Hacker News stories for 12 PM on Friday Aug 17, 2012

0.738 Tapbots: DON’T PANIC comments

0.680 D-Wave quantum computer solves protein folding problem comments

0.610 Light Table reaches 0.1.0 comments

0.582 Israel sperm banks find quality is plummeting comments

0.556 How We Nearly Lost the Discovery Shuttle comments

0.394 Steve Mann’s unanswered letter to McDonalds’ Head of Customer Services comments