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1.Jeff Bezos to Princeton's class of 2010 :"We are What We Choose" (princeton.edu)
182 points by yarapavan on July 5, 2010 | 45 comments
2.The Royal We: Single Founder Startups (ginzametrics.com)
151 points by rgrieselhuber on July 5, 2010 | 28 comments
3.Ask HN: Lack of self-discipline driving me hopeless. Tips?
132 points by Damnit on July 5, 2010 | 106 comments
4.Lisphp is a Lisp dialect written in PHP. (github.com/lunant)
110 points by jperras on July 5, 2010 | 107 comments
5.Stackoverflow, HTML by Regex, topmost answer (stackoverflow.com)
105 points by s2r2 on July 5, 2010 | 37 comments
6.Ubuntu command line fu - How not to spell "ls" (ubuntu.com)
93 points by LiveTheDream on July 5, 2010 | 53 comments
USA
90 points | parent
8.I am an edge case (briancarper.net)
85 points by gnosis on July 5, 2010 | 48 comments
9.How Steam stopped me from pirating games and enjoy the sweet DRM kool-aid (crunchgear.com)
85 points by silvia77 on July 5, 2010 | 59 comments
10.It’s not that seed investors are smarter – it’s that entrepreneurs are (cdixon.org)
85 points by rpledge on July 5, 2010 | 5 comments
11.Google employees on Reddit answers questions. (reddit.com)
80 points by pavs on July 5, 2010 | 40 comments
12.Email Newsletters Are Still A Serious Business (jasonlbaptiste.com)
68 points by jasonlbaptiste on July 5, 2010 | 39 comments
13.A startup should create this storage device. I would buy it. (arnorhs.com)
65 points by arnorhs on July 5, 2010 | 72 comments
14.Fighting With Teenagers: A Copyright Story (jasonrobertbrown.com)
63 points by soundsop on July 5, 2010 | 150 comments
15.Ask HN: Feedback on my small app (wrttn.in)
57 points by jmonegro on July 5, 2010 | 61 comments
16.Why morning people rule the world (thisislondon.co.uk)
55 points by ronnier on July 5, 2010 | 35 comments
17.Spend $120K in angel investing instead of MBA studies (fourhourworkweek.com)
54 points by dirtyaura on July 5, 2010 | 30 comments
It's complicated...
48 points | parent
19.Postmodernism Disrobed by Richard Dawkins (richarddawkins.net)
48 points by rikthevik on July 5, 2010 | 81 comments
20.Programming is an easy way to procrastinate (maxkle.in)
48 points by helwr on July 5, 2010 | 30 comments

Happy to see PHP be taken more seriously around here. Trust me, we're not all moronic programmers using register globals, magic quotes, and other abominations originally available in PHP.

This is a pretty cool project.

22.What's New in Python 2.7 (python.org)
46 points by tdavis on July 5, 2010 | 3 comments

> Yet the research continues to mount, arguing that evening people have qualities which should be nurtured. They tend to be more creative, intelligent, humorous and extroverted. They are the balance to morning people, who are said to be more optimistic, proactive and conscientious.

You're sounding dangerously close to a horoscope, there.

24.A Very Scary Fireworks Show: Exploding H-Bombs In Space (npr.org)
43 points by rpledge on July 5, 2010 | 24 comments
25.The pursuit of excellence in programming (programmingzen.com)
43 points by chibea on July 5, 2010 | 1 comment
26.Those niggling last little bits of a project (jacquesmattheij.com)
42 points by jacquesm on July 5, 2010 | 5 comments
27.The Story Of Groupon: From Failure To An Industry-Changing, Profit Machine (mixergy.com)
42 points by AndrewWarner on July 5, 2010 | 5 comments
28.'Never-before-seen material' can store vast amounts of energy (gizmag.com)
40 points by bdfh42 on July 5, 2010 | 21 comments
29.Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development (startuplessonslearned.com)
39 points by natgordon on July 5, 2010 | 14 comments
30.An analysis of results from 23andme (nsaunders.wordpress.com)
38 points by bbgm on July 5, 2010 | 9 comments

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