top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-08-15

Google Buys Motorola For $12.5 Billion

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/15/breaking-google-buys-motorola-for-12-5-billion/

15 years ago

1214 upvotes – 369 comments

Warren Buffett: Stop coddling the super rich

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/opinion/stop-coddling-the-super-rich.html?_r=1&smid=tw-nytimesbusiness&seid=auto

15 years ago

605 upvotes – 336 comments

Dear procrastinator

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2886187

15 years ago

560 upvotes – 139 comments

Edit like an Ace

https://github.com/blog/905-edit-like-an-ace

15 years ago

415 upvotes – 54 comments

Things I’ve never heard a successful startup founder say

http://blog.asmartbear.com/quotes-startup-founders.html

15 years ago

356 upvotes – 97 comments

Joyent Open Sources SmartOS: Zones, ZFS, DTrace and KVM

http://smartos.org/

15 years ago

279 upvotes – 82 comments

Google to acquire Motorola

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/supercharging-android-google-to-acquire.html

15 years ago

274 upvotes – 10 comments

You can list a directory containing 8 million files But not with ls..

http://www.olark.com/spw/2011/08/you-can-list-a-directory-with-8-million-files-but-not-with-ls/

15 years ago

268 upvotes – 89 comments

YC NYC, September 26

http://ycnyc.com/

15 years ago

219 upvotes – 94 comments

Show HN: New way to search for used cars (my weekend project)

http://www.olegkikin.com/car_search/

15 years ago

160 upvotes – 66 comments

Quotes from Android partners

http://www.google.com/press/motorola/quotes/

15 years ago

151 upvotes – 86 comments

Startup Weebly takes profitable leap forward

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/13/MN1I1KJFNV.DTL

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 17 comments

Official Steve Jobs biography set for November 21 release

http://9to5mac.com/2011/08/15/official-steve-jobs-biography-set-for-november-21-release-based-on-forty-interviews/

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 51 comments

Mozilla to remove Firefox version numbers

http://www.extremetech.com/internet/92792-mozilla-takes-firefox-version-number-removal-a-step-further

15 years ago

117 upvotes – 67 comments

I’m sorry, but were you actually trying to remember your comical passwords?

http://www.troyhunt.com/2011/08/im-sorry-but-were-you-actually-trying.html

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 86 comments

Derek Sivers on a different way to be an entrepreneur

http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2011/08/derek-sivers-at-business-of-software-2010-video-and-transcript-of-talk.html

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 14 comments

Why U.S. Broadband is So Slow

http://corp.sonic.net/ceo/2011/03/05/why-us-broadband-is-so-slow/

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 66 comments

Show HN: my collaborative drawing webapp

http://awwapp.com/

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 35 comments

An alternative to employee options/equity grants

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2987-an-alternative-to-employee-optionsequity-grants

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 86 comments

Fluid Simulation for Video Games (part 1 of 10)

http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/fluid-simulation-for-video-games-part-1/

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 16 comments
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