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1.
How to Level Up as a Developer (jasonrudolph.com)
386 points by fogus on Aug 9, 2011 | 109 comments
2.
Why are restaurant websites so awful? Because of restaurant culture. (slate.com)
297 points by jillsy on Aug 9, 2011 | 128 comments
3.
Large-scale Amazon EC2 Outage (amazon.com)
260 points by bradly on Aug 9, 2011 | 141 comments
4.
NASA finds DNA components in meteorites, says they originated in space (space.com)
241 points by ssclafani on Aug 9, 2011 | 87 comments
5.
Gamification is bullshit (bogost.com)
189 points by asanwal on Aug 9, 2011 | 63 comments
6.
Accuracy takes power: one man's 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES emulator (arstechnica.com)
176 points by thehigherlife on Aug 9, 2011 | 44 comments
7.
Mozilla, WebKit To Support Debugging CoffeeScript and other JS Languages (infoq.com)
176 points by DanielRibeiro on Aug 9, 2011 | 41 comments
8.
Apple to Lodsys: you'll have to go through us to sue iOS devs (arstechnica.com)
154 points by canistr on Aug 9, 2011 | 46 comments
9.
Why HN Got Slow
152 points by pg on Aug 9, 2011 | 58 comments
10.
Underscore.php (brianhaveri.github.com)
142 points by j-ashkenas on Aug 9, 2011 | 50 comments
11.
 Pingdom is storing passwords in plaintext (seldo.tumblr.com)
141 points by seldo on Aug 9, 2011 | 122 comments
12.
200,000 BitTorrent Users Sued In The United States (torrentfreak.com)
140 points by nextparadigms on Aug 9, 2011 | 60 comments
13.
Stypi (YC S11) Is Etherpad Reborn (techcrunch.com)
138 points by canistr on Aug 9, 2011 | 72 comments
14.
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 banned from Europe (Apple wins injunction) (thinq.co.uk)
134 points by amirmc on Aug 9, 2011 | 92 comments
15.
Stock Market Drops. VCs Hold Partner Meetings. What Happens Next? (techcrunch.com)
131 points by schlichtm on Aug 9, 2011 | 27 comments
16.
2011 Rubyist’s guide to a Mac OS X development environment (thoughtbot.com)
130 points by bradly on Aug 9, 2011 | 27 comments
17.
Bloomberg Risk Takers: Elon Musk Documentary (bloomberg.com)
123 points by jasonjackson on Aug 9, 2011 | 20 comments
18.
Game Development: You Need $100,000 (whatgamesare.com)
111 points by robfitz on Aug 9, 2011 | 38 comments
19.
Bizarre and Annoying Causes of Fiber Cuts (level3.com)
106 points by phinze on Aug 9, 2011 | 20 comments
20.
Lion Is a Quitter (tidbits.com)
107 points by thisisblurry on Aug 9, 2011 | 82 comments
21.
Apple Now The Most Valuable Company In The World (techcrunch.com)
99 points by sahillavingia on Aug 9, 2011 | 46 comments
22.
MIT develops a portable, high-resolution 3D imaging solution (bostinnovation.com)
88 points by dmcgregor on Aug 9, 2011 | 10 comments
23.
Move.js (movelang.org)
87 points by superted on Aug 9, 2011 | 31 comments
24.
A Site Launch Checklist (breccan.com)
81 points by bmcleod on Aug 9, 2011 | 18 comments
25.
Ruby on Rails to power 13,000 schools with 7million+ students in Kerala, India (groups.google.com)
81 points by gorain on Aug 9, 2011 | 17 comments
26.
Clojure Pattern Matching Lib: literal, seq, map and other patterns (groups.google.com)
72 points by gtani on Aug 9, 2011 | 10 comments
27.
Calculize: A Mathematical Scripting Language (calculize.com)
72 points by jashkenas on Aug 9, 2011 | 19 comments
28.
Google, Mozilla Team Up to Create a Smarter, Action-Based Web (webmonkey.com)
73 points by mmahemoff on Aug 9, 2011 | 14 comments
29.
Amazon EC2 Outage Takes Down Foursquare, Instagram, Quora, Reddit, Etc (techcrunch.com)
71 points by Vexenon on Aug 9, 2011 | 20 comments
30.
Exploit writer spills beans on secret iPhone function (theregister.co.uk)
62 points by ukdm on Aug 9, 2011 | 8 comments

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