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1.
Ruby 1.9.2 Released (nagaokaut.ac.jp)
191 points by mudgemeister on Aug 18, 2010 | 68 comments
2.
Why Clojure? (thecleancoder.blogspot.com)
161 points by DanielRibeiro on Aug 18, 2010 | 88 comments
3.
Why are so many people in their 20s taking so long to grow up? (nytimes.com)
149 points by robg on Aug 18, 2010 | 196 comments
4.
How angel investors are destroying young gullible programming talent (maxkle.in)
148 points by maxklein on Aug 18, 2010 | 65 comments
5.
Email sucks. Time saving tips from Kevin Rose (kevinrose.com)
127 points by bjonathan on Aug 18, 2010 | 59 comments
6.
Apple’s App Store Director Sells His Own Fart Apps (wired.com)
117 points by bjonathan on Aug 18, 2010 | 48 comments
7.
CSS3 lasers (motherfuckinglasers.com)
112 points by evilhackerdude on Aug 18, 2010 | 35 comments
8.
People have no bloody idea about saving energy (theregister.co.uk)
106 points by sasvari on Aug 18, 2010 | 157 comments
9.
OhLife: A Personal Journal You Might Actually Keep Updating (techcrunch.com)
92 points by hooande on Aug 18, 2010 | 61 comments
10.
Probability Chip (technologyreview.com)
87 points by eli_s on Aug 18, 2010 | 25 comments
11.
Announcing ... MathML! (WebKit) (webkit.org)
81 points by swannodette on Aug 18, 2010 | 27 comments
12.
NASA shuttle launch video from the perspective of a solid rocket booster (pbs.org)
77 points by bhousel on Aug 18, 2010 | 16 comments
13.
Skype Loses Engineering Chief (possibly due to TechCrunch commenters?) (nytimes.com)
75 points by donohoe on Aug 18, 2010 | 79 comments
14.
Finally, Hacker Monthly Subscriptions (hackermonthly.com)
73 points by mnemonik on Aug 18, 2010 | 65 comments
15.
Are We Taking CSS Too Far? (echoenduring.com)
71 points by superduper on Aug 18, 2010 | 57 comments
16.
Getting Your Startup Noticed and Covered by Blogs (zferral.com)
70 points by JangoSteve on Aug 18, 2010 | 15 comments
17.
Visualising the Wikileaks war logs using Clojure (nakkaya.com)
69 points by papaf on Aug 18, 2010
18.
The Curse of a New Building (steveblank.com)
67 points by aycangulez on Aug 18, 2010 | 26 comments
19.
Google shows the Future of Browser Games (1up.com)
66 points by dirtyaura on Aug 18, 2010 | 35 comments
20.
Leaving Oracle (dtrace.org)
64 points by kmavm on Aug 18, 2010 | 23 comments
21.
HTML5 Peeks, Pokes and Pointers (diveintohtml5.org)
60 points by pistoriusp on Aug 18, 2010 | 20 comments
22.
14 Years Old Kuwaiti Achieves 800,000 Downloads for His iPhone App (arabcrunch.com)
59 points by ArabGeek on Aug 18, 2010 | 36 comments
23.
Dogs improve office productivity (economist.com)
58 points by robg on Aug 18, 2010 | 24 comments
24.
DHS scrambles to cover up FOIA scandal (papersplease.org)
58 points by tshtf on Aug 18, 2010 | 20 comments
25.
Hipmunk (YC S10) Embarks on Mission to Make Travel Search Easier (xconomy.com)
58 points by waderoush on Aug 18, 2010 | 4 comments
26.
Kindergarten enrollment dates affect ADHD diagnosis rates (ncsu.edu)
56 points by blasdel on Aug 18, 2010 | 61 comments
27.
Is Greece entering a Death Spiral? (spiegel.de)
54 points by cwan on Aug 18, 2010 | 52 comments
28.
If I could do it all over again... (livemint.com)
52 points by chanux on Aug 18, 2010 | 11 comments
29.
35 Lessons in 35 Years (ryanfreitas.tumblr.com)
50 points by jeffclark on Aug 18, 2010 | 7 comments
30.
Counting Wal-Mart cars to forecast earnings (cnbc.com)
50 points by duck on Aug 18, 2010 | 12 comments

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