top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-08-03

That truck driver you flipped off? Let me tell you his story.

http://www.startribune.com/opinion/otherviews/126619568.html#.TjliGe_CsCo.reddit

15 years ago

616 upvotes – 286 comments

SICP is Under Attack

http://vedantk.tumblr.com/post/8424437797/sicp-is-under-attack

15 years ago

570 upvotes – 196 comments

When patents attack Android

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/when-patents-attack-android.html

15 years ago

387 upvotes – 279 comments

Free icons for any object in the world

http://thenounproject.com

15 years ago

323 upvotes – 58 comments

How to remove yourself from all background check websites

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/j1mit/how_to_remove_yourself_from_all_background_check/

15 years ago

231 upvotes – 32 comments

How I Made $350 In Two Days With Three Pages and Some Payment Code

http://dshipper.posterous.com/how-i-made-350-in-two-days-with-three-pages-a

15 years ago

224 upvotes – 84 comments

See what Google knows about you

http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/

15 years ago

224 upvotes – 94 comments

Why I Quit My Job to Start a Tech Company

http://viniciusvacanti.com/2011/08/03/why-i-quit-my-job-to-start-a-tech-company/

15 years ago

222 upvotes – 75 comments

Shock, awe: British government agrees that copyright has gone too far

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/08/the-british-government-has-endorsed.ars

15 years ago

214 upvotes – 23 comments

Update: Internet Explorer IQ story was bogus

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14370878#

15 years ago

206 upvotes – 52 comments

Working Remotely

http://arandomurl.com/2011/09/03/working-remotely.html

15 years ago

201 upvotes – 73 comments

Scalability

http://gregor-wagner.com/?p=79

15 years ago

198 upvotes – 161 comments

Why Van Halen had brown M&Ms contractually removed

http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/vanhalen.asp

15 years ago

184 upvotes – 55 comments

Linus Torvalds dumps Gnome3 for XFCE (G+ discussion)

https://plus.google.com/106327083461132854143/posts/SbnL3KaVRtM

15 years ago

183 upvotes – 143 comments

Google Please Hire Me

http://googlepleasehire.me/

15 years ago

164 upvotes – 106 comments

Swedish man caught trying to split atoms at home

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_SWEDEN_NUCLEAR?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-08-03-11-33-45

15 years ago

157 upvotes – 77 comments

Quantly: News for quants

http://quant.ly/

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 27 comments

Polyglot Platform

http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/8/3/polyglot_platform/

15 years ago

140 upvotes – 10 comments

PyCon 2012

http://us.pycon.org/2012/

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 31 comments

Randi Zuckerberg Runs in the Wrong Direction on Pseudonymity Online

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/08/randi-zuckerberg-runs-wrong-direction-pseudonymity

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 59 comments
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