Hacker News on 3 August 2010

• Keep calm & carry on: What you didn't know about the reddit story
• This Is Why The American Dream Is Out Of Reach
• Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: GitHub
• Zed Shaw: "poll, epoll, science, and superpoll" with R
• Ghost of WWII: 1940's meticulously overlaid on modern day
• New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what the VCs say
• Ten Steps To Ten Thousand Sign Ups Before We Even Launch Our Startup
• What is LaTeX and Why You Should Care
• The Prime That Wasn't
• Colleges Serve the People Who Work There, Not the Students