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1.
This Is Why The American Dream Is Out Of Reach (thelastpsychiatrist.com)
275 points by naner on Aug 3, 2010 | 150 comments
2.
Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: GitHub (37signals.com)
238 points by fogus on Aug 3, 2010 | 27 comments
3.
Zed Shaw: "poll, epoll, science, and superpoll" with R (sheddingbikes.com)
227 points by tdmackey on Aug 3, 2010 | 141 comments
4.
Ghost of WWII: 1940's meticulously overlaid on modern day (mymodernmet.com)
200 points by fnazeeri on Aug 3, 2010 | 88 comments
5.
New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what the VCs say (adgrok.com)
149 points by antongm on Aug 3, 2010 | 182 comments
6.
Ten Steps To Ten Thousand Sign Ups Before We Even Launch Our Startup (sachinagarwal.com)
139 points by sachinag on Aug 3, 2010 | 59 comments
7.
What is LaTeX and Why You Should Care (defmacro.org)
135 points by s-phi-nl on Aug 3, 2010 | 77 comments
8.
The Prime That Wasn't (zmievski.org)
112 points by jordanmessina on Aug 3, 2010 | 9 comments
9.
Colleges Serve the People Who Work There, Not the Students (wsj.com)
109 points by cwan on Aug 3, 2010 | 113 comments
10.
Homoglyph attacks: How to create an internet hoax (azarask.in)
102 points by sp332 on Aug 3, 2010 | 18 comments
11.
What you say about others says a lot about you (scienceblog.com)
95 points by toni on Aug 3, 2010 | 48 comments
12.
F.B.I., Challenging Use of Seal, Gets Back a Primer on the Law (nytimes.com)
94 points by credo on Aug 3, 2010 | 31 comments
13.
An Open Letter to TwitPic (embed.ly)
83 points by screeley on Aug 3, 2010 | 27 comments
14.
Google Multiple Sign-in Now Available (googlesystem.blogspot.com)
80 points by jancona on Aug 3, 2010 | 20 comments
15.
GitHub Jobs Pre-Launch (github.com/blog)
80 points by jackowayed on Aug 3, 2010 | 30 comments
16.
PDF exploit in iOS 4 (daringfireball.net)
79 points by andreyf on Aug 3, 2010 | 47 comments
17.
Doctorow's First Law (publishersweekly.com)
77 points by mikecane on Aug 3, 2010 | 7 comments
18.
Poll: Male or Female?
73 points by lukeqsee on Aug 3, 2010 | 63 comments
19.
What the HTTP is CouchApp (couchapp.org)
70 points by vault_ on Aug 3, 2010 | 23 comments
20.
Mozilla’s new (internal) JavaScript value representation (blog.mozilla.com)
69 points by mbrubeck on Aug 3, 2010 | 19 comments
21.
Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?
69 points by samratjp on Aug 3, 2010 | 190 comments
22.
The N+1 Theory (avc.com)
67 points by cwan on Aug 3, 2010 | 17 comments
23.
Lawrence Lessig's new TED talk (blip.tv)
66 points by psadauskas on Aug 3, 2010 | 69 comments
24.
DHH: Appstore is a warehouse of shit (bigthink.com)
66 points by sbt on Aug 3, 2010 | 73 comments
25.
A DSL in 5 Languages: Ruby, Python, PHP, C#, Java (braintreepaymentsolutions.com)
60 points by pgr0ss on Aug 3, 2010 | 51 comments
26.
DIY Drones (diydrones.com)
53 points by jacquesm on Aug 3, 2010 | 5 comments
27.
The end of Wintel (economist.com)
53 points by ab9 on Aug 3, 2010 | 28 comments
28.
Realtime Linux: academia v. reality (lwn.net)
52 points by corbet on Aug 3, 2010 | 11 comments
29.
Blippy 404 page (blippy.com)
52 points by zende on Aug 3, 2010 | 10 comments
30.
How to Start an Email Newsletter Company (thestartupdigest.com)
50 points by jasonlbaptiste on Aug 3, 2010 | 27 comments

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