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1.
US Government seeks to block AT&T & T-Mobile's $39 Billion Merger (bloomberg.com)
369 points by ldayley on Aug 31, 2011 | 162 comments
2.
The Million Dollar Question (sebastianmarshall.com)
342 points by jirinovotny on Aug 31, 2011 | 69 comments
3.
GitHub Flow (scottchacon.com)
327 points by schacon on Aug 31, 2011 | 63 comments
4.
9 million hits/day with 120 megs RAM (tumbledry.org)
303 points by verisimilitude on Aug 31, 2011 | 126 comments
5.
How Steve Jobs handles trolls (WWDC 1997) (garry.posterous.com)
244 points by ryannielsen on Aug 31, 2011 | 65 comments
6.
I just got meta-copied (creatingev.com)
231 points by d_r on Aug 31, 2011 | 37 comments
7.
Now that people are considering NOSQL will more people consider no-DB (martinfowler.com)
227 points by fogus on Aug 31, 2011 | 140 comments
8.
My Neighbor, Steve Jobs (lisenstromberg.wordpress.com)
226 points by ryanwhitney on Aug 31, 2011 | 44 comments
9.
Rails 3.1 Gem Available (rubygems.org)
210 points by aaronbrethorst on Aug 31, 2011 | 37 comments
10.
Google App Engine leaves preview, new pricing (google.com)
201 points by endlessvoid94 on Aug 31, 2011 | 129 comments
11.
Physicist cuts plane boarding time in half (cnet.com)
197 points by timf on Aug 31, 2011 | 110 comments
12.
Python Tools for Visual Studio (msdn.com)
185 points by johndcook on Aug 31, 2011 | 98 comments
13.
Yi (haskell.org)
175 points by nyellin on Aug 31, 2011 | 16 comments
14.
Behind Intel's New Random-Number Generator (ieee.org)
170 points by synacksynack on Aug 31, 2011 | 39 comments
15.
Kernel.org has been hacked (see site news) (kernel.org)
167 points by KonradKlause on Aug 31, 2011 | 56 comments
16.
Id to release Doom3 source code (gamasutra.com)
161 points by aqrashik on Aug 31, 2011 | 51 comments
17.
RIP Higgs Boson (with 95% confidence) (scientificamerican.com)
161 points by akkartik on Aug 31, 2011 | 147 comments
18.
Applying to YC as a Single Founder (jazzychad.net)
158 points by jazzychad on Aug 31, 2011 | 40 comments
19.
Does Paul Graham Get What He Asks For? [infographic] (giftrocket.com)
149 points by kapilkale on Aug 31, 2011 | 28 comments
20.
Using Gmail, Calendar and Docs without an Internet connection (gmailblog.blogspot.com)
141 points by antr on Aug 31, 2011 | 70 comments
21.
Sublime Text 2 (Build 2111) gets vi key bindings, indent guides (sublimetext.com)
135 points by nikuda on Aug 31, 2011 | 87 comments
22.
Firefox 9 uses type inference to improve JavaScript performance by 20-30% (extremetech.com)
123 points by 11031a on Aug 31, 2011 | 46 comments
23.
Rails 3.1 Released (rubyonrails.org)
121 points by jonpaul on Aug 31, 2011 | 1 comment
24.
Chrome's Most Important Feature (googlesystem.blogspot.com)
113 points by Garbage on Aug 31, 2011 | 98 comments
25.
JavaScript Web Apps by O'Reilly (oreilly.com)
111 points by maccman on Aug 31, 2011 | 40 comments
26.
Why Advertising Works, Even When You Think It Doesn't (theatlantic.com)
110 points by waxymonkeyfrog on Aug 31, 2011 | 70 comments
27.
IPhone Apps Design Mistakes: Over-Blown Visuals (2009) (smashingmagazine.com)
98 points by acqq on Aug 31, 2011 | 28 comments
28.
Groupon Traffic Declines Nearly 50% (mediapost.com)
89 points by domino on Aug 31, 2011 | 38 comments
29.
Redesigning the Technical Hiring Process (jeanhsu.com)
81 points by jeanhsu on Aug 31, 2011 | 56 comments
30.
Do, as often as you can – it's that simple (martinrue.com)
75 points by martinrue on Aug 31, 2011 | 15 comments

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