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1. Ditch Starbucks and work at the library (52tiger.net)
330 points by apress on Feb 8, 2011 | 209 comments
2. Random Startup Generator (ykombinator.com)
327 points by omergertel on Feb 8, 2011 | 53 comments
3. Want to be a leader? Wash the Dishes When Nobody Else Will. (thesash.me)
298 points by thesash on Feb 8, 2011 | 150 comments
4. How Much Money I Made From Side Projects In 2010 (pseudocoder.com)
276 points by mattcurry on Feb 8, 2011 | 49 comments
5. JQuery 1.5 released: .sub(), ajax rewrite, speed improvements, more (jquery.com)
166 points by alanh on Feb 8, 2011 | 9 comments
6. What New Twitter Employees Do For The First Week (quora.com)
164 points by RBr on Feb 8, 2011 | 66 comments
7. How To Get Your First 1,000 Users (viniciusvacanti.com)
146 points by bjonathan on Feb 8, 2011 | 29 comments
8. How to be 100% sure your startup idea is good (upstartly.com)
144 points by LeBlanc on Feb 8, 2011 | 60 comments
9. YC Partner Harjeet Taggar Gives Insights (thenextweb.com)
136 points by niccolop on Feb 8, 2011 | 16 comments
10. Startup America -- Dead on Arrival (steveblank.com)
137 points by terrisv on Feb 8, 2011 | 102 comments
11. UTF-8 good, UTF-16 bad (benlynn.blogspot.com)
117 points by mattyb on Feb 8, 2011 | 90 comments
12. Baseball stats show June 5th was Ferris Bueller's day off (baseballprospectus.com)
113 points by caixa on Feb 8, 2011 | 16 comments
13. Update your timezone defs: Russia abolishes winter time (DST) (timeanddate.com)
109 points by makuro on Feb 8, 2011 | 117 comments
14. The Youth Unemployment Bomb (businessweek.com)
108 points by alexwestholm on Feb 8, 2011 | 156 comments
15. Google uses accelerometer API in Jules Verne Google Doodle (googleblog.blogspot.com)
105 points by tomwans on Feb 8, 2011 | 32 comments
16. Introducing the Google Translate app for iPhone (googleblog.blogspot.com)
100 points by atularora on Feb 8, 2011 | 22 comments
17. Condé Nast finally throws Reddit a bone, new hires coming (reddit.com)
91 points by logicalmoron on Feb 8, 2011 | 39 comments
18. Landing Page Best Practices: the definitive guide (with infographics) (visualwebsiteoptimizer.com)
91 points by paraschopra on Feb 8, 2011 | 17 comments
19. The Dirty Little Secret of Successful Companies (nytimes.com)
86 points by petethomas on Feb 8, 2011 | 34 comments
20. Lisp-based OSes (linuxfinances.info)
84 points by fogus on Feb 8, 2011 | 35 comments
21. CouchOne + Membase merge (techcrunch.com)
82 points by rcoder on Feb 8, 2011 | 36 comments
22. Luna, the in-house web framework developed at Asana (asana.com)
80 points by jamesjyu on Feb 8, 2011 | 19 comments
23. An Open Letter To PC Makers: Ditch Bloatware, Now (hothardware.com)
80 points by MojoKid on Feb 8, 2011 | 92 comments
24. Why I absolutely love java (gist.github.com)
77 points by lfborjas on Feb 8, 2011 | 130 comments
25. EFF Warns That FCC Net Neutrality Rules Are a Bad, Bad Idea (techdirt.com)
76 points by grellas on Feb 8, 2011 | 16 comments
26. Mastering Key Bindings in Emacs (masteringemacs.org)
75 points by pdelgallego on Feb 8, 2011 | 17 comments
27. SBCL quicker than C? (lbolla.wordpress.com)
69 points by lbolla on Feb 8, 2011 | 49 comments
28. Analysis: World of Goo’s iPad Launch (2dboy.com)
63 points by zachbeane on Feb 8, 2011 | 7 comments
29. Ken Olsen, co-founder of Digital Equipment Corp., died at 84 (masshightech.com)
64 points by masshightech on Feb 8, 2011 | 23 comments
30. 160 People: Skype 5 for Mac = Fail. Skype: No Comment (skype.com)
62 points by jv22222 on Feb 8, 2011 | 52 comments

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