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1. An iOS Developer Takes on Android (nfarina.com)
720 points by nfarina on Aug 1, 2011 | 116 comments
2. Our Commitment to Trust & Safety (airbnb.com)
416 points by mikecaron on Aug 1, 2011 | 163 comments
3. Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (August 2011)
282 points by whoishiring on Aug 1, 2011 | 306 comments
4. The future Firefox UI (people.mozilla.com)
264 points by paulrouget on Aug 1, 2011 | 185 comments
5. Getting Bin Laden: What happened that night in Abbottabad (newyorker.com)
245 points by AngryParsley on Aug 1, 2011 | 140 comments
6. I don't know how to IE6 (colbyrabideau.com)
234 points by crabideau5691 on Aug 1, 2011 | 156 comments
7. Game of Thrones CGI (all-things-andy-gavin.com)
210 points by agavin on Aug 1, 2011 | 67 comments
8. Why I'd never work for Google, Twitter, or Facebook (naildrivin5.com)
205 points by ssclafani on Aug 1, 2011 | 163 comments
9. Meet Comex, The 19-Year-Old iPhone Uber-Hacker Who Keeps Outsmarting Apple (blogs.forbes.com)
197 points by rjim86 on Aug 1, 2011 | 71 comments
10. Learn Perl in about 2 hours 30 minutes (qntm.org)
175 points by utkarshkukreti on Aug 1, 2011 | 104 comments
11. Patents against prosperity (economist.com)
159 points by chaostheory on Aug 1, 2011 | 38 comments
12. How to Launch Your Startup Idea for Less than $5K (mikekarnj.com)
159 points by ccarella on Aug 1, 2011 | 27 comments
13. Dulwich: Pure Python implementation of git (samba.org)
151 points by DanielRibeiro on Aug 1, 2011 | 33 comments
14. Why you can't search for phpBB on Bing (blamcast.net)
149 points by chaosmachine on Aug 1, 2011 | 42 comments
15. The Art of Computer Programming (interview with Don Knuth) (bcs.org)
140 points by tjr on Aug 1, 2011 | 25 comments
16. Protocol Buffers, Avro, Thrift & MessagePack (igvita.com)
135 points by igrigorik on Aug 1, 2011 | 24 comments
17. Airbnb Offers Unconditional Apology, And $50,000 Insurance Guarantee (techcrunch.com)
135 points by sahillavingia on Aug 1, 2011 | 62 comments
18. Stop A/B Testing and Make Out like a Bandit (untyped.com)
131 points by fezzl on Aug 1, 2011 | 66 comments
19. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2011)
115 points by whoishiring on Aug 1, 2011 | 128 comments
20. IOS devs put out a call to unite against Lodsys, other patent trolls (arstechnica.com)
115 points by DeusExMachina on Aug 1, 2011 | 34 comments
21. Show HN: An intuitive, offline capable HTML5 mind mapping application (drichard.org)
112 points by drichard on Aug 1, 2011 | 39 comments
22. iCloud beta (icloud.com)
107 points by sahillavingia on Aug 1, 2011 | 48 comments
23. Adobe Launches "Adobe Edge" - HTML5 Animation Tool (adobe.com)
102 points by dglassan on Aug 1, 2011 | 55 comments
24. Netflix Instant is coming to the entire Linux Community (benjaminkerensa.com)
97 points by taylorbuley on Aug 1, 2011 | 40 comments
25. Patents are about to become a bigger problem
95 points by AustinEnigmatic on Aug 1, 2011 | 52 comments
26. Google’s YouTube Uses FFmpeg (multimedia.cx)
92 points by naryad on Aug 1, 2011 | 40 comments
27. Taazr: Optimize and Monitor your Javascript (taazr.com)
90 points by unignorant on Aug 1, 2011 | 9 comments
28. WSGI Is Dead: Long Live WSGI Lite (dirtsimple.org)
88 points by jp_sc on Aug 1, 2011 | 16 comments
29. Wicked (antipope.org)
88 points by thunk on Aug 1, 2011 | 16 comments
30. The Blueseed Project - Opening Silicon Valley To The World (blueseed.co)
75 points by vabmit on Aug 1, 2011 | 33 comments

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