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1. I'm OK, the bull is dead: Communication skills for engineers (computerworld.com)
96 points by rubentopo on Aug 22, 2009 | 25 comments
2. Facebook, TipJoy, the Deal that Didn’t Happen and the Hire that Did (allthingsd.com)
97 points by pakafka on Aug 22, 2009 | 74 comments
3. A Django website that took (a lot) more than 20 minutes. (lukeplant.me.uk)
91 points by jacquesm on Aug 22, 2009 | 18 comments
4. 4Chan launches embarrassing attack on devout Christians on Facebook (thenextweb.com)
68 points by mgcreed on Aug 22, 2009 | 117 comments
5. What’s Really Going On With Apple, Google, AT&T And The FCC (techcrunch.com)
66 points by cwan on Aug 22, 2009 | 24 comments
6. Why I'm Not a Writer (1996) (greenspun.com)
58 points by jseliger on Aug 22, 2009 | 20 comments
7. Cheating the App Store: PR firm has interns post positive reviews for clients (mobilecrunch.com)
54 points by vaksel on Aug 22, 2009 | 23 comments
8. Thanks to the HN community
54 points by grellas on Aug 22, 2009 | 15 comments
9. The Notes What Spawned JQuery (2005) (ejohn.org)
48 points by fogus on Aug 22, 2009 | 7 comments
10. New Free Online Book (by me): Essentials of Metaheuristics (gmu.edu)
47 points by SeanLuke on Aug 22, 2009 | 7 comments
11. RestMS (restms.org)
41 points by setori88 on Aug 22, 2009 | 19 comments
12. Think twice before naming your new programming language (guillaume-nargeot.blogspot.com)
38 points by gnargeot on Aug 22, 2009 | 16 comments
13. A video of a laser doing crazy weird things (yourdailymedia.com)
36 points by ujjwalg on Aug 22, 2009 | 7 comments
14. Share your ideas
35 points by evancaine on Aug 22, 2009 | 61 comments
15. Svgweb - Scalable Vector Graphics for Web Browsers using Flash (code.google.com)
33 points by mkuhn on Aug 22, 2009 | 9 comments
16. Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret (cdixon.org)
33 points by prakash on Aug 22, 2009 | 24 comments
17. FB Hires TipJoy Co-Founder Ivan Kirigin After Backing Away From Acquisition (techcrunch.com)
32 points by vaksel on Aug 22, 2009 | 6 comments
18. Interactive Unicode Table (ftrain.com)
28 points by nudded on Aug 22, 2009 | 6 comments
19. Ancient Man Didn't Exactly Live in Harmony With the Land (nytimes.com)
25 points by scapegraced on Aug 22, 2009 | 15 comments
20. Ask HN: What would you do with a Class C IP block? (boingboing.net)
20 points by kf on Aug 22, 2009 | 22 comments
21. Nice Proof of a Geometric Progression Sum (sputsoft.com)
20 points by nreece on Aug 22, 2009 | 8 comments
22. Researchers crack network latency nut with new algorithm (arstechnica.com)
20 points by lyime on Aug 22, 2009 | 2 comments
23. Protein folding as a game to help science (fold.it)
19 points by Todd on Aug 22, 2009 | 2 comments
24. James Dyson’s ‘Wrong Garden’ Fountain Inspired By MC Escher (ohgizmo.com)
18 points by cwan on Aug 22, 2009 | 4 comments
25. The Secret Life of Machines (exploratorium.edu)
18 points by GHFigs on Aug 22, 2009 | 5 comments
26. How Tim O'Reilly Aims to Change Government (nytimes.com)
17 points by vibhavs on Aug 22, 2009 | 8 comments
27. Ask PG: Do you ever fund startups outside of normal Y Comb. funding cycles?
17 points by jlgosse on Aug 22, 2009 | 12 comments
28. The Real Truth about Apple and Google and Arrington (techcrunchit.com)
16 points by eelco on Aug 22, 2009 | 4 comments
29. Intel acquires two multicore software firms, Cilk & RapidMind (cnet.com)
16 points by prakash on Aug 22, 2009 | 9 comments
30. Lisp hacks (tfeb.org)
15 points by bearwithclaws on Aug 22, 2009

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