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August 2011 Archive
1.
Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple (finance.yahoo.com)
1667 points by taylorbuley on Aug 24, 2011 | 305 comments
2.
Google Buys Motorola For $12.5 Billion (techcrunch.com)
1214 points by iamben on Aug 15, 2011 | 369 comments
3.
Twitter Bootstrap (twitter.github.com)
1047 points by d0vs on Aug 19, 2011 | 108 comments
4.
Show HN: Codecademy.com, the easiest way to learn to code (codecademy.com)
787 points by zds on Aug 18, 2011 | 232 comments
5.
Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot (meta.slashdot.org)
784 points by SandB0x on Aug 25, 2011 | 143 comments
6.
United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P (reuters.com)
769 points by tshtf on Aug 6, 2011 | 497 comments
7.
Microsoft UI has officially entered the realm of self-parody (seldo.tumblr.com)
742 points by wyclif on Aug 29, 2011 | 326 comments
8.
Jonathan's Card (jonathanstark.com)
726 points by ams1 on Aug 7, 2011 | 219 comments
9.
An iOS Developer Takes on Android (nfarina.com)
720 points by nfarina on Aug 1, 2011 | 116 comments
10.
Solar-panel "trees" really are inferior (webcache.googleusercontent.com)
650 points by DevX101 on Aug 20, 2011 | 98 comments
11.
13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence (inhabitat.com)
649 points by jedwhite on Aug 19, 2011 | 142 comments
12.
Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO (Official Letter) (blogs.wsj.com)
641 points by hunterowens on Aug 24, 2011 | 65 comments
13.
How Browsers Work (html5rocks.com)
633 points by martius on Aug 17, 2011 | 36 comments
14.
Icon Ambulance (plus.google.com)
622 points by sgk284 on Aug 25, 2011 | 87 comments
15.
If Software Is Eating The World, Why Don't Coders Get Any Respect?
618 points by throwaway37 on Aug 24, 2011 | 265 comments
16.
The Patent Pledge (paulgraham.com)
618 points by anateus on Aug 31, 2011 | 194 comments
17.
That truck driver you flipped off? Let me tell you his story. (startribune.com)
616 points by there on Aug 3, 2011 | 286 comments
18.
Warren Buffett: Stop coddling the super rich (nytimes.com)
605 points by asanwal on Aug 15, 2011 | 336 comments
19.
Learn Vim Progressively (yannesposito.com)
605 points by yogsototh on Aug 29, 2011 | 113 comments
20.
SICP is Under Attack (vedantk.tumblr.com)
570 points by vedantk on Aug 3, 2011 | 196 comments
21.
Show HN: Like Button for Hacker News (hnlike.com)
568 points by sbashyal on Aug 28, 2011 | 65 comments
22.
Dear procrastinator
560 points by edo on Aug 15, 2011 | 139 comments
23.
Spin.js, a pure JS spinner (fgnass.github.com)
548 points by michokest on Aug 18, 2011 | 66 comments
24.
Mari0 - Super Mario Bros. + Portal (stabyourself.net)
544 points by ChrisArchitect on Aug 29, 2011 | 29 comments
25.
I am nothing (paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
520 points by dwynings on Aug 20, 2011 | 125 comments
26.
Stanford Offers 13 classes, including AI, for free (see.stanford.edu)
517 points by cpfohl on Aug 16, 2011 | 55 comments
27.
Why Arabic is Terrific (idlewords.com)
504 points by ColinWright on Aug 21, 2011 | 236 comments
28.
Can we believe our eyes? Misleading people with Unicode. (blogs.technet.com)
487 points by bensummers on Aug 11, 2011 | 122 comments
29.
5000% Increase in the sale of baseball bats on Amazon.co.uk (amazon.co.uk)
470 points by nwest on Aug 9, 2011 | 150 comments
30.
WebGL Water Simulation (madebyevan.com)
463 points by devongovett on Aug 14, 2011 | 85 comments