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1.
Zed Shaw's Free Hackers Union
(
freehackersunion.org
)
74 points
by
smanek
on Aug 25, 2008
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42 comments
2.
Richard Feynman’s Modest Science (and fake teaching)
(
duartes.org
)
49 points
by
aaco
on Aug 25, 2008
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10 comments
3.
Massive RedHat Perl performance issue
(
vipul.net
)
46 points
by
aditya
on Aug 25, 2008
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19 comments
4.
Join us at Hacker News Coffee, Palo Alto, Tuesday at 8:30am
47 points
by
markbao
on Aug 25, 2008
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62 comments
5.
Firebug 1.2 Released
(
ejohn.org
)
42 points
by
soundsop
on Aug 25, 2008
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1 comment
6.
What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008?
(
modernmechanix.com
)
40 points
by
pg
on Aug 25, 2008
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20 comments
7.
Olympic Medal Count, Adjusted for Population and GDP
(
symworld.com
)
39 points
by
aggieben
on Aug 25, 2008
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41 comments
8.
7 "must read" Linux tutorials
(
linuxscrew.com
)
38 points
by
Anon84
on Aug 25, 2008
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3 comments
9.
Join us at Hacker News Coffee, San Francisco, Tuesday at 9:15am
31 points
by
bdr
on Aug 25, 2008
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25 comments
10.
Ask YC: Feedback on PolishMyWriting.com
(
polishmywriting.com
)
28 points
by
raffi
on Aug 25, 2008
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24 comments
11.
Poll: Which programming language do you plan on learning next?
27 points
by
prakash
on Aug 25, 2008
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110 comments
12.
Benchmarks: LLVM, gcc
(
cocoageek.com
)
25 points
by
gtani
on Aug 25, 2008
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2 comments
13.
Disqus: comments can now be blog posts
(
disqus.net
)
23 points
by
herdrick
on Aug 25, 2008
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8 comments
14.
Picwing (YC Summer 08) on Engadget
(
engadget.com
)
21 points
by
edawerd
on Aug 25, 2008
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15 comments
15.
Deadlocked
(
codinghorror.com
)
22 points
by
Anon84
on Aug 25, 2008
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11 comments
16.
Enhancing Multitasking to Enhance our Minds
(
einfall.wordpress.com
)
22 points
by
DaniFong
on Aug 25, 2008
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9 comments
17.
Detailed review of MIT's "Introduction to Algorithms" course. Part three: Sorting
(
catonmat.net
)
21 points
by
yoyo
on Aug 25, 2008
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1 comment
18.
Iron Scheme: Scheme implementation running on .NET
(
codeplex.com
)
21 points
by
iamelgringo
on Aug 25, 2008
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16 comments
19.
A Java Syntax Quirk
(
uncommons.org
)
21 points
by
raganwald
on Aug 25, 2008
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7 comments
20.
Ask PG: Is the [dead] tool algorithmic or moderated or both?
21 points
by
iamelgringo
on Aug 25, 2008
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7 comments
21.
Build One to Throw Away
(
tbray.org
)
20 points
by
astrec
on Aug 25, 2008
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4 comments
22.
Sometimes You Just Have To Walk Away
(
avc.com
)
19 points
by
nickb
on Aug 25, 2008
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6 comments
23.
How the Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole in the World
(
wired.com
)
19 points
by
nreece
on Aug 25, 2008
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7 comments
24.
Using the Zillow API for New York Times Coverage
(
rememberthisguy.com
)
18 points
by
auston
on Aug 25, 2008
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4 comments
25.
The Traffic Guru
(
wilsoncenter.org
)
17 points
by
rglovejoy
on Aug 25, 2008
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1 comment
26.
My Life With Tim
(
aaronsw.com
)
16 points
by
hhm
on Aug 25, 2008
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15 comments
27.
Will Google’s Android Play DOS to Apple’s iPhone?
(
roughlydrafted.com
)
16 points
by
raganwald
on Aug 25, 2008
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11 comments
28.
Haskell: Batteries Included
(
unsw.edu.au
)
15 points
by
iamelgringo
on Aug 25, 2008
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1 comment
29.
Ask YC: Feedback on BreakkUp.com
(
breakkup.com
)
15 points
by
pxlpshr
on Aug 25, 2008
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60 comments
30.
Rosetta Disk Designed For 2,000 Years Archive
(
rosettaproject.org
)
15 points
by
alexwg
on Aug 25, 2008
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5 comments
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