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1.
Rich Programmer Food (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
217 points by niyazpk on Aug 16, 2010 | 103 comments
2.
You’re a developer, so why do you work for someone else? (intermittentintelligence.com)
200 points by bry on Aug 16, 2010 | 130 comments
3.
A vote for me is a vote for dipshit businesses everywhere (asmartbear.com)
200 points by cwilson on Aug 16, 2010 | 24 comments
4.
Fuck you, Money (adgrok.com)
186 points by antongm on Aug 16, 2010 | 110 comments
5.
Vim 7.3 released (groups.google.com)
175 points by ab9 on Aug 16, 2010 | 45 comments
6.
So you were thinking of using adsense to generate income? Think again (jacquesmattheij.com)
150 points by jacquesm on Aug 16, 2010 | 85 comments
7.
Map of worldwide undersea cables (cablemap.info)
148 points by mixmax on Aug 16, 2010 | 49 comments
8.
The best patent ever (uspto.gov)
137 points by btilly on Aug 16, 2010 | 42 comments
9.
Make CSS3 buttons that are extremely fancy (technology.posterous.com)
117 points by ssclafani on Aug 16, 2010 | 32 comments
10.
What To Look For In A Business Co-Founder (jasonlbaptiste.com)
112 points by jasonlbaptiste on Aug 16, 2010 | 34 comments
11.
GetACoder.com: Solve P Vs NP (getacoder.com)
110 points by olalonde on Aug 16, 2010 | 73 comments
12.
An implausibly illustrated introduction to HTML5 Web Workers (wearehugh.com)
108 points by tswicegood on Aug 16, 2010 | 33 comments
13.
"Some German bombers landed at UK bases, believing they were back in Germany." (wikipedia.org)
99 points by JakeSc on Aug 16, 2010 | 17 comments
14.
Google CEO Suggests You Change Your Name to Escape His Permanent Record (readwriteweb.com)
99 points by chacha102 on Aug 16, 2010 | 78 comments
15.
Meet the minimalists living out of a hard drive (bbc.co.uk)
96 points by benrmatthews on Aug 16, 2010 | 107 comments
16.
Tcpcrypt (tcpcrypt.org)
92 points by rnicholson on Aug 16, 2010 | 70 comments
17.
Business Cofounders are a Dime a Dozen (joshuavolz.com)
92 points by coderdude on Aug 16, 2010 | 36 comments
18.
China Passes Japan as Second-Largest Economy (nytimes.com)
88 points by danhak on Aug 16, 2010 | 72 comments
19.
The Lost Quarter-Century in Data Compression (podly.tv)
87 points by davidst on Aug 16, 2010 | 14 comments
20.
Why Android devs are losing money, and it’s not due to piracy (pingdom.com)
85 points by GR8K on Aug 16, 2010 | 73 comments
21.
Darkpatterns.org: naming and shaming black hat, anti-usability design patterns. (90percentofeverything.com)
73 points by harrybr on Aug 16, 2010 | 25 comments
22.
Is The Times making you stupid? (jgc.org)
70 points by jgrahamc on Aug 16, 2010 | 46 comments
23.
Clojure Workers and Large Scale HTTP Fetching (measuringmeasures.com)
70 points by fogus on Aug 16, 2010 | 3 comments
24.
Historians rethink key Soviet role in Japan defeat (google.com)
69 points by MikeCapone on Aug 16, 2010 | 60 comments
25.
Adobe + Typekit to bring legendary typefaces to the web (typekit.com)
68 points by niyazpk on Aug 16, 2010 | 20 comments
26.
Ask HN: Holy Crap I need an Idea
63 points by agentargo on Aug 16, 2010 | 118 comments
27.
Lycos, poster child of Internet boom, sells for just $36M (masshightech.com)
63 points by masshightech on Aug 16, 2010 | 41 comments
28.
Use brute force to find an available domain name for Web 2.0 projects (bruteforcenaming.com)
57 points by datageek on Aug 16, 2010 | 17 comments
29.
Ask HN: Review our webapp: AirDropper
55 points by jesselamb on Aug 16, 2010 | 51 comments
30.
Three bad things: threads, garbage collection, and nondeterministic destructrors (apenwarr.ca)
53 points by bensummers on Aug 16, 2010 | 28 comments

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