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1.
Academics should stop doing free peer-review for non-open-access journals. (timeshighereducation.co.uk)
551 points by MikeTaylor on Sept 29, 2011 | 89 comments
2.
"Algorithm" is not a four letter word (jamisbuck.org)
443 points by jashkenas on Sept 29, 2011 | 65 comments
3.
Pre-branded domain names for startups (stylate.com)
389 points by ollie on Sept 29, 2011 | 204 comments
4.
Minimum Viable Personality (avc.com)
322 points by robert-boehnke on Sept 29, 2011 | 51 comments
5.
Promising HIV vaccine passes phase one human trials with 90% success rate (gizmag.com)
316 points by grannyg00se on Sept 29, 2011 | 97 comments
6.
IEEE Refuses to Accept Public-Domain Papers? (cr.yp.to)
262 points by powertower on Sept 29, 2011 | 80 comments
7.
Scaling GitHub's Employees (zachholman.com)
224 points by jonmaddox on Sept 29, 2011 | 39 comments
8.
Fixing the callback spaghetti in node.js (github.com/koush)
222 points by koush on Sept 29, 2011 | 101 comments
9.
Try Ruby (tryruby.org)
212 points by chrisbaglieri on Sept 29, 2011 | 43 comments
10.
Web Designers should all be using this idea by now: Font Icons. (somerandomdude.com)
210 points by felipellrocha on Sept 29, 2011 | 76 comments
11.
Chrome to take No. 2 browser spot from Firefox (computerworld.com)
179 points by canistr on Sept 29, 2011 | 121 comments
12.
H1B Salaries in the US (smokinn.com)
177 points by smokinn on Sept 29, 2011 | 79 comments
13.
Earn money in your sleep (netmagazine.com)
161 points by sirbrad on Sept 29, 2011 | 44 comments
14.
SpaceX reveals fully reusable, vertically landing rocket design [video] (spacex.com)
152 points by equark on Sept 29, 2011 | 86 comments
15.
Finding Love Optimally (cmu.edu)
150 points by skada on Sept 29, 2011 | 41 comments
16.
The three terrifying minutes that created The Gunstringer (joystiq.com)
143 points by unwantedLetters on Sept 29, 2011 | 9 comments
17.
Introducing Google JS Test (google-opensource.blogspot.com)
125 points by cleverjake on Sept 29, 2011 | 24 comments
18.
Google Analytics Blog: What’s happening on your site right now? (analytics.blogspot.com)
125 points by dpurp on Sept 29, 2011 | 25 comments
19.
AVOS’ Delicious Disaster: Lessons from a Complete Failure (zdnet.com)
122 points by snappergrass on Sept 29, 2011 | 64 comments
20.
Learning the hard way: Moving from NYC to Palo Alto and back in 1.5 months (joshrweinstein.com)
120 points by joshwprinceton on Sept 29, 2011 | 104 comments
21.
There is no such thing as a CEO of pre-product startup. Get off of it. (humbledmba.com)
119 points by jaf12duke on Sept 29, 2011 | 44 comments
22.
Bank of America to charge monthly fee to debit card users (nytimes.com)
109 points by rdamico on Sept 29, 2011 | 130 comments
23.
Natural Language Processing with Python (nltk.org)
101 points by danso on Sept 29, 2011 | 15 comments
24.
This Developer's Life (thisdeveloperslife.com)
100 points by saurabh on Sept 29, 2011 | 24 comments
25.
Moot: "sterile Facebook comments over provocative YouTube comments?" (atroundtable.com)
94 points by josh_miller on Sept 29, 2011 | 59 comments
26.
Richard Branson on Time Management (entrepreneur.com)
94 points by andreavaccari on Sept 29, 2011 | 9 comments
27.
Cambrian explosion: genetic algorithm experiment (cambrianexplosion.com)
75 points by aroberge on Sept 29, 2011 | 24 comments
28.
Improving open source hardware: Visual diffs (evilmadscientist.com)
74 points by sbierwagen on Sept 29, 2011 | 9 comments
29.
Oracle Calls Out Autonomy CEO (oracle.com)
74 points by sutro on Sept 29, 2011 | 57 comments
30.
Hipmunk comes to Android with a surprisingly slick app (gigaom.com)
70 points by wallflower on Sept 29, 2011 | 19 comments

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