Hacker News on 17 August 2011

• How Browsers Work
• Hey, Bethesda Let’s settle this
• How GitHub Works: Be Asynchronous
• I'm a phony. Are you?
• Federal Circuit case renders many broadly written software patents invalid
• How DuckDuckGo got in Time's best websites
• The 50 Best Websites of 2011
• Groupon has no viable business model
• Wolfenstein 1D
• Researchers identify first flaws in AES