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1.
Estimate your English vocabulary size (testyourvocab.com)
318 points by mike_esspe on July 17, 2011 | 311 comments
2.
Skeleton: A Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development (getskeleton.com)
271 points by wslh on July 17, 2011 | 32 comments
3.
Why My Father Hated India (wsj.com)
241 points by watchandwait on July 17, 2011 | 112 comments
4.
Bottle: Single-File Python Web Framework (bottlepy.org)
213 points by dpatru on July 17, 2011 | 52 comments
5.
Refuse to be terrorized (2006) (wired.com)
207 points by iwwr on July 17, 2011 | 83 comments
6.
Build your own operating system (himmele.blogspot.com)
204 points by DanielHimmelein on July 17, 2011 | 20 comments
7.
Firebug lead developer now working on Web dev tools at Google (groups.google.com)
205 points by tbassetto on July 17, 2011 | 87 comments
8.
Plan9 has been forked: 9front (cat-v.org)
150 points by zmmz on July 17, 2011 | 36 comments
9.
Why Quora is in trouble (attackofdesign.com)
143 points by sgdesign on July 17, 2011 | 83 comments
10.
Replication, atomicity and order in distributed systems (afeinberg.github.com)
138 points by strlen on July 17, 2011 | 6 comments
11.
About elnode - EmacsLisp version of node.js (ferrier.me.uk)
119 points by nicferrier on July 17, 2011 | 22 comments
12.
Learn Core Python in a Week – My Way (curphey.com)
117 points by curphey on July 17, 2011 | 26 comments
13.
Where the fuck is this (wherethefuckisthis.com)
111 points by albertzeyer on July 17, 2011 | 63 comments
14.
Microsoft contributes a lot of changes to Linux kernel 3.0 (h-online.com)
111 points by yarapavan on July 17, 2011 | 33 comments
15.
Just work hard (thehundreds.com)
111 points by antigua on July 17, 2011 | 41 comments
16.
Ray, a Ruby game library (mon-ouie.github.com)
98 points by mberube on July 17, 2011 | 18 comments
17.
How the Air Conditioner Made Modern America (theatlantic.com)
89 points by mattraibert on July 17, 2011 | 56 comments
18.
Shower - nice cross browser presentation template (pepelsbey.github.com)
83 points by mars on July 17, 2011 | 27 comments
19.
Hadoop & Startups (techcrunch.com)
80 points by drusenko on July 17, 2011 | 7 comments
20.
An incomplete list of HN collaborative Google Docs/Spreadsheets
77 points by thesethings on July 17, 2011 | 12 comments
21.
Does one have to be a genius to do maths? (terrytao.wordpress.com)
74 points by tokenadult on July 17, 2011 | 20 comments
22.
Show HN: I built an app to improve your Vocabulary (wordstash.com)
69 points by TenJack on July 17, 2011 | 51 comments
23.
Facial recognition false positives lead to license revocations in Massachusetts (boston.com)
65 points by ilamont on July 17, 2011 | 34 comments
24.
How John Perry Barlow gained enlightenment and lost his mind on acid (synergeticpress.com)
61 points by Alex3917 on July 17, 2011 | 28 comments
25.
Kivy: python UI framework. GPU accelerated, multi-input (win,osx,lin,android)
62 points by tehansen on July 17, 2011 | 18 comments
26.
Ruby Arduino Development (rubyforge.org)
61 points by freedrull on July 17, 2011 | 19 comments
27.
Ask HN: What do you do on the weekends?
58 points by mburney on July 17, 2011 | 70 comments
28.
Last.fm web site primary and failover down (last.fm)
51 points by Hoff on July 17, 2011 | 22 comments
29.
Stories about bootstrapping startups (wahlforss.com)
48 points by jwagener on July 17, 2011 | 4 comments
30.
Larry Page Calls Out Facebook For Lack Of Social Data Portability (tcfast.com)
47 points by tcfast on July 17, 2011 | 36 comments

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