top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-08-04

How to seem good at everything: Stop doing stupid shit

http://jinfiesto.posterous.com/how-to-seem-good-at-everything-stop-doing-stu

15 years ago

Who Rules America: An Investment Manager's View on the Top 1%

http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/investment_manager.html

15 years ago

Zed Shaw: The wonderful Rob Sobers did a great job translating LPTHW to Ruby

http://ruby.learncodethehardway.org/

15 years ago

Google Threw A Punch, Microsoft Fires Back With A Missile

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/03/microsoft-just-kicked-google-in-the-nuts/

15 years ago

“Real Names” Policies Are an Abuse of Power

http://socialmediacollective.org/2011/08/04/real-names-policies-are-an-abuse-of-power/

15 years ago

$1 chip tests for HIV in 15 minutes, fits in your wallet

http://www.fastcompany.com/1770850/the-10-cent-plastic-chip-that-quickly-detect-hiv-syphilis

15 years ago

Why "Coupon Code" Should Not be a Field on Your Payment Form

http://rachelbaker.me/2011/coupon-code-boxes-should-not-be-on-payment-forms/

15 years ago

Parse (YC S11): A Heroku For Mobile Apps

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/04/yc-funded-parse-a-heroku-for-mobile-apps/

15 years ago

Show HN: My weekend project - preview TV sizes on your wall

http://tvsizematters.com

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Groupon’s Strikeouts Reveal an Unspoken Truth

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-04/groupon-s-strikeouts-reveal-an-unspoken-truth-jonathan-weil.html

15 years ago

Why I develop for iOS

http://chriseidhof.tumblr.com/post/8467033275/why-i-develop-for-ios

15 years ago

The Schmidle Muddle of the Osama Bin Laden Take Down

http://www.registan.net/index.php/2011/08/04/the-schmidle-muddle-of-the-osama-bin-laden-take-down/comment-page-1/

15 years ago

Chats are not dead yet

http://amiadogroup.github.com/candy/

15 years ago

AsciiFlow - diagram & wireframe tool

http://asciiflow.com

15 years ago

Stanford "Intro to AI" course to be offered online for free

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/you-you-can-take-stanfords-intro-to-ai-course-next-quarter-for-free

15 years ago

H.R.1981, the end of online privacy as we know it.

https://spideroak.com/blog/20110803172630-hr1981-the-end-of-online-privacy-as-we-know-it

15 years ago

Scientists find evidence of salt water flowing on Mars

http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2011/08/scientists-find-evidence-of-salt-water-flowing-on-mars/

15 years ago

How our SaaS startup got 1000+ signups in just 7 days, without getting Crunched.

http://blog.groovehq.com/post/8471578393/how-our-saas-startup-got-1000-private-beta-signups-in

15 years ago

John Mayer: "Manage the Temptation to Publish Yourself"

http://www.berklee-blogs.com/2011/07/john-mayer-2011-clinic-manage-the-temptation-to-publish-yourself/

15 years ago

MIT develops new method to cure broad range of viruses

http://bostinnovation.com/2011/08/04/mit-researchers-develop-new-method-to-cure-a-broad-range-of-viruses/

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