top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-08-31

The Patent Pledge

http://paulgraham.com/patentpledge.html

15 years ago

618 upvotes – 194 comments

US Government seeks to block AT&T & T-Mobile's $39 Billion Merger

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-31/u-s-files-antitrust-complaint-to-block-proposed-at-t-t-mobile-merger.html

15 years ago

369 upvotes – 162 comments

The Million Dollar Question

http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/the-million-dollar-question

15 years ago

342 upvotes – 69 comments

GitHub Flow

http://scottchacon.com/2011/08/31/github-flow.html

15 years ago

327 upvotes – 63 comments

9 million hits/day with 120 megs RAM

http://tumbledry.org/2011/08/31/9_million_hits_day_with_120

15 years ago

303 upvotes – 126 comments

How Steve Jobs handles trolls (WWDC 1997)

http://garry.posterous.com/how-steve-jobs-handles-trolls-wwdc-1997

15 years ago

244 upvotes – 65 comments

I just got meta-copied

http://creatingev.com/post/9610965432/i-just-got-meta-copied

15 years ago

231 upvotes – 37 comments

Now that people are considering NOSQL will more people consider no-DB

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/MemoryImage.html

15 years ago

227 upvotes – 140 comments

My Neighbor, Steve Jobs

http://lisenstromberg.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/my-neighbor-steve-jobs/

15 years ago

226 upvotes – 44 comments

Rails 3.1 Gem Available

http://rubygems.org/gems/rails/versions/3.1.0

15 years ago

210 upvotes – 37 comments

Google App Engine leaves preview, new pricing

http://www.google.com/enterprise/cloud/appengine/pricing.html

15 years ago

201 upvotes – 129 comments

Physicist cuts plane boarding time in half

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20099450-1/physicist-cuts-plane-boarding-time-in-half/

15 years ago

197 upvotes – 110 comments

Python Tools for Visual Studio

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2011/08/29/python-tools-for-visual-studio.aspx

15 years ago

185 upvotes – 98 comments

Yi

http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Yi

15 years ago

175 upvotes – 16 comments

Behind Intel's New Random-Number Generator

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/behind-intels-new-randomnumber-generator/0

15 years ago

170 upvotes – 39 comments

Kernel.org has been hacked (see site news)

http://kernel.org/

15 years ago

167 upvotes – 56 comments

RIP Higgs Boson (with 95% confidence)

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2011/08/23/a-higgs-setback-did-stephen-hawking-just-win-the-most-outrageous-bet-in-physics-history

15 years ago

161 upvotes – 147 comments

Id to release Doom3 source code

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/36383/Id_To_Release_Doom_3_Source_Code.php

15 years ago

161 upvotes – 51 comments

Applying to YC as a Single Founder

http://blog.jazzychad.net/2011/08/31/applying-to-yc-as-a-single-founder.html

15 years ago

158 upvotes – 40 comments

Does Paul Graham Get What He Asks For? [infographic]

http://www.giftrocket.com/blog/does-paul-graham-get-what-he-asks-for

15 years ago

149 upvotes – 28 comments
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