Hacker News on 11 August 2008

• Hadoop: When grownups do open source
• Congratulations Apple, you made the iPhone less stable than Windows Mobile
• "I make $1.45 a week and I love it"
• Don't Do What Your Users Say
• Why programming is a good medium for expressing poorly understood ideas
• GWEI - Google Will Eat Itself
• Small Business Willing to Pay $1/Tweet to Send Ads
• Asynchronous Databases: DBSlayer and HTTP
• "Chuck Norris"-ing code
• Memoranda (a contrast of Jobs's and Ballmer's styles)