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1.
Folding Plug System (minkyu.co.uk)
174 points by r7000 on Aug 24, 2009 | 33 comments
2.
Why I'm Quitting Gmail (archlinux.me)
158 points by etherealG on Aug 24, 2009 | 61 comments
3.
Brain researcher hacks Who Wants to be a Millionaire using memory tricks (2006) (seedmagazine.com)
133 points by randomwalker on Aug 24, 2009 | 19 comments
4.
Why Can't Gmail Search? (designbygravity.wordpress.com)
131 points by cschanck on Aug 24, 2009 | 85 comments
5.
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on Aug. 28th) (store.apple.com)
129 points by mrduncan on Aug 24, 2009 | 117 comments
6.
See Randomness (paulgraham.com)
128 points by kunqiana on Aug 24, 2009 | 91 comments
7.
Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation [video] (ted.com)
121 points by ashishk on Aug 24, 2009 | 56 comments
8.
Spolsky: Setting the Right Priorities (inc.com)
105 points by wyday on Aug 24, 2009 | 35 comments
9.
Eye candy is a critical business requirement (slideshare.net)
99 points by replicatorblog on Aug 24, 2009 | 35 comments
10.
How FlightCaster Squeezes Predictions from Flight Data (datawrangling.com)
88 points by pskomoroch on Aug 24, 2009 | 16 comments
11.
Why YC (paulgraham.com)
83 points by mqt on Aug 24, 2009 | 28 comments
12.
How I Got the Google Voice/App Store Story Wrong (daringfireball.net)
79 points by barredo on Aug 24, 2009 | 25 comments
13.
RailsRumble Apps that Deserve to Be Startups
80 points by railsjedi on Aug 24, 2009 | 61 comments
14.
Living root bridges (atlasobscura.com)
72 points by ambulatorybird on Aug 24, 2009 | 15 comments
15.
The End of Innocence (steveblank.com)
63 points by bentoner on Aug 24, 2009 | 12 comments
16.
Rails-like Quickly tools brings rapid development to Ubuntu (arstechnica.com)
59 points by Davertron on Aug 24, 2009 | 22 comments
17.
The 30-day flight (dustincurtis.com)
54 points by MichaelApproved on Aug 24, 2009 | 68 comments
18.
Diet Soda: The Brain Knows Better (trueslant.com)
51 points by chaostheory on Aug 24, 2009 | 36 comments
19.
Wikipedia to Add Layer of Editing to Articles (nytimes.com)
49 points by geezer on Aug 24, 2009 | 31 comments
20.
The Median of a Trillion Numbers (matpalm.com)
48 points by fogus on Aug 24, 2009 | 20 comments
21.
An Angel Investor Group Move That Makes Me Vomit (feld.com)
48 points by keltecp11 on Aug 24, 2009 | 20 comments
22.
The Funded Publishes “Ideal First Round Term Sheet” For Founders (techcrunch.com)
45 points by cwan on Aug 24, 2009 | 5 comments
23.
Yehuda Katz's 10 Favorite Things About Ruby (yehudakatz.com)
42 points by wifelette on Aug 24, 2009 | 25 comments
24.
Why I use the MIT licence (by author of Rack) (chneukirchen.org)
39 points by Pistos2 on Aug 24, 2009 | 44 comments
25.
Prosper is Back (prosper.com)
36 points by bdr on Aug 24, 2009 | 14 comments
26.
On Google and Python (postmaster.gr)
36 points by adamo on Aug 24, 2009 | 11 comments
27.
Usain Bolt Versus the House Cat (wsj.com)
35 points by cwan on Aug 24, 2009 | 27 comments
28.
PHP as sexy as Scheme using lambdas and recursion (newmediacampaigns.com)
36 points by KrisJordan on Aug 24, 2009 | 38 comments
29.
Experience Switching From Ruby 1.8 to Ruby 1.9 (extralogical.net)
32 points by mudge on Aug 24, 2009 | 18 comments
30.
Python Bytecode Disassembler (doughellmann.com)
29 points by mace on Aug 24, 2009 | 3 comments

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