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1.Silicon Valley's Dark Secret: It's all about Age (techcrunch.com)
185 points by nanospider on Aug 28, 2010 [ext] | 120 comments [ext]
2.MIT Globe Genie (Random Street View) (web.mit.edu)
156 points by chaosmachine on Aug 28, 2010 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
3.Learning to write a compiler (stackoverflow.com)
128 points by siim on Aug 28, 2010 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
4. The Three Ingredients Behind Jitse Groen's Takeaway.com Conquest Of Europe (linkedin.com)
154 points by krz3514 374 days ago | hide | 13 comments
4.Ben Huh offers to buy Reddit (thedailywh.at)
114 points by ssclafani on Aug 28, 2010 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
5.Chopin's Small Miracles (wsj.com)
107 points by grellas on Aug 28, 2010 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
6.How Entire Industries Become Unethical (bhargreaves.com)
94 points by thesyndicate on Aug 28, 2010 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
7. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 263 days ago | hide | 11 comments
7. Rate my startup: SolidComposer - version control for musicians (solidcomposer.com)
81 points by AndyKelley on Aug 28, 2010 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
8.Ask HN: If I quit my job, will I ever work again? [ext]
80 points by craftsman on Aug 28, 2010 [ext] | 77 comments [ext]
9.Programming will never be "easy". (mdmstudios.wordpress.com)
78 points by MDMStudios on Aug 28, 2010 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
10. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
10.How A Non-Programmer Launched A Huge Software-Based Business (mixergy.com)
76 points by jjacobs22 on Aug 28, 2010 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
11.Rails 3 Has Great Documentation (rubyonrails.org)
76 points by mhartl on Aug 28, 2010 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
12.1099 filings expand greatly starting in 2012: the penalties for failing to file (startupcompanylawblog.com)
65 points by grellas on Aug 28, 2010 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
13. Asymmetric leverage how Iran holds twenty percent of global oil supply hostage (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 23 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
13.Ben Huh can has reddit? I respond entirely in LOLcat photos - Alexis Ohanian (alexisohanian.com)
64 points by pavs on Aug 28, 2010 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
14.Two pieces of code someone really ought to write (rondam.blogspot.com)
57 points by lisper on Aug 28, 2010 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
15.Ask HN: How to begin contributing to an open source project? [ext]
56 points by kevinburke on Aug 28, 2010 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
16. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 252 days ago | hide | 128 comments
16. Beta of "a startup" I'm working on: Billable. Easy invoicing. (billable.co.za)
55 points by pistoriusp on Aug 28, 2010 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
17.'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009 [video] (youtube.com)
54 points by drx on Aug 28, 2010 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
18.Out of necessity, tech startups are changing the way workers are hired (slate.com)
52 points by shalmanese on Aug 28, 2010 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
19. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
19.Wired youth forget how to write in China and Japan (yahoo.com)
51 points by vorg on Aug 28, 2010 [ext] | 74 comments [ext]
20.GCC - 'We make free software affordable' (h-online.com)
48 points by sasvari on Aug 28, 2010 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
21.Ask HN: Company wants to aquire my website. Can you give me some advice? [ext]
39 points by maxlk on Aug 28, 2010 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
22. Blind Spots in the West: Why Every Chinese VC Studies Our Podcasts (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 219 days ago | hide | 175 comments
22.Ask YC: Why do you disproportionately invest in younger founders? [ext]
39 points by dstorrs on Aug 28, 2010 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
23.Infusion Profusion: Game-changing Fast-‘n-cheap Technique (cookingissues.com)
37 points by tptacek on Aug 28, 2010 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
24.Poll: How many times did you fail before succeeding? [ext]
37 points by JeremyChase on Aug 28, 2010 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
25. Bots as Antitrust: Letting Code Negotiate on Your Behalf (continuations.com)
215 points by doz2675 594 days ago | hide | 76 comments
25.Mongrel2 1.0beta4 Out, 1.0 Is Nigh (sheddingbikes.com)
31 points by megaman821 on Aug 28, 2010 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
26.Condé Nast, I’m publicly offering to buy Reddit (benhuh.com)
30 points by thiele on Aug 28, 2010 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
27.TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay – Away From Keyboard by Simon Klose (kickstarter.com)
30 points by jacquesm on Aug 28, 2010 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
28. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
28.With Own Incubator On Hold, Facebook Befriends Y Combinator (wsj.com)
27 points by yurisagalov on Aug 28, 2010 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
29.Ask HN: Startup stopped paying my salary [ext]
26 points by 0x5a177 on Aug 28, 2010 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
30.Microsoft won't stop .Net on Android (techworld.com.au)
21 points by gspyrou on Aug 28, 2010 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
31. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 120 days ago | hide | 105 comments

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