Hacker News on 13 August 2011

• Requests: HTTP for Humans
• Command line tools for web developers
• Hyperpolyglot: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby
• Leaked AT&T Letter Demolishes Case For T-Mobile Merger
• C++ 11 Approved
• The Sad Reality of Post-Mature Optimization
• Silence: Because I talked so rarely, people took the time to listen to me
• AWS Post-Mortem
• Understanding "Prototypes" in JavaScript
• "When you're done talking, stop"