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August 2009 Archive
61.
ZFS, btrfs, and copy-on-write b-trees (lwn.net)
130 points by kinetik on Aug 1, 2009 | 4 comments
62.
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on Aug. 28th) (store.apple.com)
129 points by mrduncan on Aug 24, 2009 | 117 comments
63.
An almost perfect real-world hack (lbrandy.com)
129 points by lbrandy on Aug 3, 2009 | 27 comments
64.
See Randomness (paulgraham.com)
128 points by kunqiana on Aug 24, 2009 | 91 comments
65.
Wherein Twestival screw us over with their egregious unprofessionalism. (dnalounge.com)
128 points by danw on Aug 29, 2009 | 42 comments
66.
How Much Will the Post Office Put Up With? (improbable.com)
127 points by splat on Aug 7, 2009 | 47 comments
67.
The Impermanence, Karma, and Bad Behavior of Why The Lucky Stiff (zedshaw.com)
126 points by smokinn on Aug 20, 2009 | 84 comments
68.
No more yes. It's either hell yeah or no. (sivers.org)
126 points by nreece on Aug 26, 2009 | 56 comments
69.
Paul Graham interview on Econtalk - Start-ups, Innovation, and Creativity (econtalk.org)
126 points by SlowOnTheUptake on Aug 3, 2009 | 21 comments
70.
Infiltrating a Botnet - A Conversation With a Botmaster (cisco.com)
126 points by jperras on Aug 20, 2009 | 21 comments
71.
The Case Against Apple (calacanis.com)
125 points by jasonlbaptiste on Aug 8, 2009 | 126 comments
72.
Checking out of 'Hotel America' (news.bbc.co.uk)
125 points by rglovejoy on Aug 3, 2009 | 56 comments
73.
Haskell is 4.2x as good as Erlang at lightweight concurrency. Give it some love. (shootout.alioth.debian.org)
125 points by dfranke on Aug 20, 2009 | 35 comments
74.
Why I am Not a Professor, or The Decline and Fall of the British University (lambdassociates.org)
124 points by edw519 on Aug 2, 2009 | 124 comments
75.
The 7 vices of highly creative people (archive.salon.com)
123 points by ivankirigin on Aug 5, 2009 | 43 comments
76.
Dive Into HTML 5 preview (by Mark Pilgrim) (diveintohtml5.org)
123 points by bd on Aug 21, 2009 | 12 comments
77.
A new Erlang docs repository (erldocs.com)
123 points by gruseom on Aug 20, 2009 | 10 comments
78.
Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation [video] (ted.com)
121 points by ashishk on Aug 24, 2009 | 56 comments
79.
IE6 No More (ie6nomore.com)
121 points by 100k on Aug 4, 2009 | 26 comments
80.
Roll Your Own UNIX Clone (jamesmolloy.co.uk)
119 points by blacky on Aug 3, 2009 | 43 comments
81.
(chromium) Issue 18385: Head in place of close button (code.google.com)
119 points by mlLK on Aug 5, 2009 | 7 comments
82.
America's unjust sex laws (economist.com)
118 points by MikeCapone on Aug 28, 2009 | 106 comments
83.
Apple bans App Store’s 3rd-most prolific developer (mobilecrunch.com)
118 points by zaveri on Aug 3, 2009 | 67 comments
84.
The Status of the P Versus NP Problem (cacm.acm.org)
118 points by yarapavan on Aug 26, 2009 | 45 comments
85.
_why's best twitter posts (favstar.fm)
118 points by RyanMcGreal on Aug 20, 2009 | 41 comments
86.
Why I don't find HN useful anymore (imgur.com)
117 points by dag on Aug 3, 2009 | 56 comments
87.
Why we don't use Galileo's last name (slate.com)
117 points by rms on Aug 21, 2009 | 42 comments
88.
Mirror of _why's projects (github.com)
116 points by jcl on Aug 19, 2009 | 14 comments
89.
Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why. (wired.com)
113 points by mcantelon on Aug 25, 2009 | 69 comments
90.
A Lesson In Timing Attacks (or, Don't use MessageDigest.isEquals) (codahale.com)
113 points by codahale on Aug 13, 2009 | 30 comments