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1.
Why must you laugh at my back end? (pud.com)
348 points by pud on Aug 30, 2011 | 215 comments
2.
How did academic publishers acquire these feudal powers? (monbiot.com)
321 points by sasvari on Aug 30, 2011 | 84 comments
3.
87% of the U.S. Population are uniquely identified by {DOB, gender, zip} (latanyasweeney.org)
281 points by jessekeys on Aug 30, 2011 | 95 comments
4.
VimConf (vimconf.org)
255 points by flippingbits on Aug 30, 2011 | 51 comments
5.
Official enrollment for Stanford's online AI class has begun (ai-class.com)
229 points by epenn on Aug 30, 2011 | 63 comments
6.
Japanese breakthrough will make wind power cheaper than nuclear (mnn.com)
183 points by etruong42 on Aug 30, 2011 | 88 comments
7.
Lessons from Valve - How to build a designer's paradise (garrettamini.com)
183 points by kadjar on Aug 30, 2011 | 21 comments
8.
Leak reveals US Government lobbied on behalf of Oracle. (itnews.com.au)
171 points by pwg on Aug 30, 2011 | 29 comments
9.
Pakistan bans VPNs (tribune.com.pk)
161 points by molecule on Aug 30, 2011 | 60 comments
10.
Google and OpenDNS made the web faster for everyone today (extremetech.com)
154 points by ukdm on Aug 30, 2011 | 62 comments
11.
Practical Nerd: The hidden price of “free” (geekwire.com)
152 points by Liu on Aug 30, 2011 | 88 comments
12.
An update on attempted man-in-the-middle attacks (googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com)
150 points by abraham on Aug 30, 2011 | 78 comments
13.
Linear algebra for game developers (wolfire.com)
143 points by Mithrandir on Aug 30, 2011 | 30 comments
14.
HP to produce one more batch of Touchpads (hp.com)
141 points by yumraj on Aug 30, 2011 | 126 comments
15.
Contracts For CoffeeScript (disnetdev.com)
139 points by swannodette on Aug 30, 2011 | 34 comments
16.
Heroku Postgres (heroku.com)
132 points by ryandotsmith on Aug 30, 2011 | 77 comments
17.
The lost world of physicality (jgc.org)
131 points by jgrahamc on Aug 30, 2011 | 97 comments
18.
Stanford CS course on digital photography (stanford.edu)
130 points by United857 on Aug 30, 2011 | 25 comments
19.
If I were a single founder... (foysavas.com)
128 points by foysavas on Aug 30, 2011 | 49 comments
20.
Weird, Birdlike Mystery Drone Crashes in Pakistan (wired.com)
128 points by ColinWright on Aug 30, 2011 | 44 comments
21.
Impressive JPEG Recompression (jpegmini.com)
122 points by franze on Aug 30, 2011 | 61 comments
22.
Developing Multiplayer HTML5 Games with Node.js (smus.com)
108 points by mcantelon on Aug 30, 2011 | 17 comments
23.
Asynchronous ruby framework for websockets, eventsource and streaming (cramp.in)
101 points by lifo on Aug 30, 2011 | 14 comments
24.
World's 7 billionth person about to be born (thehindu.com)
78 points by narad on Aug 30, 2011 | 37 comments
25.
Of Gravatars and Robohashes (codingthewheel.com)
75 points by LiveTheDream on Aug 30, 2011 | 13 comments
26.
Review of the TSA X-ray backscatter body scanner safety report (myhelicaltryst.blogspot.com)
75 points by adulau on Aug 30, 2011 | 37 comments
27.
Index Ventures Leads $4 billion Valuation Round In Dropbox (techcrunch.com)
74 points by amirmc on Aug 30, 2011 | 49 comments
28.
Let’s Suck at GitHub Together (css-tricks.com)
71 points by pointnova on Aug 30, 2011 | 8 comments
29.
Groupon Co-founders invest $4M in fast-growing E la Carte (YC S10) (techcrunch.com)
70 points by dyroffk on Aug 30, 2011 | 26 comments
30.
Launchpad Toys (YC S11) Looks To Create The Next Generation Of Learning Toys (techcrunch.com)
62 points by udits on Aug 30, 2011 | 5 comments

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