top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-08-21

Why Arabic is Terrific

http://idlewords.com/2011/08/why_arabic_is_terrific.htm

15 years ago

Do all first links on Wikipedia lead to philosophy?

http://matpalm.com/blog/2011/08/13/wikipedia-philosophy/

15 years ago

A Simple Explanation for Why HP Abandoned Palm

http://daringfireball.net/2011/08/hp_apotheker

15 years ago

HN now comes with HTTPS?

https://news.ycombinator.com/

15 years ago

Download.com wrapping downloads

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2910554

15 years ago

List of vim plugins I use - with mini tutorials

http://mirnazim.org/writings/vim-plugins-i-use/

15 years ago

Is That Review a Fake?

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/08/20/business/20110820-is-that-review-a-fake.html?src=tp

15 years ago

GroupMe acquired by Skype

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/21/skype-to-acquire-year-old-group-messaging-service-groupme/

15 years ago

Coding backwards

http://jameso.be/2011/08/19/coding-backwards.html

15 years ago

Notch is coding live again

http://www.twitch.tv/realnotch

15 years ago

How to charge clients: flat fee vs. hourly rate?

http://watilo.com/how-to-charge-clients-flat-fee-vs-hourly-rate

15 years ago

The little-known secret of how to actually choose a web designer

http://informationhighwayman.com/rants/choose-web-designer-easy-steps/

15 years ago

Superfast military plane hit Mach 20 before crash

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44208437/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/superfast-military-plane-hit-mach-crash/

15 years ago

The State of CyanogenMod

http://www.cyanogenmod.com/blog/the-state-of-cyanogenmod

15 years ago

Port of PG's "On Lisp" to Clojure

http://thinkrelevance.com/blog/2008/12/12/on-lisp-clojure.html

15 years ago

Stupid scientists

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/08/19/none-so-blind/

15 years ago

NewLisp

http://www.newlisp.org/

15 years ago

Show HN: Rasta.js, anonymous domainless key-value store for frontend JavaScript

http://rastajs.errorjs.com

15 years ago

Get started with WebGL: draw a square

http://www.netmagazine.com/tutorials/get-started-webgl-draw-square

15 years ago

Jtalk: a Smalltalk implementation that runs on the JavaScript runtime.

http://jtalk-project.org/

15 years ago