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1.Readme Driven Development (preston-werner.com)
242 points by mojombo on Aug 23, 2010 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
2.No, You can't retire rich at 30 if you sell your startup (tonywright.com)
244 points by charliepark on Aug 23, 2010 [ext] | 214 comments [ext]
3.Faster than grep? Old age and treachery beat youth and skill every time. (ridiculousfish.com)
226 points by gthank on Aug 23, 2010 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
4. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 60 days ago | hide | 65 comments
4.Ask a real musician: opera singer dissects top 5 metal singers (invisibleoranges.com)
186 points by hernan7 on Aug 23, 2010 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
5.New Rejection Reason From Apple May Have Major Implications (readitlaterlist.com)
147 points by olefoo on Aug 23, 2010 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
6.Install PAC-MAN on Sequoia voting machine w/o breaking tamper-evident seals (umich.edu)
129 points by finin on Aug 23, 2010 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
7. From Shortlist to Shipped: A Tournament Method for Picking Life's Work (guzey.com)
110 points by coz850 602 days ago | hide | 97 comments
7.Protein that destroys HIV discovered (loyolamedicine.org)
122 points by ca98am79 on Aug 23, 2010 [ext] | 69 comments [ext]
8.Traffic Experiments -- How to clear traffic jams (eskimo.com)
115 points by cubix on Aug 23, 2010 [ext] | 81 comments [ext]
9.Smoothie Charts (smoothiecharts.org)
113 points by _DanielH on Aug 23, 2010 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
10. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
10.Inception explained in one infographic (fastcodesign.com)
109 points by jedschmidt on Aug 23, 2010 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
11.Facebook is the first to jump into ARM servers (semiaccurate.com)
108 points by reitzensteinm on Aug 23, 2010 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
12.The right way to position against competition (asmartbear.com)
108 points by paulsb on Aug 23, 2010 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
13. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 489 days ago | hide | 26 comments
13.Writing a StarCraft Bot in F# (msdn.com)
105 points by tpiddy on Aug 23, 2010 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
14.Koduco (YC S10) Is Bringing Old-School Fun To Multiplayer iPad Games (techcrunch.com)
91 points by px on Aug 23, 2010 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
15.How to Kill Your Servers - Learning How to Scale the Hard Way (highscalability.com)
83 points by seven on Aug 23, 2010 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
16. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
16."the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians" (nytimes.com)
81 points by rbxbx on Aug 23, 2010 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
17.AngelPad: Seven Ex-Googlers Are About To Launch A New Incubator (techcrunch.com)
81 points by tetrisgm on Aug 23, 2010 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
18.The dirty little secret about Google Android (zdnet.com)
80 points by milesf on Aug 23, 2010 [ext] | 79 comments [ext]
19. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 18 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
19.Ruby's Date/DateTime classes rewritten in C.. 20-200x perf improvement (github.com/jeremyevans)
79 points by stanislavb on Aug 23, 2010 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
20.Geekiest Hacker News comments from the last month (swimwithoutgettingwet.com)
79 points by riffer on Aug 23, 2010 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
21.Git your act together (jeffkreeftmeijer.com)
77 points by jkreeftmeijer on Aug 23, 2010 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
22. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 85 days ago | hide | 122 comments
22.10k TowerDefense (JS & Canvas) (aneventapart.com)
73 points by shawndumas on Aug 23, 2010 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
23.Facebook's killer app is here. No, it's Not places. (eyesandfeet.com)
74 points by luxative on Aug 23, 2010 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
24.Introduction to Tries (drmcawesome.com)
72 points by mriley on Aug 23, 2010 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
25. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 105 days ago | hide | 48 comments
25.What does a product manager do? (iamnotaprogrammer.com)
67 points by sudonim on Aug 23, 2010 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
26.CouchDB: The Definitive Guide (couchdb.org)
65 points by pelle on Aug 23, 2010 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
27.Ask HN: I have an idea. I have the money. I moved to SF. Now what? [ext]
64 points by jiganti on Aug 23, 2010 [ext] | 73 comments [ext]
28. The Three Ingredients Behind Jitse Groen's Takeaway.com Conquest Of Europe (linkedin.com)
154 points by krz3514 374 days ago | hide | 13 comments
28.OpenSolaris Governing Board Resigns (webmink.com)
64 points by bensummers on Aug 23, 2010 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
29.Ask HN: How did you meet your cofounder? [ext]
64 points by il on Aug 23, 2010 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
30.The story of Rapportive (YC S10) - 'social CRM' plugin that replaces Gmail ads (xconomy.com)
64 points by waderoush on Aug 23, 2010 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
31. Bots as Antitrust: Letting Code Negotiate on Your Behalf (continuations.com)
215 points by doz2675 594 days ago | hide | 76 comments

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