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1.
How to be a Programmer (mines.edu)
206 points by ronnier on July 11, 2010 | 28 comments
2.
In what language do deaf people think? (straightdope.com)
196 points by niyazpk on July 11, 2010 | 102 comments
3.
Google Secretly Invested In Zynga, Preparing To Launch Google Games (techcrunch.com)
171 points by daniel_levine on July 11, 2010 | 116 comments
4.
A couple neat things about using chemical elements as hostnames (greer.fm)
165 points by arundelo on July 11, 2010 | 67 comments
5.
Lessons from 150 startup pitches (asmartbear.com)
126 points by tsondermann on July 11, 2010 | 17 comments
6.
How telling people the facts may not cause them to change what they believe (boston.com)
106 points by michael_nielsen on July 11, 2010 | 42 comments
7.
Wikileaks website to be abandoned (cryptome.org)
98 points by zitterbewegung on July 11, 2010 | 58 comments
8.
Dead for a Century, Twain Says What He Meant (nytimes.com)
91 points by donohoe on July 11, 2010 | 34 comments
9.
Go Into Sales (bhargreaves.com)
89 points by thesyndicate on July 11, 2010 | 38 comments
10.
Numpy announces Python 3 support (Scipy news included) (mail-archive.com)
87 points by jnoller on July 11, 2010 | 13 comments
11.
The Creativity Crisis (newsweek.com)
75 points by thaumaturgy on July 11, 2010 | 42 comments
12.
How to Succeed as a Graduate Student in the Sciences (chemistry-blog.com)
66 points by splat on July 11, 2010 | 16 comments
13.
WikiLeaks will Not be abandoned. (twitter.com/wikileaks)
61 points by d_c on July 11, 2010 | 44 comments
14.
GAGA-1 (jgc.org)
58 points by jgrahamc on July 11, 2010 | 20 comments
15.
I am a neuropsychologist. Ask me (almost) anything. (reddit.com)
56 points by pavs on July 11, 2010 | 14 comments
16.
So, Why is Twitter Really Not Using Cassandra to Store Tweets? (highscalability.com)
56 points by helwr on July 11, 2010 | 18 comments
17.
The power of Apple's FaceTime commercial (techcrunch.com)
54 points by gvb on July 11, 2010 | 64 comments
18.
The Least Surprised (Ruby comic by _why) (judofyr.net)
50 points by judofyr on July 11, 2010 | 16 comments
19.
Computers at Home: Educational Hope vs. Teenage Reality (nytimes.com)
50 points by pg on July 11, 2010 | 22 comments
20.
Bay Area as a City State (sfgate.com)
49 points by smysore on July 11, 2010 | 37 comments
21.
BBC News website redesign (bbc.co.uk)
39 points by daleharvey on July 11, 2010 | 12 comments
22.
Why I Turned In My iPhone and Went Android (louisgray.com)
37 points by niyazpk on July 11, 2010 | 52 comments
23.
Theory vs Practice: Making algorithms claimed 'optimal', 10x faster. (acm.org)
32 points by HarrySimons on July 11, 2010 | 2 comments
24.
R-trees – adapting out-of-core techniques to modern memory architectures (live.com)
28 points by nkurz on July 11, 2010 | 5 comments
25.
Proving A Proof Is A Proof (rjlipton.wordpress.com)
27 points by wglb on July 11, 2010 | 2 comments
26.
Getline - A Python Library to Get Text from the Console (github.com/timtadh)
25 points by timtadh on July 11, 2010 | 2 comments
27.
The Dwarfs and The Fast Marking Algorithm (jaspervdj.be)
25 points by jaspervdj on July 11, 2010 | 11 comments
28.
"This may be the world's greatest tricycle" [pdf] (aviation-safety.net)
24 points by clawrencewenham on July 11, 2010 | 3 comments
29.
Reverse engineer extracts Skype crypto secret recipe (theregister.co.uk)
23 points by rpledge on July 11, 2010 | 8 comments
30.
Ask HN: Only one text field allowed on the webapp
22 points by Chirag on July 11, 2010 | 15 comments

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