top 10 hacker news stories for 2011-08-06

United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/06/usa-downgrade-sp-idUSN1E7741TJ20110806

15 years ago

Scott Adams: The Heady Thrill of Having Nothing to Do

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903454504576486412642177904.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

15 years ago

DEF CON: The event that scares hackers

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/08/05/def.con.hackers/index.html?hpt=hp_abar

15 years ago

Life on the Command Line

http://lenz.unl.edu/2011/04/09/life-on-the-command-line.html

15 years ago

Interview Street (YC S11) streamlines the search for great programmers

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/06/yc-funded-interview-street-streamlines-the-search-for-great-programmers/

15 years ago

How and Why Mixpanel Switched from Erlang to Python

http://code.mixpanel.com/2011/08/05/how-and-why-we-switched-from-erlang-to-python/

15 years ago

A Brief Explanation of Microsoft's Anti-Google Patent FUD

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110805154137803

15 years ago

Programming and Scaling

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4325

15 years ago

Sprite3D.js: a javascript library for 3D positionning

http://minimal.be/lab/Sprite3D/

15 years ago

Cosmos Will Get a Sequel

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/08/cosmos-to-get-a-sequel-hosted-by-neil-degrasse-tyson/

15 years ago