Hacker News on 8 August 2012

• Design Tip: Never Use Black
• First full-resolution images of the Martian surface
• Jack Dorsey: Today Starbucks Signed up for Square
• Some performance tweaks
• Responding to Wired's ad hominem hatchet job
• Germany's laws on github, machine-readable and ready to be forked
• Show HN: Burner, for temporary phone numbers
• Internet Archive Starts Seeding 1,398,875 Torrents
• Show HN: We Use That. What startups use to get stuff done
• Grid (YC S12) Reinvents The Spreadsheet For The Tablet Age