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1.
Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku (heroku.com)
578 points by jamesheroku on July 12, 2011 | 75 comments
2.
My experiences as a Recruiter on Hacker News (voltsteve.blogspot.com)
402 points by Peroni on July 12, 2011 | 114 comments
3.
Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast? (cafbit.com)
354 points by timdoug on July 12, 2011 | 180 comments
4.
How not to design a CAPTCHA (plus.google.com)
310 points by DrewHintz on July 12, 2011 | 88 comments
5.
Instantly Add Chat To Hacker News (envo.lv)
304 points by mayop100 on July 12, 2011 | 64 comments
6.
The fanless spinning heatsink: more efficient, and immune to dust and detritus (extremetech.com)
299 points by lmathews on July 12, 2011 | 63 comments
7.
Edward Tufte's "Slopegraphs" (charliepark.org)
235 points by charliepark on July 12, 2011 | 38 comments
8.
Own Your Identity (marco.org)
226 points by thisisblurry on July 12, 2011 | 55 comments
9.
Dyslexie: A typeface for dyslexics (thenextweb.com)
201 points by pvilchez on July 12, 2011 | 65 comments
10.
Floppy Disks: It’s Too Late (textfiles.com)
181 points by aw3c2 on July 12, 2011 | 79 comments
11.
Monkeys Don't Do Fair Use; News Agency Tells Techdirt To Remove Photos (techdirt.com)
163 points by nextparadigms on July 12, 2011 | 70 comments
12.
Dropbox Raising Massive Round at a $5B-Plus Valuation (techcrunch.com)
161 points by ssclafani on July 12, 2011 | 58 comments
13.
Why we’re building a boring business (and you should too) (meetingburner.com)
145 points by aresant on July 12, 2011 | 67 comments
14.
Alternatives to GoDaddy (mahdiyusuf.com)
140 points by myusuf3 on July 12, 2011 | 88 comments
15.
Netflix introduces new plans and price changes (netflix.com)
135 points by evanw on July 12, 2011 | 165 comments
16.
The new Pandora: Slick new HTML5 design (techcrunch.com)
124 points by stuti90 on July 12, 2011 | 39 comments
17.
Hollywood is about to repeat the catastrophic mistakes of the music industry (slate.com)
121 points by blahedo on July 12, 2011 | 66 comments
18.
MemSQL (YC W11) Raises $2.1 Million From Ashton Kutcher, SV Angel And More (techcrunch.com)
115 points by ericfrenkiel on July 12, 2011 | 54 comments
19.
Verbling (YC S11) Links Up Language Learners With Native Speakers Through Video (techcrunch.com)
110 points by mrkurt on July 12, 2011 | 32 comments
20.
A change thousands want made to Google+ circles (plus.google.com)
106 points by btilly on July 12, 2011 | 55 comments
21.
Coders Who Don't Job Interview: Zed Shaw (codebelay.com)
106 points by barce on July 12, 2011 | 76 comments
22.
Apple, Microsoft, RIM, and others join forces to bring down Android (dailytech.com)
94 points by cryptoz on July 12, 2011 | 47 comments
23.
Interstate (YC S11) Plots Your Development Progress On The Map (techcrunch.com)
90 points by tomblomfield on July 12, 2011 | 22 comments
24.
Startup Ideas - July 2011 (wesleytansey.com)
91 points by tansey on July 12, 2011 | 48 comments
25.
Firefox Sync is now 100% Python (tarekziade.wordpress.com)
82 points by twapi on July 12, 2011 | 20 comments
26.
Building a pure CSS 3D City (cubiq.org)
78 points by ukdm on July 12, 2011 | 15 comments
27.
Unhappy Security Dialogs (usersinhell.com)
63 points by nantes on July 12, 2011 | 25 comments
28.
Google+ to surpass 10M Users (plus.google.com)
63 points by ssapkota on July 12, 2011 | 35 comments
29.
New Android Market for Phones (android-developers.blogspot.com)
61 points by btilly on July 12, 2011 | 20 comments
30.
Pandora Drops Flash for HTML 5 (macobserver.com)
59 points by digiwizard on July 12, 2011 | 19 comments

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