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1.
The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress (nytimes.com)
442 points by pcestrada on July 22, 2011 | 144 comments
2.
EBay Patents 10-Click Checkout (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
337 points by timruffles on July 22, 2011 | 40 comments
3.
Google Deletes Last 7 Years Of User's Digital Life, Shrugs (consumerist.com)
308 points by tshtf on July 22, 2011 | 235 comments
4.
What everyone should know about the human eye (gazehawk.com)
274 points by bkrausz on July 22, 2011 | 47 comments
5.
NASA's Successful Quantifying of Comedy Timing (By Penn Jillette and Teller) (symftr.tumblr.com)
230 points by wallflower on July 22, 2011 | 31 comments
6.
On Succeeding Steve Jobs (daringfireball.net)
229 points by ddagradi on July 22, 2011 | 102 comments
7.
NYU Prof Vows Never to Probe Cheating Again—and Faces a Backlash (chronicle.com)
195 points by ilamont on July 22, 2011 | 110 comments
8.
Android account passwords are stored on disk in plain text (code.google.com)
193 points by wheels on July 22, 2011 | 88 comments
9.
Linux 3.0 release (lwn.net)
191 points by timf on July 22, 2011 | 17 comments
10.
Explosion in central Oslo (bbc.co.uk)
161 points by anteht on July 22, 2011 | 75 comments
11.
Urbanisation in Minecraft (crafthub.net)
132 points by rcfox on July 22, 2011 | 55 comments
12.
How 38 Monks Took on the Funeral Cartel and Won (theatlantic.com)
127 points by YetAnotherAlias on July 22, 2011 | 28 comments
13.
Stop hating Java (andrzejonsoftware.blogspot.com)
115 points by snatcher on July 22, 2011 | 151 comments
14.
Agility.js - Javascript MVC for the "write less, do more" programmer (agilityjs.com)
110 points by arturadib on July 22, 2011 | 34 comments
15.
Ad Innovation Conference, September 14 at YC (adinnovationconference.com)
104 points by jl on July 22, 2011 | 23 comments
16.
Researchers create tattoo that tracks sodium and glucose via iPhone (bostinnovation.com)
106 points by jerrelp on July 22, 2011 | 27 comments
17.
Wikipedia: Making of Doom (wikipedia.org)
96 points by olliesaunders on July 22, 2011 | 32 comments
18.
Anonymous Hacks NATO, Steals GB Of Data (crn.com)
89 points by Garbage on July 22, 2011 | 29 comments
19.
A Bomb in Oslo? What Google Lost by Ending Real-Time Search (theatlantic.com)
84 points by nbj914 on July 22, 2011 | 35 comments
20.
Serial cable for iPod approved by Apple (makershed.com)
79 points by dholowiski on July 22, 2011 | 66 comments
21.
An amazing crossword puzzle (kottke.org)
78 points by superchink on July 22, 2011 | 10 comments
22.
Race to Moon by Private Companies (nytimes.com)
75 points by jamesbritt on July 22, 2011 | 20 comments
23.
Does the infamous "Happy Birthday to You" copyright hold up to scrutiny? (slate.com)
75 points by JacobAldridge on July 22, 2011 | 22 comments
24.
Go for App Engine is now generally available (golang.org)
75 points by enneff on July 22, 2011 | 25 comments
25.
JavaScript Creator Says the Language Wasn't Just Dumb Luck (readwriteweb.com)
71 points by PixelRobot on July 22, 2011 | 11 comments
26.
How To Manage Geeks (wikihow.com)
70 points by trueduke on July 22, 2011 | 30 comments
27.
Fusker - a NodeJS security system that attacks back (github.com/wearefractal)
71 points by mikaelchoni on July 22, 2011 | 31 comments
28.
Head JS Loads JavaScript Files Like Images Without Blocking the Page (headjs.com)
68 points by wslh on July 22, 2011 | 14 comments
29.
Graph: How long it took Facebook, Twitter and Google+ to reach 10 million users (techcrunch.com)
65 points by aditiyaa1 on July 22, 2011 | 37 comments
30.
The Rise of Google+: Email is Social’s Secret Weapon (betabeat.com)
62 points by jonbot on July 22, 2011 | 26 comments

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