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1.Ask HN: My brain refuses to think, what should I do? [ext]
247 points by DeusExMachina on July 25, 2010 [ext] | 147 comments [ext]
2.-2000 Lines of Code (2004) (folklore.org)
210 points by aycangulez on July 25, 2010 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
3.Wannabe entrepreneur symptoms and cures (gabrielweinberg.com)
158 points by jasonlbaptiste on July 25, 2010 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
4. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 251 days ago | hide | 170 comments
4.XOR patent ended CD32, and Commodore-Amiga (1994/2005) (xcssa.org)
112 points by gokhan on July 25, 2010 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
5.Tweet Less, Kiss More (nytimes.com)
111 points by ricaurte on July 25, 2010 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
6.Poll: When do you usually go to bed? [ext]
105 points by antichaos on July 25, 2010 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
7. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
7.GitHub Hits One Million Hosted Projects (techcrunch.com)
105 points by bkudria on July 25, 2010 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
8.The War Logs: An archive of classified military documents (nytimes.com)
100 points by tysone on July 25, 2010 [ext] | 98 comments [ext]
9.What I Did When I Couldn't Find a Job [in the US] (chronicle.com)
99 points by kranner on July 25, 2010 [ext] | 92 comments [ext]
10. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 14 hours ago | hide | 47 comments
10.DIY: Cheap, ultra low-power radios that communicate over thousands of miles (nycresistor.com)
87 points by elimisteve on July 25, 2010 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
11.Ask HN: Food hacks for eating well? [ext]
81 points by haliax on July 25, 2010 [ext] | 163 comments [ext]
12.Full data sets of WikiLeaks Afghan war logs (wikileaks.org)
80 points by agconway on July 25, 2010 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
13. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 601 days ago | hide | 193 comments
13.Threaded vs Evented Servers (mmcgrana.github.com)
75 points by khingebjerg on July 25, 2010 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
14.Thoughts about Rails from a Django guy (lenni.info)
73 points by lenni on July 25, 2010 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
15.Fake femme fatale shows social network risks (computerworld.com)
60 points by bluesmoon on July 25, 2010 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
16. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
16.Enterprise Software Is Sexy Again (techcrunch.com)
58 points by dgudkov on July 25, 2010 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
17.Bach on a mobius strip (youtube.com)
53 points by planckscnst on July 25, 2010 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
18.Build a $200 Linux PC (extremetech.com)
51 points by edw519 on July 25, 2010 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
19. The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 333 days ago | hide | 88 comments
19.Awesome swedish built 8-bit synthesizer inside an old electronic organ (linusakesson.net)
49 points by sgt on July 25, 2010 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
20.A wiki for prepaid SIM cards around the world, suitable for iPhone & Android (wikia.com)
45 points by skr on July 25, 2010 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
21.The Facebook Lawsuit: Everybody Calm Down and Remember Your 1L Contracts Class (abovethelaw.com)
44 points by keltecp11 on July 25, 2010 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
22. Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com)
292 points by ksk4362 202 days ago | hide | 110 comments
22.The Dell Bombshell (76% earnings in Q107 from INTL payments) (patentlyapple.com)
43 points by bretpiatt on July 25, 2010 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
23.Brilliance of Haskell's Maybe type and the Value of Static Type Checking (moreindirection.blogspot.com)
42 points by alrex021 on July 25, 2010 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
24.Use a Fictional Tony to Maintain Customer Relationships, and Get Money Faster (makeleaps.com)
42 points by jason_tko on July 25, 2010 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
25. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 262 days ago | hide | 11 comments
25.Air France Concorde Crash - 10 Years Later (jmarbach.com)
41 points by jmarbach on July 25, 2010 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
26.The Sad State of Open Source in Android Tablets (projectgus.com)
41 points by angusgr on July 25, 2010 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
27.Hell with Rules (jeffjonas.typepad.com)
37 points by shalinmangar on July 25, 2010 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
28. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 84 days ago | hide | 177 comments
28.Cloud password-cracking tool requires only 20 minutes to crack passwords. (techrepublic.com.com)
35 points by JayNeely on July 25, 2010 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
29.IBM's zEnterprise 196 CPU: Cache is king - 'The fastest CPU in the world.' (theregister.co.uk)
34 points by ableal on July 25, 2010 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
30.Why should JS coders have all the fun? (squery.posterous.com)
31 points by shahriarhaque on July 25, 2010 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
31. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 489 days ago | hide | 26 comments

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