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1.Octopress - A blogging framework for hackers (octopress.org)
224 points by KarlFreeman on July 24, 2011 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
2.Google Plus: Tagging automatically shares private photos (google.com)
190 points by DVassallo on July 24, 2011 [ext] | 85 comments [ext]
3.A web designer with an attitude (he did his site while drunk) (alittlebitofsomething.co.uk)
184 points by cpg on July 24, 2011 [ext] | 77 comments [ext]
4. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 368 days ago | hide | 168 comments
4.Radio Shack to start stocking Arduino, Other Goodies (radioshack.com)
177 points by vineel on July 24, 2011 [ext] | 73 comments [ext]
5.Accidental Genius: How To Think (dextronet.com)
175 points by jirinovotny on July 24, 2011 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
6.When operating "at web scale", users often simply don't have "real names" (plus.google.com)
155 points by saurik on July 24, 2011 [ext] | 112 comments [ext]
7. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 85 days ago | hide | 177 comments
7.I’ve been suspended from Google+ (infotrope.net)
152 points by draegtun on July 24, 2011 [ext] | 73 comments [ext]
8.NoSQL is What? (zawodny.com)
137 points by timf on July 24, 2011 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
9.As Criminal Laws Proliferate, More Are Ensnared (wsj.com)
136 points by grellas on July 24, 2011 [ext] | 84 comments [ext]
10. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 263 days ago | hide | 11 comments
10.Short array syntax finally in PHP 5.4 (php.net)
110 points by harisenbon on July 24, 2011 [ext] | 78 comments [ext]
11.All Non-Africans Part Neanderthal, Genetics Confirm (discovery.com)
106 points by funthree on July 24, 2011 [ext] | 80 comments [ext]
12.Find is a beautiful tool (eriwen.com)
95 points by zengr on July 24, 2011 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
13. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 105 days ago | hide | 48 comments
13.Cost of False Positives (laughingmeme.org)
92 points by mcfunley on July 24, 2011 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
14.The History of the "@" Symbol (Part 1) (shadycharacters.co.uk)
91 points by edavis on July 24, 2011 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
15.MacPorts 2.0 with Lion support now available (macports.org)
88 points by st3fan on July 24, 2011 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
16. Asymmetric leverage how Iran holds twenty percent of global oil supply hostage (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 23 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
16.Addictive Personality? You Might be a Leader (nytimes.com)
85 points by tilt on July 24, 2011 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
17.Researcher Develops Cocaine Vaccine (singularityhub.com)
87 points by jamesbritt on July 24, 2011 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
18.How to Avoid Repeating the Debacle That Was the Space Shuttle (discovermagazine.com)
84 points by tokenadult on July 24, 2011 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
19. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 211 days ago | hide | 32 comments
19.Zynga Stole Everything It's Suing Us For (businessinsider.com)
79 points by DanielRibeiro on July 24, 2011 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
20.Show HN: We want to become India's TurboTax. Feedback? (cleartax.in)
75 points by architgupta on July 24, 2011 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
21.First, Let's Shoot All the Philosophers (epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com)
72 points by wtn on July 24, 2011 [ext] | 80 comments [ext]
22. How a PVC rig in a Dallas garage became a $500M chemicals company (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 600 days ago | hide | 170 comments
22.Screenfly - mimics devices for website testing (quirktools.com)
70 points by poissonpie on July 24, 2011 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
23.The Principles of Good Programming (autodesk.com)
64 points by andywood on July 24, 2011 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
24.WebAppKit - create web applications using Cocoa (webappkit.org)
58 points by ryannielsen on July 24, 2011 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
25. Why you care for your dog better than yourself — and the fix (web.archive.org)
420 points by guz3550 602 days ago | hide | 25 comments
25.Oracle scrubs site of embarrassing Java blog (cnet.com)
56 points by abraham on July 24, 2011 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
26.How I Made 50 Friends In One Month (30vanquish.com)
55 points by lionhearted on July 24, 2011 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
27.Freeform - a meta language that allows defining and extending syntax inline. (sourceforge.net)
54 points by omaranto on July 24, 2011 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
28. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 252 days ago | hide | 170 comments
28.Escaping Callback Hell with ClojureScript macros (brianmckenna.org)
53 points by pufuwozu on July 24, 2011 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
29.Creative QR Codes (mashable.com)
43 points by hamiltonchan on July 24, 2011 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
30.Gevent, ZeroMQ, WebSockets, and Flot (pythonisito.com)
40 points by timf on July 24, 2011 [ext]
31. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments

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