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1.US Government seeks to block AT&T & T-Mobile's $39 Billion Merger (bloomberg.com)
369 points by ldayley on Aug 31, 2011 [ext] | 162 comments [ext]
2.The Million Dollar Question (sebastianmarshall.com)
342 points by jirinovotny on Aug 31, 2011 [ext] | 69 comments [ext]
3.GitHub Flow (scottchacon.com)
327 points by schacon on Aug 31, 2011 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
4. Why Uber-for-X Failed While Amazon Built an Impenetrable Moat ()
257 points by pen4647 498 days ago | hide | 50 comments
4.9 million hits/day with 120 megs RAM (tumbledry.org)
303 points by verisimilitude on Aug 31, 2011 [ext] | 126 comments [ext]
5.How Steve Jobs handles trolls (WWDC 1997) (garry.posterous.com)
244 points by ryannielsen on Aug 31, 2011 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
6.I just got meta-copied (creatingev.com)
231 points by d_r on Aug 31, 2011 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
7. The $10 Lens That Reshaped Global Blindness Prevention (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 201 days ago | hide | 18 comments
7.Now that people are considering NOSQL will more people consider no-DB (martinfowler.com)
227 points by fogus on Aug 31, 2011 [ext] | 140 comments [ext]
8.My Neighbor, Steve Jobs (lisenstromberg.wordpress.com)
226 points by ryanwhitney on Aug 31, 2011 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
9.Rails 3.1 Gem Available (rubygems.org)
210 points by aaronbrethorst on Aug 31, 2011 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
10. What 14 Years at Google Taught Me About Everything Except Code (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 106 days ago | hide | 48 comments
10.Google App Engine leaves preview, new pricing (google.com)
201 points by endlessvoid94 on Aug 31, 2011 [ext] | 129 comments [ext]
11.Physicist cuts plane boarding time in half (cnet.com)
197 points by timf on Aug 31, 2011 [ext] | 110 comments [ext]
12.Python Tools for Visual Studio (msdn.com)
185 points by johndcook on Aug 31, 2011 [ext] | 98 comments [ext]
13. Why hypothesis and diagnosis will resist the coming AI wave ()
71 points by fin781 264 days ago | hide | 11 comments
13.Yi (haskell.org)
175 points by nyellin on Aug 31, 2011 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
14.Behind Intel's New Random-Number Generator (ieee.org)
170 points by synacksynack on Aug 31, 2011 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
15.Kernel.org has been hacked (see site news) (kernel.org)
167 points by KonradKlause on Aug 31, 2011 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
16. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 264 days ago | hide | 183 comments
16.Id to release Doom3 source code (gamasutra.com)
161 points by aqrashik on Aug 31, 2011 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
17.RIP Higgs Boson (with 95% confidence) (scientificamerican.com)
161 points by akkartik on Aug 31, 2011 [ext] | 147 comments [ext]
18.Applying to YC as a Single Founder (jazzychad.net)
158 points by jazzychad on Aug 31, 2011 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
19. Assad's fall strands Moscow's warm-water ambitions at sea (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 491 days ago | hide | 26 comments
19.Does Paul Graham Get What He Asks For? [infographic] (giftrocket.com)
149 points by kapilkale on Aug 31, 2011 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
20.Using Gmail, Calendar and Docs without an Internet connection (gmailblog.blogspot.com)
141 points by antr on Aug 31, 2011 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
21.Sublime Text 2 (Build 2111) gets vi key bindings, indent guides (sublimetext.com)
135 points by nikuda on Aug 31, 2011 [ext] | 87 comments [ext]
22. From Wool Sneakers to AI Chips: The Anatomy of a Desperation Pivot (archive.is)
42 points by eum3372 15 hours ago | hide | 186 comments
22.Firefox 9 uses type inference to improve JavaScript performance by 20-30% (extremetech.com)
123 points by 11031a on Aug 31, 2011 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
23.Rails 3.1 Released (rubyonrails.org)
121 points by jonpaul on Aug 31, 2011 [ext] | 1 comment [ext]
24.Chrome's Most Important Feature (googlesystem.blogspot.com)
113 points by Garbage on Aug 31, 2011 [ext] | 98 comments [ext]
25. Why giving advice fails and reflecting back changes minds (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 171 days ago | hide | 48 comments
25.JavaScript Web Apps by O'Reilly (oreilly.com)
111 points by maccman on Aug 31, 2011 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
26.Why Advertising Works, Even When You Think It Doesn't (theatlantic.com)
110 points by waxymonkeyfrog on Aug 31, 2011 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
27.IPhone Apps Design Mistakes: Over-Blown Visuals (2009) (smashingmagazine.com)
98 points by acqq on Aug 31, 2011 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
28. Why rationing 'life points' guarantees mediocrity across every priority (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 399 days ago | hide | 12 comments
28.Groupon Traffic Declines Nearly 50% (mediapost.com)
89 points by domino on Aug 31, 2011 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
29.Redesigning the Technical Hiring Process (jeanhsu.com)
81 points by jeanhsu on Aug 31, 2011 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
30.Do, as often as you can – it's that simple (martinrue.com)
75 points by martinrue on Aug 31, 2011 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
31. Why Restaurant Supply And Brand Beat Delivery Logistics Every Time (linkedin.com)
154 points by krz3514 375 days ago | hide | 13 comments

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