The Best Hacker News Posts of August 2011

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Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple finance.yahoo.com · taylorbuley · 24 Aug 2011

1.7k pts 305 comments

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Google Buys Motorola For $12.5 Billion techcrunch.com · iamben · 15 Aug 2011

1.2k pts 369 comments

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Twitter Bootstrap twitter.github.com · d0vs · 19 Aug 2011

1k pts 108 comments

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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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Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot meta.slashdot.org · SandB0x · 25 Aug 2011

784 pts 143 comments

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United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P reuters.com · tshtf · 6 Aug 2011

769 pts 497 comments

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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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Jonathan's Card jonathanstark.com · ams1 · 7 Aug 2011

726 pts 219 comments

9

An iOS Developer Takes on Android nfarina.com · nfarina · 1 Aug 2011

720 pts 116 comments

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Solar-panel "trees" really are inferior webcache.googleusercontent.com · DevX101 · 20 Aug 2011

650 pts 98 comments

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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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Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO (Official Letter) blogs.wsj.com · hunterowens · 24 Aug 2011

641 pts 65 comments

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How Browsers Work html5rocks.com · martius · 17 Aug 2011

633 pts 36 comments

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Icon Ambulance plus.google.com · sgk284 · 25 Aug 2011

622 pts 87 comments

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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The Patent Pledge paulgraham.com · anateus · 31 Aug 2011

618 pts 194 comments

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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Warren Buffett: Stop coddling the super rich nytimes.com · asanwal · 15 Aug 2011

605 pts 336 comments

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Learn Vim Progressively yannesposito.com · yogsototh · 29 Aug 2011

605 pts 113 comments

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SICP is Under Attack vedantk.tumblr.com · vedantk · 3 Aug 2011

570 pts 196 comments

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Show HN: Like Button for Hacker News hnlike.com · sbashyal · 28 Aug 2011

568 pts 65 comments

22

Dear procrastinator edo · 15 Aug 2011

560 pts 139 comments

23

Spin.js, a pure JS spinner fgnass.github.com · michokest · 18 Aug 2011

548 pts 66 comments

24

Mari0 - Super Mario Bros. + Portal stabyourself.net · ChrisArchitect · 29 Aug 2011

544 pts 29 comments

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I am nothing paulbuchheit.blogspot.com · dwynings · 20 Aug 2011

520 pts 125 comments

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Stanford Offers 13 classes, including AI, for free see.stanford.edu · cpfohl · 16 Aug 2011

517 pts 55 comments

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Why Arabic is Terrific idlewords.com · ColinWright · 21 Aug 2011

504 pts 236 comments

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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5000% Increase in the sale of baseball bats on Amazon.co.uk amazon.co.uk · nwest · 9 Aug 2011

470 pts 150 comments

30

WebGL Water Simulation madebyevan.com · devongovett · 14 Aug 2011

463 pts 85 comments

31

Walking on a cube-shaped planet straightdope.com · yaks_hairbrush · 26 Aug 2011

450 pts 78 comments

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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Warn HN: Lots of Launches Coming pg · 8 Aug 2011

428 pts 93 comments

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Please confirm your email address bvckup.tumblr.com · huhtenberg · 19 Aug 2011

422 pts 79 comments

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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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Our Commitment to Trust & Safety blog.airbnb.com · mikecaron · 1 Aug 2011

416 pts 163 comments

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Edit like an Ace github.com · sant0sk1 · 15 Aug 2011

415 pts 54 comments

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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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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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Requests: HTTP for Humans docs.python-requests.org · DanielRibeiro · 13 Aug 2011

404 pts 66 comments

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How to seem good at everything: Stop doing stupid shit jinfiesto.posterous.com · jinfiesto · 4 Aug 2011

403 pts 130 comments

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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Deck.js: A JavaScript library for building modern HTML presentations. imakewebthings.github.com · toni · 23 Aug 2011

391 pts 60 comments

44

When patents attack Android googleblog.blogspot.com · MikeCapone · 3 Aug 2011

387 pts 279 comments

45

Stanford Fall 2011 - Introduction to Databases db-class.org · redouane · 16 Aug 2011

387 pts 44 comments

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How to Level Up as a Developer jasonrudolph.com · fogus · 9 Aug 2011

386 pts 109 comments

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Games company claims their graphics are 100,000x better ausgamers.com · trog · 2 Aug 2011

385 pts 139 comments

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Give 100 Percent? samanthadouglas.wordpress.com · ColinWright · 5 Aug 2011

375 pts 106 comments

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Stay away from This* (thiswebhost.com) reddit.com · laCour · 16 Aug 2011

374 pts 167 comments

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US Government seeks to block AT&T & T-Mobile's $39 Billion Merger bloomberg.com · ldayley · 31 Aug 2011

369 pts 162 comments

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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Early Photos of Y Combinator ycombinator.com · pg · 30 Aug 2011

368 pts 69 comments

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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The "overlearning the game" problem andrewoneverything.com · sendos · 29 Aug 2011

362 pts 140 comments

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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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Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice) blog.objectmentor.com · ColinWright · 24 Aug 2011

358 pts 26 comments

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Things I’ve never heard a successful startup founder say blog.asmartbear.com · pirate_is_back · 15 Aug 2011

356 pts 97 comments

58

Why I do not want to work at Google lists.canonical.org · rl1987 · 28 Aug 2011

351 pts 132 comments

59

Anonymous hijacks Syria's government pages mod.gov.sy · jimmyjim · 8 Aug 2011

349 pts 47 comments

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Stanford Fall 2011 - Machine Learning ml-class.org · redouane · 16 Aug 2011

349 pts 23 comments