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1.How to Lose Time and Money (paulgraham.com)
467 points by michael_nielsen on July 6, 2010 [ext] | 175 comments [ext]
2.Woot To The AP: Nice Story About Our Sale — You Now Owe Us $17.50 (techcrunch.com)
314 points by dwynings on July 6, 2010 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
3.AP Not Amused By The Woot Story, Tries To Play The Oil Spill Card (techcrunch.com)
226 points by jasonlbaptiste on July 6, 2010 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
4. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 59 days ago | hide | 65 comments
4.Follow-up to: Did Americans in 1776 have British accents? [ext]
170 points by joshkaufman on July 6, 2010 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
5.Rate my startup: ChompStack, a mobile website builder for restaurants (chompstack.com)
166 points by stevenwei on July 6, 2010 [ext] | 140 comments [ext]
6.The Origin of the <blink> Tag (montulli.org)
158 points by bkrausz on July 6, 2010 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
7. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 251 days ago | hide | 128 comments
7.1995: The Internet? Bah (newsweek.com)
149 points by MykalM on July 6, 2010 [ext] | 93 comments [ext]
8.Terminal Tips and Tricks For Mac OS X (superuser.com)
143 points by bemmu on July 6, 2010 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
9.Fake - Mac OS X Web Browser Automation and Webapp Testing Made Simple. (fakeapp.com)
143 points by sant0sk1 on July 6, 2010 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
10. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
10.The Japanese Soldier Who Fought WWII for 30 Years (todayifoundout.com)
138 points by _pius on July 6, 2010 [ext] | 78 comments [ext]
11.Save NYC sublets and vacation rentals from anti-competitive bill (savenysublets.com)
118 points by rantfoil on July 6, 2010 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
12.PayPal Hates Conferences – Especially OpenCamp (openca.mp)
117 points by johns on July 6, 2010 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
13. Why Getting Funded Stopped Meaning Your Idea Was Good ()
70 points by kol7770 98 days ago | hide | 139 comments
13.The Way I Work: Justin Kan of Justin.tv (inc.com)
114 points by evansolomon on July 6, 2010 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
14.Traction Trumps Everything (gabrielweinberg.com)
115 points by michaelfairley on July 6, 2010 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
15.The next wave of programming languages (oreilly.com)
108 points by Anon84 on July 6, 2010 [ext] | 85 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.Data URIs make CSS sprites obsolete (nczonline.net)
102 points by mnemonik on July 6, 2010 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
17.How to Deconstruct Almost Anything, by a Software Engineer (ucl.ac.be)
94 points by lionhearted on July 6, 2010 [ext] | 102 comments [ext]
18.Firefox 4 Beta 1 Released (mozilla.com)
83 points by ssclafani on July 6, 2010 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
19. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 251 days ago | hide | 170 comments
19.The Egg (galactanet.com)
80 points by pavs on July 6, 2010 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
20.Design Tips for Programmers (arandomurl.com)
74 points by daleharvey on July 6, 2010 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
21.Chrome 6: Early peek under the hood (geek.com)
64 points by thomas on July 6, 2010 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
22. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 199 days ago | hide | 18 comments
22.How can a website cost £35 million? You’d better ask the government (matthewparsons.net)
60 points by swombat on July 6, 2010 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
23.There Are No Pictures of iPhone 4 on Google Image Search (google.com)
60 points by cloudwalking on July 6, 2010 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
24.Erlang on the JVM (wiki.github.com)
57 points by silkodyssey on July 6, 2010 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
25. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 12 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
25.Ask HN: How will it impact my webapp if it is written in Python instead of PHP. [ext]
51 points by Chirag on July 6, 2010 [ext] | 86 comments [ext]
26.Fabricly (YC W10), Bolder, and disruptive innovation (hbr.org)
51 points by arihelgason on July 6, 2010 [ext] | 2 comments [ext]
27.Flask 0.5 Released - Python WSGI microframework (python.org)
51 points by enduser on July 6, 2010 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
28. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 367 days ago | hide | 168 comments
28.Is Flattr the new Facebook Like, but this time with real money? (techcrunch.com)
50 points by klous on July 6, 2010 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
29.Logo design: Story behind FedEx logo's hidden arrow (thesneeze.com)
50 points by dirtyaura on July 6, 2010 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
30.Drug Submarine Seized In Ecuador Is Huge Leap For Smugglers (npr.org)
46 points by dwynings on July 6, 2010 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
31. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 84 days ago | hide | 177 comments

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