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1.Tell HN: AeroFS - File Syncing Without Servers (aerofs.posterous.com)
248 points by yurisagalov on July 22, 2010 [ext] | 75 comments [ext]
2.Guy crafts a Daft Punk helmet in 17 months (youtube.com)
194 points by ulvund on July 22, 2010 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
3.Why the Mythbusters won't do RFID (2008) (youtube.com)
188 points by moe on July 22, 2010 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
4. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 92 days ago | hide | 70 comments
4.I know your name, where you work, and live (Safari v4 & v5) (jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com)
165 points by tptacek on July 22, 2010 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
5.Dammit, MySQL (draconianoverlord.com)
141 points by stephen on July 22, 2010 [ext] | 98 comments [ext]
6.Wanna have zillions of google profiles? (google.com)
137 points by hazelnut on July 22, 2010 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
7. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 120 days ago | hide | 105 comments
7.Who Can Name the Bigger Number? (scottaaronson.com)
132 points by thisisnotmyname on July 22, 2010 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
8.Die young, live fast: The evolution of an underclass (newscientist.com)
109 points by redoacs on July 22, 2010 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
9.For Jessica (jenniferlawler.com)
101 points by Calamitous on July 22, 2010 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
10. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 252 days ago | hide | 170 comments
10.The Secret of Successful Entrepreneurs (wired.com)
93 points by rafaelc on July 22, 2010 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
11.Things You Should Be Doing With Your Server, But Probably Aren't (roundhousesupport.com)
90 points by luminousbit on July 22, 2010 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
12.How We Got Rejected from YC and Moved into the SpeakerCave (metamorphblog.com)
86 points by MediaSquirrel on July 22, 2010 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
13. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 85 days ago | hide | 177 comments
13.Me vs Backspace: my war against a rogue character (lbrandy.com)
81 points by spydez on July 22, 2010 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
14.The Io Language (iolanguage.com)
80 points by limist on July 22, 2010 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
15.SQLite 3.7.0 Released (sqlite.org)
66 points by obiterdictum on July 22, 2010 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
16. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 91 days ago | hide | 148 comments
16.How to design a replacement for C++ (apenwarr.ca)
65 points by rcfox on July 22, 2010 [ext] | 72 comments [ext]
17.Syntax highlighting, auto complete and more within Python interpreter (bpython-interpreter.org)
65 points by tzury on July 22, 2010 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
18.Want to Know How VCs Calculate Valuation Differently from Founders? (bothsidesofthetable.com)
64 points by rpledge on July 22, 2010 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
19. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 602 days ago | hide | 193 comments
19.Ask HN: Would you play a distributed, programmable MMO? [ext]
60 points by vyrotek on July 22, 2010 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
20.Detailed guide to mechanical keyboards (switch types, hysteresis graphs, etc) (overclock.net)
56 points by rw on July 22, 2010 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
21.Mirah: JRuby + static-typing + fast JVM bytecode (mirah.org)
54 points by 10ren on July 22, 2010 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
22. Asymmetric leverage how Iran holds twenty percent of global oil supply hostage (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 1 day ago | hide | 150 comments
22.User Interface Design Pattern Library (endeca.com)
53 points by tortilla on July 22, 2010 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
23.How to Tell a Journalist from a Blogger (jolieodell.wordpress.com)
51 points by raganwald on July 22, 2010 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
24.Khoi Vinh - Why I left my job at The New York Times (subtraction.com)
51 points by blazamos on July 22, 2010 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
25. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
25.Emerging Languages camp - day 1 (olabini.com)
48 points by fogus on July 22, 2010 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
26.Graphs (cdixon.org)
44 points by jmillerinc on July 22, 2010 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
27.Rosetta Code : similar programs written in various languages (rosettacode.org)
42 points by gourneau on July 22, 2010 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
28. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 263 days ago | hide | 11 comments
28.The Lost Tribes of RadioShack (wired.com)
42 points by suraj on July 22, 2010 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
29.We're happier when busy but our instinct is for idleness (bps-research-digest.blogspot.com)
41 points by mhb on July 22, 2010 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
30.Recruiters can't tell great programmers and flakes apart [comic] (blog.codeboff.in)
41 points by kranner on July 22, 2010 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
31. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 368 days ago | hide | 7 comments

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