Hacker News on 6 August 2011

• United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P
• Scott Adams: The Heady Thrill of Having Nothing to Do
• DEF CON: The event that scares hackers
• Life on the Command Line
• Interview Street (YC S11) streamlines the search for great programmers
• How and Why Mixpanel Switched from Erlang to Python
• A Brief Explanation of Microsoft's Anti-Google Patent FUD
• Programming and Scaling
• Sprite3D.js: a javascript library for 3D positionning
• Cosmos Will Get a Sequel