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1.
Anonymous hijacks Syria's government pages (gov.sy)
349 points by jimmyjim on Aug 8, 2011 | 47 comments
2.
The Definitive Guide To Website Authentication (stackoverflow.com)
319 points by moonlighter on Aug 8, 2011 | 54 comments
3.
Redesigning the browser window (antrop.se)
307 points by Oestrogen on Aug 8, 2011 | 96 comments
4.
Why GNU grep is fast (freebsd.org)
253 points by ColinWright on Aug 8, 2011 | 43 comments
5.
Mark Cuban: What Business is Wall Street in? (blogmaverick.com)
196 points by fraXis on Aug 8, 2011 | 117 comments
6.
Kicksend (YC S11) Launches To Make Sharing Big Files A Breeze (techcrunch.com)
182 points by brendanlim on Aug 8, 2011 | 74 comments
7.
Snapjoy (YC S11) Will Organize Your Photos For You (techcrunch.com)
185 points by jpren on Aug 8, 2011 | 60 comments
8.
Retiring a Great Interview Problem (thenoisychannel.com)
173 points by dtunkelang on Aug 8, 2011 | 117 comments
9.
Leaky (YC S11) is Hipmunk for Car Insurance (techcrunch.com)
162 points by jasontraff on Aug 8, 2011 | 123 comments
10.
Finding memory leaks (ilcore.com)
158 points by tilt on Aug 8, 2011 | 10 comments
11.
Computer Science students: Learn to write (xaprb.com)
140 points by drewr on Aug 8, 2011 | 62 comments
12.
Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity (scottaaronson.com)
140 points by sweis on Aug 8, 2011 | 36 comments
13.
40% off Pragmatic Programmers books this week (pragprog.com)
125 points by ben1040 on Aug 8, 2011 | 38 comments
14.
Developing Android Apps: it's really not so bad (bendmorris.com)
122 points by bendmorris on Aug 8, 2011 | 51 comments
15.
Dive Into Python 3 (online book) (diveintopython3.org)
120 points by helwr on Aug 8, 2011 | 38 comments
16.
Istanbul Isiklarius traffic lights (artlebedev.com)
119 points by lucianof on Aug 8, 2011 | 67 comments
17.
Philips LED bulb Tear-down (edn.com)
116 points by powertower on Aug 8, 2011 | 69 comments
18.
What Happens When a Reasonable Developer Runs Into Aggressive Trademark Lawyers (techdirt.com)
105 points by grellas on Aug 8, 2011 | 46 comments
19.
London riots / UK riots: verified areas (maps.google.co.uk)
100 points by otherwise on Aug 8, 2011 | 135 comments
20.
Return of the Mac (2005) (paulgraham.com)
92 points by unwantedLetters on Aug 8, 2011 | 108 comments
21.
html5media.js enables HTML5 video and audio tags in all major browsers (html5media.info)
89 points by ryanwhitney on Aug 8, 2011 | 17 comments
22.
Building a Farmers Market API in less than an hour for $0. (codeforamerica.org)
91 points by yahelc on Aug 8, 2011 | 14 comments
23.
Great Python Resources (dandies.org)
87 points by novacane on Aug 8, 2011 | 3 comments
24.
John Mayer on Finishing Awful Songs (joellehman.com)
86 points by jal278 on Aug 8, 2011 | 28 comments
25.
Moody’s: Why the U.S. Is Still AAA (nytimes.com)
82 points by ekm2 on Aug 8, 2011 | 103 comments
26.
GParted: core features lost due to parted's "improvements" in v3.0 (gnome.org)
78 points by bigfoot on Aug 8, 2011 | 41 comments
27.
What is a metaclass in python? (stackoverflow.com)
79 points by o1iver on Aug 8, 2011 | 8 comments
28.
Airbnb launches new tools to strengthen communication & identity (airbnb.com)
79 points by sinzone on Aug 8, 2011 | 25 comments
29.
Twitter acquires Bagcheck (bagcheck.com)
77 points by razin on Aug 8, 2011 | 37 comments
30.
Beyond space-time: Welcome to phase space (newscientist.com)
75 points by ColinWright on Aug 8, 2011 | 18 comments

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