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1.Don't make your Android app free for 1 day (groups.google.com)
287 points by dminor on Sept 8, 2010 [ext] | 83 comments [ext]
2.Why Django Sucks, and How we Can Fix it [slides] (scribd.com)
208 points by twampss on Sept 8, 2010 [ext] | 105 comments [ext]
3.The Real ‘Stuff White People Like’ (okcupid.com)
204 points by dfreidin on Sept 8, 2010 [ext] | 82 comments [ext]
4. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
4.The real truth on Wikipedia is in the edits (booktwo.org)
191 points by sp332 on Sept 8, 2010 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
5.Greeks are sure of one thing: they can’t trust their fellow Greeks. (vanityfair.com)
157 points by surlyadopter on Sept 8, 2010 [ext] | 86 comments [ext]
6.Are your pants lying to you? An investigation (esquire.com)
139 points by mcantor on Sept 8, 2010 [ext] | 110 comments [ext]
7. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
7."How hard can it be to implement?" (37signals.com)
134 points by adamhowell on Sept 8, 2010 [ext] | 97 comments [ext]
8.Some things I love about Hacker News (and a few I don’t) (ryanwaggoner.com)
135 points by ryanwaggoner on Sept 8, 2010 [ext] | 95 comments [ext]
9.Why Tumblr Sucks (zachinglis.com)
121 points by PStamatiou on Sept 8, 2010 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
10. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
10.Ask HN: How much do founders pay themselves? [ext]
105 points by mrbird on Sept 8, 2010 [ext] | 80 comments [ext]
11.Buy cots for the JS interns - programmer care (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
94 points by Halienja on Sept 8, 2010 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
12.Humans are not automatically strategic (lesswrong.com)
92 points by billswift on Sept 8, 2010 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
13. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 251 days ago | hide | 128 comments
13.DHH Commissions his own Supercar - the Pagani Zonda HH (autoblog.com)
84 points by JangoSteve on Sept 8, 2010 [ext] | 91 comments [ext]
14.Why Everything Wireless Is 2.4 GHz (wired.com)
84 points by metellus on Sept 8, 2010 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
15.Some tidbits from Joel Spolsky's talk last night on recruiting programmers (cdixon.posterous.com)
81 points by frederickcook on Sept 8, 2010 [ext] | 97 comments [ext]
16. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
16.HTML5 Microdata: Why isn't anyone talking about it? (briancray.com)
79 points by briancray on Sept 8, 2010 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
17.Careful when hosting 3rd party apps on subdomains, or how I hacked Facebook (gdeglin.blogspot.com)
77 points by gdeglin on Sept 8, 2010 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
18.What an NFL Training Camp is Really Like (nytimes.com)
73 points by lukas on Sept 8, 2010 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
19. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 263 days ago | hide | 183 comments
19.Why is a bag of weed always $10 (man)? (timharford.com)
71 points by jonp on Sept 8, 2010 [ext] | 75 comments [ext]
20.TwentySomething: How my generation works (rebekahmonson.com)
70 points by Raphael_Amiard on Sept 8, 2010 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
21.Little known iTunes 10 benefit (9to5mac.com)
69 points by Setsuna on Sept 8, 2010 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
22. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 85 days ago | hide | 177 comments
22.Sean Murphy on the first dozen enterprise customers (gabrielweinberg.com)
68 points by amirmc on Sept 8, 2010 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
23.Secure your code: OpenVPN in the cloud (mixpanel.com)
66 points by trefn on Sept 8, 2010 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
24.How 'Waiting for “Superman”' Will Further Fuel the Education Debate (nymag.com)
64 points by bhousel on Sept 8, 2010 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
25. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
25.Ultralight startups: little capital, just computer (sfgate.com)
63 points by pietrofmaggi on Sept 8, 2010 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
26.CVS's problems resurface in Git (lackingrhoticity.blogspot.com)
61 points by suraj on Sept 8, 2010 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
27.Sentry, Disqus' near realtime logging app for Django (github.com/dcramer)
62 points by smn on Sept 8, 2010 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
28. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 200 days ago | hide | 18 comments
28.The .NET Micro Framework - Hardware for Software People (hanselman.com)
59 points by RBerenguel on Sept 8, 2010 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
29.Zed Shaw Audio Interview (thechangelog.com)
58 points by phren0logy on Sept 8, 2010 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
30.Lessons Learned about Pitching Investors from a First-Time Entrepreneur (udemy.com)
58 points by flipp on Sept 8, 2010 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
31. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments

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