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1.
Richard Stallman answers Reddit's top 25 questions. (reddit.com)
285 points by abstractbill on July 29, 2010 | 257 comments
2.
Tell HN: I'm launching in 30 days. No matter what. Hold me to it
234 points by kabuks on July 29, 2010 | 129 comments
3.
Ask HN: Share a gem. Teach me and you.
194 points by lionhearted on July 29, 2010 | 300 comments
4.
How grep got its name (thoughtbot.com)
186 points by milesf on July 29, 2010 | 50 comments
5.
GazeHawk (YC S10) Does Eyetracking With Web Cams (techcrunch.com)
149 points by bwaldorf on July 29, 2010 | 40 comments
6.
Why 37signals advice is irrelevant and unhelpful (iwasamonkey.tumblr.com)
136 points by mathewi on July 29, 2010 | 61 comments
7.
Kindle is OK (scripting.com)
133 points by brilliant on July 29, 2010 | 106 comments
8.
Russian scientists have created a breed of domesticated foxes (costs $6K) (sibfox.com)
115 points by vaksel on July 29, 2010 | 54 comments
9.
Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6 (rakudo.org)
113 points by avar on July 29, 2010 | 31 comments
10.
Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (Summer Edition)
111 points by SandB0x on July 29, 2010 | 134 comments
11.
Android wallpaper app that steals your data was downloaded by millions (venturebeat.com)
98 points by pkchen on July 29, 2010 | 59 comments
12.
Getting Your Open Source Project to 1.0 (damienkatz.net)
97 points by figured on July 29, 2010 | 2 comments
13.
Ask HN: Who needs a job?
96 points by d4ft on July 29, 2010 | 120 comments
14.
Google tech talk on Node.js (youtube.com)
84 points by mcantelon on July 29, 2010 | 15 comments
15.
Pastebin, compiler, and debugger supporting 40+ languages (ideone.com)
79 points by ujeezy on July 29, 2010 | 35 comments
16.
Andy's Most Useful Knots (asiteaboutnothing.net)
79 points by gnosis on July 29, 2010 | 22 comments
17.
 Red Hat, 16%. Canonical, 1% contribution to GNOME (gregdekspeaks.wordpress.com)
78 points by mapleoin on July 29, 2010 | 50 comments
18.
HN accounts for 12% of Social Bookmark referral traffic (readwriteweb.com)
77 points by calaniz on July 29, 2010 | 43 comments
19.
Google Blocked in Mainland China (google.com)
78 points by tshtf on July 29, 2010 | 55 comments
20.
Oracle shuts down PostgreSQL test servers (itnews.com.au)
72 points by murrayb on July 29, 2010 | 39 comments
21.
Lisp is Not an Acceptable Lisp (2006) (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
68 points by helwr on July 29, 2010 | 27 comments
22.
Traceroute in 40 lines of Python (ksplice.com)
73 points by leonidg on July 29, 2010 | 7 comments
23.
Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts (cloudkick.com)
65 points by cloudkick on July 29, 2010 | 31 comments
24.
Other Android Languages (tbray.org)
62 points by fogus on July 29, 2010 | 19 comments
25.
Mogotest: Web Testing Made Easier (mogotest.com)
62 points by nirvdrum on July 29, 2010 | 28 comments
26.
IPhone to Droid X: Impressions of a Data Pig (designbygravity.wordpress.com)
57 points by cschanck on July 29, 2010 | 53 comments
27.
How to Get a Job at Cloudera (cloudera.com)
56 points by tlipcon on July 29, 2010 | 17 comments
28.
What's Wrong With the American University System (theatlantic.com)
55 points by frossie on July 29, 2010 | 48 comments
29.
Beg HN: Share some ideas.
51 points by jonne on July 29, 2010 | 64 comments
30.
Sometimes It's OK To Steal My Games (jeff-vogel.blogspot.com)
49 points by aaronbrethorst on July 29, 2010 | 26 comments

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