top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-08-07

Jonathan's Card

http://jonathanstark.com/card/

15 years ago

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

Top Gear caught faking another electric car "failure"

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

15 years ago

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

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

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

15 years ago

Some People Understand REST and HTTP

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

15 years ago

10 people who don't matter (2006)

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

15 years ago

The demise of the low level programmer

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

15 years ago

Who stole the Mona Lisa?

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

15 years ago

Results from Assembly Summer 2011

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

15 years ago

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

Understanding Python Decorators

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

15 years ago

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

Why Minecraft Works (Design Concepts)

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

15 years ago

Low-level x86 code compression for 64k intros

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

15 years ago

Secure your browsing using a home VPN

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

15 years ago

How Debt Has Defined Human History

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

15 years ago

Amazon EC2 EU-West is down

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

15 years ago

WebODF - Render office documents in a browser

http://webodf.org/

15 years ago

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

Startups: It's Not a Race, It's Parkour

http://www.kenbautista.com/thoughts/startupsandparkour.html

15 years ago

Beginners Guide : pip and virtualenv

http://www.mahdiyusuf.com/post/5282169518/beginners-guide-easy-install-pip-and-virtualenv

15 years ago

Happy birthday Dancer - two years of the Perl Dancer web framework project

http://www.preshweb.co.uk/2011/08/happy-birthday-dancer/

15 years ago

Amazon rolls out a social network for Kindle

https://kindle.amazon.com/

15 years ago

Oral History of Bob Barton and the Burroughs B5000 team (1985)

https://web.archive.org/web/20110807012251/http://special.lib.umn.edu/cbi/oh/pdf.phtml?id=21

15 years ago

Why yes, that is a Galaxy Tab 10.1 in my pocket

http://www.sethclifford.me/stream/2011/7/25/why-yes-that-is-a-galaxy-tab-101-in-my-pocket.html

15 years ago

Space Shuttle Flight Deck

http://360vr.com/2011/06/22-discovery-flight-deck-opf_6236/index.html

15 years ago

Computational Fairy Tales

http://computationaltales.blogspot.com/p/posts-by-topic.html

15 years ago

How I decided the price for my Japanese candy subscription service

http://bemmu.posterous.com/how-i-decided-the-price-for-my-japanese-candy

15 years ago

With Google, There Will Be Bad Blood

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/06/ive-abandoned-my-boy/

15 years ago

Ask HN: Client wrote returned check for over $10,000. How to report him?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2855272

15 years ago