769
497
United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/06/usa-downgrade-sp-idUSN1E7741TJ20110806
15 years ago
198
48
Scott Adams: The Heady Thrill of Having Nothing to Do
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903454504576486412642177904.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
196
41
DEF CON: The event that scares hackers
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/08/05/def.con.hackers/index.html?hpt=hp_abar
177
120
Life on the Command Line
http://lenz.unl.edu/2011/04/09/life-on-the-command-line.html
151
130
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/
139
80
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/
138
113
A Brief Explanation of Microsoft's Anti-Google Patent FUD
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110805154137803
115
32
Programming and Scaling
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4325
111
13
Sprite3D.js: a javascript library for 3D positionning
http://minimal.be/lab/Sprite3D/
110
53
Cosmos Will Get a Sequel
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/08/cosmos-to-get-a-sequel-hosted-by-neil-degrasse-tyson/
102
11
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
99
14
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
50
What frustrates me the most as an entrepreneur
http://joshliu.co/what-frustrates-me-the-most-as-an-entrepreneur
97
76
Facebook has your complete phonebook
https://www.facebook.com/friends/edit/?sk=phonebook
94
19
Clang now builds Postgres without additional warnings
http://pgeoghegan.blogspot.com/2011/08/clang-now-builds-postgres-without.html
78
47
Yahoo Store now C++ (comments by pg from 2003)
http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/msg02367.html
70
38
Ruby Programming Language (alternative Ruby home page)
http://rubylang.info/
Dropbox close to choosing investors — Round could put valuation at $10 Billion
http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/05/dropbox-10-billion/
68
36
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
66
21
The Most Important Parts of HTML5 (or why video and audio tags are boring)
http://blog.n01se.net/?p=375
64
34
Yahoo's assumptions in 2006 about Facebook's future
http://techcrunch.com/2006/12/12/yahoos-project-fraternity-docs-leaked/
56
Why Social Proof Matters To Your Startup
http://dshipper.posterous.com/why-social-proof-matter-to-your-startup
4
"functors" in c++, ML, haskell, prolog
http://www.catonmat.net/blog/on-functors/
7
The Web is 20 Years old Today
http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/06/the-internet-is-20-years-old-today/
51
16
Spain: Linking to Copyright Infringing Material Not Infringement
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/08/spanish-court-rules-linking-potential-copyright
45
Gaming Apple App Store's Review System (View in iTunes - Read Reviews)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lockify-your-lock-screen-hd/id451287882?mt=8
1
How to promote your mobile app to the right blogs to get publicity
http://www.appbackr.com/blog/developers/how-to-find-the-perfect-blogs-and-websites-to-tell-the-world-about-your-app
72
Windows Phones Down 38% Since '7' Launch
http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/microsoft_news/231300314
46
62
Ask HN: Is it okay to build a startup in ASP .NET?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2853880
