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1.
Silicon Valley's Dark Secret: It's all about Age (techcrunch.com)
185 points by nanospider on Aug 28, 2010 | 120 comments
2.
MIT Globe Genie (Random Street View) (web.mit.edu)
156 points by chaosmachine on Aug 28, 2010 | 42 comments
3.
Learning to write a compiler (stackoverflow.com)
128 points by siim on Aug 28, 2010 | 40 comments
4.
Ben Huh offers to buy Reddit (thedailywh.at)
114 points by ssclafani on Aug 28, 2010 | 60 comments
5.
Chopin's Small Miracles (wsj.com)
107 points by grellas on Aug 28, 2010 | 49 comments
6.
How Entire Industries Become Unethical (bhargreaves.com)
94 points by thesyndicate on Aug 28, 2010 | 66 comments
7.
 Rate my startup: SolidComposer - version control for musicians (solidcomposer.com)
81 points by AndyKelley on Aug 28, 2010 | 32 comments
8.
Ask HN: If I quit my job, will I ever work again?
80 points by craftsman on Aug 28, 2010 | 77 comments
9.
Programming will never be "easy". (mdmstudios.wordpress.com)
78 points by MDMStudios on Aug 28, 2010 | 63 comments
10.
How A Non-Programmer Launched A Huge Software-Based Business (mixergy.com)
76 points by jjacobs22 on Aug 28, 2010 | 13 comments
11.
Rails 3 Has Great Documentation (rubyonrails.org)
76 points by mhartl on Aug 28, 2010 | 36 comments
12.
1099 filings expand greatly starting in 2012: the penalties for failing to file (startupcompanylawblog.com)
65 points by grellas on Aug 28, 2010 | 41 comments
13.
Ben Huh can has reddit? I respond entirely in LOLcat photos - Alexis Ohanian (alexisohanian.com)
64 points by pavs on Aug 28, 2010 | 23 comments
14.
Two pieces of code someone really ought to write (rondam.blogspot.com)
57 points by lisper on Aug 28, 2010 | 34 comments
15.
Ask HN: How to begin contributing to an open source project?
56 points by kevinburke on Aug 28, 2010 | 37 comments
16.
 Beta of "a startup" I'm working on: Billable. Easy invoicing. (billable.co.za)
55 points by pistoriusp on Aug 28, 2010 | 46 comments
17.
'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009 [video] (youtube.com)
54 points by drx on Aug 28, 2010 | 18 comments
18.
Out of necessity, tech startups are changing the way workers are hired (slate.com)
52 points by shalmanese on Aug 28, 2010 | 24 comments
19.
Wired youth forget how to write in China and Japan (yahoo.com)
51 points by vorg on Aug 28, 2010 | 74 comments
20.
GCC - 'We make free software affordable' (h-online.com)
48 points by sasvari on Aug 28, 2010 | 30 comments
21.
Ask HN: Company wants to aquire my website. Can you give me some advice?
39 points by maxlk on Aug 28, 2010 | 21 comments
22.
Ask YC: Why do you disproportionately invest in younger founders?
39 points by dstorrs on Aug 28, 2010 | 57 comments
23.
Infusion Profusion: Game-changing Fast-‘n-cheap Technique (cookingissues.com)
37 points by tptacek on Aug 28, 2010 | 10 comments
24.
Poll: How many times did you fail before succeeding?
37 points by JeremyChase on Aug 28, 2010 | 20 comments
25.
Mongrel2 1.0beta4 Out, 1.0 Is Nigh (sheddingbikes.com)
31 points by megaman821 on Aug 28, 2010 | 7 comments
26.
Condé Nast, I’m publicly offering to buy Reddit (benhuh.com)
30 points by thiele on Aug 28, 2010 | 3 comments
27.
TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay – Away From Keyboard by Simon Klose (kickstarter.com)
30 points by jacquesm on Aug 28, 2010 | 17 comments
28.
With Own Incubator On Hold, Facebook Befriends Y Combinator (wsj.com)
27 points by yurisagalov on Aug 28, 2010 | 7 comments
29.
Ask HN: Startup stopped paying my salary
26 points by 0x5a177 on Aug 28, 2010 | 61 comments
30.
Microsoft won't stop .Net on Android (techworld.com.au)
21 points by gspyrou on Aug 28, 2010 | 14 comments

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