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1.
XKCD's Randall Munroe on Google+ requiring your gender to be public (plus.google.com)
463 points by macrael on July 8, 2011 | 283 comments
2.
Warren Buffett: I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. (ritholtz.com)
434 points by pitdesi on July 8, 2011 | 180 comments
3.
Create a Robot Image from any text string (robohash.org)
319 points by e1ven on July 8, 2011 | 101 comments
4.
Courtney Love does the math (2000) (salon.com)
251 points by hezekiah on July 8, 2011 | 66 comments
5.
Oh Yes You Can Use Regexes to Parse HTML (stackoverflow.com)
239 points by draegtun on July 8, 2011 | 77 comments
6.
Cobra effect (wikimedia.org)
226 points by shawndumas on July 8, 2011 | 67 comments
7.
Interesting C code (a1k0n.net)
225 points by geekzgalore on July 8, 2011 | 29 comments
8.
Live coverage of the last Shuttle launch (STS-135, Atlantis) (nasa.gov)
172 points by whiskers on July 8, 2011 | 83 comments
9.
Full Screen Google Task (mail.google.com)
166 points by johnnytee on July 8, 2011 | 42 comments
10.
RIAA Accounting: How To Sell 1 Million Albums And Still Owe $500,000 (techdirt.com)
162 points by vabole on July 8, 2011 | 53 comments
11.
DuckDuckGo Twitter ad by the numbers (gabrielweinberg.com)
149 points by stevefink on July 8, 2011 | 25 comments
12.
FuzzyWuzzy: Fuzzy String Matching in Python (seatgeek.com)
150 points by chrisvoll on July 8, 2011 | 24 comments
13.
Treating Students as Gifted Yields Impressive Academic Results, Study Finds (duke.edu)
141 points by tokenadult on July 8, 2011 | 69 comments
14.
Quartzy (YC S11) Brings Order To Science Lab Supply Cabinets (techcrunch.com)
136 points by thankuz on July 8, 2011 | 41 comments
15.
Google Singleton Detector (code.google.com)
135 points by jamesjyu on July 8, 2011 | 81 comments
16.
All about 64-bit programming in one place (intel.com)
126 points by evgryz on July 8, 2011 | 5 comments
17.
Selenium 2.0: Out Now (seleniumhq.wordpress.com)
126 points by mattyb on July 8, 2011 | 21 comments
18.
Collusion: A browser addon to demo how websites track you online (toolness.org)
125 points by abhinavsharma on July 8, 2011 | 28 comments
19.
Light - If you view the Earth from far enough away can you observe its past? (physics.stackexchange.com)
117 points by jjchiw on July 8, 2011 | 65 comments
20.
Lua/APR - proper standard library for Lua (peterodding.com)
100 points by piranha on July 8, 2011 | 28 comments
21.
Congress Tries To Hide Data Retention Law Pretending It's an Anti-Child Porn Law (techdirt.com)
95 points by ygreek on July 8, 2011 | 9 comments
22.
Do What You Love or You Will Destroy Yourself (adamconrad.posterous.com)
88 points by acconrad on July 8, 2011 | 30 comments
23.
"The Darknet Plan" Subreddit dedicated to creating a decentralized VPN (reddit.com)
86 points by barredo on July 8, 2011 | 10 comments
24.
Pair.io: on demand cloud pair programming environments (pair.io)
85 points by scorchin on July 8, 2011 | 17 comments
25.
FreeBSD on EC2 via defenestration (daemonology.net)
82 points by cperciva on July 8, 2011 | 19 comments
26.
Carmack: Unquestionable that mobile will surpass consoles (industrygamers.com)
79 points by kenjackson on July 8, 2011 | 45 comments
27.
Mozilla now banning people for grumpy bug reports (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
76 points by AndrewDucker on July 8, 2011 | 112 comments
28.
Woman gets laptop back in DIY sting operation (ottawacitizen.com)
75 points by GiraffeNecktie on July 8, 2011 | 63 comments
29.
AMD's master plan to topple Intel - Back to the top on a radical GPU (theregister.co.uk)
71 points by ableal on July 8, 2011 | 42 comments
30.
Construder - A Minecraft-inspired OpenGL game in Perl (youtube.com)
69 points by Mithaldu on July 8, 2011 | 11 comments

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