top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-08-02

Valve Source Engine Running Faster on Linux than Windows

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/

14 years ago

611 upvotes – 238 comments

Matasano Security acquired for £8.4m ($13m) - Congrats tptacek

http://www.nccgroup.com/en/news-events/news/acquisition-of-a-leading-us-security-testing-business-for-%C2%A384m/

14 years ago

439 upvotes – 111 comments

Source Sans Pro: Adobe’s first open source font family

http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/08/source-sans-pro.html

14 years ago

386 upvotes – 67 comments

The No Excuse List: The Best Place On The Web To Learn Anything

http://www.noexcuselist.com/

14 years ago

378 upvotes – 91 comments

Elon Musk of SpaceX: The Goal is Mars

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-0801-morrison-musk-spacex-20120801,0,3838907.column

14 years ago

266 upvotes – 100 comments

Fasting & Programming

http://www.mahdiyusuf.com/post/28530166837/fasting-programming

14 years ago

177 upvotes – 174 comments

The U.S. Senate has blocked the Cybersecurity Act of 2012.

http://www.zdnet.com/senate-blocks-cybersecurity-act-7000002051/

14 years ago

172 upvotes – 77 comments

The Differences Between Germany and the United States

http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/us-d.html

14 years ago

167 upvotes – 158 comments

Productivity vs. Guilt and Self-Loathing

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

14 years ago

141 upvotes – 25 comments

Don Knuth releases Volume 4, Pre-fascicle 6A [gzipped ps]

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/fasc6a.ps.gz

14 years ago

141 upvotes – 47 comments

Mountain Lion seems to have addressed the memory management issues in OS X

http://workstuff.tumblr.com/post/28556080639/mountain-lion-seems-to-have-partially-addressed-the

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 119 comments

400,000 American homes have dumped pay-TV so far this year

http://www.bgr.com/2012/08/02/cable-tv-subscriber-stats-q2-2012-satellite/

14 years ago

134 upvotes – 79 comments

Valve: OpenGL is faster than DirectX — even on Windows

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/133824-valve-opengl-is-faster-than-directx-even-on-windows

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 69 comments

Today is Goof Off at Work Day

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/08/today-is-goof-off-at-work-day.html

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 50 comments

Facebook has more than 83 million 'fake' users

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19093078

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 93 comments

Monk creates a new Tibetan Unicode font

http://tibetangeeks.com/geeks/lobsang_monlam/

14 years ago

116 upvotes – 20 comments

DEFCON: Why conference harassment matters

https://adainitiative.org/2012/08/defcon-why-conference-harassment-matters/

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 98 comments

1 Bitcoin Worth 10 USD

http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg2ztgSzm1g10zm2g25zv

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 125 comments

We are Colorblind

http://wearecolorblind.com/

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 49 comments

How low (power) can you go?

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/08/how-low-power-can-you-go.html

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 30 comments
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