Hacker News on 31 August 2011

• The Patent Pledge
• US Government seeks to block AT&T & T-Mobile's $39 Billion Merger
• The Million Dollar Question
• GitHub Flow
• 9 million hits/day with 120 megs RAM
• How Steve Jobs handles trolls (WWDC 1997)
• I just got meta-copied
• Now that people are considering NOSQL will more people consider no-DB
• My Neighbor, Steve Jobs
• Rails 3.1 Gem Available