.Legend Of Zelda - Link's Awakening, now playable in HTML5 (grantgalitz.org)
117 points by xelfer on June 27, 2011 | 26 comments
18.Supreme Court: first amendment allows mature video games to be sold to minors (arstechnica.com)
108 points by headShrinker on June 27, 2011 | 155 comments
19.“Let's settle this in a Ruby programming contest” (jeffkreeftmeijer.com)
105 points by jkreeftmeijer on June 27, 2011 | 17 comments
20.Type 2 diabetes cure, extreme diet (latimes.com)
103 points by pavel on June 27, 2011 | 59 comments
21.Startups Don't Die, They Commit Suicide (techcrunch.com)
100 points by ttol on June 27, 2011 | 24 comments
22.Inc.'s 30 under 30 List (inc.com)
102 points by mchafkin on June 27, 2011 | 16 comments
23.Appsterdam: A Haven for Indie App Makers? (venturebeat.com)
97 points by DeusExMachina on June 27, 2011 | 53 comments
24.Policing the Police: The Apps That Let You Spy on the Cops (theatlantic.com)
95 points by GiraffeNecktie on June 27, 2011 | 33 comments
25.Dutch parliament passes Europe's first net neutrality law (arstechnica.com)
94 points by wicknicks on June 27, 2011 | 11 comments
26.I made a script to automate django deployments on Amazon EC2 (github.com/gcollazo)
91 points by flexterra on June 27, 2011 | 23 comments
27.Mastering Git Basics by Tom Preston-Werner (video) (ontwik.com)
83 points by ahmicro on June 27, 2011 | 6 comments
28.Open source needs designers (benwerd.com)
78 points by benwerd on June 27, 2011 | 60 comments
29.SSL session caching in nginx (hezmatt.org)
76 points by brkcmd on June 27, 2011 | 17 comments

Fucking crimony do I hate OnSwipe. Loathe it. It's just such a waste. It looks stupid, its scrolling feels wrong and it presents everyone's content identically. It solves absolutely zero problems, creates new ones and is impossible to escape. (I have fantasized about creating a proxy at home to strip out its bullshit.)

The irony here being that the iPad is perfect for displaying very nearly everything on the web just as it already is. WordPress blogs look excellent on the iPad without any of this nonsense.

OnSwipe has become a perfect tool for preventing me from viewing content I'd otherwise happily read. This is a latter-day Expert Sexchange.

edit: ...odd, instant karma drop that affected everything I said on this page but this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2700241

Learn from criticism, folks, don't downvote it because it doesn't agree with your world view. It's how we all grow.


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