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1.
Mark Cuban: If you want to see more jobs created -- change patent laws (blogmaverick.com)
335 points by fraXis on Aug 7, 2011 | 134 comments
2.
Top Gear caught faking another electric car "failure" (guardian.co.uk)
237 points by raganwald on Aug 7, 2011 | 123 comments
3.
Just the Facts: S&P's $2 Trillion Mistake (treasury.gov)
233 points by bryanlarsen on Aug 7, 2011 | 232 comments
4.
Lessons from a Design Legend (a before-and-after) (giftrocket.com)
207 points by kapilkale on Aug 7, 2011 | 47 comments
5.
Some People Understand REST and HTTP (steveklabnik.com)
191 points by llambda on Aug 7, 2011 | 56 comments
6.
10 people who don't matter (2006) (cnn.com)
183 points by ssclafani on Aug 7, 2011 | 134 comments
7.
The demise of the low level programmer (altdevblogaday.com)
158 points by dr_art on Aug 7, 2011 | 65 comments
8.
Who stole the Mona Lisa? (ft.com)
148 points by KeepTalking on Aug 7, 2011 | 20 comments
9.
Results from Assembly Summer 2011 (assembly.org)
138 points by bemmu on Aug 7, 2011 | 30 comments
10.
Groupon is the next Madoff, except big iBanks helped it rob investors (glgroup.com)
135 points by chmike on Aug 7, 2011 | 67 comments
11.
Understanding Python Decorators (stackoverflow.com)
126 points by hiwaylon on Aug 7, 2011 | 24 comments
12.
Defcon Lockpickers Open Card-And-Code Government Locks In Seconds (blogs.forbes.com)
125 points by rosser on Aug 7, 2011 | 37 comments
13.
Why Minecraft Works (Design Concepts) (hobbygamedev.com)
123 points by sorbus on Aug 7, 2011 | 32 comments
14.
Low-level x86 code compression for 64k intros (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
121 points by psykotic on Aug 7, 2011 | 18 comments
15.
Secure your browsing using a home VPN (sriramk.com)
114 points by cek on Aug 7, 2011 | 60 comments
16.
How Debt Has Defined Human History (wsj.com)
113 points by jsherry on Aug 7, 2011 | 24 comments
17.
Amazon EC2 EU-West is down
109 points by dabeeeenster on Aug 7, 2011 | 31 comments
18.
WebODF - Render office documents in a browser (webodf.org)
92 points by bergie on Aug 7, 2011 | 12 comments
19.
Korea’s Tesco reinvents grocery shopping with QR-code “stores” (geek.com)
74 points by mattraibert on Aug 7, 2011 | 25 comments
20.
Startups: It's Not a Race, It's Parkour (kenbautista.com)
72 points by wallflower on Aug 7, 2011 | 22 comments
21.
Happy birthday Dancer - two years of the Perl Dancer web framework project (preshweb.co.uk)
67 points by bigpresh on Aug 7, 2011 | 10 comments
22.
Amazon rolls out a social network for Kindle (amazon.com)
66 points by jsavimbi on Aug 7, 2011 | 30 comments
23.
Beginners Guide : pip and virtualenv (mahdiyusuf.com)
68 points by myusuf3 on Aug 7, 2011 | 14 comments
24.
Oral History of Bob Barton and the Burroughs B5000 team (1985) (archive.org)
63 points by gruseom on Aug 7, 2011 | 7 comments
25.
Why yes, that is a Galaxy Tab 10.1 in my pocket (sethclifford.me)
62 points by ddagradi on Aug 7, 2011 | 25 comments
26.
Space Shuttle Flight Deck (360vr.com)
60 points by karolisd on Aug 7, 2011 | 26 comments
27.
Computational Fairy Tales (computationaltales.blogspot.com)
58 points by ColinWright on Aug 7, 2011 | 3 comments
28.
How I decided the price for my Japanese candy subscription service (bemmu.posterous.com)
57 points by bemmu on Aug 7, 2011 | 33 comments
29.
Ask HN: Client wrote returned check for over $10,000. How to report him?
55 points by badclient on Aug 7, 2011 | 56 comments
30.
With Google, There Will Be Bad Blood (techcrunch.com)
57 points by canistr on Aug 7, 2011 | 49 comments

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