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1.		Our Commitment to Trust & Safety (airbnb.com)
		416 points by mikecaron on Aug 1, 2011 \| 163 comments
2.		Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (August 2011)
		282 points by whoishiring on Aug 1, 2011 \| 306 comments
3.		The future Firefox UI (people.mozilla.com)
		264 points by paulrouget on Aug 1, 2011 \| 185 comments
4.		Getting Bin Laden: What happened that night in Abbottabad (newyorker.com)
		245 points by AngryParsley on Aug 1, 2011 \| 140 comments
5.		I don't know how to IE6 (colbyrabideau.com)
		234 points by crabideau5691 on Aug 1, 2011 \| 156 comments
6.		Game of Thrones CGI (all-things-andy-gavin.com)
		210 points by agavin on Aug 1, 2011 \| 67 comments
7.		Why I'd never work for Google, Twitter, or Facebook (naildrivin5.com)
		205 points by ssclafani on Aug 1, 2011 \| 163 comments
8.		Meet Comex, The 19-Year-Old iPhone Uber-Hacker Who Keeps Outsmarting Apple (blogs.forbes.com)
		197 points by rjim86 on Aug 1, 2011 \| 71 comments
9.		Learn Perl in about 2 hours 30 minutes (qntm.org)
		175 points by utkarshkukreti on Aug 1, 2011 \| 105 comments
10.		Patents against prosperity (economist.com)
		159 points by chaostheory on Aug 1, 2011 \| 38 comments
11.		How to Launch Your Startup Idea for Less than $5K (mikekarnj.com)
		159 points by ccarella on Aug 1, 2011 \| 27 comments
12.		Dulwich: Pure Python implementation of git (samba.org)
		151 points by DanielRibeiro on Aug 1, 2011 \| 33 comments
13.		Why you can't search for phpBB on Bing (blamcast.net)
		149 points by chaosmachine on Aug 1, 2011 \| 42 comments
14.		The Art of Computer Programming (interview with Don Knuth) (bcs.org)
		140 points by tjr on Aug 1, 2011 \| 25 comments
15.		Protocol Buffers, Avro, Thrift & MessagePack (igvita.com)
		135 points by igrigorik on Aug 1, 2011 \| 24 comments
16.		Airbnb Offers Unconditional Apology, And $50,000 Insurance Guarantee (techcrunch.com)
		135 points by sahillavingia on Aug 1, 2011 \| 62 comments
17.		Stop A/B Testing and Make Out like a Bandit (untyped.com)
		131 points by fezzl on Aug 1, 2011 \| 66 comments
18.		Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2011)
		115 points by whoishiring on Aug 1, 2011 \| 128 comments
19.		IOS devs put out a call to unite against Lodsys, other patent trolls (arstechnica.com)
		115 points by DeusExMachina on Aug 1, 2011 \| 34 comments
20.		Show HN: An intuitive, offline capable HTML5 mind mapping application (drichard.org)
		112 points by drichard on Aug 1, 2011 \| 39 comments
21.		iCloud beta (icloud.com)
		107 points by sahillavingia on Aug 1, 2011 \| 48 comments
22.		Adobe Launches "Adobe Edge" - HTML5 Animation Tool (adobe.com)
		102 points by dglassan on Aug 1, 2011 \| 55 comments
23.		Netflix Instant is coming to the entire Linux Community (benjaminkerensa.com)
		97 points by taylorbuley on Aug 1, 2011 \| 40 comments
24.		Patents are about to become a bigger problem
		95 points by AustinEnigmatic on Aug 1, 2011 \| 52 comments
25.		Google’s YouTube Uses FFmpeg (multimedia.cx)
		92 points by naryad on Aug 1, 2011 \| 40 comments
26.		Taazr: Optimize and Monitor your Javascript (taazr.com)
		90 points by unignorant on Aug 1, 2011 \| 9 comments
27.		Wicked (antipope.org)
		88 points by thunk on Aug 1, 2011 \| 16 comments
28.		WSGI Is Dead: Long Live WSGI Lite (dirtsimple.org)
		88 points by jp_sc on Aug 1, 2011 \| 16 comments
29.		The Blueseed Project - Opening Silicon Valley To The World (blueseed.co)
		75 points by vabmit on Aug 1, 2011 \| 33 comments
30.		Was Steve Yegge Right? (regularlyexpressed.com)
		75 points by nhashem on Aug 1, 2011 \| 41 comments
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