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1.
Scott Adams: The Heady Thrill of Having Nothing to Do (wsj.com)
198 points by mattjaynes on Aug 6, 2011 | 48 comments
2.
DEF CON: The event that scares hackers (cnn.com)
196 points by alexmr on Aug 6, 2011 | 41 comments
3.
Life on the Command Line (unl.edu)
177 points by telemachos on Aug 6, 2011 | 120 comments
4.
Interview Street (YC S11) streamlines the search for great programmers (techcrunch.com)
151 points by canistr on Aug 6, 2011 | 130 comments
5.
 A Brief Explanation of Microsoft's Anti-Google Patent FUD (groklaw.net)
138 points by wglb on Aug 6, 2011 | 113 comments
6.
How and Why Mixpanel Switched from Erlang to Python (mixpanel.com)
139 points by ankrgyl on Aug 6, 2011 | 80 comments
7.
Programming and Scaling (lambda-the-ultimate.org)
115 points by geekam on Aug 6, 2011 | 32 comments
8.
Sprite3D.js: a javascript library for 3D positionning (minimal.be)
111 points by tilt on Aug 6, 2011 | 13 comments
9.
Cosmos Will Get a Sequel (wired.com)
110 points by spottiness on Aug 6, 2011 | 53 comments
10.
The Mathematics of Changing Your Mind (nytimes.com)
102 points by jonburs on Aug 6, 2011 | 11 comments
11.
What frustrates me the most as an entrepreneur (joshliu.co)
99 points by uniquejosh on Aug 6, 2011 | 50 comments
12.
Facebook has your complete phonebook (facebook.com)
97 points by ladino on Aug 6, 2011 | 76 comments
13.
Twitter will open-source Storm, BackType's "Hadoop of Real-Time Processing" (readwriteweb.com)
99 points by canistr on Aug 6, 2011 | 14 comments
14.
Clang now builds Postgres without additional warnings (pgeoghegan.blogspot.com)
94 points by stesch on Aug 6, 2011 | 19 comments
15.
Yahoo Store now C++ (comments by pg from 2003) (csail.mit.edu)
78 points by ecounysis on Aug 6, 2011 | 47 comments
16.
Ruby Programming Language (alternative Ruby home page) (rubylang.info)
70 points by telemachos on Aug 6, 2011 | 38 comments
17.
Dropbox close to choosing investors — Round could put valuation at $10 Billion (techcrunch.com)
70 points by canistr on Aug 6, 2011 | 48 comments
18.
Lulzsec and Anonymous Hackers leak over 10GB of Law Enforcement Agency Details (invisblenandu.com)
68 points by canistr on Aug 6, 2011 | 36 comments
19.
The Most Important Parts of HTML5 (or why video and audio tags are boring) (n01se.net)
66 points by kanaka on Aug 6, 2011 | 21 comments
20.
Yahoo's assumptions in 2006 about Facebook's future (techcrunch.com)
64 points by gdeglin on Aug 6, 2011 | 34 comments
21.
"functors" in c++, ML, haskell, prolog (catonmat.net)
53 points by gtani on Aug 6, 2011 | 4 comments
22.
Why Social Proof Matters To Your Startup (dshipper.posterous.com)
56 points by dshipper on Aug 6, 2011 | 13 comments
23.
Spain: Linking to Copyright Infringing Material Not Infringement (eff.org)
51 points by srl on Aug 6, 2011 | 16 comments
24.
Gaming Apple App Store's Review System (View in iTunes - Read Reviews) (itunes.apple.com)
51 points by jabo on Aug 6, 2011 | 45 comments
25.
The Web is 20 Years old Today (techcrunch.com)
53 points by canistr on Aug 6, 2011 | 7 comments
26.
Windows Phones Down 38% Since '7' Launch (informationweek.com)
48 points by pulsewave on Aug 6, 2011 | 72 comments
27.
Ask HN: Is it okay to build a startup in ASP .NET?
46 points by resdirector on Aug 6, 2011 | 62 comments
28.
How to promote your mobile app to the right blogs to get publicity (appbackr.com)
48 points by philippb on Aug 6, 2011 | 1 comment
29.
Are You Guilty If Pirates Use Your Internet? Lawyer Says No (torrentfreak.com)
40 points by Garbage on Aug 6, 2011 | 16 comments
30.
Power companies prepare as solar storms set to hit Earth (reuters.com)
36 points by ajhai on Aug 6, 2011 | 3 comments

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