SpaceX wins $440M contract with NASA to develop Space Shuttle successor (spaceflightnow.com)

Yes, I was hacked. Hard. (www.emptyage.com)

Why Valve? Or, what do we need corporations for.. (blogs.valvesoftware.com)

Collection of python patterns (github.com)

Google crackdown is catching innocent devs in the crossfire (www.wired.co.uk)

Student Is Sanctioned for Creating Class-Registration Web Site (ucouldfinish.com)

One of Apple’s Best Ideas Ever — Made Worse (new MagSafe connectors) (pogue.blogs.nytimes.com)

Pie charts in your favicon (lipka.github.com)

Why Men Can't Have It All (www.relevantmagazine.com)

One Bad “Policy Change” Email Can Kill Company Culture (moz.com)

B2B Is Unsexy, and I Know It (danshipper.com)

Who 'likes' my Virtual Bagels? (www.bbc.com)

Knight Trading Program Ran Amok, With No ‘Off’ Switch (dealbook.nytimes.com)

Letter to John Carmack (www.phoboslab.org)

Tindie: like etsy for electronics (tindie.com)

Ten million users is the new one million users (cdixon.org)

Everything in your life is just a list (www.slate.com)

Electronic Arts Sues Zynga, Says The Ville Is An “Unmistakable Copy” Of The Sims (techcrunch.com)

Show HN: Everyday.me - a mobile app to record your life and store it forever (everyday.me)

Hacker School announces fall applications and residencies (www.hackerschool.com)

Rather entertaining takedown of TED disguised as a book review (www.tnr.com)

Stop UEFI (kephra.de)

Thinking Functionally with Haskell (pragprog.com)

Ember.js 1.0 Prerelease (emberjs.com)

How Big Data Transformed the Dairy Industry (www.theatlantic.com)

What college rankings really tell us (www.newyorker.com)

Three Decades of the Commodore 64 (arstechnica.com)

Reversing the Decline in Big Ideas (blogs.hbr.org)

Are butterflies really two animals in one? (www.npr.org)

Backbone.js: Hacker's Guide Part 3 (dailyjs.com)

How big brother and big media can put the Internet genie back in the bottle. (www.fourmilab.ch)

Freelancers and health insurance (jenamiller.com)

France will cut funding to its piracy police (paidcontent.org)

NASA announces $1.1 billion for trio of spaceships (cosmiclog.nbcnews.com)

Writing Kernel Exploits [pdf] (ugcs.net)

Learn random facts while pulling code changes (coderwall.com)

Why to auto-answer video calls (blog.quicklychat.com)

The myth of the “modern browser” (christianheilmann.com)

Why Software Development Methodologies Suck (java.dzone.com)

Responsive Design Myth (blog.scoutzie.com)

Processing photos on demand with Photon (blog.1000memories.com)

Need to test jgc.org as part of CloudFlare Railgun testing (www.jgc.org)

Google Native Client - Part 1 (blog.leafsr.com)

The future of "C# in Depth" (msmvps.com)

Why game industry talent is going indie (2011) (arstechnica.com)

Scott Rafer on Dalton's letter: "Learning the wrong lesson" (rafer.net)

Microsoft's Surface pricing dilemma (jhatax.blogspot.com)

Jumping the gap between a US and UK high school education (2020science.org)

Why my first startup in the valley “flopped” (pozo.me)

Why Rails 4 Live Streaming is a Big Deal (blog.phusion.nl)

Is Apple Losing Its Shine After Steve Jobs? (business.time.com)

Show HN: Hasher - Developer's toolbox for Chrome (chrome.google.com)

Ghosts in the atom: The wave in QM may be real after all. (stirling-westrup-tt.blogspot.co.uk)

People Who Think Programming Is Shit Are Missing The Point (e2open.org)

Observation of a new particle in the search for the Higgs boson (arxiv.org)

Timeline: ESA spacecraft and station track critical arrival at Mars (www.esa.int)

Alexey Navalny's cyber-crusade against Russian corruption (www.newyorker.com)

How the Galaxy In-Memory Data Grid Handles Failures (blog.paralleluniverse.co)

Sendicate - Simply send beautiful emails to people that matter. (sendicate.net)

Higgs Papers Out (blogs.discovermagazine.com)

Being Social Is About Being Private (kyrobeshay.com)

There's a hackathon in the Philippines this 25th of August (marvinvista.blogspot.com)

HTC’s Android dream in tatters as HTC One sales disappoint (wmpoweruser.com)

Sociability's value comes from privacy (boingboing.net)

SPDY Now One-Click Simple for Any Website (blog.cloudflare.com)

Ruby Refinements landed in trunk (blog.wyeworks.com)

MVP: The Features Are Silent (gregario.us)

Startup Leaders on What They Love about Their Company Cultures (blog.idonethis.com)

We Need a Social Web OS (www.orianmarx.com)

MySQL 5.6 includes built-in memecached daemon with InnoDB backing (dev.mysql.com)

Do developers really love beer, or is it just a myth? (redmonk.com)

How a Shortcoming of the English Language Doomed Two Decades of Web Design (gun.io)

Ask HN: How can I start learning physics? (news.ycombinator.com)

Isaac Asimov - Nightfall (doctord.dyndns.org)

Scoble: Filepicker.io helps you offer great cloud-handling features (plus.google.com)

Did Bill Gates Steal the Heart of DOS? (spectrum.ieee.org)

Rich Hickey and Justin Sheehy: Datastores, NoSql and CAP (www.infoq.com)

Secret to Elephants' Thundering Calls Discovered (news.yahoo.com)

Show HN: Open-source content management system:TYPO3 and filepicker integration (www.fabrizio-branca.de)

Electronic Arts Sues Zynga for Copyright Infringement Over The Ville (allthingsd.com)

Simple (Formerly BankSimple) Review (www.hoverpig.net)

Visual Studio 2012 RTM (channel9.msdn.com)

Dynamic A/B Testing of your Mobile App Design (www.kickstarter.com)

HTML5-Centric Artillery Raises $2.5M To Make the Browser The Console (techcrunch.com)

Replacing ASP.NET Forms Authentication (blog.appharbor.com)

Appigo Is Threatening To Sue Android Apps For Using The Word "ToDo" (www.androidpolice.com)

show HN: Peer-to-peer group video chat in the web browser (github.com)

Low-Power Chips to Model a Billion Neurons (spectrum.ieee.org)

MPAA “embedding is infringement” theory rejected by court (arstechnica.com)

Ask HN: Why don't more web startups open-source their applications? (news.ycombinator.com)

The true true size of Africa (www.economist.com)

Zuckerberg Drops Out of Top Tech Billionaires (mashable.com)

Rocking Twilio SMS with StackMob (www.stackmob.com)

Opus - open, royalty-free, IETF standard audio codec which outperforms HE-AAC (opus-codec.org)

Entrepreneurial Happiness at TEDxNewHaven [video] (elasticsales.com)

Radio Shack's TRS-80 turns 35 today. Please don't call it "Trash-80." (techland.time.com)

Refugee from Facebook questions the social media life (www.washingtonpost.com)

Are SaaS companies really data-driven? (www.geckoboard.com)

Fogus: Everyone’s “agile” (blog.fogus.me)

DHTMLX 3.5 - Build Visually Stunning, Real Time Web Apps (www.dhtmlx.com)

Electromagnetic Field, a Hacker/Maker Camp for the UK - Hack a Day (hackaday.com)

A Century of Controversy over the Foundations of Mathematics (1999) (www.cs.auckland.ac.nz)

Primer on binary in the web browser (blog.ericzhang.com)

Promise Pipelines in JavaScript (sitr.us)

NinjaTel, the hacker cellphone network (www.robotskirts.com)

Brain Pickings: How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love (www.brainpickings.org)

I'm a moleskine guy, what do you all doodle and brainstorm in? (news.ycombinator.com)

Peer2Peer group video chat with WebRTC (http://multiwebrtc.nodejitsu.com)

Solowheel (solowheel.com)

Why do we still have Admin Panels? (protoco.de)

What's the best lesson you have learned in your career? (programmers.stackexchange.com)

The Trillion Dollar Lies I Keep Believing (www.jamesaltucher.com)

A post-industrial point of view (lemire.me)

Gap year student looking for an internship (news.ycombinator.com)

Ask HN: 150+ new users in 2 hrs, the downside is they never came back (news.ycombinator.com)

Is Google about to close Feedburner? It's looking likely (thewayoftheweb.net)

Telnet isn't the problem (chasechristian.com)

RIM CEO says company ‘seriously’ considered switch to Android (m.bgr.com)

Ask HN: Review my business idea please. (news.ycombinator.com)

DSM-V may end up being a failure (neuroskeptic.blogspot.com)

QuakeCon 2012 - John Carmack Keynote (www.youtube.com)

Nanex ~ 03-Aug-2012 ~ The Knightmare Explaned (www.nanex.net)

Breakdown of a person's Google results [Infographic] (lifehacker.com)

Building a "multiplayer" HTML5 game is easy. Right? (www.whiteoctober.co.uk)

CSS3 Media Queries Becomes Official, CSS4 Media Queries Takes Shape (www.css3.info)

Firefly: Arduino-based board for DIY space projects (www.kickstarter.com)

RIM CEO says company ‘seriously’ considered switch to Android (www.bgr.com)

The problem of Social Network Redundancy (One Platform to rule them all, please) (www.bgcallam.com)

First it was Ninja, Rockstar and Badass... now Chuck Norris (careers.stackoverflow.com)

Truecrypt on Raspberry-Pi (kenfallon.com)

Mountain Lion having mysterious effect on battery life for some users (arstechnica.com)

It's not Enron, It's Facebook (www.thestreet.com)

OAuth and API Providers: Come on guys... (java.dzone.com)

Brave New World—Ramifications of 3D printing (procrastineering.blogspot.com)

Reinvent The Wheel (blog.ircmaxell.com)

Ask HN: iPhone app awards? (news.ycombinator.com)

~80% Simulation Speedup & CircuitLab Browser Shootout (JavaScript) (www.circuitlab.com)

Refugee from Facebook questions the social media life (www.washingtonpost.com)

Evolving - How a Programmer Grows (Quickly) (www.calvinfroedge.com)

10 Websites For Mobile Design Patterns (blog.neemware.com)

An ASCII Piano that Renders into Sound (jordanscales.com)

Top 5 Myths About Big Data (mashable.com)

Electronic Arts sues Zynga, says it copied 'The Sims Social' (economictimes.indiatimes.com)

Carbon Credits Are the Key to Clean Water - ASME (www.asme.org)

Swiftype (YC W12) is hiring full-stack engineers to build better search software (news.ycombinator.comContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1)

Funding for entrepreneurial hackers (news.ycombinator.com)