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31.
Talking To Pirates
(
positech.co.uk
)
15 points
by
alex_c
on Aug 14, 2008
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3 comments
32.
Get Started With Firebug, Firefox's 'Killer App' for Web Developers
(
webmonkey.com
)
12 points
by
edw519
on Aug 14, 2008
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2 comments
33.
Michael Phelps, the billion dollar man?
(
reuters.com
)
12 points
by
pavel
on Aug 14, 2008
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10 comments
34.
Erlang and High-Scale System Software
(
mvdirona.com
)
12 points
by
prakash
on Aug 14, 2008
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2 comments
35.
Aging, Evolution and the "developmental drift"
(
dailygalaxy.com
)
12 points
by
mariorz
on Aug 14, 2008
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7 comments
36.
CAPTCHAs work—for digitizing old, damaged texts, manuscripts
(
arstechnica.com
)
12 points
by
nickb
on Aug 14, 2008
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3 comments
37.
Ask HN: why do some non-trollish articles get [dead]ed?
10 points
by
mariorz
on Aug 14, 2008
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12 comments
38.
Low-Tech Camera Uses No-Tech Gravity to Drop Viewers Into the Pool
(
wsj.com
)
10 points
by
bentoner
on Aug 14, 2008
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3 comments
39.
ECMAScript Harmony
(
ejohn.org
)
10 points
by
bdfh42
on Aug 14, 2008
40.
Thrown to the Ad-Wolves... or, Learn from My AdWords Mistakes
(
juiceanalytics.com
)
10 points
by
prakash
on Aug 14, 2008
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2 comments
41.
Is Google's Organic Growth Topping Out? Chris Sacca talks
(
yahoo.com
)
11 points
by
babul
on Aug 14, 2008
42.
Guy Films Space Shuttle Launch from Passing Airliner
(
gizmodo.com
)
10 points
by
timr
on Aug 14, 2008
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3 comments
43.
Science Visuals: The Genetic Map of Europe
(
nytimes.com
)
10 points
by
robg
on Aug 14, 2008
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2 comments
44.
Jim Gray from '06: Distributed Computing Economics (how to allocate computing resources)
(
epfl.ch
)
8 points
by
wmorein
on Aug 14, 2008
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2 comments
45.
Goodbye Web 2.0... Welcome Cloud Computing
(
centernetworks.com
)
8 points
by
nreece
on Aug 14, 2008
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9 comments
46.
Y Combinator Challenge #18 - The WebOS
(
astartupaday.wordpress.com
)
6 points
by
dkasper
on Aug 14, 2008
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2 comments
47.
Twitter kills international SMS notifications
(
blog.twitter.com
)
7 points
by
swombat
on Aug 14, 2008
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1 comment
48.
File sharing becomes a crime without punishment in Germany
(
p2p-blog.com
)
7 points
by
swombat
on Aug 14, 2008
49.
The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is Premature Standardization
(
yuiblog.com
)
7 points
by
drewr
on Aug 14, 2008
50.
Big Companies Are Where Small Companies Go to Die
(
37signals.com
)
6 points
by
superchink
on Aug 14, 2008
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2 comments
51.
Derek Sivers: Reversible business models
(
sivers.org
)
6 points
by
toffer
on Aug 14, 2008
52.
Is Geek Tech Going Mainstream?
(
avc.com
)
6 points
by
alex_c
on Aug 14, 2008
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1 comment
53.
Federal Appeals Court Upholds Copyright Protection for Free Software
(
nytimes.com
)
5 points
by
timr
on Aug 14, 2008
54.
Google search gaining share over Microsoft and Yahoo over the last 18 months
(
arstechnica.com
)
5 points
by
soundsop
on Aug 14, 2008
55.
How to Participate in the Linux Community
(
linuxfoundation.org
)
5 points
by
hhm
on Aug 14, 2008
56.
The Intangibles
(
sethgodin.typepad.com
)
5 points
by
mooders
on Aug 14, 2008
57.
History of 404 Error Code
(
room404.com
)
5 points
by
soundsop
on Aug 14, 2008
58.
12 Unit Testing Tips for Software Engineers
(
readwriteweb.com
)
5 points
by
terpua
on Aug 14, 2008
59.
Using Google App Engine With Amazon Web Services
(
idlewords.com
)
5 points
by
dhotson
on Aug 14, 2008
60.
The Golden Goose Called SMS
(
markevanstech.com
)
5 points
by
buckpost
on Aug 14, 2008
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2 comments
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