top 50% 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

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

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

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

Using Gmail, Calendar and Docs without an Internet connection

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/using-gmail-calendar-and-docs-without.html

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 70 comments

Sublime Text 2 (Build 2111) gets vi key bindings, indent guides

http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-2-build-2111

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 87 comments

Firefox 9 uses type inference to improve JavaScript performance by 20-30%

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/94532-firefox-9-javascript-performance-improved-by-20-30-with-type-inference

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 46 comments

Rails 3.1 Released

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/3_1_release_notes.html

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 1 comments

Chrome's Most Important Feature

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/08/chromes-most-important-feature.html

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 98 comments

JavaScript Web Apps by O'Reilly

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781449307530/

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 40 comments

Why Advertising Works, Even When You Think It Doesn't

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/08/why-good-advertising-works-even-when-you-think-it-doesnt/244252/

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 70 comments

IPhone Apps Design Mistakes: Over-Blown Visuals (2009)

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/21/iphone-apps-design-mistakes-overblown-visuals/

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 28 comments

Groupon Traffic Declines Nearly 50%

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?art_aid=157597&fa=Articles.showArticle

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 38 comments

Redesigning the Technical Hiring Process

http://www.jeanhsu.com/2011/08/30/redesigning-technical-hiring-process/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 56 comments

Do, as often as you can – it's that simple

http://martinrue.com/2011/08/31/do.html

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 15 comments

MailChimp Acquires TinyLetter (ask me anything)

http://blog.mailchimp.com/mailchimp-acquires-tinyletter/?

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 45 comments

Superpacking JS Demos

http://daeken.com/superpacking-js-demos

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 11 comments

The Embarrassing Naked Photos On Your Stolen Laptop May Not Belong To The Thief

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2011/08/30/reminder-the-embarrassing-naked-photos-on-your-stolen-laptop-may-not-belong-to-the-thief/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 64 comments

Bit-squatting – DNS hijacking by cosmic rays/memory errors

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/08/10/bh-2011-bit-squatting-dns-hijacking-without-exploitation/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 18 comments

Google NexusOne Can Survive a Hard Vacuum

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27123/?ref=rss

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 21 comments

How Old Is Your Globe?

http://www.replogleglobes.com/howOldIsYourGlobe.php

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 36 comments

Open source is illegal?

http://opensource.com/government/11/8/open-source-illegal

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 20 comments

Windows 8 - Designing for Metro style and the desktop

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/08/31/designing-for-metro-style-and-the-desktop.aspx

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 38 comments

7-inch Amazon Tablet launches in October, 10-inch Version in Q1 2012

http://www.i4u.com/47619/7-inch-amazon-tablet-launches-october-10-inch-amazon-tablet-q1-2012

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 37 comments

The importance of silly projects

http://engineering.slideshare.net/2011/08/the-importance-of-silly-projects/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 5 comments

Scala 2.9.1 final - faster compilation and many other improvements

http://www.scala-lang.org/node/10780

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 14 comments

Subjot: A Topic-Based Twitter, Without The Noise

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/31/subjot-a-topic-based-twitter-without-the-noise/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 14 comments
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