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1.
A note I sent to YCombinator
337 points by dclapp on July 21, 2012 | 61 comments
2.
The Two Egg Problem (datagenetics.com)
217 points by slig on July 21, 2012 | 81 comments
3.
Sparrow for Windows was just a few weeks away (everydaypanos.com)
215 points by ehamberg on July 21, 2012 | 68 comments
4.
Quick Nexus 7 Comments By Linus Torvalds (plus.google.com)
185 points by oscar-the-horse on July 21, 2012 | 131 comments
5.
Entitlement and Acquisition (mattgemmell.com)
175 points by ryannielsen on July 21, 2012 | 129 comments
6.
Mojang, makers of Minecraft, sued by patent troll (notch.net)
148 points by fcatalan on July 21, 2012 | 131 comments
7.
Why You Won’t See Hard AR Anytime Soon (valvesoftware.com)
140 points by phenylene on July 21, 2012 | 77 comments
8.
Overfocus on tech skills could exclude the best candidates for jobs (oreilly.com)
112 points by davidwparker on July 21, 2012 | 51 comments
9.
IAmA Patent Examiner on reddit (reddit.com)
86 points by bane on July 21, 2012 | 29 comments
10.
EFF: Americans may not realize the impacts of face recognition technology (networkworld.com)
85 points by andreyf on July 21, 2012 | 43 comments
11.
The Facebook Fallacy (technologyreview.com)
83 points by nreece on July 21, 2012 | 58 comments
12.
Why Google's Nexus 7 Tablet Is Hotter Than Apple's iPad (forbes.com/sites/roberthof)
84 points by mtgx on July 21, 2012 | 65 comments
13.
Old school developers - achieving a lot with little (dodgycoder.net)
80 points by damian2000 on July 21, 2012 | 40 comments
14.
Emacs packages for programmers (ferrier.me.uk)
80 points by nic-ferrier on July 21, 2012 | 28 comments
15.
MIT Economist: Here's How Copyright Laws Impoverish Wikipedia (theatlantic.com)
78 points by iProject on July 21, 2012 | 33 comments
16.
Does Canada Even Need a Technology Sector? (techvibes.com)
74 points by techvibes on July 21, 2012 | 62 comments
17.
Claude Monet at Work in His Garden, 1915 (openculture.com)
74 points by gruseom on July 21, 2012 | 12 comments
18.
U.S. Admits Surveillance Violated Constitution At Least Once (wired.com)
69 points by mtgx on July 21, 2012 | 4 comments
19.
Code Rush - Netscape Mozilla Documentary 1998 - 2000 (organizedwonder.com)
65 points by kreutz on July 21, 2012 | 19 comments
20.
The "Just look at it" hack for problem solving (heydave.org)
65 points by dave1619 on July 21, 2012 | 47 comments
21.
Characterizing people as non-linear 1st order components in software development (cockburn.us)
61 points by neiljohnson on July 21, 2012 | 8 comments
22.
All of the available CSS color names (147colors.com)
55 points by krogsgard on July 21, 2012 | 27 comments
23.
Getting Rich By The Numbers, A CrunchBased How-To (techcrunch.com)
53 points by zher on July 21, 2012 | 16 comments
24.
Addict Pride? (thefix.com)
48 points by jamesbritt on July 21, 2012 | 45 comments
25.
Immutable Persistent Data Structures in Common Lisp (thezerobit.com)
48 points by postfuturist on July 21, 2012 | 11 comments
26.
Freemium has run its course (gigaom.com)
47 points by iProject on July 21, 2012 | 27 comments
27.
Possible solution to PG's frighteningly ambitious idea for email overload (pranavdharma.com)
37 points by unohoo on July 21, 2012 | 42 comments
28.
Microsoft explains Windows 8 Store: Free 7-Day Trial, lower pay-cuts and more (the4cast.com)
33 points by imkarthikk on July 21, 2012 | 20 comments
29.
Why you shouldn’t write off Google+ just yet (washingtonpost.com)
33 points by iProject on July 21, 2012 | 27 comments
30.
Users will take control (scripting.com)
31 points by prajjwal on July 21, 2012 | 2 comments

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