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1.You should blog even if you have no readers (nathanmarz.com)
207 points by nathanmarz on July 30, 2010 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
2.Three years ago, I sold my startup because I was an idiot (peterc.org)
204 points by briandoll on July 30, 2010 [ext] | 89 comments [ext]
3.High-Frequency Programmers Revolt Over Pay (forbes.com)
151 points by nsoonhui on July 30, 2010 [ext] | 164 comments [ext]
4. The $10 Lens That Reshaped Global Blindness Prevention (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 201 days ago | hide | 18 comments
4.Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC? [ext]
149 points by Infomus on July 30, 2010 [ext] | 135 comments [ext]
5.Rooms irc app removed after 4 minutes in app store (roomsapp.mobi)
140 points by slater on July 30, 2010 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
6.Rise of the telepresence robots (cnn.com)
134 points by dman on July 30, 2010 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
7. Hedge Funds Running 100-To-1 Leverage Meet A Tariff Shock (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 369 days ago | hide | 168 comments
7.Apple starts patenting mobile app ideas (unwiredview.com)
123 points by techvibe on July 30, 2010 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
8.Tribalism is the enemy within (markshuttleworth.com)
102 points by amethyst on July 30, 2010 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
9.How Y Combinator Is Remaking Silicon Valley in Its Image (gigaom.com)
91 points by bjplink on July 30, 2010 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
10. The defensive capex trap squeezing OpenAI and Anthropic (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 3 days ago | hide | 57 comments
10.Clojure 1.2 RC1 (groups.google.com)
85 points by fogus on July 30, 2010 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
11.Ask HN: What annoys you? [ext]
81 points by daleharvey on July 30, 2010 [ext] | 345 comments [ext]
12.Emacs-fu: some handy key bindings (emacs-fu.blogspot.com)
80 points by vamsee on July 30, 2010 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
13. A CTO Killed A $150K SaaS Deal In A Week With Claude ()
44 points by gtl4094 93 days ago | hide | 70 comments
13.Notetaking as a way to stay smart (peterc.org)
79 points by milesf on July 30, 2010 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
14.Python has closures (nagaokaut.ac.jp)
69 points by samratjp on July 30, 2010 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
15.Secret Code Phrases to Get What You Want from Your Graphic Designer (kissmetrics.com)
65 points by icey on July 30, 2010 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
16. How the Internet Redistributes Social Capital and Unsettles Elites (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 433 days ago | hide | 93 comments
16.Dave McClure: Invest Before Product/Market Fit, Double-Down After. (500hats.typepad.com)
64 points by malbiniak on July 30, 2010 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
17.Ask HN: What is a talent acquisition like? [ext]
64 points by ryanjmo on July 30, 2010 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
18.Rapportive (YC S10): 10% of your emails aren't from real people (rapportive.com)
64 points by martinkl on July 30, 2010 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
19. Why hypothesis and diagnosis will resist the coming AI wave ()
71 points by fin781 264 days ago | hide | 11 comments
19.Nokia doesn't get it - The Truth about N97 [video] (youtube.com)
61 points by carusen on July 30, 2010 [ext] | 79 comments [ext]
20.What I Learned When I Fell in Love with Piano Scales (tumbledesign.com)
60 points by cj on July 30, 2010 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
21.IDEO re-thinks the ATM (futureselfservicebanking.com)
55 points by blazamos on July 30, 2010 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
22. Why Shipping Software Is the Worst Way to Monetize It ()
374 points by ium4024 72 days ago | hide | 174 comments
22.Zed Shaw completes mongrel2 manual (mongrel2.org)
56 points by RyanMcGreal on July 30, 2010 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
23.Runa is hiring Clojure developers (workatruna.com)
56 points by amitrathore on July 30, 2010 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
24.Upcoming Gmail Features (googlesystem.blogspot.com)
44 points by twapi on July 30, 2010 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
25. The Provincial Incentive Loop: Decoding China’s Hyper-Competitive Industrial Scaling Model (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 220 days ago | hide | 175 comments
25.Google Code University (code.google.com)
44 points by vinutheraj on July 30, 2010 [ext] | 2 comments [ext]
26.If you can't make a language fast, make it parallel (cyll.org)
44 points by tophercyll on July 30, 2010 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
27.An iPhone App Market That Doesn't Require Jailbreaking... Which Apple Can't Stop (techdirt.com)
42 points by peter123 on July 30, 2010 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
28. Why a 1942 Pentagon Took 491 Days, a 2022 Bus Lane Took 7,600 (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 254 days ago | hide | 150 comments
28.Conway: During The Bubble, 77% Entrepreneurs Failed. Now, It’s Around 40% (techcrunch.com)
41 points by credo on July 30, 2010 [ext] | 2 comments [ext]
29.San Diego Hacker News Meetup is Tomorrow, 7/30 at 7:30 PM (ucsd.edu)
44 points by paulbaumgart on July 30, 2010 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
30.David Heinemeier Hansson says, 'Unlearn Your MBA' (venturebeat.com)
39 points by jordanmessina on July 30, 2010 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
31. Why rationing 'life points' guarantees mediocrity across every priority (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 399 days ago | hide | 12 comments

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