Hacker News on 24 August 2010

• Time lapse screencap video of a games programmer
• Motorola Snaps Up 280 North (YC 08) For $20 Million
• Things I've Learned from Traveling Around the World for Three Years
• How to Minimize Politics in Your Company
• What non-technical users don’t understand about your software
• There is no nanotech, stop talking about it and start laughing at it
• Inside the secret world of Trader Joe's
• The Sun is changing the rate of radioactive decay
• Rapid prototyping as burnout antidote
• Rails 3.0: Release candidate 2