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1.
What's wrong with 1975 programming (varnish-cache.org)
293 points by dchest on July 28, 2010 | 115 comments
2.
Aldous Huxley was right, not George Orwell (recombinantrecords.net)
240 points by dotcoma on July 28, 2010 | 81 comments
3.
If You’re So Damn Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich? (charlesbivona.com)
200 points by rlivsey on July 28, 2010 | 147 comments
4.
Microsoft Street Slide: Street view will never be the same (neowin.net)
155 points by iamelgringo on July 28, 2010 | 62 comments
5.
The Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial book (with PDF downloads) is out (railstutorial.org)
133 points by mhartl on July 28, 2010 | 17 comments
6.
Damn Cool Algorithms: Levenshtein Automata (notdot.net)
118 points by desigooner on July 28, 2010 | 14 comments
7.
Crime Visualization of San Francisco (padmapper.com)
105 points by ericd on July 28, 2010 | 63 comments
8.
User-mining: Start at the gym, end up at a bar? (simplyryan.com)
96 points by rwaliany on July 28, 2010 | 22 comments
9.
Why Your Customers Don't Want to Talk to You (hbr.org)
91 points by klous on July 28, 2010 | 59 comments
10.
Twitter users most followed by readers of Hacker News (jmillerinc.com)
86 points by jmillerinc on July 28, 2010 | 32 comments
11.
Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit (eaipatterns.com)
84 points by jteo on July 28, 2010 | 17 comments
12.
I need a software that .... (twitter.com)
85 points by rokhayakebe on July 28, 2010 | 55 comments
13.
New Amazon Kindle announced: $139 WiFi-only, $189 3G, available August 27th (engadget.com)
71 points by ssclafani on July 28, 2010 | 89 comments
14.
Ask HN: (No) Microsoft based start-ups?
67 points by sentinel on July 28, 2010 | 142 comments
15.
Oracle rebrands Java, breaks Eclipse (zdnet.com)
61 points by Garbage on July 28, 2010 | 61 comments
16.
Ten Rules for Web Startups (2005) (evhead.com)
59 points by mgunes on July 28, 2010 | 3 comments
17.
An Interview With Edsger W. Dijkstra (acm.org)
56 points by fogus on July 28, 2010 | 4 comments
18.
Top organizations in CS research (research.microsoft.com)
55 points by ssn on July 28, 2010 | 38 comments
19.
Study About IP On The Human Genome Shows That Patents Hindered Innovation (techdirt.com)
54 points by yanw on July 28, 2010 | 6 comments
20.
Clojure gets sponsored (contegix.com)
52 points by DanielRibeiro on July 28, 2010 | 9 comments
21.
100 million Facebook pages leaked on torrent site (thinq.co.uk)
51 points by jawngee on July 28, 2010 | 13 comments
22.
Have Marijuana Tests Resulted in Tens of Thousands of False Convictions? (alternet.org)
49 points by Alex3917 on July 28, 2010 | 26 comments
23.
How GitHub Does Enterprise (zachholman.com)
49 points by ropiku on July 28, 2010 | 7 comments
24.
The Email Mafia (PayPal's Got Nothing on Email) (thestartupdigest.com)
50 points by Cmccann7 on July 28, 2010 | 24 comments
25.
Preannouncing Seph - Immutable Ioke/Clojure-like JVM language (olabini.com)
47 points by cgbystrom on July 28, 2010 | 8 comments
26.
Hedge fund invests in LinkedIn at more than $2 Billion valuation (bloomberg.com)
47 points by rugger on July 28, 2010 | 23 comments
27.
Working at a startup sucks (laurentk.posterous.com)
48 points by bjonathan on July 28, 2010 | 27 comments
28.
Competitive lockpicking growing in US popularity (boston.com)
44 points by robg on July 28, 2010 | 23 comments
29.
Emotional Interface Design: The Gateway to Passionate Users (thinkvitamin.com)
43 points by duck on July 28, 2010 | 3 comments
30.
Please review my startup - Flowshark (flowshark.com)
43 points by hajrice on July 28, 2010 | 49 comments

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