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1.
Jeremy Zawodny: There is no Web Operating System (or WebOS) (zawodny.com)
31 points by toffer on Aug 20, 2007 | 20 comments
2.
Banner Blindness: Old and New Findings (useit.com)
25 points by brlewis on Aug 20, 2007 | 5 comments
3.
The urge to comment as a sign of danger (plasmasturm.org)
21 points by kkim on Aug 20, 2007 | 2 comments
4.
Skype: What happened on August 16 (skype.com)
17 points by piers on Aug 20, 2007 | 10 comments
5.
xkcd: No, the 9V battery hack is not a hoax. I just tried it -- here are my notes (xkcd.com)
19 points by nickb on Aug 20, 2007 | 1 comment
6.
Do you have no life because you work in a startup or...
16 points by vuknje on Aug 20, 2007 | 20 comments
7.
The 12V Battery Hack: Unlock the $40 hidden inside a 12V battery (wisebread.com)
13 points by nickb on Aug 20, 2007
8.
Windows Users Caused Skype Outage (techcrunch.com)
12 points by transburgh on Aug 20, 2007 | 5 comments
9.
20/20: "Stupid in America" (youtube.com)
11 points by ivankirigin on Aug 20, 2007 | 28 comments
10.
Facebook Messaging just got better... Facebook lets you send messages direct to email addresses (facebook.com)
11 points by danw on Aug 20, 2007 | 16 comments
11.
The end of ERP? (roughtype.com)
11 points by davidw on Aug 20, 2007 | 3 comments
12.
What do you get when an Oxford anthropologist writes a guide to English pub etiquette for tourists? (sirc.org)
10 points by jgamman on Aug 20, 2007
13.
Sorry, Lisp. I tried. (ketralnis.com)
10 points by portLAN on Aug 20, 2007 | 12 comments
14.
How much is News.YC worth?
10 points by blored on Aug 20, 2007 | 12 comments
15.
Blogger proves Nasa wrong on climate change (timesonline.co.uk)
10 points by jcwentz on Aug 20, 2007 | 5 comments
16.
Prediction: Newspapers will go bankrupt in 2007, unless they corner web classifieds by 1998 (useit.com)
8 points by vlad on Aug 20, 2007 | 4 comments
17.
Django running on the iPhone, introspecting the phone's sqlite call records (flickr.com)
8 points by nickb on Aug 20, 2007 | 9 comments
18.
Saving the Internet with hate: a technical solution to the social problem (savingtheinternetwithhate.com)
9 points by bct on Aug 20, 2007 | 6 comments
19.
$10,000 Platform Hack off (eventbrite.com)
8 points by crxnamja on Aug 20, 2007 | 6 comments
20.
The Interrupt-Driven Life (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought) (aaronsw.com)
8 points by brett on Aug 20, 2007 | 7 comments
21.
Starting-Up and staying in Boston
8 points by ivankirigin on Aug 20, 2007 | 6 comments
22.
Fraudproof anonymous voting protocols from mathematicians (ncl.ac.uk)
7 points by brlewis on Aug 20, 2007
23.
What should be considered off-topic?
7 points by kf on Aug 20, 2007 | 15 comments
24.
Is the net effect of health care zero? (sciencethatmatters.com)
7 points by toffer on Aug 20, 2007 | 1 comment
25.
Skype: "It's Microsoft and Your Fault" (centernetworks.com)
7 points by transburgh on Aug 20, 2007 | 2 comments
26.
Gmail driving Google Apps adoption at college (arstechnica.com)
6 points by ahsonwardak on Aug 20, 2007
27.
15 Startup Commandments (startupping.com)
6 points by drm237 on Aug 20, 2007
28.
Carl Malamud Takes on WestLaw (Putting a complete database of US Case law in the public domain) (oreilly.com)
6 points by toffer on Aug 20, 2007 | 1 comment
29.
Can we predict the future using a temporal version of the Copernican principle? [pdf] (unm.edu)
6 points by amichail on Aug 20, 2007 | 3 comments
30.
Rich Skrenta: Some thoughts on Mahalo (Building a content business with SEO) (skrenta.com)
5 points by toffer on Aug 20, 2007 | 1 comment

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