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Top of Month - Aug 2011

1. Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple
   (24 Aug 2011 | 1667 points | Comments)

2. Google Buys Motorola For $12.5 Billion
   (15 Aug 2011 | 1214 points | Comments)

3. Twitter Bootstrap
   (19 Aug 2011 | 1047 points | Comments)

4. Show HN: Codecademy.com, the easiest way to learn to code
   (18 Aug 2011 | 787 points | Comments)

5. Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot
   (25 Aug 2011 | 784 points | Comments)

6. United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P
   (6 Aug 2011 | 769 points | Comments)

7. Microsoft UI has officially entered the realm of self-parody
   (29 Aug 2011 | 742 points | Comments)

8. Jonathan's Card
   (7 Aug 2011 | 726 points | Comments)

9. An iOS Developer Takes on Android
   (1 Aug 2011 | 720 points | Comments)

10. Solar-panel "trees" really are inferior
    (20 Aug 2011 | 650 points | Comments)

11. 13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence
    (19 Aug 2011 | 649 points | Comments)

12. Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO (Official Letter)
    (24 Aug 2011 | 641 points | Comments)

13. How Browsers Work
    (17 Aug 2011 | 633 points | Comments)

14. Icon Ambulance
    (25 Aug 2011 | 622 points | Comments)

15. If Software Is Eating The World, Why Don't Coders Get Any Respect?
    (24 Aug 2011 | 618 points | Comments)

16. The Patent Pledge
    (31 Aug 2011 | 618 points | Comments)

17. That truck driver you flipped off? Let me tell you his story.
    (3 Aug 2011 | 616 points | Comments)

18. Warren Buffett: Stop coddling the super rich
    (15 Aug 2011 | 605 points | Comments)

19. Learn Vim Progressively
    (29 Aug 2011 | 605 points | Comments)

20. SICP is Under Attack
    (3 Aug 2011 | 570 points | Comments)

21. Show HN: Like Button for Hacker News
    (28 Aug 2011 | 568 points | Comments)

22. Dear procrastinator
    (15 Aug 2011 | 560 points | Comments)

23. Spin.js, a pure JS spinner
    (18 Aug 2011 | 548 points | Comments)

24. Mari0 - Super Mario Bros. + Portal
    (29 Aug 2011 | 544 points | Comments)

25. I am nothing
    (20 Aug 2011 | 520 points | Comments)

26. Stanford Offers 13 classes, including AI, for free
    (16 Aug 2011 | 517 points | Comments)

27. Why Arabic is Terrific
    (21 Aug 2011 | 504 points | Comments)

28. Can we believe our eyes? Misleading people with Unicode.
    (11 Aug 2011 | 487 points | Comments)

29. 5000% Increase in the sale of baseball bats on Amazon.co.uk
    (9 Aug 2011 | 470 points | Comments)

30. WebGL Water Simulation
    (14 Aug 2011 | 463 points | Comments)

31. Walking on a cube-shaped planet
    (26 Aug 2011 | 450 points | Comments)

32. It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad
    (18 Aug 2011 | 437 points | Comments)

33. Warn HN: Lots of Launches Coming
    (8 Aug 2011 | 428 points | Comments)

34. Please confirm your email address
    (19 Aug 2011 | 422 points | Comments)

35. Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi
    (22 Aug 2011 | 417 points | Comments)

36. Our Commitment to Trust & Safety
    (1 Aug 2011 | 416 points | Comments)

37. Edit like an Ace
    (15 Aug 2011 | 415 points | Comments)

38. Developer open-sources 200+ hr project after client refuses to pay
    (16 Aug 2011 | 413 points | Comments)

39. The Greatest Customer Service Story Ever Told, Starring Morton’s Steakhouse
    (18 Aug 2011 | 413 points | Comments)

40. Requests: HTTP for Humans
    (13 Aug 2011 | 404 points | Comments)

41. How to seem good at everything: Stop doing stupid shit
    (4 Aug 2011 | 403 points | Comments)

42. Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers.
    (26 Aug 2011 | 399 points | Comments)

43. Deck.js: A JavaScript library for building modern HTML presentations.
    (23 Aug 2011 | 391 points | Comments)

44. When patents attack Android
    (3 Aug 2011 | 387 points | Comments)

45. Stanford Fall 2011 - Introduction to Databases
    (16 Aug 2011 | 387 points | Comments)

46. How to Level Up as a Developer
    (9 Aug 2011 | 386 points | Comments)

47. Games company claims their graphics are 100,000x better
    (2 Aug 2011 | 385 points | Comments)

48. Give 100 Percent?
    (5 Aug 2011 | 375 points | Comments)

49. Stay away from This* (thiswebhost.com)
    (16 Aug 2011 | 374 points | Comments)

50. For the love of God, YC companies-to-be stop posting ambiguous job description
    (12 Aug 2011 | 369 points | Comments)

51. US Government seeks to block AT&T & T-Mobile's $39 Billion Merger
    (31 Aug 2011 | 369 points | Comments)

52. Early Photos of Y Combinator
    (30 Aug 2011 | 368 points | Comments)

53. Who Rules America: An Investment Manager's View on the Top 1%
    (4 Aug 2011 | 362 points | Comments)

54. The "overlearning the game" problem
    (29 Aug 2011 | 362 points | Comments)

55. Codecademy Surges To 200,000 Users, 2.1 Million Lessons Completed In 72 Hours
    (23 Aug 2011 | 358 points | Comments)

56. Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)
    (24 Aug 2011 | 358 points | Comments)

57. Things I’ve never heard a successful startup founder say
    (15 Aug 2011 | 356 points | Comments)

58. Why I do not want to work at Google
    (28 Aug 2011 | 351 points | Comments)

59. Anonymous hijacks Syria's government pages
    (8 Aug 2011 | 349 points | Comments)

60. Stanford Fall 2011 - Machine Learning
    (16 Aug 2011 | 349 points | Comments)

61. Why must you laugh at my back end?
    (30 Aug 2011 | 348 points | Comments)

62. Xkcd Password Generator
    (11 Aug 2011 | 347 points | Comments)

63. If PHP Were British
    (20 Aug 2011 | 347 points | Comments)

64. Resigned
    (25 Aug 2011 | 346 points | Comments)

65. The Secret of the Fibonacci Sequence in Trees
    (19 Aug 2011 | 344 points | Comments)

66. The Million Dollar Question
    (31 Aug 2011 | 342 points | Comments)

67. Mark Cuban: If you want to see more jobs created -- change patent laws
    (7 Aug 2011 | 335 points | Comments)

68. AeroFS - File Sync Without Servers
    (12 Aug 2011 | 335 points | Comments)

69. Misadventures in VC Funding: The $24 Million Moz Almost Raised
    (29 Aug 2011 | 335 points | Comments)

70. Steve Jobs' Best Quotes
    (24 Aug 2011 | 333 points | Comments)

71. If I Launched a Startup - Cheat Sheet
    (25 Aug 2011 | 333 points | Comments)

72. SSH productivity tips
    (16 Aug 2011 | 330 points | Comments)

73. Zed Shaw: The wonderful Rob Sobers did a great job translating LPTHW to Ruby
    (4 Aug 2011 | 327 points | Comments)

74. GitHub Flow
    (31 Aug 2011 | 327 points | Comments)

75. Free icons for any object in the world
    (3 Aug 2011 | 323 points | Comments)

76. "Any time you have worked long hours, it is a sign of a broken process."
    (18 Aug 2011 | 323 points | Comments)

77. Command line tools for web developers
    (13 Aug 2011 | 322 points | Comments)

78. Updated US immigration rules: H1-B can work for own company
    (18 Aug 2011 | 322 points | Comments)

79. How did academic publishers acquire these feudal powers?
    (30 Aug 2011 | 321 points | Comments)

80. The Definitive Guide To Website Authentication
    (8 Aug 2011 | 319 points | Comments)

81. A letter from _why
    (23 Aug 2011 | 318 points | Comments)

82. Marc Andreessen on Why Software is Eating the World
    (20 Aug 2011 | 317 points | Comments)

83. Pentium-III autopsy
    (27 Aug 2011 | 316 points | Comments)

84. Gmail.com being MITM'd by Iran using this certificate
    (29 Aug 2011 | 316 points | Comments)

85. Hyperpolyglot: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby
    (13 Aug 2011 | 311 points | Comments)

86. Hey, Bethesda Let’s settle this
    (17 Aug 2011 | 309 points | Comments)

87. Redesigning the browser window
    (8 Aug 2011 | 307 points | Comments)

88. Jonathan's Card revealed as viral marketing campaign
    (10 Aug 2011 | 303 points | Comments)

89. Leaked AT&T Letter Demolishes Case For T-Mobile Merger
    (13 Aug 2011 | 303 points | Comments)

90. 9 million hits/day with 120 megs RAM
    (31 Aug 2011 | 303 points | Comments)

91. Hacker News Like Button
    (28 Aug 2011 | 302 points | Comments)

92. How GitHub Works: Be Asynchronous
    (17 Aug 2011 | 299 points | Comments)

93. Why are restaurant websites so awful? Because of restaurant culture.
    (9 Aug 2011 | 297 points | Comments)

94. Winter is coming
    (10 Aug 2011 | 295 points | Comments)

95. Google Threw A Punch, Microsoft Fires Back With A Missile
    (4 Aug 2011 | 293 points | Comments)

96. New gaming laptop with innovative UI by Razer
    (26 Aug 2011 | 292 points | Comments)

97. iPhone vs Android app sales: numbers from an indie developer
    (26 Aug 2011 | 292 points | Comments)

98. Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine
    (28 Aug 2011 | 291 points | Comments)

99. New leukemia treatment "exceeded our wildest expectations"
    (11 Aug 2011 | 289 points | Comments)

100. Do all first links on Wikipedia lead to philosophy?
     (21 Aug 2011 | 289 points | Comments)