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1.		15 uncoupled simple pendulums of increasing lengths dance together (fas.harvard.edu)
		258 points by SandB0x on Aug 27, 2011 \| 25 comments
2.		Why you should learn just a little Awk - A Tutorial by Example (gregable.com)
		224 points by ColinWright on Aug 27, 2011 \| 76 comments
3.		What is the exact difference between a terminal, a shell, a tty and a console? (unix.stackexchange.com)
		203 points by LiveTheDream on Aug 27, 2011 \| 29 comments
4.		History made in India: Govt agrees to anti-corruption bill (indiatimes.com)
		166 points by combiclickwise on Aug 27, 2011 \| 66 comments
5.		Rational Home Buying (lesswrong.com)
		164 points by alexandros on Aug 27, 2011 \| 72 comments
6.		How Apple Works (aaronsw.com)
		164 points by pmarin on Aug 27, 2011 \| 60 comments
7.		Experiments Show Gravity Is Not an Emergent Phenomenon (technologyreview.com)
		163 points by raganwald on Aug 27, 2011 \| 38 comments
8.		AT&T Now Charging You an Extra $2/Month For Not Using Enough Long Distance (dslreports.com)
		143 points by nextparadigms on Aug 27, 2011 \| 57 comments
9.		Try D3 Now - D3 Visualization Tutorial (christopheviau.com)
		137 points by LiveTheDream on Aug 27, 2011 \| 28 comments
10.		Ask HN: A Well Funded Competitor Has Launched Before Me What Should I do?
		132 points by sadasdad324 on Aug 27, 2011 \| 75 comments
11.		Thank Steve Jobs (thankyoustevejobsfor.com)
		125 points by kdivvela on Aug 27, 2011 \| 67 comments
12.		Sun-java6 packages removed soon from Debian/Ubuntu (and all other linux distros) (ledru.info)
		99 points by pythonist on Aug 27, 2011 \| 57 comments
13.		Introducing The Floating University (floatinguniversity.com)
		94 points by turing on Aug 27, 2011 \| 42 comments
14.		Why Ubuntu Linux is now ready for primetime (redferret.net)
		87 points by jaggs on Aug 27, 2011 \| 120 comments
15.		Eric Schmidt describes Google+ as an "identity service" (plus.google.com)
		88 points by jdp23 on Aug 27, 2011 \| 80 comments
16.		Observing demos hurts learning, and confusion is a sign of understanding (computinged.wordpress.com)
		82 points by ColinWright on Aug 27, 2011 \| 5 comments
17.		A History of Haskell (research.microsoft.com)
		79 points by prtk on Aug 27, 2011 \| 3 comments
18.		Investigating counterfeit MicroSDs (bunniestudios.com)
		77 points by ColinWright on Aug 27, 2011 \| 8 comments
19.		Understanding Quadratic Bézier Curves (antoineleclair.ca)
		72 points by antoineleclair on Aug 27, 2011 \| 16 comments
20.		Show HN: My first Windows Phone 7 app: Colorify (ahmetalpbalkan.com)
		73 points by ahmetalpbalkan on Aug 27, 2011 \| 10 comments
21.		Why QR Codes Are Here To Stay (mashable.com)
		71 points by hamiltonchan on Aug 27, 2011 \| 67 comments
22.		Inside IBM's cognitive chip (nature.com)
		68 points by bchjam on Aug 27, 2011 \| 13 comments
23.		Chicago Yoga Studio: "Why I won't do a Groupon" (tulayoga.net)
		63 points by awicklander on Aug 27, 2011 \| 62 comments
24.		How much of R is written in R? (r-bloggers.com)
		56 points by g-garron on Aug 27, 2011 \| 25 comments
25.		Racket intro projects: start hacking on and with Racket (github.com/plt)
		54 points by p4bl0 on Aug 27, 2011 \| 5 comments
26.		Data Deduplication with Linux (linuxjournal.com)
		50 points by chintanp on Aug 27, 2011 \| 24 comments
27.		Facebook shuts down Deals (slashgear.com)
		50 points by ltamake on Aug 27, 2011 \| 19 comments
28.		Living to 100 and Beyond (wsj.com)
		49 points by grellas on Aug 27, 2011 \| 10 comments
29.		Paul Vixie Explains How Protect IP Will Break The Internet (techdirt.com)
		47 points by garbowza on Aug 27, 2011 \| 12 comments
30.		Guess who is eating Cisco’s Wi-Fi lunch (gigaom.com)
		47 points by mvs on Aug 27, 2011 \| 15 comments
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