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1. The Mother of All Interview Questions (raganwald.posterous.com)
263 points by raganwald on Aug 2, 2011 | 128 comments
2. My experience with a 'negative review' scammer. (westiseast.co.uk)
260 points by westiseast on Aug 2, 2011 | 78 comments
3. The Legislation That Could Kill Internet Privacy for Good (theatlantic.com)
247 points by dimm on Aug 2, 2011 | 72 comments
4. PyPy is faster than C, again: string formatting (morepypy.blogspot.com)
233 points by Scriptor on Aug 2, 2011 | 76 comments
5. Amazon App Store: Rotten To The Core (shiftyjelly.wordpress.com)
231 points by markfenton on Aug 2, 2011 | 94 comments
6. ViTunes (danielchoi.com)
196 points by telemachos on Aug 2, 2011 | 43 comments
7. 9800 Feet Underground at Kidd Creek Mine in Northern Ontario, Canada (agu.org)
187 points by wmat on Aug 2, 2011 | 32 comments
8. Don't Burn Bridges: A Guide to Networking in Silicon Valley (giftrocket.com)
168 points by kapilkale on Aug 2, 2011 | 31 comments
9. Federal Register API (federalregister.gov)
161 points by chrismealy on Aug 2, 2011 | 23 comments
10. The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake (acm.org)
146 points by CowboyRobot on Aug 2, 2011 | 79 comments
11. Chocolat - the new editor (chocolatapp.com)
142 points by Void_ on Aug 2, 2011 | 140 comments
12. Zero Day Vulnerability in many Wordpress Themes (markmaunder.com)
128 points by d2 on Aug 2, 2011 | 53 comments
13. Turning the Internet Off (scripting.com)
123 points by locopati on Aug 2, 2011 | 30 comments
14. Bootstrapping an Ultra Low Latency Trading Firm, Part 2 (veyronb.wordpress.com)
119 points by veyron on Aug 2, 2011 | 47 comments
15. Notch on Euclideon: It's a scam (notch.tumblr.com)
115 points by Dysiode on Aug 2, 2011 | 48 comments
16. How the Winning Tron Bot Works (a1k0n.net)
113 points by yongqli on Aug 2, 2011 | 13 comments
17. MIT develops new tool that can interrupt infinite loops (bostinnovation.com)
106 points by pgatzke on Aug 2, 2011 | 67 comments
18. Amazon App Store: Rotten To The Core (shiftyjelly.wordpress.com)
103 points by neckbeard on Aug 2, 2011 | 19 comments
19. Push Pop Press acquired by Facebook (pushpoppress.com)
102 points by tlrobinson on Aug 2, 2011 | 37 comments
20. Dan McCracken died, peacefully in his sleep (wikipedia.org)
100 points by asnyder on Aug 2, 2011 | 22 comments
21. Why We Threw out All Our Code (And Why You Should Too) (nowjs.com)
92 points by sthatipamala on Aug 2, 2011 | 64 comments
22. Aloha Editor - HTML5 WYSIWYG Editor (aloha-editor.org)
92 points by mweibel on Aug 2, 2011 | 38 comments
23. Radi - mac app for producing web visual animations, video, realtime graphics (radiapp.com)
84 points by ChrisArchitect on Aug 2, 2011 | 14 comments
24. Twitter lands $800 million venture capital deal, breaking record (mercurynews.com)
84 points by johns on Aug 2, 2011 | 66 comments
25. Catching Integer Overflows in C (fefe.de)
81 points by apgwoz on Aug 2, 2011 | 22 comments
26. Startups On TV: TechStars Teams Up With Bloomberg (techcrunch.com)
77 points by hassanhassan on Aug 2, 2011 | 13 comments
27. Faceplanting: an app launch horror story with a twist (taptaptap.com)
71 points by joshuacc on Aug 2, 2011 | 9 comments
28. Why wireless networks are slow (mattryall.net)
69 points by mryall on Aug 2, 2011 | 20 comments
29. USCIS makes it easier for immigrants to build startups in the US (dhs.gov)
67 points by trustfundbaby on Aug 2, 2011 | 23 comments
30. Makerbot killer? Ultimaker: There’s a New 3D Printer in Town (makezine.com)
63 points by riboflavin on Aug 2, 2011 | 20 comments

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