Hacker News on 4 August 2008

• URL Rewriting for Beginners
• Why I stick with Perl
• Border Security: We can take your laptop anywhere we want for as long as we want
• Why I'm Not Working on my Startup (yet)
• YC's summer update
• Unstructured Thoughts on Making Websites
• Michael Tsai: Welcome to iPhone: Your Crappy Mac of Tomorrow, Today
• Introductory course on Unix sysadminning (includes notes, slides, homework, and labs)
• In defense of Perl.
• K as a Prototyping Language