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1.
Daring Fireball: Creep Executive Officer (daringfireball.net)
239 points by barredo on Aug 20, 2010 | 155 comments
2.
Ultraviolet light reveals how ancient Greek statues really looked (io9.com)
234 points by jawngee on Aug 20, 2010 | 45 comments
3.
Russia in color a century ago (boston.com)
203 points by mcantelon on Aug 20, 2010 | 25 comments
4.
This is the best "we're hiring" image ever drawn (dropbox.com)
166 points by leif on Aug 20, 2010 | 89 comments
5.
Facebook iPhone app takes OSS code without attribution (enormego.com)
154 points by basil on Aug 20, 2010 | 34 comments
6.
Scott Adams: The "Less" Feature (dilbert.com)
138 points by cwan on Aug 20, 2010 | 45 comments
7.
Ray Kurzweil Responds to "Ray Kurzweil does not understand the brain" (kurzweilai.net)
125 points by ankeshk on Aug 20, 2010 | 160 comments
8.
Gmail adds video chat for Linux (gmailblog.blogspot.com)
120 points by SandB0x on Aug 20, 2010 | 20 comments
9.
Some lesser-known truths about programming (rationalmind.net)
118 points by AndrewDucker on Aug 20, 2010 | 55 comments
10.
Advice from America's Worst Mom (theweek.com)
114 points by aycangulez on Aug 20, 2010 | 45 comments
11.
Nobel prizewinner: We are running out of helium (newscientist.com)
104 points by chanux on Aug 20, 2010 | 91 comments
12.
Ginzametrics (YC S10) Aims To Bring Simplicity To SEO Software (techcrunch.com)
101 points by rgrieselhuber on Aug 20, 2010 | 30 comments
13.
Node.js 0.2.0 released (groups.google.com)
91 points by shykes on Aug 20, 2010 | 24 comments
14.
Teevox (YC S10) Turns Your iPhone Into A Computer TV Remote Control (techcrunch.com)
88 points by jiggity on Aug 20, 2010 | 27 comments
15.
Polymaps - A JavaScript library for image- and vector-tiled maps using SVG. (polymaps.org)
84 points by rohanjon on Aug 20, 2010 | 5 comments
16.
The classic Unix horror story (wsu.edu)
80 points by nar on Aug 20, 2010 | 53 comments
17.
Jison (zaach.github.com)
77 points by shawndumas on Aug 20, 2010 | 5 comments
18.
Common Mistakes Made by API Providers (readwriteweb.com)
74 points by cgbystrom on Aug 20, 2010 | 12 comments
19.
Math Lessons for Locavores (nytimes.com)
67 points by tokenadult on Aug 20, 2010 | 44 comments
20.
What is Clojure-in-Clojure? (n01se.net)
64 points by tomh on Aug 20, 2010 | 5 comments
21.
inDinero (YC S10) peers into your company’s financial future (venturebeat.com)
63 points by jlm382 on Aug 20, 2010 | 8 comments
22.
"3G" is a crock. Here's why. (Also, it kicked my puppy.) (ksplice.com)
64 points by keithwinstein on Aug 20, 2010 | 15 comments
23.
A smartphone retrospective (marco.org)
61 points by mattparcher on Aug 20, 2010 | 73 comments
24.
In Death, Nexus One Does What It Couldn’t Do In Life: Sell (techcrunch.com)
59 points by stanleydrew on Aug 20, 2010 | 55 comments
25.
Wealth anorexia a.k.a. hating yourself because you're not Larry Ellison (chrisyeh.blogspot.com)
58 points by hernan7 on Aug 20, 2010 | 36 comments
26.
Notifo (YC W10) Launches New Site and Mac Growl Client (notifo.com)
55 points by PStamatiou on Aug 20, 2010 | 19 comments
27.
As Google Shutters Flix Cloud Encoding Service, Zencoder (YC W10) Gets A Boost (techcrunch.com)
57 points by jon_dahl on Aug 20, 2010 | 7 comments
28.
Ask HN: How does marriage affect the creation of a (successful) startup?
54 points by kalsze on Aug 20, 2010 | 50 comments
29.
Ask HN: What is a non-developer to do?
52 points by stuck on Aug 20, 2010 | 53 comments
30.
2010 Fields Medal Awarded (icm2010.in)
51 points by rw on Aug 20, 2010 | 31 comments

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