Hacker News

Hacker News

1.		United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P (reuters.com)
		469 points by tshtf 10 hours ago \| 339 comments
2.		Give 100 Percent? (samanthadouglas.wordpress.com)
		236 points by ColinWright 11 hours ago \| 77 comments
3.		The Mathematics of Changing Your Mind (nytimes.com)
		36 points by jonburs 4 hours ago \| 2 comments
4.		A Brief Explanation of Microsoft's Anti-Google Patent FUD (groklaw.net)
		82 points by wglb 8 hours ago \| 48 comments
5.		We’re not going to have a jobless recovery. We’re going to have a jobless future (buzzmachine.com)
		202 points by yarapavan 15 hours ago \| 197 comments
6.		How and Why Mixpanel Switched from Erlang to Python (mixpanel.com)
		87 points by ankrgyl 10 hours ago \| 44 comments
7.		Yahoo's assumptions in 2006 about Facebook's future (techcrunch.com)
		39 points by gdeglin 7 hours ago \| 21 comments
8.		Hacker puts a video cam on an RC truck and saves the lives of 6 soldiers (go.com)
		230 points by acangiano 20 hours ago \| 89 comments
9.		Spain: Linking to Copyright Infringing Material Not Infringement (eff.org)
		34 points by srl 8 hours ago \| 9 comments
10.		Why Social Proof Matters To Your Startup (dshipper.posterous.com)
		28 points by dshipper 5 hours ago \| 2 comments
11.		Dropbox close to choosing investors — Round could put valuation at $10 Billion (techcrunch.com)
		51 points by canistr 10 hours ago \| 35 comments
12.		1 in 200 of men alive today are direct descendants of Genghis Khan (discovermagazine.com)
		10 points by lionhearted 4 hours ago \| 4 comments
13.		MyBitcoin Incident Report - August 4th 2011 (mybitcoin.com)
		52 points by jayzee 11 hours ago \| 22 comments
14.		Designing command-line interfaces (antoarts.com)
		131 points by antoarts 18 hours ago \| 71 comments
15.		Why Facebook and Google's Concept of "Real Names" Is Revolutionary (theatlantic.com)
		104 points by ChrisArchitect 17 hours ago \| 61 comments
16.		My Name Is Me - Supporting your freedom to choose the name you use online (nameis.me)
		102 points by ChrisArchitect 17 hours ago \| 34 comments
17.		Are you a Facebook employee? (facebook.com)
		175 points by antichaos 17 hours ago \| 92 comments
18.		Hackers Can Kill Diabetics w/ Insulin Pumps? Facts vs. Fear Mongering (hanselman.com)
		160 points by phsr 22 hours ago \| 49 comments
19.		Give Me A Lever (rjlipton.wordpress.com)
		22 points by wglb 8 hours ago \| discuss
20.		What's a Closure? (nathansjslessons.appspot.com)
		205 points by gulbrandr 1 day ago \| 44 comments
21.		Martin Fowler on Software Patents (martinfowler.com)
		143 points by icebraining 21 hours ago \| 52 comments
22.		How to seem good at everything: Stop doing stupid shit (jinfiesto.posterous.com)
		364 points by jinfiesto 1 day ago \| 127 comments
23.		Small ISPs use "malicious" DNS servers to watch Web searches, earn cash (arstechnica.com)
		54 points by canistr 15 hours ago \| 32 comments
24.		Oracle v. Google - You Name It, You'll Find It In This Story (groklaw.net)
		35 points by wglb 11 hours ago \| discuss
25.		Where do users look first? (gazehawk.com)
		51 points by jgershen 15 hours ago \| 10 comments
26.		Judge to Oracle: "proceed with caution before overreaching again" (patent-damages.com)
		53 points by grellas 14 hours ago \| 15 comments
27.		Forget WiFi, It's LiFi: Internet Through Lightbulbs (good.is)
		63 points by aptsurdist 17 hours ago \| 35 comments
28.		Lessons from a Dell Executive who Joined a YC Startup (ownlocal.com)
		31 points by jeremymims 12 hours ago \| 12 comments
29.		Bonfire of the Vanities (steveblank.com)
		98 points by cwan 21 hours ago \| 20 comments
30.		Judge says domain name loss is not a "substantial hardship" (arstechnica.com)
		83 points by canistr 19 hours ago \| 42 comments
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