2010-08-31 front | Hacker News

Stories from August 31, 2010

Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day, month, or year.

1.		The first step is to start (37signals.com)
		212 points by jp_sc on Aug 31, 2010 \| 26 comments
2.		GitHub launches Pull Requests 2.0 (github.com/blog)
		204 points by kneath on Aug 31, 2010 \| 38 comments
3.		Autocomplete your life with Greplin (YC W10) (techcrunch.com)
		195 points by danicgross on Aug 31, 2010 \| 89 comments
4.		Kevin Rose steps down as CEO of Digg (digg.com)
		191 points by zain on Aug 31, 2010 \| 95 comments
5.		The 99% Rule (nsfw) (whattofix.com)
		172 points by DanielBMarkham on Aug 31, 2010 \| 65 comments
6.		How bathroom posture affects your health. (slate.com)
		164 points by carnevalem on Aug 31, 2010 \| 100 comments
7.		New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro (ms-studio.com)
		158 points by bunglebooz on Aug 31, 2010 \| 87 comments
8.		Ask HN: How to be successful online without SEO bullshittery?
		149 points by rkalla on Aug 31, 2010 \| 61 comments
9.		Productive Programming (gabrielweinberg.com)
		139 points by taylorwc on Aug 31, 2010 \| 79 comments
10.		Clojure or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Parentheses (nathanmarz.com)
		121 points by mrduncan on Aug 31, 2010 \| 84 comments
11.		UberCab to disrupt the Taxi/Limo business (techcrunch.com)
		116 points by yish on Aug 31, 2010 \| 103 comments
12.		WebOS 2.0 will include node.js (palm.com)
		108 points by jmtulloss on Aug 31, 2010 \| 41 comments
13.		Pomegranate: storing billions and billions of tiny little files (highscalability.com)
		99 points by chuhnk on Aug 31, 2010 \| 10 comments
14.		AutoCAD Coming to Mac (and iOS) for First Time in Nearly 20 Years (nytimes.com)
		97 points by gphil on Aug 31, 2010 \| 73 comments
15.		Who killed Prolog? (vanemden.wordpress.com)
		93 points by adamo on Aug 31, 2010 \| 55 comments
16.		How Our Professional Elites Are Hired (theatlantic.com)
		88 points by tortilla on Aug 31, 2010 \| 31 comments
17.		Reasonable Doubt: Innocence Project Co-Founder Peter Neufeld on Being Wrong (slate.com)
		86 points by Kliment on Aug 31, 2010 \| 22 comments
18.		A Story of O(racle) (tbray.org)
		82 points by bjonathan on Aug 31, 2010 \| 60 comments
19.		AMA: My job was to game Digg using infographics (reddit.com)
		78 points by thibaut_barrere on Aug 31, 2010 \| 30 comments
20.		Mastering Node: Open Source Node.js eBook (visionmedia.github.com)
		79 points by rafaelc on Aug 31, 2010 \| 7 comments
21.		Ask HN: Are there any good online communities for UX design?
		73 points by khurram on Aug 31, 2010 \| 27 comments
22.		5 foods it's cheaper to grow (msn.com)
		71 points by ph0rque on Aug 31, 2010 \| 83 comments
23.		Piwik hits 1.0 - Open source web analytics (piwik.org)
		70 points by eli_s on Aug 31, 2010 \| 19 comments
24.		Review our startup: Lanyrd, the social conference directory (lanyrd.com)
		71 points by simonw on Aug 31, 2010 \| 40 comments
25.		Ask HN: Should I fire half of my team because their performance is terrible?
		67 points by firingtest on Aug 31, 2010 \| 92 comments
26.		What is Hacker News?
		65 points by blantonl on Aug 31, 2010 \| 41 comments
27.		Node.js used to mirror DOM across browsers (screentoaster.com)
		64 points by kurotek on Aug 31, 2010 \| 45 comments
28.		Heavy drinkers outlive nondrinkers (yahoo.com)
		61 points by CWIZO on Aug 31, 2010 \| 37 comments
29.		New Kindle Leaves Rivals Farther Behind (nytimes.com)
		57 points by Setsuna on Aug 31, 2010 \| 61 comments
30.		Rubinius wants to help you make Ruby better (engineyard.com)
		57 points by raju on Aug 31, 2010 \| 4 comments
		More

HN For You