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1.		Who Rules America: An Investment Manager's View on the Top 1% (ucsc.edu)
		362 points by ph0rque on Aug 4, 2011 \| 201 comments
2.		Zed Shaw: The wonderful Rob Sobers did a great job translating LPTHW to Ruby (learncodethehardway.org)
		327 points by knowtheory on Aug 4, 2011 \| 65 comments
3.		Google Threw A Punch, Microsoft Fires Back With A Missile (techcrunch.com)
		293 points by InfinityX0 on Aug 4, 2011 \| 143 comments
4.		“Real Names” Policies Are an Abuse of Power (socialmediacollective.org)
		272 points by harryh on Aug 4, 2011 \| 187 comments
5.		$1 chip tests for HIV in 15 minutes, fits in your wallet (fastcompany.com)
		214 points by d0ne on Aug 4, 2011 \| 124 comments
6.		Why "Coupon Code" Should Not be a Field on Your Payment Form (rachelbaker.me)
		209 points by rachelbaker on Aug 4, 2011 \| 94 comments
7.		Parse (YC S11): A Heroku For Mobile Apps (techcrunch.com)
		201 points by csmajorfive on Aug 4, 2011 \| 61 comments
8.		Poll: Have you read SICP?
		184 points by craftsman on Aug 4, 2011 \| 104 comments
9.		Show HN: My weekend project - preview TV sizes on your wall (tvsizematters.com)
		179 points by weirdcat on Aug 4, 2011 \| 51 comments
10.		Groupon’s Strikeouts Reveal an Unspoken Truth (bloomberg.com)
		160 points by nsimplex on Aug 4, 2011 \| 46 comments
11.		Why I develop for iOS (chriseidhof.tumblr.com)
		159 points by chriseidhof on Aug 4, 2011 \| 74 comments
12.		AsciiFlow - diagram & wireframe tool (asciiflow.com)
		151 points by rabble on Aug 4, 2011 \| 20 comments
13.		Chats are not dead yet (amiadogroup.github.com)
		152 points by mweibel on Aug 4, 2011 \| 72 comments
14.		Stanford "Intro to AI" course to be offered online for free (ieee.org)
		150 points by eguizzo on Aug 4, 2011 \| 25 comments
15.		The Schmidle Muddle of the Osama Bin Laden Take Down (registan.net)
		154 points by danso on Aug 4, 2011 \| 29 comments
16.		H.R.1981, the end of online privacy as we know it. (spideroak.com)
		137 points by SODaniel on Aug 4, 2011 \| 35 comments
17.		Scientists find evidence of salt water flowing on Mars (chron.com)
		132 points by petercooper on Aug 4, 2011 \| 42 comments
18.		How our SaaS startup got 1000+ signups in just 7 days, without getting Crunched. (groovehq.com)
		121 points by alexmturnbull on Aug 4, 2011 \| 43 comments
19.		John Mayer: "Manage the Temptation to Publish Yourself" (berklee-blogs.com)
		107 points by cyanbane on Aug 4, 2011 \| 29 comments
20.		MIT develops new method to cure broad range of viruses (bostinnovation.com)
		106 points by tq41 on Aug 4, 2011 \| 39 comments
21.		Node.js - A Giant Step Backwards (fenn.posterous.com)
		102 points by fenn on Aug 4, 2011 \| 114 comments
22.		Felicia Day: Mogul In The Making (blogs.forbes.com)
		104 points by ugh on Aug 4, 2011 \| 15 comments
23.		The Mythical Man-Finger (unl.edu)
		97 points by sramsay on Aug 4, 2011 \| 52 comments
24.		Racket v5.1.2 (racket-lang.org)
		92 points by shawndumas on Aug 4, 2011 \| 5 comments
25.		Fukime - The Mobile Cloud Platform (fukime.com)
		92 points by Swizec on Aug 4, 2011 \| 54 comments
26.		Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia is Losing Contributors (siliconfilter.com)
		81 points by taylorbuley on Aug 4, 2011 \| 100 comments
27.		Lincoln Assassination Eyewitness on 1956 Episode of I’ve Got a Secret (laughingsquid.com)
		81 points by barredo on Aug 4, 2011 \| 40 comments
28.		Wadler's critique of SICP (1987) (kent.ac.uk)
		80 points by puredanger on Aug 4, 2011 \| 50 comments
29.		Google Responds To Microsoft’s "Gotcha": They’re Diverting Attention (techcrunch.com)
		80 points by profitbaron on Aug 4, 2011 \| 65 comments
30.		NASA Spacecraft Data Suggest Water Flowing on Mars (nasa.gov)
		79 points by Ronkdar on Aug 4, 2011 \| 7 comments
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