top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-08-03

SpaceX wins $440M contract with NASA to develop Space Shuttle successor

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1208/03ccicap/spacex.html

14 years ago

564 upvotes – 180 comments

Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles

https://plus.google.com/101960720994009339267/posts/R58WgWwN9jp

14 years ago

470 upvotes – 153 comments

Why Valve? Or, what do we need corporations for..

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/why-valve-or-what-do-we-need-corporations-for-and-how-does-valves-management-structure-fit-into-todays-corporate-world/

14 years ago

331 upvotes – 159 comments

Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously

http://gigaom.com/2012/08/01/thanks-to-quora-now-you-cant-read-anonymously/#HB2

14 years ago

290 upvotes – 178 comments

Student Is Sanctioned for Creating Class-Registration Web Site

http://ucouldfinish.com/

14 years ago

243 upvotes – 112 comments

Google crackdown catches innocent devs in the crossfire

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-08/03/indie-dev-google-crackdown

14 years ago

242 upvotes – 118 comments

One of Apple’s Best Ideas Ever — Made Worse

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/one-of-apples-best-ideas-ever-made-worse/

14 years ago

236 upvotes – 135 comments

Pie charts in your favicon

http://lipka.github.com/piecon/

14 years ago

232 upvotes – 33 comments

Why Men Can't Have It All

http://www.relevantmagazine.com/life/whole-life/why-men-cant-have-it-all

14 years ago

227 upvotes – 227 comments

One Bad “Policy Change” Email Can Kill Company Culture

http://moz.com/rand/one-bad-policy-change-email-can-kill-company-culture/

14 years ago

181 upvotes – 92 comments

Microsoft abandon Metro name due to legal challenge

http://www.loopinsight.com/2012/08/02/microsoft-ditches-metro-now-using-windows-8-style-ui/

14 years ago

168 upvotes – 117 comments

Warsow 1.0 Released

http://www.warsow.net/forum/thread/14994

14 years ago

164 upvotes – 43 comments

B2B Is Unsexy, and I Know It

http://danshipper.com/b2b-is-unsexy-and-i-know-it

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 83 comments

Letter to John Carmack

http://www.phoboslab.org/log/2012/08/letter-to-john-carmack

14 years ago

149 upvotes – 133 comments

MySQL now includes memcached, and a plugin that allows fast NoSQL-style access

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/news-5-6-6.html

14 years ago

149 upvotes – 43 comments

Who 'likes' my Virtual Bagels?

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18819338

14 years ago

149 upvotes – 83 comments

Ask PG: Is RFS3 "Things built on Twitter" still sensible to prioritise?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4332000

14 years ago

147 upvotes – 55 comments

Ten million users is the new one million users

http://cdixon.org/2012/08/03/ten-million-is-the-new-one-million/

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 35 comments

Everything in your life is just a list

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/08/workflowy_the_note_taking_app_that_changed_the_way_i_organize_my_life_.single.html

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 78 comments

Electronic Arts Sues Zynga, Says The Ville Is An “Unmistakable Copy” Of The Sims

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/03/electronic-arts-sues-zynga-says-the-ville-is-an-unmistakable-copy-of-the-sims/

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 133 comments
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