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1.
Motorola Snaps Up 280 North (YC 08) For $20 Million (techcrunch.com)
323 points by icey on Aug 24, 2010 | 102 comments
2.
Things I've Learned from Traveling Around the World for Three Years (huffingtonpost.com)
260 points by ryanricard on Aug 24, 2010 | 98 comments
3.
How to Minimize Politics in Your Company (bhorowitz.com)
209 points by dwynings on Aug 24, 2010 | 33 comments
4.
What non-technical users don’t understand about your software (successfulsoftware.net)
147 points by epi0Bauqu on Aug 24, 2010 | 70 comments
5.
There is no nanotech, stop talking about it and start laughing at it (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
139 points by asmithmd1 on Aug 24, 2010 | 111 comments
6.
Inside the secret world of Trader Joe's (cnn.com)
135 points by jakarta on Aug 24, 2010 | 50 comments
7.
The Sun is changing the rate of radioactive decay (io9.com)
127 points by smokinn on Aug 24, 2010 | 52 comments
8.
Rapid prototyping as burnout antidote (gabrielweinberg.com)
118 points by bjplink on Aug 24, 2010 | 27 comments
9.
Rails 3.0: Release candidate 2 (rubyonrails.org)
110 points by sant0sk1 on Aug 24, 2010 | 28 comments
10.
Chart Your Growth With Chart.io (YC S10) (techcrunch.com)
108 points by daniel_levine on Aug 24, 2010 | 21 comments
11.
Homeless Experiment (nevblog.com)
104 points by organicgrant on Aug 24, 2010 | 50 comments
12.
Y Combinator’s Biggest Demo Day Yet Draws Throng Of Investors (techcrunch.com)
101 points by ssclafani on Aug 24, 2010 | 25 comments
13.
We Had No Idea (the first digital camera) (kodak.com)
97 points by eduardoflores on Aug 24, 2010 | 39 comments
14.
NASA to announce 'intriguing planetary system' discovery on Thursday (nasa.gov)
94 points by anigbrowl on Aug 24, 2010 | 34 comments
15.
C500k in Action at Urban Airship (urbanairship.com)
89 points by cscotta on Aug 24, 2010 | 21 comments
16.
How Authors Really Make Money: The Rebirth of Seth Godin (fourhourworkweek.com)
84 points by alexkiwi on Aug 24, 2010 | 41 comments
17.
Apple seeking to patent spyware (eff.org)
83 points by chmike on Aug 24, 2010 | 41 comments
18.
Of Course You're Awesome. Now Pay $10 a Month to Hear Someone Else Say It (time.com)
80 points by zackattack on Aug 24, 2010 | 43 comments
19.
A micro-manual for Lisp implemented in C (nakkaya.com)
78 points by papaf on Aug 24, 2010 | 6 comments
20.
James Gosling: Some more comments about the Oracle Java lawsuit (nighthacks.org)
78 points by bensummers on Aug 24, 2010 | 46 comments
21.
The Fridge (YC S10) Takes The Privacy Headaches Out Of Sharing (techcrunch.com)
73 points by daniel_levine on Aug 24, 2010 | 55 comments
22.
HTML5 Presentation (html5rocks.com)
71 points by namin on Aug 24, 2010 | 11 comments
23.
Bing is now powering Yahoo in US & Canada (bing.com)
70 points by tamersalama on Aug 24, 2010 | 34 comments
24.
The default position of HN is skepticism
69 points by Elite on Aug 24, 2010 | 47 comments
25.
There's more to Singularity studies than Kurzweil (sentientdevelopments.com)
62 points by fogus on Aug 24, 2010 | 29 comments
26.
What is the history of Django? (simonwillison.net)
60 points by mnemonik on Aug 24, 2010 | 3 comments
27.
"So, what do you do?" (scoutapp.com)
62 points by acl on Aug 24, 2010 | 41 comments
28.
MessageParty (YC S10) Ties Location With Chat Rooms (techcrunch.com)
58 points by mhunter on Aug 24, 2010 | 15 comments
29.
Apple Looking To Slice Up Cable 99 Cents At A Time (techcrunch.com)
57 points by ssclafani on Aug 24, 2010 | 61 comments
30.
People really don't like unselfish colleagues (sciencedaily.com)
57 points by Terretta on Aug 24, 2010 | 41 comments

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