top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-08-17

How Browsers Work

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/internals/howbrowserswork/

15 years ago

633 upvotes – 36 comments

Hey, Bethesda Let’s settle this

http://notch.tumblr.com/post/9038258448/hey-bethesda-lets-settle-this

15 years ago

309 upvotes – 97 comments

How GitHub Works: Be Asynchronous

http://zachholman.com/posts/how-github-works-asynchronous/

15 years ago

299 upvotes – 60 comments

I'm a phony. Are you?

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ImAPhonyAreYou.aspx

15 years ago

244 upvotes – 62 comments

Federal Circuit case renders many broadly written software patents invalid

http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2011/08/if-the-software-method-is-not-patentable-then-neither-is-the-computer-readable-medium.html

15 years ago

215 upvotes – 72 comments

How DuckDuckGo got in Time's best websites

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/08/how-duckduckgo-got-in-times-best-websites.html

15 years ago

203 upvotes – 48 comments

The 50 Best Websites of 2011

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,2087815,00.html

15 years ago

202 upvotes – 99 comments

Groupon has no viable business model

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/08/groupon_doomed_by_too_much_of.html#.TktWMsm2TwY.facebook

15 years ago

191 upvotes – 122 comments

Wolfenstein 1D

http://wonder-tonic.com/wolf1d/

15 years ago

174 upvotes – 80 comments

Researchers identify first flaws in AES

http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=11474

15 years ago

155 upvotes – 35 comments

Markets are Efficient if and Only if P = NP

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1773169

15 years ago

154 upvotes – 83 comments

HTC sues Apple over everything

http://gigaom.com/apple/htc-sues-apple-over-everything/

15 years ago

138 upvotes – 70 comments

No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2011/08/Jekyll-amazon-s3.html

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 35 comments

My ideas are shitty so I'm going on an Internet diet

http://swizec.com/blog/my-ideas-are-shitty-so-im-going-on-an-internet-diet/swizec/2239

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 84 comments

In response to This*: Stop letting engineers get away with social ineptitude

http://www.charleshooper.net/blog/stop-letting-tech-people-be-socially-inept/

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 111 comments

Minecraft released for android.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mojang.minecraftpe

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 86 comments

Open-sourcing A 200+ Hour Project - The Story Behind It

http://fredwu.me/post/9036730472?e5d340e0

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 12 comments

Renting vs Buying, Foreclosures and Job Growth across 50 US Cities

http://insights.truliablog.com/vis/rent-vs-buy-q3/

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 95 comments

Moving On...

http://www.thiswebhost.com/blog/2011/08/16/moving-on/

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 114 comments

Why (special agent) Johnny (still) Can't Encrypt

http://www.crypto.com/blog/p25/

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 24 comments
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