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1.Where Is Xu Zhiyong? (newyorker.com)
99 points by nice1 on Aug 1, 2009 | 36 comments
2.Can you trust TechCrunch enough to share their stories? (kullin.net)
95 points by noss on Aug 1, 2009 | 29 comments
3.PythonTurtle - the most low-threshold way for learning/teaching Python (pythonturtle.com)
73 points by cool-RR on Aug 1, 2009 | 26 comments
4.YC-Funded FanChatter Takes Social Media To The Ball Game (techcrunch.com)
63 points by vaksel on Aug 1, 2009 | 11 comments
5.Iranian Nuclear Accident? (wikileaks.org)
60 points by jackdawjack on Aug 1, 2009 | 7 comments
6.AMS Feature Column: Singular Value Decomposition (ams.org)
57 points by nixme on Aug 1, 2009 | 10 comments
7.How work expands to fill available time (1955) (economist.com)
52 points by dmnd on Aug 1, 2009 | 3 comments
8.6000 Chess Players Take Part in a "Beauty Contest" (chessbase.com)
51 points by mhb on Aug 1, 2009 | 9 comments
9.HTML is object code (rondam.blogspot.com)
48 points by lisper on Aug 1, 2009 | 67 comments
10.Big Brother Switzerland: real-time Internet interception to start on August 1 (wikileaks.org)
46 points by gasull on Aug 1, 2009 | 12 comments
11.Forget Shorter Showers (orionmagazine.org)
42 points by onreact-com on Aug 1, 2009 | 30 comments
12.21H.001: How to Stage a Revolution (ocw.mit.edu)
41 points by kf on Aug 1, 2009 | 19 comments
13.How Steve Jobs validates the Customer Development model. (startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com)
41 points by charliepark on Aug 1, 2009 | 11 comments
14.The Art of Failure (2000) (gladwell.com)
39 points by bootload on Aug 1, 2009 | 11 comments
15.Heroku: Amazon EBS Performance (YC W08) (heroku.com)
37 points by jnl on Aug 1, 2009 | 2 comments
16.The Next Lisp: Back to the Future (lambdassociates.org)
36 points by parenthesis on Aug 1, 2009 | 13 comments
17.I Hacked My Diet with Science (thras.blogspot.com)
34 points by thras on Aug 1, 2009 | 54 comments
18.No Need to Change It (thedailywtf.com)
31 points by edw519 on Aug 1, 2009 | 15 comments
19.Ask HN: review my idea for a consultancy/incubator [slides] (sliderocket.com)
31 points by chrisduesing on Aug 1, 2009 | 18 comments
20.CentOS Administrator Reappears (centos.org)
29 points by mariana on Aug 1, 2009 | 18 comments
21.Unemployment in Silicon Valley higher than after dot-com bubble burst (businessinsider.com)
27 points by baran on Aug 1, 2009 | 21 comments
22.Should solar panels be cleaned? (googleblog.blogspot.com)
27 points by sahaj on Aug 1, 2009 | 10 comments
23.Electrons split into two new particles, Holons and Spinons. (sciencedaily.com)
26 points by chaosmachine on Aug 1, 2009 | 5 comments
24.Conan O'Brien Harvard Speech (2000) "Fall down, make a mess" [video] (guba.com)
26 points by iman on Aug 1, 2009 | 2 comments
25.There is no free software, only software that is paid for by somebody else. (lambdassociates.org)
24 points by asciilifeform on Aug 1, 2009 | 55 comments
26.Pygame 1.9.0 released. Lots of goodies for creative programmers. (renesd.blogspot.com)
21 points by illumen on Aug 1, 2009 | 5 comments
27.Apple adds queue time, contact info to iPhone developer pages (tuaw.com)
21 points by _pius on Aug 1, 2009 | 5 comments
28.Advanced vim tips and tricks (swarthmore.edu)
21 points by bnmrrs on Aug 1, 2009 | 10 comments
29.Training Your Focus (dragosroua.com)
21 points by edragonu on Aug 1, 2009 | 13 comments
30.Seth Godin's Thoughts on Social Networking (brandinfection.com)
18 points by nader on Aug 1, 2009 | 6 comments

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