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1.Life lessons learned in travelling the world for 8 years straight (fluentin3months.com)
340 points by fezzl on July 19, 2011 [ext] | 115 comments [ext]
2.If Dropbox Used GitHub’s Pricing Plan (usersinhell.com)
295 points by joshuacc on July 19, 2011 [ext] | 133 comments [ext]
3.Google+ for iOS is out (itunes.apple.com)
275 points by davidedicillo on July 19, 2011 [ext] | 113 comments [ext]
4. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
4.Every programmer should read the source to abort() at some point in their life. (reddit.com)
240 points by raldi on July 19, 2011 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
5.Show HN: I made a Web-based Todo App - used: CSS3 3D transforms, Node.js, love (tomorrow.do)
237 points by alexbosworth on July 19, 2011 [ext] | 106 comments [ext]
6.Why doesn't every company buy developers the best hardware? (programmers.stackexchange.com)
189 points by utkarshkukreti on July 19, 2011 [ext] | 220 comments [ext]
7. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 262 days ago | hide | 11 comments
7.Unix V5, OpenBSD, Plan 9, FreeBSD, and GNU implementations of echo.c (gist.github.com)
168 points by dchest on July 19, 2011 [ext] | 86 comments [ext]
8.Bash on Balls: an MVC web framework for Bash, powered by netcat (github.com/jayferd)
157 points by laughinghan on July 19, 2011 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
9.JS is Assembly Language for the Web: Brendan Eich, Crockford, & others comment (hanselman.com)
152 points by mbrubeck on July 19, 2011 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
10. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 251 days ago | hide | 128 comments
10.Show HN: A Bitcoin casino with 23 games. (strikesapphire.com)
147 points by noduerme on July 19, 2011 [ext] | 72 comments [ext]
11.Google In-App Payments for the web (checkout.google.com)
116 points by abraham on July 19, 2011 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
12.Apple Reports Third Quarter Results (apple.com)
116 points by ssclafani on July 19, 2011 [ext] | 137 comments [ext]
13. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
13.Ewww, You Use PHP? (mailchimp.com)
109 points by niekmaas on July 19, 2011 [ext] | 163 comments [ext]
14.OOP in Bash (madscience.nl)
108 points by fogus on July 19, 2011 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
15.How does Google pay 2.4%? (cameronkeng.com)
109 points by camz on July 19, 2011 [ext] | 79 comments [ext]
16. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 262 days ago | hide | 183 comments
16.Elementary OS (elementaryos.org)
105 points by rkwz on July 19, 2011 [ext] | 79 comments [ext]
17.The Netflix Simian Army (netflix.com)
105 points by abraham on July 19, 2011 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
18.Girls sweep at Google Science Fair (nytimes.com)
104 points by gopi on July 19, 2011 [ext] | 108 comments [ext]
19. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 210 days ago | hide | 32 comments
19.If History is any Guide, You’ve Got Two Years (thomvest.com)
102 points by Thun on July 19, 2011 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
20.Who holds the copyright to a picture taken by a monkey? (boingboing.net)
92 points by civilian on July 19, 2011 [ext] | 74 comments [ext]
21.Google Spending Millions to Find the Next Google (nytimes.com)
88 points by ekm on July 19, 2011 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
22. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 114 days ago | hide | 193 comments
22.Things you should know when interviewing for a programming job (crossbrowser.net)
85 points by amyshelton on July 19, 2011 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
23.I Broke Justin.tv (socialcam.com)
88 points by mjdipietro on July 19, 2011 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
24.Questions from 'My experience as a Recruiter on Hacker News' (voltsteve.blogspot.com)
84 points by Peroni on July 19, 2011 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
25. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 13 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
25.Ask HN: What are some great examples of a Minimum Viable Product? [ext]
79 points by Ade_Lack on July 19, 2011 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
26.A lesson in timing attacks (codahale.com)
77 points by llambda on July 19, 2011 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
27.Software Designer Reports Error in Anthony Trial (nytimes.com)
72 points by carterac on July 19, 2011 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
28. Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 431 days ago | hide | 93 comments
28.After almost 20 years, math problem falls (physorg.com)
69 points by ph0rque on July 19, 2011 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
29.Epic Marketplace caught stealing history by Stanford Security Lab (stanford.edu)
66 points by mikeleeorg on July 19, 2011 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
30.Choosing a bad password, the Rebekah Wade way. (jgc.org)
65 points by jgrahamc on July 19, 2011 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
31. Structure Over Style: How Knowledge and Practice Beat Natural Speaking Talent (m.youtube.com)
81 points by pom4591 229 days ago | hide | 180 comments

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