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1.		Warren Buffett: Stop coddling the super rich (nytimes.com)
		605 points by asanwal on Aug 15, 2011 \| 336 comments
2.		Dear procrastinator
		560 points by edo on Aug 15, 2011 \| 139 comments
3.		Edit like an Ace (github.com/blog)
		415 points by sant0sk1 on Aug 15, 2011 \| 54 comments
4.		Things I’ve never heard a successful startup founder say (asmartbear.com)
		356 points by pirate_is_back on Aug 15, 2011 \| 97 comments
5.		Joyent Open Sources SmartOS: Zones, ZFS, DTrace and KVM (smartos.org)
		279 points by timf on Aug 15, 2011 \| 82 comments
6.		Google to acquire Motorola (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		274 points by borski on Aug 15, 2011 \| 10 comments
7.		You can list a directory containing 8 million files But not with ls.. (olark.com)
		268 points by bcx on Aug 15, 2011 \| 89 comments
8.		YC NYC, September 26 (ycnyc.com)
		219 points by pg on Aug 15, 2011 \| 94 comments
9.		Show HN: New way to search for used cars (my weekend project) (olegkikin.com)
		160 points by oleg_kikin on Aug 15, 2011 \| 66 comments
10.		Quotes from Android partners (google.com)
		151 points by tzury on Aug 15, 2011 \| 86 comments
11.		Startup Weebly takes profitable leap forward (sfgate.com)
		128 points by pg on Aug 15, 2011 \| 17 comments
12.		Official Steve Jobs biography set for November 21 release (9to5mac.com)
		124 points by kenjackson on Aug 15, 2011 \| 51 comments
13.		Mozilla to remove Firefox version numbers (extremetech.com)
		117 points by lmathews on Aug 15, 2011 \| 67 comments
14.		I’m sorry, but were you actually trying to remember your comical passwords? (troyhunt.com)
		112 points by troyhunt on Aug 15, 2011 \| 86 comments
15.		Why U.S. Broadband is So Slow (sonic.net)
		108 points by bmf on Aug 15, 2011 \| 66 comments
16.		Derek Sivers on a different way to be an entrepreneur (businessofsoftware.org)
		108 points by neilgd on Aug 15, 2011 \| 14 comments
17.		Show HN: my collaborative drawing webapp (awwapp.com)
		100 points by senko on Aug 15, 2011 \| 35 comments
18.		An alternative to employee options/equity grants (37signals.com)
		93 points by InfinityX0 on Aug 15, 2011 \| 86 comments
19.		Fluid Simulation for Video Games (part 1 of 10) (intel.com)
		90 points by spacemanaki on Aug 15, 2011 \| 16 comments
20.		How To Break Your Daily Caffeine Habit And Use Coffee Strategically (fastcompany.com)
		90 points by driverdan on Aug 15, 2011 \| 67 comments
21.		How You Should Go About Learning NoSQL (openmymind.net)
		81 points by latch on Aug 15, 2011 \| 46 comments
22.		How Linux mastered Wall Street (itworld.com)
		83 points by abennett on Aug 15, 2011 \| 29 comments
23.		Did Apple tamper with evidence in the German Apple v. Samsung case? (androidcentral.com)
		81 points by recoiledsnake on Aug 15, 2011 \| 39 comments
24.		Tech Companies Family Tree. Links between company founders and acquisitions (mashable.com)
		78 points by iamwil on Aug 15, 2011 \| 10 comments
25.		Show HN: My user-friendly outbound firewall for Mac (radiosilenceapp.com)
		77 points by aparadja on Aug 15, 2011 \| 81 comments
26.		Building Windows 8 (msdn.com)
		69 points by justanotheratom on Aug 15, 2011 \| 50 comments
27.		When Children Attack... (linuxlock.blogspot.com)
		68 points by g-garron on Aug 15, 2011 \| 22 comments
28.		The website launch checklist (part 2) (agiliq.com)
		64 points by shabda on Aug 15, 2011 \| 6 comments
29.		Motorola had another suitor: Microsoft (gigaom.com)
		62 points by fpgeek on Aug 15, 2011 \| 21 comments
30.		You Don’t Truly Understand It Until You Think It’s Obvious (excid3.com)
		60 points by excid3 on Aug 15, 2011 \| 37 comments
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