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1.
Why I stick with Perl (jrock.us)
56 points by jrockway on Aug 4, 2008 | 99 comments
2.
Border Security: We can take your laptop anywhere we want for as long as we want (schneier.com)
52 points by dominik on Aug 4, 2008 | 45 comments
3.
YC's summer update (foundersatwork.com)
51 points by ksvs on Aug 4, 2008 | 20 comments
4.
Unstructured Thoughts on Making Websites (emiller.info)
50 points by antiform on Aug 4, 2008 | 6 comments
5.
Michael Tsai: Welcome to iPhone: Your Crappy Mac of Tomorrow, Today (mjtsai.com)
49 points by toffer on Aug 4, 2008 | 30 comments
6.
Why I'm Not Working on my Startup (yet) (foohack.com)
51 points by IsaacSchlueter on Aug 4, 2008 | 43 comments
7.
K as a Prototyping Language (nyu.edu)
42 points by cubix on Aug 4, 2008 | 25 comments
8.
In defense of Perl. (directededge.com)
43 points by wheels on Aug 4, 2008 | 69 comments
9.
Introductory course on Unix sysadminning (includes notes, slides, homework, and labs) (ocf.berkeley.edu)
43 points by nickb on Aug 4, 2008 | 4 comments
10.
Field Guide to Genetic Programming (Free Book) (gp-field-guide.org.uk)
42 points by Herring on Aug 4, 2008 | 7 comments
11.
Ask HN: What has been your biggest mistake?
37 points by dhotson on Aug 4, 2008 | 100 comments
12.
Erlang as middleware (debasishg.blogspot.com)
34 points by iamelgringo on Aug 4, 2008 | 7 comments
13.
Wearing Out My Delete Key (jamesgolick.com)
32 points by dhotson on Aug 4, 2008 | 12 comments
14.
Google interview questions - fun brain teasers (jhorna.wordpress.com)
31 points by dangoldin on Aug 4, 2008 | 54 comments
15.
Bouncing back from losing $20 million (texasstartupblog.com)
30 points by dats on Aug 4, 2008 | 3 comments
16.
Tutorial on Good Lisp Programming Style (norvig.com)
28 points by dats on Aug 4, 2008 | 6 comments
17.
What's Really Killing Newspapers (slate.com)
25 points by kennyroo on Aug 4, 2008 | 20 comments
18.
Lessig: How the law strangles creativity (ted.com)
25 points by dominik on Aug 4, 2008 | 7 comments
19.
Database heresies (The "right" and "wrong" way to do ORM) (b-list.org)
24 points by toffer on Aug 4, 2008 | 16 comments
20.
Facebook to let employees sell some stock — at internal $4 billion valuation (venturebeat.com)
23 points by sanj on Aug 4, 2008 | 20 comments
21.
A New, Simple Way to Salt your Hashes (codespatter.com)
22 points by pyroman on Aug 4, 2008 | 69 comments
22.
Feedburner hack: how to get 2500 subscribers overnight (video) (thenextweb.org)
21 points by joop on Aug 4, 2008 | 20 comments
23.
Ten commandments for developers (damieng.com)
21 points by whalesalad on Aug 4, 2008 | 3 comments
24.
Why chess programs find good moves, but barely understand chess (zenpawn.com)
21 points by soundsop on Aug 4, 2008 | 8 comments
25.
Do Not Debase Science: Don't Call On It To Settle Your Medieval Disputes - Richard Feynman (collectedthoughts.com)
20 points by pierrefar on Aug 4, 2008 | 29 comments
26.
Sage: Free Open Source Python Alternative to Mathematica / MatLab (sagemath.org)
19 points by vlad on Aug 4, 2008 | 4 comments
27.
Y Combinator Challenge #11 - Office Competitor (astartupaday.wordpress.com)
19 points by drm237 on Aug 4, 2008 | 17 comments
28.
IPhone SDK Tutorial: Build a Simple RSS reader for the iPhone (theappleblog.com)
19 points by tortilla on Aug 4, 2008 | 3 comments
29.
Haskell, bondage-and-discipline and separation-of-concerns programming (syntaxfree.wordpress.com)
17 points by cubix on Aug 4, 2008
30.
John Gruber Explains Why Free Software Has Poor Usability (daringfireball.net)
16 points by nickb on Aug 4, 2008 | 12 comments

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