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1. Java 7 is now available (oracle.com)
341 points by Mitt on July 28, 2011 | 204 comments
2. Steve Jobs Sometimes Lies to You (zachholman.com)
306 points by holman on July 28, 2011 | 124 comments
3. Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result (google.com)
301 points by ColinWright on July 28, 2011 | 130 comments
4. The Supreme Court Should Invalidate Software Patents (blogs.forbes.com)
296 points by praptak on July 28, 2011 | 115 comments
5. Could You Modify It ‘To Stop Students From Becoming This Advanced?’ (cato-at-liberty.org)
279 points by docgnome on July 28, 2011 | 234 comments
6. Page Speed Service (googlecode.blogspot.com)
192 points by handraiser on July 28, 2011 | 61 comments
7. Spotify Sued For Patent Infringement Just Weeks After Entering US Market (techdirt.com)
184 points by jsherry on July 28, 2011 | 70 comments
8. Every language fixes something - a DiGraph - just for fun (solipsys.co.uk)
172 points by ColinWright on July 28, 2011 | 101 comments
9. On Safety: A Word From Airbnb (techcrunch.com)
162 points by ssclafani on July 28, 2011 | 106 comments
10. Isostick: the USB memory stick that thinks it’s an optical drive (extremetech.com)
161 points by ukdm on July 28, 2011 | 68 comments
11. New Khan Academy Exercise Framework Is Live (ejohn.org)
156 points by rubergly on July 28, 2011 | 29 comments
12. Norway’s Premier Vows to Keep an Open Society (nytimes.com)
144 points by rberger on July 28, 2011 | 61 comments
13. British Police Duped by LulzSec Into Arresting the Wrong Guy? (dailytech.com)
136 points by nextparadigms on July 28, 2011 | 33 comments
14. Feds Approve $44K Doctor Reimbursement for Using Drchrono (YC W11) iPad App (techcrunch.com)
136 points by Skeletor on July 28, 2011 | 49 comments
15. Hotelling’s Game, or Why Gas Stations Have Competitors Nearby (mindyourdecisions.com)
128 points by madiator on July 28, 2011 | 71 comments
16. Finding your way in vim: tags, cscope, grep and more (stolowski.blogspot.com)
124 points by paweln on July 28, 2011 | 31 comments
17. WSGI and the Pluggable Pipe Dream (pocoo.org)
121 points by DasIch on July 28, 2011 | 20 comments
18. Illustrated: Apple's Fear of Android (osnews.com)
120 points by ukdm on July 28, 2011 | 105 comments
19. Symfony 2.0 is now available (symfony.com)
113 points by j0k3r on July 28, 2011 | 72 comments
20. Steve Perlman unveils white paper explaining “impossible” wireless data rates (venturebeat.com)
110 points by evo_9 on July 28, 2011 | 59 comments
21. KDE 4.7 released (kde.org)
96 points by sandGorgon on July 28, 2011 | 27 comments
22. Minecraft.Print() (minecraftprint.com)
93 points by lostbit on July 28, 2011 | 5 comments
23. Beware of Asshole VCs (sethlevine.com)
92 points by joshfraser on July 28, 2011 | 34 comments
24. ClojureScript gets a REPL that drives the browser (github.com/ibdknox)
92 points by ibdknox on July 28, 2011 | 9 comments
25. Offer HN: Free Maths Lessons
90 points by dataduck on July 28, 2011 | 46 comments
26. 19 year-old Stanford Ph.D. dropout Andrew Hsu is Changing Education (startupsopensourced.com)
90 points by jmtame on July 28, 2011 | 59 comments
27. The racial performance gap explained (method.ac)
84 points by duopixel on July 28, 2011 | 33 comments
28. Signs of life from GNU Hurd (lwn.net)
76 points by sciurus on July 28, 2011 | 62 comments
29. What's the Matter with Boston VCs? (ownlocal.com)
74 points by AustinEnigmatic on July 28, 2011 | 27 comments
30. Are Software Patents Evil? (2006) (paulgraham.com)
74 points by joejohnson on July 28, 2011 | 74 comments

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