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1.Matasano Security acquired for £8.4m ($13m) - Congrats tptacek (nccgroup.com)
439 points by ontoillogical on Aug 2, 2012 | 111 comments
2.Source Sans Pro: Adobe’s first open source font family (adobe.com)
386 points by robinhouston on Aug 2, 2012 | 67 comments
3.The No Excuse List: The Best Place On The Web To Learn Anything (noexcuselist.com)
378 points by joelrunyon on Aug 2, 2012 | 91 comments

If you thought I was insufferable before...
5.Elon Musk of SpaceX: The Goal is Mars (latimes.com)
266 points by api on Aug 2, 2012 | 100 comments
6.Fasting & Programming (mahdiyusuf.com)
177 points by mccarthyjm on Aug 2, 2012 | 174 comments
7.The U.S. Senate has blocked the Cybersecurity Act of 2012. (zdnet.com)
172 points by Empro on Aug 2, 2012 | 77 comments
8.The Differences Between Germany and the United States (uni-paderborn.de)
167 points by kumarski on Aug 2, 2012 | 158 comments
9.Productivity vs. Guilt and Self-Loathing (hanselman.com)
141 points by MarlonPro on Aug 2, 2012 | 25 comments
10.Don Knuth releases Volume 4, Pre-fascicle 6A [gzipped ps] (stanford.edu)
141 points by dhruvbird on Aug 2, 2012 | 47 comments
11.Mountain Lion seems to have addressed the memory management issues in OS X (workstuff.tumblr.com)
135 points by fields on Aug 2, 2012 | 119 comments
12.400,000 American homes have dumped pay-TV so far this year (bgr.com)
134 points by kemper on Aug 2, 2012 | 79 comments
13.Valve: OpenGL is faster than DirectX — even on Windows (extremetech.com)
127 points by mrsebastian on Aug 2, 2012 | 69 comments
14.Today is Goof Off at Work Day (codinghorror.com)
126 points by MarlonPro on Aug 2, 2012 | 50 comments
15.Facebook has more than 83 million 'fake' users (bbc.com)
121 points by iProject on Aug 2, 2012 | 93 comments
16.Monk creates a new Tibetan Unicode font (tibetangeeks.com)
116 points by luckystrike on Aug 2, 2012 | 20 comments
17.DEFCON: Why conference harassment matters (adainitiative.org)
108 points by simcop2387 on Aug 2, 2012 | 98 comments
18.1 Bitcoin Worth 10 USD (bitcoincharts.com)
106 points by mrb on Aug 2, 2012 | 125 comments
19.We are Colorblind (wearecolorblind.com)
104 points by bpierre on Aug 2, 2012 | 49 comments
20.How low (power) can you go? (antipope.org)
98 points by cstross on Aug 2, 2012 | 30 comments
21.Why you should never use GoDaddy ever again (even for a domain search) (zensavona.com)
94 points by zensavona on Aug 2, 2012 | 53 comments
22.Facebook loses 3 more executives (venturebeat.com)
93 points by chrisacky on Aug 2, 2012 | 42 comments
23.Authy (YC W12) launches two-factor auth as a service (techcrunch.com)
93 points by danielpal on Aug 2, 2012 | 34 comments
24.Abandoning Algebra Is Not the Answer (scientificamerican.com)
91 points by tokenadult on Aug 2, 2012 | 66 comments
25.Why Programmers Are Bad at Estimating Time (dzone.com)
90 points by jpro on Aug 2, 2012 | 118 comments

I have to say that this is nothing short of a miracle. The OpenGL API is really hairy to implement at all, let alone making it fast. There's 20 years of accumulated legacy and design mistakes that the driver vendors need to care about. D3D, on the other hand has been re-designed on every iteration and backwards compatibility has been broken in every major release.

On the other hand, porting from D3D code, you don't touch the hairy parts of OpenGL at all because D3D is functionally quite close to the "clean parts" of GL. But there's still some software overhead to overcome. They might also be using a proprietary D3D-on-OpenGL layer, like the ones being used for some Mac ports of Windows games (edit: seems like they are not).

I hope that Steam, and gamers that use Mac and Linux in general, will push for bigger changes in OpenGL, both specs and implementations.

disclaimer: I write GPU drivers for living

27.Cellist Zoe Keating has posted her "Online Sales & Streaming" numbers (docs.google.com)
88 points by jamesbritt on Aug 2, 2012 | 67 comments
28.Heroku announces support for 17 new Postgres extensions (heroku.com)
87 points by selenamarie on Aug 2, 2012 | 28 comments
29.LuaJIT maintainer's take on Apple/Clang (osdir.com)
86 points by zachwill on Aug 2, 2012 | 21 comments
30.Faster Zombies (valvesoftware.com)
85 points by phenylene on Aug 2, 2012 | 16 comments

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