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1.
Quake 2 Source Code Review (fabiensanglard.net)
347 points by DanielRibeiro on Sept 20, 2011 | 19 comments
2.
Google+ Opens to All (googleblog.blogspot.com)
300 points by Umalu on Sept 20, 2011 | 175 comments
3.
Help, I’m on the IRS hit list (theglobeandmail.com)
284 points by DanielBMarkham on Sept 20, 2011 | 219 comments
4.
OnStar Begins Spying On Customers’ GPS Location For Profit (zdziarski.com)
264 points by jzdziarski on Sept 20, 2011 | 92 comments
5.
Wikileaks Takes Down the Head of Al Jazeera (readwriteweb.com)
250 points by mwilcox on Sept 20, 2011 | 60 comments
6.
Running a startup on Haskell (bos.github.com)
213 points by DanielRibeiro on Sept 20, 2011 | 70 comments
7.
John Carmack coded Quake on a 28-inch 16:9 1080p monitor in 1995 (geek.com)
203 points by ukdm on Sept 20, 2011 | 93 comments
8.
Richard Stallman: “Android Phones Do Not Respect Your Freedom” (digitizor.com)
192 points by dkd903 on Sept 20, 2011 | 104 comments
9.
Scala school (twitter.github.com)
185 points by swah on Sept 20, 2011 | 25 comments
10.
How Apple badly messed up with in-app purchases on Lion and didn’t tell anyone (gorban.org)
173 points by grayprog on Sept 20, 2011 | 48 comments
11.
$1,279-per-hour, 30,000-core cluster built on Amazon EC2 cloud (arstechnica.com)
160 points by duck on Sept 20, 2011 | 35 comments
12.
Is Printing a Gun the Same as Buying a Gun? (techcrunch.com)
157 points by DanielN on Sept 20, 2011 | 96 comments
13.
Patent trolls have cost innovators half a trillion dollars (arstechnica.com)
149 points by zeratul on Sept 20, 2011 | 27 comments
14.
Hire For The Ability To Get Shit Done (eladgil.com)
145 points by eladgil on Sept 20, 2011 | 94 comments
15.
Git Reference (gitref.org)
142 points by fogus on Sept 20, 2011 | 11 comments
16.
Inside Amazon.com warehouse workers complain of brutal conditions (mcall.com)
140 points by aaronbrethorst on Sept 20, 2011 | 74 comments
17.
Why Entrepreneurs Can't Sleep (humbledmba.com)
131 points by ddwoodworth on Sept 20, 2011 | 63 comments
18.
Twilio has an incredible API (callinwith.us)
131 points by dickeytk on Sept 20, 2011 | 64 comments
19.
Full Tilt Ponzi (reuters.com)
127 points by MaysonL on Sept 20, 2011 | 68 comments
20.
Samuel L. Ipsum (slipsum.com)
122 points by joshontheweb on Sept 20, 2011 | 14 comments
21.
Great developer tattoo, even better explanation. (sangwine.net)
118 points by robinwarren on Sept 20, 2011 | 88 comments
22.
India to topple Japan as world's 3rd-largest economy (indiatimes.com)
117 points by Garbage on Sept 20, 2011 | 102 comments
23.
The 3D Software Rendering Technology of 1998's Thief: The Dark Project (nothings.org)
112 points by ukdm on Sept 20, 2011 | 15 comments
24.
Microsoft milks Casio for using Linux (theregister.co.uk)
111 points by jvc26 on Sept 20, 2011 | 64 comments
25.
Practicing 2000 hrs (The Dan Plan: a 10,000 hr deliberate practice experiment) (thedanplan.com)
111 points by losvedir on Sept 20, 2011 | 38 comments
26.
Why I regret going to TechCrunch Disrupt (openera.wordpress.com)
110 points by PanosJee on Sept 20, 2011 | 31 comments
27.
Declassified US Spy Satellites Reveal Rare Look at Secret Cold War Space Program (space.com)
102 points by sasvari on Sept 20, 2011 | 43 comments
28.
The greatest joke ever told - lessons for pitching (thestartuptoolkit.com)
99 points by ColinWright on Sept 20, 2011 | 21 comments
29.
How an arcane statistical law could have prevented the Greek disaster (economicsintelligence.com)
96 points by zalthor on Sept 20, 2011 | 31 comments
30.
Feeling Dirty on Hacker News (interfacevision.com)
83 points by ericHosick on Sept 20, 2011 | 38 comments

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