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1. Microsoft UI has officially entered the realm of self-parody (seldo.tumblr.com)
742 points by wyclif on Aug 29, 2011 | 326 comments
2. Learn Vim Progressively (yannesposito.com)
605 points by yogsototh on Aug 29, 2011 | 113 comments
3. Mari0 - Super Mario Bros. + Portal (stabyourself.net)
544 points by ChrisArchitect on Aug 29, 2011 | 29 comments
4. The "overlearning the game" problem (andrewoneverything.com)
362 points by sendos on Aug 29, 2011 | 140 comments
5. Misadventures in VC Funding: The $24 Million Moz Almost Raised (randfishkin.com)
335 points by dshah on Aug 29, 2011 | 50 comments
6. Gmail.com being MITM'd by Iran using this certificate (pastebin.com)
316 points by koenigdavidmj on Aug 29, 2011 | 184 comments
7. H-P's One-Year Plan (wsj.com)
279 points by jkopelman on Aug 29, 2011 | 88 comments
8. Applications Open for Winter 2012 YC Funding (ycombinator.com)
279 points by pg on Aug 29, 2011 | 119 comments
9. Why no Steam, Notch? (notch.tumblr.com)
197 points by sorbus on Aug 29, 2011 | 124 comments
10. Play on Heroku (heroku.com)
177 points by craigkerstiens on Aug 29, 2011 | 27 comments
11. Improvements in Windows Explorer - Building Windows 8 (msdn.com)
162 points by ghurlman on Aug 29, 2011 | 155 comments
12. Lodsys in a Panic to Keep Apple Out of Suit (groklaw.net)
129 points by grellas on Aug 29, 2011 | 28 comments
13. Bushido (YC S11): An App Store For The Web That Can Kickstart Your Side Projects (techcrunch.com)
123 points by sgrove on Aug 29, 2011 | 36 comments
14. Is it wrong to note 100m winners are always black? (bbc.co.uk)
120 points by trustfundbaby on Aug 29, 2011 | 88 comments
15. Best SSDs For The Money: August 2011 (tomshardware.com)
118 points by nesbot on Aug 29, 2011 | 68 comments
16. Understanding JIT spray (cdleary.com)
112 points by mbrubeck on Aug 29, 2011 | 9 comments
17. On Minimalism (chriseidhof.tumblr.com)
107 points by chriseidhof on Aug 29, 2011 | 83 comments
18. What Kills Startups? A study. (techcrunch.com)
98 points by entangld on Aug 29, 2011 | 42 comments
19. Is learning Assembly Language worth the effort? (stackoverflow.com)
88 points by llambda on Aug 29, 2011 | 50 comments
20. BitTorrent users don't "act in concert," so judge slashes mass P2P case (arstechnica.com)
87 points by Mithrandir on Aug 29, 2011 | 15 comments
21. US Incorporation for Canadian Startups (carlmercier.com)
85 points by cmer on Aug 29, 2011 | 16 comments
22. Book on Third-Party JavaScript from engineers at Disqus (YC 07) (thirdpartyjs.com)
84 points by bentlegen on Aug 29, 2011 | 20 comments
23. Arch Linux moves up to Linux 3.0 (desktoplinux.com)
77 points by darkduck on Aug 29, 2011 | 20 comments
24. Why I blog (gabrielweinberg.com)
79 points by wyclif on Aug 29, 2011 | 10 comments
25. Speech Recognition Leaps Forward (microsoft.com)
77 points by Garbage on Aug 29, 2011 | 33 comments
26. Hard work and high skills - notch and the value of the individual hacker (thestartuptoolkit.com)
74 points by robfitz on Aug 29, 2011 | 28 comments
27. Masked Protesters Aid Time Warner’s Bottom Line (nytimes.com)
75 points by sp332 on Aug 29, 2011 | 17 comments
28. Get 10 GB of space on the new Minus.com (minus.com)
77 points by mindotus on Aug 29, 2011 | 72 comments
29. Every generation gets the self-help guru it deserves (newyorker.com)
72 points by wyclif on Aug 29, 2011 | 22 comments
30. Gold Coins: The Mystery of the Double Eagle (businessweek.com)
65 points by winanga on Aug 29, 2011 | 19 comments

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