Hacker News on 4 July 2010

• Did Americans in 1776 have British accents?
• Python 2.7 released
• The Last Question by Isaac Asimov
• A regular expression to check for prime numbers
• The difference between iPhone + Android: Great since day one
• UPS was founded by 2 teenagers, 1 Bicycle, and $100 borrowed from a friend
• Git for Computer Scientists
• Defer: Taming asynchronous javascript with coffeescript
• They Did Their Homework (800 Years of It)
• Nu: Lisp on Objective C. (think Clojure for Cocoa)