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1.		Codecademy Surges To 200,000 Users, 2.1 Million Lessons Completed In 72 Hours (techcrunch.com)
		358 points by zds on Aug 23, 2011 \| 75 comments
2.		A letter from _why (aberant.tumblr.com)
		318 points by fakelvis on Aug 23, 2011 \| 96 comments
3.		Samsung cites Kubrick's "2001" as Prior Art in Patent Case Against Apple (macrumors.com)
		283 points by dvdhsu on Aug 23, 2011 \| 110 comments
4.		Google Fiber: 151Mbps down / 92Mbps up (geek.com)
		235 points by 11031a on Aug 23, 2011 \| 150 comments
5.		Introducing WebAPI (hacks.mozilla.org)
		218 points by sylvinus on Aug 23, 2011 \| 41 comments
6.		How Karma Should Be Measured (nashcoding.com)
		211 points by tansey on Aug 23, 2011 \| 67 comments
7.		37signals: A/B testing part 3: Finalé (37signals.com)
		181 points by wlll on Aug 23, 2011 \| 58 comments
8.		China airs documentary proving military university is hacking U.S. targets (geek.com)
		176 points by bjonathan on Aug 23, 2011 \| 91 comments
9.		Today I launched my solo project, Listry. Feedback/suggestions appreciated (listry.com)
		174 points by Spines11 on Aug 23, 2011 \| 80 comments
10.		How to get $12 billion of gold to Venezuela (reuters.com)
		171 points by pathik on Aug 23, 2011 \| 123 comments
11.		Announcing Amazon ElastiCache - Managed Memcached (amazon.com)
		163 points by cardmagic on Aug 23, 2011 \| 35 comments
12.		Y Combinator Unloads Massive New Batch of Start-Ups (allthingsd.com)
		155 points by dbul on Aug 23, 2011 \| 56 comments
13.		Why Are Finland's Schools Successful? (smithsonianmag.com)
		148 points by mebe on Aug 23, 2011 \| 85 comments
14.		PyPy - We need Software Transactional Memory (morepypy.blogspot.com)
		135 points by j4mie on Aug 23, 2011 \| 63 comments
15.		Facebook announces new privacy and tagging model (facebook.com)
		133 points by thurn on Aug 23, 2011 \| 33 comments
16.		Slovenia gets transparent by revealing all government spending via Supervizor (funkykaraoke.com)
		130 points by tomazstolfa on Aug 23, 2011 \| 18 comments
17.		Rob Pike on regular expressions in lexing and parsing (commandcenter.blogspot.com)
		128 points by jeffreymcmanus on Aug 23, 2011 \| 39 comments
18.		SeatGeek Blog: What An Earthquake Does To Page Load Time (seatgeek.com)
		123 points by acslater00 on Aug 23, 2011 \| 29 comments
19.		The Incredible Things NASA Did to Train Apollo Astronauts (wired.com)
		113 points by ColinWright on Aug 23, 2011 \| 17 comments
20.		Fallen out of love with LinkedIn? (swiss-miss.com)
		129 points by ckarltorp on Aug 23, 2011 \| 80 comments
21.		The Semantic Grid System: Page Layout For Tomorrow (smashingmagazine.com)
		109 points by joshuacc on Aug 23, 2011 \| 24 comments
22.		What You Don't Get About the Job Search: Voices of the Jobless (theatlantic.com)
		108 points by mvs on Aug 23, 2011 \| 184 comments
23.		Fukushima Robot Operator Writes Tell-All Blog (ieee.org)
		109 points by eguizzo on Aug 23, 2011 \| 9 comments
24.		Amazon, Dropbox, Google and You Win in Cloud-Music Copyright Decision (wired.com)
		105 points by radley on Aug 23, 2011 \| 32 comments
25.		The Due Diligence Survival Guide (jacquesmattheij.com)
		92 points by wspruijt on Aug 23, 2011 \| 8 comments
26.		Google closes Android developer complaint forums (theregister.co.uk)
		86 points by jen_h on Aug 23, 2011 \| 35 comments
27.		TimeHub. Create invoices from Github commits (timehub.net)
		87 points by nhocki on Aug 23, 2011 \| 14 comments
28.		Dear HP: Please Keep Making Those TouchPads (techcrunch.com)
		79 points by ayanb on Aug 23, 2011 \| 38 comments
29.		Arq 2 (OS X backup-to-S3 software) has been released. (haystacksoftware.com)
		75 points by cylo on Aug 23, 2011 \| 29 comments
30.		Facebook Just Bowed Out of the Check In War With Foursquare (betabeat.com)
		76 points by taylorbuley on Aug 23, 2011 \| 44 comments
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