top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-08-09

5000% Increase in the sale of baseball bats on Amazon.co.uk

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/movers-and-shakers/sports/

15 years ago

470 upvotes – 150 comments

How to Level Up as a Developer

http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer/

15 years ago

386 upvotes – 109 comments

Why are restaurant websites so awful? Because of restaurant culture.

http://www.slate.com/id/2301228/

15 years ago

297 upvotes – 128 comments

Large-scale Amazon EC2 Outage

http://status.aws.amazon.com/

15 years ago

260 upvotes – 141 comments

NASA finds DNA components in meteorites, says they originated in space

http://www.space.com/12569-meteorites-dna-building-blocks-discovery.html

15 years ago

241 upvotes – 87 comments

Gamification is bullshit

http://m.bogost.com/blog/gamification_is_bullshit.shtml

15 years ago

189 upvotes – 63 comments

Mozilla, WebKit To Support Debugging CoffeeScript and other JS Languages

http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/08/debug-languages-on-javascript-vm

15 years ago

176 upvotes – 41 comments

Accuracy takes power: one man's 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES emulator

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-one-mans-3ghz-quest-to-build-a-perfect-snes-emulator.ars

15 years ago

176 upvotes – 44 comments

Apple to Lodsys: you'll have to go through us to sue iOS devs

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/08/apple-tells-judge-intervention-against-lodsys-should-be-granted.ars

15 years ago

154 upvotes – 46 comments

Why HN Got Slow

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2865985

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 58 comments

Underscore.php

http://brianhaveri.github.com/Underscore.php/

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 50 comments

Pingdom is storing passwords in plaintext

http://seldo.tumblr.com/post/8698245004/dear-pingdom-you-should-not-be-storing-my

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 122 comments

200,000 BitTorrent Users Sued In The United States

http://torrentfreak.com/200000-bittorrent-users-sued-in-the-united-states-110808/

15 years ago

140 upvotes – 60 comments

Stypi (YC S11) Is Etherpad Reborn

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/09/yc-funded-stypi-is-etherpad-reborn/

15 years ago

138 upvotes – 72 comments

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 banned from Europe (Apple wins injunction)

http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/8/9/samsung-galaxy-tab-101-banned-europe/

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 92 comments

Stock Market Drops. VCs Hold Partner Meetings. What Happens Next?

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/09/stock-market-drops-vcs-hold-partner-meetings-what-happens-next/

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 27 comments

2011 Rubyist’s guide to a Mac OS X development environment

http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/8700977975/2011-rubyists-guide-to-a-mac-os-x-development

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 27 comments

Bloomberg Risk Takers: Elon Musk Documentary

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/73460184/

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 20 comments

Game Development: You Need $100,000

http://whatgamesare.com/2011/04/you-need-100000-game-development.html#more

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 38 comments

Lion Is a Quitter

http://tidbits.com/e/12398

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 82 comments
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