top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-08-07

Jonathan's Card

http://jonathanstark.com/card/

15 years ago

726 upvotes – 219 comments

Mark Cuban: If you want to see more jobs created -- change patent laws

http://blogmaverick.com/2011/08/06/if-you-want-to-see-more-jobs-created-change-patent-laws/

15 years ago

335 upvotes – 134 comments

Top Gear caught faking another electric car "failure"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2011/aug/05/top-gear-bbc

15 years ago

237 upvotes – 123 comments

Just the Facts: S&P's $2 Trillion Mistake

http://www.treasury.gov/connect/blog/Pages/Just-the-Facts-SPs-2-Trillion-Mistake.aspx

15 years ago

233 upvotes – 232 comments

Lessons from a Design Legend (a before-and-after)

http://www.giftrocket.com/blog/design-tips-from-a-master

15 years ago

207 upvotes – 47 comments

Some People Understand REST and HTTP

http://blog.steveklabnik.com/2011/08/07/some-people-understand-rest-and-http.html

15 years ago

191 upvotes – 56 comments

10 people who don't matter (2006)

http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/21/technology/10dontmatter.biz2/index.htm

15 years ago

183 upvotes – 134 comments

The demise of the low level programmer

http://altdevblogaday.com/2011/08/06/demise-low-level-programmer/

15 years ago

158 upvotes – 65 comments

Who stole the Mona Lisa?

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/069d8662-be37-11e0-bee9-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1UIyEY27f

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 20 comments

Results from Assembly Summer 2011

http://www.assembly.org/summer11/news/results

15 years ago

138 upvotes – 30 comments

Groupon is the next Madoff, except big iBanks helped it rob investors

http://www.glgroup.com/News/Groupon-is-the-next-Madoff-except-big-iBanks-helped-it-rob-investors-54999.html

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 67 comments

Understanding Python Decorators

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/739654/understanding-python-decorators/1594484#1594484

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 24 comments

Defcon Lockpickers Open Card-And-Code Government Locks In Seconds

http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/08/05/defcon-lockpickers-open-card-and-code-government-locks-in-seconds/

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 37 comments

Why Minecraft Works (Design Concepts)

http://www.hobbygamedev.com/beg/why-minecraft-works-design-concepts/

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 32 comments

Low-level x86 code compression for 64k intros

http://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/x86-code-compression-in-kkrunchy/

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 18 comments

Secure your browsing using a home VPN

http://sriramk.com/blog/2011/08/ddwrt-pptp-vpn.html

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 60 comments

How Debt Has Defined Human History

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/08/06/how-debt-has-defined-human-history/

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 24 comments

Amazon EC2 EU-West is down

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2857296

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 31 comments

WebODF - Render office documents in a browser

http://webodf.org/

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 12 comments

Korea’s Tesco reinvents grocery shopping with QR-code “stores”

http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/koreas-tesco-reinvents-grocery-shopping-with-qr-code-stores-20110628/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 25 comments
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