Hacker News on 9 August 2011

• 5000% Increase in the sale of baseball bats on Amazon.co.uk
• How to Level Up as a Developer
• Why are restaurant websites so awful? Because of restaurant culture.
• Large-scale Amazon EC2 Outage
• NASA finds DNA components in meteorites, says they originated in space
• Gamification is bullshit
• Accuracy takes power: one man's 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES emulator
• Mozilla, WebKit To Support Debugging CoffeeScript and other JS Languages
• Apple to Lodsys: you'll have to go through us to sue iOS devs
• Why HN Got Slow