Hacker News stories for 8 AM on Thursday Sep 20, 2012

0.845 AskPatents.com: A Stack Exchange To Prevent Bad Patents comments

0.661 How long will there be computer science departments? comments

0.603 America’s Problem: The World is Beating Us in a Battle We Don’t Want to Win comments

0.449 Joyent sysadmin switches to linux comments

0.336 How Manufacturing Could Get Better With a Dose of Networked Data comments

0.279 What’s Your API Strategy? comments

0.128 Don’t like iOS6’s (lack of) Transit directions? You need this. comments

0.024 Apple Botches China and Japan Maps in iOS 6 comments