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1.		Steve Jobs explains branding (youtube.com)
		260 points by sz on Aug 27, 2010 \| 85 comments
2.		Paul Graham is now tweeting (twitter.com/paulg)
		204 points by sferik on Aug 27, 2010 \| 122 comments
3.		Schwarzenegger: Public Pensions and Our Fiscal Future (wsj.com)
		199 points by pointillistic on Aug 27, 2010 \| 179 comments
4.		Double your price (and no, I'm not kidding) (jacquesmattheij.com)
		180 points by jacquesm on Aug 27, 2010 \| 100 comments
5.		Ingenious Hack by Facebook Spammers: Smoking Hot Bartenders (liquidrhymes.com)
		176 points by jgv on Aug 27, 2010 \| 61 comments
6.		Backblaze online backup almost acquired (backblaze.com)
		173 points by epi0Bauqu on Aug 27, 2010 \| 45 comments
7.		Conde Nast refuses to run Prop 19 ads on reddit (reddit.com)
		140 points by holman on Aug 27, 2010 \| 99 comments
8.		An update on JavaOne (googlecode.blogspot.com)
		129 points by mattyb on Aug 27, 2010 \| 72 comments
9.		How did non US citizen founders funded by YC get allowed to work in the US?
		123 points by faikr on Aug 27, 2010 \| 109 comments
10.		Apple-Centric Observers Get the Facts Wrong: H.264 Still Ain’t Free (createdigitalmotion.com)
		117 points by mgunes on Aug 27, 2010 \| 44 comments
11.		Paul Allen Sues Apple, Others Over Patents (wsj.com)
		110 points by JereCoh on Aug 27, 2010 \| 76 comments
12.		Chrome will use gpu to render pages (chromium.org)
		91 points by catalinist on Aug 27, 2010 \| 47 comments
13.		Self-Improving Bayesian Sentiment Analysis for Twitter (danzambonini.com)
		82 points by spxdcz on Aug 27, 2010 \| 11 comments
14.		PG about to speak at Facebook, partnership announcement to follow (twitter.com/harjeet)
		82 points by mrduncan on Aug 27, 2010 \| 64 comments
15.		Hackers accidentally give Microsoft their code (zdnet.com.au)
		76 points by brianclintwud on Aug 27, 2010 \| 33 comments
16.		Ask HN: My startup got an an acquisition offer. Please share your advice!
		73 points by throwaway_123 on Aug 27, 2010 \| 31 comments
17.		How the engineer driven culture at Google damaged Wave (25hoursaday.com)
		72 points by fogus on Aug 27, 2010 \| 67 comments
18.		Adventures of an imperative programmer in the land of fp (jacquesmattheij.com)
		69 points by jacquesm on Aug 27, 2010 \| 85 comments
19.		Non-transitive Dice (singingbanana.com)
		65 points by amichail on Aug 27, 2010 \| 8 comments
20.		Wooden Mirror (environmentalgraffiti.com)
		65 points by oladon on Aug 27, 2010 \| 7 comments
21.		Does Your Language Shape How You Think? (nytimes.com)
		62 points by GiraffeNecktie on Aug 27, 2010 \| 35 comments
22.		How to Screw Up an On-Site Interview (artima.com)
		61 points by Deprecated on Aug 27, 2010 \| 55 comments
23.		Facebook To Begin Giving Y Combinator Startups VIP Treatment (techcrunch.com)
		59 points by aaronbrethorst on Aug 27, 2010 \| 20 comments
24.		Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-4A Boxed Set (amazon.com)
		56 points by tjr on Aug 27, 2010 \| 55 comments
25.		Ask HN: What's up with all these services charging $10/$15 a month?
		52 points by stavros on Aug 27, 2010 \| 120 comments
26.		Stop Being a Wimp (wepay.com)
		56 points by aberman on Aug 27, 2010 \| 57 comments
27.		Google News gets gamed by a crappy content farm (salon.com)
		50 points by lotusleaf1987 on Aug 27, 2010 \| 15 comments
28.		Why sharing your product roadmap is a bad idea (freshbooks.com)
		49 points by faramarz on Aug 27, 2010 \| 11 comments
29.		Ask HN: tips for working with Mac OS X without using the mouse? (RSI)
		49 points by thibaut_barrere on Aug 27, 2010 \| 106 comments
30.		Brazil's agricultural miracle (economist.com)
		46 points by cwan on Aug 27, 2010 \| 26 comments
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