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1.Why I do not want to work at Google (canonical.org)
351 points by rl1987 on Aug 28, 2011 [ext] | 132 comments [ext]
2.Hacker News Like Button (hacksandthoughts.posterous.com)
302 points by thebmax on Aug 28, 2011 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
3.Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine (songrabbit.com)
291 points by songrabbit on Aug 28, 2011 [ext] | 141 comments [ext]
4. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments
4.Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers (greenteapress.com)
213 points by samrat on Aug 28, 2011 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
5.Javascript Cryptography Considered Harmful (matasano.com)
207 points by adgar on Aug 28, 2011 [ext] | 174 comments [ext]
6.Keymaster.js: painless keyboard shortcuts for javascript (github.com/madrobby)
164 points by bmaeser on Aug 28, 2011 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
7. What Happens When You Hand GPT-5 and Claude Real Money (nof1.ai)
454 points by esn516 151 days ago | hide | 8 comments
7.Just fixed a 20-year-old bug… (azulsystems.com)
149 points by swah on Aug 28, 2011 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
8.Antivirus Software Pioneer John McAfee Loses Fortune (2009) (abcnews.go.com)
142 points by a5seo on Aug 28, 2011 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
9.So you want to be a video game programmer? - The Specs (all-things-andy-gavin.com)
117 points by agavin on Aug 28, 2011 [ext] | 79 comments [ext]
10. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 199 days ago | hide | 18 comments
10.Python web micro-framework battle (slideshare.net)
100 points by whit537 on Aug 28, 2011 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
11.Demo: Raspberry Pi running Quake 3 (raspberrypi.org)
96 points by mcantelon on Aug 28, 2011 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
12.Show HN: My personal project, animated and narrated children's storybooks (storyfun.com)
95 points by ardit33 on Aug 28, 2011 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
13. Why Most Marketplace Network Effects Are Surprisingly Easy to Replicate ()
257 points by pen4647 496 days ago | hide | 50 comments
13.Ask HN: Any good Macbook Air alternatives? [ext]
85 points by puredemo on Aug 28, 2011 [ext] | 134 comments [ext]
14.How Doing Less Work for More Money Saved Client Work (joshuablankenship.com)
83 points by joshuacc on Aug 28, 2011 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
15.Do you want to sell sugar water or do you want to change the world? (cdixon.org)
82 points by dwynings on Aug 28, 2011 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
16. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
16.Xbox 360 Reset Glitch Hack - Unsigned Code on current Kernels incl. X360 SLIM (libxenon.org)
78 points by ttol on Aug 28, 2011 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
17.Cryptico.js - strong encryption system utilizing RSA and AES for javascript (wwwtyro.net)
77 points by genieyclo on Aug 28, 2011 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
18.ClojureScript vs Coffeescript (metaphysicaldeveloper.wordpress.com)
74 points by DanielRibeiro on Aug 28, 2011 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
19. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
19.Cockpit crisis (macleans.ca)
71 points by adamtmca on Aug 28, 2011 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
20.Entries — Node.js Knockout (nodeknockout.com)
71 points by nathanhammond on Aug 28, 2011 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
21.Now Can We All Agree That The "High Quality Web Content" Experiment Has Failed? (techcrunch.com)
67 points by ColinWright on Aug 28, 2011 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
22. Your Suppliers Are Your Cheapest Growth Channel — Within Limits ()
292 points by atz2712 787 days ago | hide | 13 comments
22.Deus Ex: The Eyeborg Documentary (eyeborgproject.com)
57 points by evo_9 on Aug 28, 2011 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
23.Peer-to-peer overlay networks are a bad idea on a DSL-based internet. (canonical.org)
56 points by laughinghan on Aug 28, 2011 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
24.Ask HN: Is there something like HN for successful entrepreneurs? [ext]
51 points by icode on Aug 28, 2011 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
25. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 114 days ago | hide | 193 comments
25.Batman.js vs Knockout.js (erlware.org)
52 points by jwilberding on Aug 28, 2011 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
26.Kernel Comparison: Linux (2.6.28) versus Windows (Vista SP1) (pbworks.com)
52 points by zengr on Aug 28, 2011 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
27.The Mentor Manifesto (davidgcohen.com)
51 points by dshah on Aug 28, 2011 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
28. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 10 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
28.Why is C++ still a very popular language in quantitative finance? (quant.stackexchange.com)
50 points by BlackJack on Aug 28, 2011 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
29.Is Copyright Only For the Big Guys? (torrentfreak.com)
49 points by davewiner on Aug 28, 2011 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
30.A bot fixes spelling mistakes in github readme files (holdenkarau.com)
48 points by holdenk on Aug 28, 2011 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
31. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 104 days ago | hide | 48 comments

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