The Best Hacker News Posts of August 2008
We track 14 stories from August 2008, averaging 139 points each. Together they drew 777 comments, 56 per story on average.
1
How to hire an idiot (from the 'How to sell your software for $20,000' guy)
nukemanbill.blogspot.com · rob · 1 Aug 2008
220 pts
42 comments
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2
Start a side project, says GitHub founder
gist.github.com · aditya · 20 Aug 2008
210 pts
40 comments
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3
Y Combinator To Offer Standardized Angel Funding Legal Docs
techcrunch.com · danielrhodes · 13 Aug 2008
156 pts
45 comments
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4
Aaron Swartz: How To Launch Software
aaronsw.com · mqt · 22 Aug 2008
148 pts
48 comments
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6
The Tech (MIT student newspaper) publishes the banned DEFCON slides
www-tech.mit.edu · pius · 9 Aug 2008
144 pts
60 comments
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7
Calvin and Jobs (comic)
farm4.static.flickr.com · nickb · 2 Aug 2008
132 pts
28 comments
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8
Series AA Documents Back Online
ycombinator.com · pg · 21 Aug 2008
130 pts
23 comments
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9
Business Requirements are Bullshit
steve-yegge.blogspot.com · mqt · 12 Aug 2008
116 pts
84 comments
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10
The secret of the web (hint: it's a virtue)
sethgodin.typepad.com · yangyang42 · 10 Aug 2008
114 pts
37 comments
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11
For Most People, College Is a Waste of Time
online.wsj.com · epi0Bauqu · 13 Aug 2008
113 pts
139 comments
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12
What I Learned Buying a Rug in Turkey
academicbiz.typepad.com · markbao · 8 Aug 2008
110 pts
64 comments
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13
Indie game designer spent three years and $180,000 making a masterpiece
msnbc.msn.com · nickb · 23 Aug 2008
110 pts
18 comments
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14
The Google black hole: What happens to startups when they're bought by Google?
slate.com · gabrielroth · 14 Aug 2008
103 pts
55 comments
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