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1. Took me more than 2 years to get 200 paying customers for my Web App (startbreakingfree.com)
236 points by barmstrong on Sept 7, 2010 | 83 comments
2. How a startup responds when a giant arrives (runkeeper.com)
235 points by jjacobs22 on Sept 7, 2010 | 30 comments
3. What is the Speed of Gravity? (scienceblogs.com)
218 points by sdfx on Sept 7, 2010 | 117 comments
4. Agile Ruined My Life (whattofix.com)
203 points by DanielBMarkham on Sept 7, 2010 | 131 comments
5. Living Efficiently (jonasgalvez.com.br)
179 points by jgalvez on Sept 7, 2010 | 21 comments
6. How I Used Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to Validate my Startup Idea (harperlindsey.wordpress.com)
157 points by toumhi on Sept 7, 2010 | 58 comments
7. Google.com has an animated logo using an HTML/JavaScript particle simulator (google.com)
160 points by bgentry on Sept 7, 2010 | 67 comments
8. As Digg Struggles, VP Of Engineering Is Shown The Door (techcrunch.com)
143 points by icey on Sept 7, 2010 | 117 comments
9. Scaling Disqus (YC S07) (slideshare.net)
140 points by riffer on Sept 7, 2010 | 22 comments
10. htty, the HTTP TTY (nilsjonsson.com)
128 points by njonsson on Sept 7, 2010 | 29 comments
11. Google Scribe - Get autocomplete suggestions as you type (googlelabs.com)
93 points by abraham on Sept 7, 2010 | 64 comments
12. Latest leaked draft of secret copyright treaty (ACTA): US promoting DRM (boingboing.net)
91 points by dantheman on Sept 7, 2010 | 1 comment
13. Boost your productivity with Conkeror, Instapaper and a Kindle (ceondo.com)
88 points by Loic on Sept 7, 2010 | 29 comments
14. Cardpool (YC W10) Introduces Instant Redemption, Attracts Super Angels (techcrunch.com)
80 points by anson on Sept 7, 2010 | 5 comments
15. Polyglot extension for Chrome - Learn a new language (chrome.google.com)
78 points by Lorin on Sept 7, 2010 | 35 comments
16. Oracle Hires Mark Hurd As Co-President (nytimes.com)
77 points by gamble on Sept 7, 2010 | 34 comments
17. "shi1 shi4 shi2 shi1 shi3" - a Chinese tongue twister (yellowbridge.com)
77 points by soyelmango on Sept 7, 2010 | 52 comments
18. Aboard an Alcatel-Lucent undersea cable ship (cnet.com)
76 points by timf on Sept 7, 2010 | 10 comments
19. Every app has a scary basement—dark old mysterious code vital to its operation (miksovsky.blogs.com)
74 points by Terretta on Sept 7, 2010 | 23 comments
20. Chris Dixon: Things I'd do if I ran a big VC firm (cdixon.posterous.com)
73 points by mcxx on Sept 7, 2010 | 25 comments
21. The Museum of Soviet Arcade Games (adangerousbusiness.com)
70 points by _delirium on Sept 7, 2010 | 11 comments
22. Why we don't need more women in tech... yet (jolieodell.wordpress.com)
64 points by jolie on Sept 7, 2010 | 54 comments
23. Recreating Google's Bouncing Balls Logo In HTML5 Canvas (rawkes.com)
60 points by mikecane on Sept 7, 2010 | 23 comments
24. Latent Dirichlet Allocation Surprisingly Well Correlated w/ Google Rankings (seomoz.org)
58 points by randfish on Sept 7, 2010 | 25 comments
25. Slaying dragons with git, bash, and ruby (rubypond.com)
57 points by glenngillen on Sept 7, 2010 | 17 comments
26. Codeplex donates $25,000 to Mercurial (msdn.com)
55 points by NumberFiveAlive on Sept 7, 2010 | 26 comments
27. Beyond vi - Towards a modern command mode (e-texteditor.com)
55 points by artost on Sept 7, 2010 | 13 comments
28. Rate our startup: Challenge.gov (challenge.gov)
54 points by jrallison on Sept 7, 2010 | 54 comments
29. Android First Impressions (mlindgren.ca)
52 points by elblanco on Sept 7, 2010 | 55 comments
30. Once a Dynamo, the Tech Sector Is Slow to Hire (nytimes.com)
47 points by j_baker on Sept 7, 2010 | 62 comments

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