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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 | 120 comments
2. MIT Globe Genie (Random Street View) (web.mit.edu)
156 points by chaosmachine on Aug 28, 2010 | 42 comments
3. Learning to write a compiler (stackoverflow.com)
128 points by siim on Aug 28, 2010 | 40 comments
4. Ben Huh offers to buy Reddit (thedailywh.at)
114 points by ssclafani on Aug 28, 2010 | 60 comments
5. Chopin's Small Miracles (wsj.com)
107 points by grellas on Aug 28, 2010 | 49 comments
6. How Entire Industries Become Unethical (bhargreaves.com)
94 points by thesyndicate on Aug 28, 2010 | 66 comments
7. Rate my startup: SolidComposer - version control for musicians (solidcomposer.com)
81 points by AndyKelley on Aug 28, 2010 | 32 comments
8. Ask HN: If I quit my job, will I ever work again?
80 points by craftsman on Aug 28, 2010 | 77 comments
9. Programming will never be "easy". (mdmstudios.wordpress.com)
78 points by MDMStudios on Aug 28, 2010 | 63 comments
10. How A Non-Programmer Launched A Huge Software-Based Business (mixergy.com)
76 points by jjacobs22 on Aug 28, 2010 | 13 comments
11. Rails 3 Has Great Documentation (rubyonrails.org)
76 points by mhartl on Aug 28, 2010 | 36 comments
12. 1099 filings expand greatly starting in 2012: the penalties for failing to file (startupcompanylawblog.com)
65 points by grellas on Aug 28, 2010 | 41 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 | 23 comments
14. Two pieces of code someone really ought to write (rondam.blogspot.com)
57 points by lisper on Aug 28, 2010 | 34 comments
15. Ask HN: How to begin contributing to an open source project?
56 points by kevinburke on Aug 28, 2010 | 37 comments
16. Beta of "a startup" I'm working on: Billable. Easy invoicing. (billable.co.za)
55 points by pistoriusp on Aug 28, 2010 | 46 comments
17. 'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009 [video] (youtube.com)
54 points by drx on Aug 28, 2010 | 18 comments
18. Out of necessity, tech startups are changing the way workers are hired (slate.com)
52 points by shalmanese on Aug 28, 2010 | 24 comments
19. Wired youth forget how to write in China and Japan (yahoo.com)
51 points by vorg on Aug 28, 2010 | 74 comments
20. GCC - 'We make free software affordable' (h-online.com)
48 points by sasvari on Aug 28, 2010 | 30 comments
21. Ask YC: Why do you disproportionately invest in younger founders?
39 points by dstorrs on Aug 28, 2010 | 57 comments
22. Ask HN: Company wants to aquire my website. Can you give me some advice?
39 points by maxlk on Aug 28, 2010 | 21 comments
23. Infusion Profusion: Game-changing Fast-‘n-cheap Technique (cookingissues.com)
37 points by tptacek on Aug 28, 2010 | 10 comments
24. Poll: How many times did you fail before succeeding?
37 points by JeremyChase on Aug 28, 2010 | 20 comments
25. Mongrel2 1.0beta4 Out, 1.0 Is Nigh (sheddingbikes.com)
31 points by megaman821 on Aug 28, 2010 | 7 comments
26. TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay – Away From Keyboard by Simon Klose (kickstarter.com)
30 points by jacquesm on Aug 28, 2010 | 17 comments
27. Condé Nast, I’m publicly offering to buy Reddit (benhuh.com)
30 points by thiele on Aug 28, 2010 | 3 comments
28. With Own Incubator On Hold, Facebook Befriends Y Combinator (wsj.com)
27 points by yurisagalov on Aug 28, 2010 | 7 comments
29. Ask HN: Startup stopped paying my salary
26 points by 0x5a177 on Aug 28, 2010 | 61 comments
30. Microsoft won't stop .Net on Android (techworld.com.au)
21 points by gspyrou on Aug 28, 2010 | 14 comments

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