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1. Steve Yegge quits Google in the middle of his speech [OSCON Data 2011] (youtube.com)
546 points by kodisha on July 27, 2011 | 130 comments
2. The Moment Of Truth For Airbnb As User’s Home Is Utterly Trashed (techcrunch.com)
432 points by ssclafani on July 27, 2011 | 226 comments
3. Hacker News Fires Steve Yegge (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
340 points by DanielRibeiro on July 27, 2011 | 92 comments
4. Judge Finds Apple in Violation of HTC's Newly Acquired Patents (dailytech.com)
236 points by d0ne on July 27, 2011 | 132 comments
5. This is why your newspaper is dying (bradcolbow.com)
219 points by rmason on July 27, 2011 | 55 comments
6. LevelDB: A Fast Persistent Key-Value Store (google-opensource.blogspot.com)
169 points by skanuj on July 27, 2011 | 62 comments
7. LulzSec's 'Topiary' arrested (sophos.com)
148 points by SubZero on July 27, 2011 | 107 comments
8. The $300 Million Button (uie.com)
142 points by cynusx on July 27, 2011 | 30 comments
9. Dropbox Leases Giant New SF Office, Plans To Grow To 400+ Employees (techcrunch.com)
131 points by aorshan on July 27, 2011 | 61 comments
10. The world’s biggest hedge fund, run like a cult (nymag.com)
126 points by wallflower on July 27, 2011 | 63 comments
11. Why we don't need a brain (ketyov.com)
123 points by ks on July 27, 2011 | 21 comments
12. Html2canvas - Webpages Screenshots with JavaScript (hertzen.com)
120 points by tilt on July 27, 2011 | 28 comments
13. Rogue Academic Downloader Busted by MIT Webcam Stakeout, Arrest Report Says (wired.com)
119 points by jancona on July 27, 2011 | 90 comments
14. Show HN: Pump, a dead simple Pythonic abstraction of HTTP. (adeel.github.com)
118 points by pyninja on July 27, 2011 | 61 comments
15. Google's playing the closed-open game again, this time with HTML5 (extremetech.com)
107 points by mrsebastian on July 27, 2011 | 62 comments
16. Bitcoin befuddles US customs agents, thwarting visit by digital currency guru (geekwire.com)
105 points by calbucci on July 27, 2011 | 66 comments
17. MS-DOS is 30 years old today (extremetech.com)
102 points by ukdm on July 27, 2011 | 27 comments
18. In ‘Anonymous’ Raids, Feds Work From List of Top 1,000 Protesters (wired.com)
94 points by d0ne on July 27, 2011 | 64 comments
19. World's Thinnest House is only 4 ft wide (archdaily.com)
93 points by LiveTheDream on July 27, 2011 | 33 comments
20. Google reinstates account of thomasmonopoly (twitlonger.com)
90 points by tshtf on July 27, 2011 | 56 comments
21. Astronomers find Earth's first trojan asteroid (arstechnica.com)
91 points by evo_9 on July 27, 2011 | 7 comments
22. Inside the War for Tech Talent (betabeat.com)
89 points by jonbot on July 27, 2011 | 75 comments
23. All that is wrong with the Recruitment Industry (voltsteve.blogspot.com)
90 points by Peroni on July 27, 2011 | 93 comments
24. Ask HN: How many HN members are there?
81 points by d0ne on July 27, 2011 | 65 comments
25. Show HN: Kondoot - Watch LIVE a day in the life of a startup (kondoot.com)
97 points by coenhyde on July 27, 2011 | 25 comments
26. Bring your half-baked idea to the Half-Bakery (halfbakery.com)
80 points by rfreytag on July 27, 2011 | 12 comments
27. Email Intervention (emailintervention.com)
78 points by iansinke on July 27, 2011 | 55 comments
28. Do You Live In A Protected Freedom Zone? (1729.com)
75 points by talonx on July 27, 2011 | 15 comments
29. High number of infosec textbooks almost 100% copied, according to attrition.org (fastcompany.com)
67 points by pvarangot on July 27, 2011 | 16 comments
30. Peter Molyneux Blames Success on Baked Beans (microsoft.com)
66 points by jdeastwood on July 27, 2011 | 16 comments

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