top 20 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

769 upvotes – 497 comments

Scott Adams: The Heady Thrill of Having Nothing to Do

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

15 years ago

198 upvotes – 48 comments

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

196 upvotes – 41 comments

Life on the Command Line

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

15 years ago

177 upvotes – 120 comments

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

151 upvotes – 130 comments

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

139 upvotes – 80 comments

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

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

15 years ago

138 upvotes – 113 comments

Programming and Scaling

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

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 32 comments

Sprite3D.js: a javascript library for 3D positionning

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

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 13 comments

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

110 upvotes – 53 comments

The Mathematics of Changing Your Mind

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/books/review/the-theory-that-would-not-die-by-sharon-bertsch-mcgrayne-book-review.html?pagewanted=all

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 11 comments

What frustrates me the most as an entrepreneur

http://joshliu.co/what-frustrates-me-the-most-as-an-entrepreneur

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 50 comments

Twitter will open-source Storm, BackType's "Hadoop of Real-Time Processing"

http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2011/08/twitter-will-open-source-storm.php

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 14 comments

Facebook has your complete phonebook

https://www.facebook.com/friends/edit/?sk=phonebook

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 76 comments

Clang now builds Postgres without additional warnings

http://pgeoghegan.blogspot.com/2011/08/clang-now-builds-postgres-without.html

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 19 comments

Yahoo Store now C++ (comments by pg from 2003)

http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/msg02367.html

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 47 comments

Ruby Programming Language (alternative Ruby home page)

http://rubylang.info/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 38 comments

Dropbox close to choosing investors — Round could put valuation at $10 Billion

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/05/dropbox-10-billion/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 48 comments

Lulzsec and Anonymous Hackers leak over 10GB of Law Enforcement Agency Details

http://www.invisblenandu.com/2011/08/lulzsec-and-anonymous-hackers-leak-over.html

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 36 comments

The Most Important Parts of HTML5 (or why video and audio tags are boring)

http://blog.n01se.net/?p=375

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 21 comments
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