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1.
NFL player IQ by position (benfry.com)
76 points by mhb on July 25, 2008 | 93 comments
2.
Basic MySQL Performance Tuning Practices that Everyone Should Know About (catonmat.net)
50 points by pkrumins on July 25, 2008 | 10 comments
3.
On Math Teaching: Lockhart's Lament (maa.org)
46 points by orib on July 25, 2008 | 21 comments
4.
Common Lisp Quick Reference (berlios.de)
45 points by nickb on July 25, 2008 | 13 comments
5.
Coding Without Comments (codinghorror.com)
39 points by ajbatac on July 25, 2008 | 57 comments
6.
The Smartest Advice I Ever Got: Personal Finance (yahoo.com)
38 points by iseff on July 25, 2008 | 40 comments
7.
Firefox plugin Socialbrowse launches in-page commenting (mashable.com)
34 points by monkeyboy on July 25, 2008 | 14 comments
8.
Google: We knew the web was big... (googleblog.blogspot.com)
32 points by gaika on July 25, 2008 | 18 comments
9.
Ask YC: Best way to sell downloadable software?
32 points by pg on July 25, 2008 | 13 comments
10.
Labels used to suppress ideas (paulgraham.com)
30 points by garret on July 25, 2008 | 27 comments
11.
Is Your Program Perfect? Let Me Count The Ways. (mdemare.info)
30 points by mdemare on July 25, 2008 | 14 comments
12.
Bug? Or can you downvote stories on Hacker News? (amazonaws.com)
29 points by gaika on July 25, 2008 | 23 comments
13.
The Illogic of Farm Subsidies, and Other Agricultural Truths (nytimes.com)
27 points by robg on July 25, 2008 | 12 comments
14.
The Cost of Empire (jtaplin.wordpress.com)
25 points by tonystubblebine on July 25, 2008 | 21 comments
15.
 Foxconn deliberately sabotaging their BIOS to destroy Linux ACPI (ubuntuforums.org)
24 points by nickb on July 25, 2008 | 19 comments
16.
What's the Fastest Way to Code a Loop in JavaScript? (sun.com)
23 points by d0mine on July 25, 2008 | 4 comments
17.
3 reasons why Knol will beat Wikipedia (thenextweb.org)
23 points by joop on July 25, 2008 | 31 comments
18.
fbFund and Y Combinator (luckycal.com)
18 points by sanj on July 25, 2008 | 28 comments
19.
Git - Fast Version Control System (git-scm.com)
17 points by reazalun on July 25, 2008 | 6 comments
20.
Prevailing theory of aging challenged in Stanford worm study (thinkgene.com)
17 points by gaika on July 25, 2008 | 5 comments
21.
Routers and Ethics (foohack.com)
16 points by IsaacSchlueter on July 25, 2008 | 7 comments
22.
Fugitive spam king found dead in apparent murder-suicide (thestandard.com)
16 points by ilamont on July 25, 2008 | 4 comments
23.
Mike Maples: The Party is Over (pehub.com)
17 points by garbowza on July 25, 2008 | 8 comments
24.
3 Reasons Why Wikipedia Will Beat Knol (socialbias.com)
16 points by parker on July 25, 2008 | 3 comments
25.
Microsoft is Now a Platinum Sponsor of the Apache Foundation (apache.org)
16 points by pierrefar on July 25, 2008 | 9 comments
26.
HTML/CSS as a Prelude to Programming (catsonkeyboards.blogspot.com)
16 points by saundby on July 25, 2008 | 5 comments
27.
Python(x,y) - Python for Scientists (pythonxy.com)
15 points by d0mine on July 25, 2008 | 5 comments
28.
Id Software's John Carmack and Marty Stratton Talk Quake Live (shacknews.com)
15 points by nadim on July 25, 2008 | 7 comments
29.
I need to build a house, what kind of hammer should I buy? (sethgodin.typepad.com)
14 points by jmorin007 on July 25, 2008 | 6 comments
30.
Loopt strikes a deal to make massive use of GPS data cost effective (venturebeat.com)
14 points by gaika on July 25, 2008 | 7 comments

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