The Best Hacker News Posts of August 2011
We track 601 stories from August 2011, averaging 208 points each. techcrunch.com was the most linked source, with 31 stories. Together they drew 44,860 comments, 75 per story on average.
1
Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple
finance.yahoo.com · taylorbuley · 24 Aug 2011
1.7k pts
305 comments
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2
Google Buys Motorola For $12.5 Billion
techcrunch.com · iamben · 15 Aug 2011
1.2k pts
369 comments
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4
Show HN: Codecademy.com, the easiest way to learn to code
codecademy.com · zds · 18 Aug 2011
787 pts
232 comments
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5
Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot
meta.slashdot.org · SandB0x · 25 Aug 2011
784 pts
143 comments
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6
United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P
reuters.com · tshtf · 6 Aug 2011
769 pts
497 comments
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7
Microsoft UI has officially entered the realm of self-parody
seldo.tumblr.com · wyclif · 29 Aug 2011
742 pts
326 comments
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9
An iOS Developer Takes on Android
nfarina.com · nfarina · 1 Aug 2011
720 pts
116 comments
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10
Solar-panel "trees" really are inferior
webcache.googleusercontent.com · DevX101 · 20 Aug 2011
650 pts
98 comments
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11
13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence
inhabitat.com · jedwhite · 19 Aug 2011
649 pts
142 comments
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12
Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO (Official Letter)
blogs.wsj.com · hunterowens · 24 Aug 2011
641 pts
65 comments
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15
If Software Is Eating The World, Why Don't Coders Get Any Respect?
throwaway37 · 24 Aug 2011
618 pts
265 comments
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17
That truck driver you flipped off? Let me tell you his story.
startribune.com · there · 3 Aug 2011
616 pts
286 comments
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18
Warren Buffett: Stop coddling the super rich
nytimes.com · asanwal · 15 Aug 2011
605 pts
336 comments
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19
Learn Vim Progressively
yannesposito.com · yogsototh · 29 Aug 2011
605 pts
113 comments
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21
Show HN: Like Button for Hacker News
hnlike.com · sbashyal · 28 Aug 2011
568 pts
65 comments
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23
Spin.js, a pure JS spinner
fgnass.github.com · michokest · 18 Aug 2011
548 pts
66 comments
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24
Mari0 - Super Mario Bros. + Portal
stabyourself.net · ChrisArchitect · 29 Aug 2011
544 pts
29 comments
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25
I am nothing
paulbuchheit.blogspot.com · dwynings · 20 Aug 2011
520 pts
125 comments
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26
Stanford Offers 13 classes, including AI, for free
see.stanford.edu · cpfohl · 16 Aug 2011
517 pts
55 comments
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27
Why Arabic is Terrific
idlewords.com · ColinWright · 21 Aug 2011
504 pts
236 comments
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28
Can we believe our eyes? Misleading people with Unicode.
blogs.technet.com · bensummers · 11 Aug 2011
487 pts
122 comments
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29
5000% Increase in the sale of baseball bats on Amazon.co.uk
amazon.co.uk · nwest · 9 Aug 2011
470 pts
150 comments
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30
WebGL Water Simulation
madebyevan.com · devongovett · 14 Aug 2011
463 pts
85 comments
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31
Walking on a cube-shaped planet
straightdope.com · yaks_hairbrush · 26 Aug 2011
450 pts
78 comments
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32
It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad
techcrunch.com · canistr · 18 Aug 2011
437 pts
305 comments
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34
Please confirm your email address
bvckup.tumblr.com · huhtenberg · 19 Aug 2011
422 pts
79 comments
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35
Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi
stackoverflow.com · ez77 · 22 Aug 2011
417 pts
182 comments
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36
Our Commitment to Trust & Safety
blog.airbnb.com · mikecaron · 1 Aug 2011
416 pts
163 comments
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38
The Greatest Customer Service Story Ever Told, Starring Morton’s Steakhouse
shankman.com · jsherry · 18 Aug 2011
413 pts
139 comments
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39
Developer open-sources 200+ hr project after client refuses to pay
github.com · audionerd · 16 Aug 2011
413 pts
131 comments
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40
Requests: HTTP for Humans
docs.python-requests.org · DanielRibeiro · 13 Aug 2011
404 pts
66 comments
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41
How to seem good at everything: Stop doing stupid shit
jinfiesto.posterous.com · jinfiesto · 4 Aug 2011
403 pts
130 comments
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42
Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers.
prog21.dadgum.com · ColinWright · 26 Aug 2011
399 pts
77 comments
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43
Deck.js: A JavaScript library for building modern HTML presentations.
imakewebthings.github.com · toni · 23 Aug 2011
391 pts
60 comments
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44
When patents attack Android
googleblog.blogspot.com · MikeCapone · 3 Aug 2011
387 pts
279 comments
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45
Stanford Fall 2011 - Introduction to Databases
db-class.org · redouane · 16 Aug 2011
387 pts
44 comments
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46
How to Level Up as a Developer
jasonrudolph.com · fogus · 9 Aug 2011
386 pts
109 comments
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47
Games company claims their graphics are 100,000x better
ausgamers.com · trog · 2 Aug 2011
385 pts
139 comments
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48
Give 100 Percent?
samanthadouglas.wordpress.com · ColinWright · 5 Aug 2011
375 pts
106 comments
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49
Stay away from This* (thiswebhost.com)
reddit.com · laCour · 16 Aug 2011
374 pts
167 comments
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50
US Government seeks to block AT&T & T-Mobile's $39 Billion Merger
bloomberg.com · ldayley · 31 Aug 2011
369 pts
162 comments
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51
For the love of God, YC companies-to-be stop posting ambiguous job description
startupcto · 12 Aug 2011
369 pts
93 comments
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53
Who Rules America: An Investment Manager's View on the Top 1%
sociology.ucsc.edu · ph0rque · 4 Aug 2011
362 pts
201 comments
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54
The "overlearning the game" problem
andrewoneverything.com · sendos · 29 Aug 2011
362 pts
140 comments
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55
Codecademy Surges To 200,000 Users, 2.1 Million Lessons Completed In 72 Hours
techcrunch.com · zds · 23 Aug 2011
358 pts
75 comments
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56
Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)
blog.objectmentor.com · ColinWright · 24 Aug 2011
358 pts
26 comments
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57
Things I’ve never heard a successful startup founder say
blog.asmartbear.com · pirate_is_back · 15 Aug 2011
356 pts
97 comments
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58
Why I do not want to work at Google
lists.canonical.org · rl1987 · 28 Aug 2011
351 pts
132 comments
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59
Anonymous hijacks Syria's government pages
mod.gov.sy · jimmyjim · 8 Aug 2011
349 pts
47 comments
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60
Stanford Fall 2011 - Machine Learning
ml-class.org · redouane · 16 Aug 2011
349 pts
23 comments
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