Hacker News on 9 August 2010

• The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.
• "God's Number" is 20 - Rubik's cube has been "solved"
• If you can't find 10 people who say they'll buy it...
• Sharpie reinvents the pen with liquid pencil
• Ask HN: Did you ever do anything unethical to get your startup off the ground?
• Google goes "evil"
• The Startup Diet: How I Lost 35 Pounds While Working Overtime
• Why I'm not hiring
• Fun - a new programming language for the realtime web
• The Next Silicon Valley