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Top of Month - Aug 2010

1. Keep calm & carry on: What you didn't know about the reddit story
   (3 Aug 2010 | 776 points | Comments)

2. P ≠ NP
   (8 Aug 2010 | 740 points | Comments)

3. Google Kills Wave
   (4 Aug 2010 | 712 points | Comments)

4. What Happened to Yahoo
   (11 Aug 2010 | 688 points | Comments)

5. My Thoughts on Oracle v Google
   (16 Aug 2010 | 606 points | Comments)

6. Why GNU grep is Fast
   (23 Aug 2010 | 512 points | Comments)

7. Welcome to the new decade
   (15 Aug 2010 | 486 points | Comments)

8. A letter to my students
   (25 Aug 2010 | 462 points | Comments)

9. Oracle sues Google over use of Java in Android
   (13 Aug 2010 | 452 points | Comments)

10. "My husband is a programmer; I have no idea what that means."
    (11 Aug 2010 | 417 points | Comments)

11. Common Programmer Health Problems
    (8 Aug 2010 | 394 points | Comments)

12. Wired's bullshit "The web is dead" graph
    (17 Aug 2010 | 394 points | Comments)

13. Rails 3.0: It's ready
    (29 Aug 2010 | 385 points | Comments)

14. Hey, Guys, It's Totally Okay If You Don't Get Rich
    (13 Aug 2010 | 383 points | Comments)

15. Regrets of the Dying
    (29 Aug 2010 | 371 points | Comments)

16. What happens when you give homeless people a prepaid credit card.
    (29 Aug 2010 | 369 points | Comments)

17. Valedictorian Speaks Out Against Schooling in Graduation Speech
    (4 Aug 2010 | 360 points | Comments)

18. This document is confidential
    (17 Aug 2010 | 358 points | Comments)

19. Kind reminder: please (re)read the HN guidelines
    (30 Aug 2010 | 353 points | Comments)

20. Bill Gates Enrolls His Kids In Khan Academy
    (30 Aug 2010 | 344 points | Comments)

21. Time lapse screencap video of a games programmer
    (24 Aug 2010 | 335 points | Comments)

22. Apple's attention to detail
    (25 Aug 2010 | 335 points | Comments)

23. The Graphing Calculator Story - a developer who refused to leave
    (7 Aug 2010 | 331 points | Comments)

24. Motorola Snaps Up 280 North (YC 08) For $20 Million
    (24 Aug 2010 | 323 points | Comments)

25. The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.
    (9 Aug 2010 | 319 points | Comments)

26. Why Free Plans Don’t Work
    (18 Aug 2010 | 318 points | Comments)

27. JQuery Mobile Framework Announced
    (13 Aug 2010 | 312 points | Comments)

28. The Start-up from Hell
    (20 Aug 2010 | 295 points | Comments)

29. Buzz Kill
    (22 Aug 2010 | 290 points | Comments)

30. Ladies, look at your code. Now back to mine.
    (28 Aug 2010 | 281 points | Comments)

31. Email overload? Try Priority Inbox
    (31 Aug 2010 | 280 points | Comments)

32. "God's Number" is 20 - Rubik's cube has been "solved"
    (9 Aug 2010 | 276 points | Comments)

33. This Is Why The American Dream Is Out Of Reach
    (3 Aug 2010 | 275 points | Comments)

34. Kindle vs. iPad Displays: Up close and personal
    (13 Aug 2010 | 275 points | Comments)

35. How to Take a Walk
    (10 Aug 2010 | 273 points | Comments)

36. He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died
    (1 Aug 2010 | 269 points | Comments)

37. Call phones from Gmail
    (25 Aug 2010 | 264 points | Comments)

38. "Don't argue with me. $100,000 is fair, and you know it."
    (27 Aug 2010 | 262 points | Comments)

39. Things I've Learned from Traveling Around the World for Three Years
    (24 Aug 2010 | 260 points | Comments)

40. Steve Jobs explains branding
    (27 Aug 2010 | 260 points | Comments)

41. 10,000+ users in 24 hours & YC funding a few days later: lessons learnt
    (11 Aug 2010 | 258 points | Comments)

42. Textarea, You Are A Sunken Nothing
    (11 Aug 2010 | 250 points | Comments)

43. Is There Anything Good About Men?
    (26 Aug 2010 | 250 points | Comments)

44. I'll save you the time of getting an MBA..
    (7 Aug 2010 | 248 points | Comments)

45. Why Google Became A Carrier-Humping, Net Neutrality Surrender Monkey
    (10 Aug 2010 | 246 points | Comments)

46. No, You can't retire rich at 30 if you sell your startup
    (23 Aug 2010 | 244 points | Comments)

47. Futurama Writer Created And Proved A Brand New Math Theorem Just For Episode
    (21 Aug 2010 | 242 points | Comments)

48. Readme Driven Development
    (23 Aug 2010 | 242 points | Comments)

49. The Future of Startup Funding
    (5 Aug 2010 | 241 points | Comments)

50. Daring Fireball: Creep Executive Officer
    (20 Aug 2010 | 239 points | Comments)

51. Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: GitHub
    (3 Aug 2010 | 238 points | Comments)

52. Depression-era color photos
    (4 Aug 2010 | 234 points | Comments)

53. Ultraviolet light reveals how ancient Greek statues really looked
    (20 Aug 2010 | 234 points | Comments)

54. Arcade Fire meets HTML5
    (30 Aug 2010 | 234 points | Comments)

55. What different sorting algorithms sound like
    (19 Aug 2010 | 231 points | Comments)

56. Howfuckedismydatabase
    (26 Aug 2010 | 229 points | Comments)

57. How a call girl can earn far more by actually working far less
    (25 Aug 2010 | 228 points | Comments)

58. Zed Shaw: "poll, epoll, science, and superpoll" with R
    (3 Aug 2010 | 227 points | Comments)

59. Faster than grep? Old age and treachery beat youth and skill every time.
    (23 Aug 2010 | 226 points | Comments)

60. Celebrate Whyday
    (19 Aug 2010 | 225 points | Comments)

61. Design For Hackers: Why You Don't Use Garamond on The Web
    (12 Aug 2010 | 224 points | Comments)

62. Rich Programmer Food
    (16 Aug 2010 | 217 points | Comments)

63. Why aren't you using git-flow?
    (19 Aug 2010 | 215 points | Comments)

64. If you can't find 10 people who say they'll buy it...
    (9 Aug 2010 | 212 points | Comments)

65. The first step is to start
    (31 Aug 2010 | 212 points | Comments)

66. How to Minimize Politics in Your Company
    (24 Aug 2010 | 209 points | Comments)

67. Jason Calacanis' Warning To Y Combinator Startups [video]
    (29 Aug 2010 | 209 points | Comments)

68. The Illusion of Winning
    (30 Aug 2010 | 209 points | Comments)

69. Ask HN: I'm a Linux guy. Tell me about all those BSDs
    (2 Aug 2010 | 208 points | Comments)

70. Ray Kurzweil does not understand the brain
    (17 Aug 2010 | 208 points | Comments)

71. Swarmation: like musical chairs for pixels
    (29 Aug 2010 | 208 points | Comments)

72. John Carmack demos Rage on iPhone
    (12 Aug 2010 | 206 points | Comments)

73. The Most Isolated Man on the Planet
    (21 Aug 2010 | 206 points | Comments)

74. What's better about Ruby than Python? - comp.lang.python
    (26 Aug 2010 | 205 points | Comments)

75. Paul Graham is now tweeting
    (27 Aug 2010 | 204 points | Comments)

76. GitHub launches Pull Requests 2.0
    (31 Aug 2010 | 204 points | Comments)

77. Mobile Flash Fail: Weak Android Player Proves Jobs Right
    (19 Aug 2010 | 203 points | Comments)

78. Russia in color a century ago
    (20 Aug 2010 | 203 points | Comments)

79. Ghost of WWII: 1940's meticulously overlaid on modern day
    (3 Aug 2010 | 200 points | Comments)

80. Burning man defeats PayPal
    (12 Aug 2010 | 200 points | Comments)

81. A vote for me is a vote for dipshit businesses everywhere
    (16 Aug 2010 | 200 points | Comments)

82. You’re a developer, so why do you work for someone else?
    (16 Aug 2010 | 200 points | Comments)

83. Islands in lakes in islands in lakes ...
    (6 Aug 2010 | 199 points | Comments)

84. Schwarzenegger: Public Pensions and Our Fiscal Future
    (27 Aug 2010 | 199 points | Comments)

85. StarCraft 2: help us mourn the death of content freedom
    (6 Aug 2010 | 196 points | Comments)

86. The story of round rectangles
    (26 Aug 2010 | 195 points | Comments)

87. Autocomplete your life with Greplin (YC W10)
    (31 Aug 2010 | 195 points | Comments)

88. The Best Email I've Ever Received
    (10 Aug 2010 | 194 points | Comments)

89. I'm a nearly broke developer/entrepreneur and felt like venting
    (10 Aug 2010 | 194 points | Comments)

90. Ruby 1.9.2 Released
    (18 Aug 2010 | 191 points | Comments)

91. Kevin Rose steps down as CEO of Digg
    (31 Aug 2010 | 191 points | Comments)

92. The shit finally hits the fan....(James Gosling on Oracle vs Google)
    (13 Aug 2010 | 188 points | Comments)

93. EFF Review of Verizon and Google's Net Neutrality Proposal
    (11 Aug 2010 | 187 points | Comments)

94. Fuck you, Money
    (16 Aug 2010 | 186 points | Comments)

95. Ask a real musician: opera singer dissects top 5 metal singers
    (23 Aug 2010 | 186 points | Comments)

96. Silicon Valley's Dark Secret: It's all about Age
    (28 Aug 2010 | 185 points | Comments)

97. The HTML5 Experiments of Hakim El Hattab
    (22 Aug 2010 | 184 points | Comments)

98. Paul Graham on trends for the future
    (25 Aug 2010 | 184 points | Comments)

99. My short history of Engine Yard and my Resignation
    (13 Aug 2010 | 183 points | Comments)

100. Tips for Noogler Engineers (Noogler = New at Google)
     (2 Aug 2010 | 182 points | Comments)