The Best Hacker News Posts of August 2010

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Keep calm & carry on: What you didn't know about the reddit story alexisohanian.com · mrduncan · 3 Aug 2010

776 pts 83 comments

2

P ≠ NP scribd.com · zacs · 8 Aug 2010

740 pts 208 comments

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Google Kills Wave googleblog.blogspot.com · elfred · 4 Aug 2010

712 pts 237 comments

4

What Happened to Yahoo paulgraham.com · yagibear · 11 Aug 2010

688 pts 270 comments

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My Thoughts on Oracle v Google blog.headius.com · dochtman · 16 Aug 2010

606 pts 82 comments

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Why GNU grep is Fast lists.freebsd.org · giu · 23 Aug 2010

512 pts 115 comments

7

Welcome to the new decade twitter.com · tswicegood · 15 Aug 2010

486 pts 158 comments

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A letter to my students blogs.berkeley.edu · sunkan · 25 Aug 2010

462 pts 169 comments

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Oracle sues Google over use of Java in Android marketwatch.com · jbarham · 13 Aug 2010

452 pts 326 comments

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"My husband is a programmer; I have no idea what that means." renaebair.com · acangiano · 11 Aug 2010

417 pts 144 comments

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Common Programmer Health Problems sheddingbikes.com · GVRV · 8 Aug 2010

394 pts 184 comments

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Wired's bullshit "The web is dead" graph boingboing.net · yanw · 17 Aug 2010

394 pts 73 comments

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Rails 3.0: It's ready weblog.rubyonrails.org · steveklabnik · 29 Aug 2010

385 pts 65 comments

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Hey, Guys, It's Totally Okay If You Don't Get Rich seattle20.com · 3d3mon · 13 Aug 2010

383 pts 219 comments

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Regrets of the Dying inspirationandchai.com · vijaydev · 29 Aug 2010

371 pts 90 comments

16

What happens when you give homeless people a prepaid credit card. thestar.com · pavs · 29 Aug 2010

369 pts 242 comments

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Valedictorian Speaks Out Against Schooling in Graduation Speech blog.swiftkickonline.com · bluesmoon · 4 Aug 2010

360 pts 207 comments

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This document is confidential encrypted.google.com · ssclafani · 17 Aug 2010

358 pts 44 comments

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Kind reminder: please (re)read the HN guidelines ycombinator.com · andreyf · 30 Aug 2010

353 pts 133 comments

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Bill Gates Enrolls His Kids In Khan Academy money.cnn.com · cwan · 30 Aug 2010

344 pts 93 comments

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Apple's attention to detail floodlite.tumblr.com · youngj · 25 Aug 2010

335 pts 259 comments

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Time lapse screencap video of a games programmer youtube.com · SandB0x · 24 Aug 2010

335 pts 75 comments

23

The Graphing Calculator Story - a developer who refused to leave nucalc.com · cavedave · 7 Aug 2010

331 pts 32 comments

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Motorola Snaps Up 280 North (YC 08) For $20 Million techcrunch.com · icey · 24 Aug 2010

323 pts 102 comments

25

The illustrated guide to a Ph.D. matt.might.net · jonp · 9 Aug 2010

319 pts 42 comments

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Why Free Plans Don’t Work softwarebyrob.com · nsoonhui · 18 Aug 2010

318 pts 114 comments

27

JQuery Mobile Framework Announced jquerymobile.com · crescendo · 13 Aug 2010

312 pts 55 comments

28

The Start-up from Hell jacquesmattheij.com · jacquesm · 20 Aug 2010

295 pts 78 comments

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Buzz Kill leoville.com · harscoat · 22 Aug 2010

290 pts 82 comments

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Ladies, look at your code. Now back to mine. google.com · mambodog · 28 Aug 2010

281 pts 74 comments

31

Email overload? Try Priority Inbox gmailblog.blogspot.com · niyazpk · 31 Aug 2010

280 pts 112 comments

32

"God's Number" is 20 - Rubik's cube has been "solved" cube20.org · RiderOfGiraffes · 9 Aug 2010

276 pts 61 comments

33

This Is Why The American Dream Is Out Of Reach thelastpsychiatrist.com · naner · 3 Aug 2010

275 pts 150 comments

34

Kindle vs. iPad Displays: Up close and personal bit-101.com · pistoriusp · 13 Aug 2010

275 pts 75 comments

35

How to Take a Walk ribbonfarm.com · thunk · 10 Aug 2010

273 pts 185 comments

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He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died mentalfloss.com · bluesmoon · 1 Aug 2010

269 pts 52 comments

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Call phones from Gmail googleblog.blogspot.com · BlazingFrog · 25 Aug 2010

264 pts 122 comments

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"Don't argue with me. $100,000 is fair, and you know it." folklore.org · carterac · 27 Aug 2010

262 pts 110 comments

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Things I've Learned from Traveling Around the World for Three Years huffingtonpost.com · ryanricard · 24 Aug 2010

260 pts 98 comments

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Steve Jobs explains branding youtube.com · sz · 27 Aug 2010

260 pts 85 comments

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10,000+ users in 24 hours & YC funding a few days later: lessons learnt blog.rapportive.com · rahulvohra · 11 Aug 2010

258 pts 87 comments

42

Is There Anything Good About Men? psy.fsu.edu · bootload · 26 Aug 2010

250 pts 110 comments

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Textarea, You Are A Sunken Nothing web.archive.org · EbFFA · 11 Aug 2010

250 pts 53 comments

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I'll save you the time of getting an MBA.. reddit.com · petercooper · 7 Aug 2010

248 pts 36 comments

45

Why Google Became A Carrier-Humping, Net Neutrality Surrender Monkey wired.com · pinstriped_dude · 10 Aug 2010

246 pts 106 comments

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No, You can't retire rich at 30 if you sell your startup tonywright.com · charliepark · 23 Aug 2010

244 pts 214 comments

47

Readme Driven Development tom.preston-werner.com · mojombo · 23 Aug 2010

242 pts 57 comments

48

Futurama Writer Created And Proved A Brand New Math Theorem Just For Episode geekosystem.com · ghurlman · 21 Aug 2010

242 pts 31 comments

49

The Future of Startup Funding paulgraham.com · BenSchaechter · 5 Aug 2010

241 pts 91 comments

50

Daring Fireball: Creep Executive Officer daringfireball.net · barredo · 20 Aug 2010

239 pts 155 comments

51

Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: GitHub 37signals.com · fogus · 3 Aug 2010

238 pts 27 comments

52

Depression-era color photos blogs.denverpost.com · ujeezy · 4 Aug 2010

234 pts 59 comments

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Arcade Fire meets HTML5 googleblog.blogspot.com · larrykubin · 30 Aug 2010

234 pts 54 comments

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Ultraviolet light reveals how ancient Greek statues really looked io9.com · jawngee · 20 Aug 2010

234 pts 45 comments

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What different sorting algorithms sound like youtube.com · pavs · 19 Aug 2010

231 pts 39 comments

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Howfuckedismydatabase howfuckedismydatabase.com · malvosenior · 26 Aug 2010

229 pts 46 comments

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How a call girl can earn far more by actually working far less entertainment.timesonline.co.uk · Flemlord · 25 Aug 2010

228 pts 196 comments

58

Zed Shaw: "poll, epoll, science, and superpoll" with R sheddingbikes.com · tdmackey · 3 Aug 2010

227 pts 141 comments

59

Faster than grep? Old age and treachery beat youth and skill every time. ridiculousfish.com · gthank · 23 Aug 2010

226 pts 27 comments

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Celebrate Whyday whyday.org · binbasti · 19 Aug 2010

225 pts 78 comments