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1.
Xkcd Password Generator (preshing.com)
347 points by preshing on Aug 11, 2011 | 291 comments
2.
New leukemia treatment "exceeded our wildest expectations" (msn.com)
289 points by xd on Aug 11, 2011 | 106 comments
3.
2011 Startup School (startupschool.org)
282 points by pg on Aug 11, 2011 | 82 comments
4.
Google releases Games for Google+ (googleblog.blogspot.com)
259 points by skorgu on Aug 11, 2011 | 95 comments
5.
Google Admits Handing over European User Data to US Intelligence Agencies (softpedia.com)
255 points by itg on Aug 11, 2011 | 86 comments
6.
Rbenv, an unobtrusive rvm replacement (github.com/sstephenson)
251 points by vamsee on Aug 11, 2011 | 112 comments
7.
Death to the 'noreply' mailbox (josscrowcroft.com)
244 points by josscrowcroft on Aug 11, 2011 | 87 comments
8.
Facebook Wins “Worst API” in Developer Survey (techcrunch.com)
190 points by Andrex on Aug 11, 2011 | 49 comments
9.
An Idea for the Economy that will Freak Out a lot of People (blogmaverick.com)
186 points by knowtheory on Aug 11, 2011 | 190 comments
10.
In wake of riots, British PM proposes social media ban (cnn.com)
156 points by ojbyrne on Aug 11, 2011 | 135 comments
11.
Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory (geek.com)
149 points by ukdm on Aug 11, 2011 | 99 comments
12.
Someone patented linked lists (google.com)
146 points by jarin on Aug 11, 2011 | 88 comments
13.
The Art of Assembly Language Programming (wustl.edu)
131 points by wyclif on Aug 11, 2011 | 40 comments
14.
A lack of sleep can kill you (usmansheikh.com)
128 points by iapi on Aug 11, 2011 | 48 comments
15.
Why software patents are not fixable (marco.org)
127 points by stevefink on Aug 11, 2011 | 61 comments
16.
The patent system isn’t broken — we are (thisismynext.com)
121 points by berberich on Aug 11, 2011 | 73 comments
17.
Django Offline Docs (sramana.in)
118 points by senko on Aug 11, 2011 | 22 comments
18.
HIV virus used to turn white blood cells into cancer serial killers (geek.com)
112 points by ukdm on Aug 11, 2011 | 35 comments
19.
Street Fighting Mathematics: The art of educated guessing (mitpress.mit.edu)
107 points by xtacy on Aug 11, 2011 | 7 comments
20.
LinkedIn opts 100 million users into sharing information with ads (yahoo.com)
107 points by evilswan on Aug 11, 2011 | 25 comments
21.
MoonScript - A programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua. (moonscript.org)
107 points by newtonapple on Aug 11, 2011 | 67 comments
22.
Opez (YC S11) Is Yelp Meets Facebook, For Service Professionals (techcrunch.com)
105 points by csmajorfive on Aug 11, 2011 | 22 comments
23.
Munch On Me (YC S11) Helps You Discover Tasty Dishes (mashable.com)
104 points by jwang815 on Aug 11, 2011 | 35 comments
24.
How to be a faster writer (slate.com)
103 points by maalyex on Aug 11, 2011 | 27 comments
25.
Git: fetch and merge, don’t pull (longair.net)
101 points by eplanit on Aug 11, 2011 | 20 comments
26.
Fast and free Speech Recognition with Google's Voice API (fennb.com)
101 points by taybenlor on Aug 11, 2011 | 15 comments
27.
Understanding JavaScript function invocation and "this" (yehudakatz.com)
100 points by wycats on Aug 11, 2011 | 9 comments
28.
Show HN: My First Commercial Game Is Now Online (cardinalquest.com)
97 points by ido on Aug 11, 2011 | 52 comments
29.
How we used Node.js to build real-time award flight search (milewise.com)
85 points by nmeyer on Aug 11, 2011 | 38 comments
30.
Eight years ago today, an RC plane became the first to fly across the Atlantic (campaign-archive2.com)
83 points by DanLivesHere on Aug 11, 2011 | 31 comments

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