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1.
Do all first links on Wikipedia lead to philosophy? (matpalm.com)
289 points by tbull007 on Aug 21, 2011 | 48 comments
2.
A Simple Explanation for Why HP Abandoned Palm (daringfireball.net)
198 points by A-K on Aug 21, 2011 | 96 comments
3.
HN now comes with HTTPS? (news.ycombinator.com)
197 points by mike-cardwell on Aug 21, 2011 | 78 comments
4.
Download.com wrapping downloads
174 points by forgotAgain on Aug 21, 2011 | 32 comments
5.
List of vim plugins I use - with mini tutorials (mirnazim.org)
163 points by telemachos on Aug 21, 2011 | 26 comments
6.
Is That Review a Fake? (nytimes.com)
153 points by cwan on Aug 21, 2011 | 37 comments
7.
Poll: Where did you get your site/app's Terms of Service & Privacy Policy?
147 points by callmeed on Aug 21, 2011 | 61 comments
8.
GroupMe acquired by Skype (techcrunch.com)
145 points by fescue on Aug 21, 2011 | 20 comments
9.
Coding backwards (jameso.be)
140 points by jobeirne on Aug 21, 2011 | 42 comments
10.
Notch is coding live again (twitch.tv)
123 points by Zolomon on Aug 21, 2011 | 45 comments
11.
How to charge clients: flat fee vs. hourly rate? (watilo.com)
116 points by Concours on Aug 21, 2011 | 67 comments
12.
The little-known secret of how to actually choose a web designer (informationhighwayman.com)
108 points by joshuacc on Aug 21, 2011 | 70 comments
13.
Superfast military plane hit Mach 20 before crash (msn.com)
97 points by danberger on Aug 21, 2011 | 99 comments
14.
The State of CyanogenMod (cyanogenmod.com)
92 points by mtinkerhess on Aug 21, 2011 | 6 comments
15.
Port of PG's "On Lisp" to Clojure (thinkrelevance.com)
80 points by ecounysis on Aug 21, 2011 | 8 comments
16.
Stupid scientists (discovermagazine.com)
74 points by nhoss2 on Aug 21, 2011 | 26 comments
17.
NewLisp (newlisp.org)
74 points by ecounysis on Aug 21, 2011 | 17 comments
18.
Show HN: Rasta.js, anonymous domainless key-value store for frontend JavaScript (errorjs.com)
73 points by pitra on Aug 21, 2011 | 39 comments
19.
Get started with WebGL: draw a square (netmagazine.com)
70 points by tilt on Aug 21, 2011 | 15 comments
20.
Jtalk: a Smalltalk implementation that runs on the JavaScript runtime. (jtalk-project.org)
66 points by ColinWright on Aug 21, 2011 | 8 comments
21.
Argentina blocks more than 1,000,000 blogger blogs. (translate.google.com)
65 points by brackin on Aug 21, 2011 | 45 comments
22.
The Perils of Partially Powered Languages (yesodweb.com)
64 points by jashkenas on Aug 21, 2011 | 5 comments
23.
Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans (depauw.edu)
55 points by gnosis on Aug 21, 2011 | 25 comments
24.
Linux Journal goes 100% digital (linuxjournal.com)
45 points by g-garron on Aug 21, 2011 | 14 comments
25.
Crash-Only Software (usenix.org)
45 points by llambda on Aug 21, 2011 | 15 comments
26.
Nymwars: A view from the trenches within Google (plus.google.com)
44 points by bootload on Aug 21, 2011 | 33 comments
27.
Show HN: Save reading time with the TL;DR PLZ bookmarklet
44 points by _csoz on Aug 21, 2011 | 13 comments
28.
Paypal Founder Peter Thiel Invests to Create Floating Micro-Countries (inhabitat.com)
44 points by bakbak on Aug 21, 2011 | 55 comments
29.
Why We Start Indexing from 0 in Computer Science (utexas.edu)
41 points by KlausTrainer on Aug 21, 2011 | 35 comments
30.
"This is water, this is water." (publicnoises.blogspot.com)
41 points by pavs on Aug 21, 2011 | 29 comments

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