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1. Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions (jpf.github.com)
171 points by jf on Aug 6, 2009 | 99 comments
2. Phil Schiller Responds to App Store Dictionary Censoring (daringfireball.net)
157 points by Oompa on Aug 6, 2009 | 88 comments
3. Directed Edge sees a post-search web where recommendations rule (techcrunch.com)
108 points by GVRV on Aug 6, 2009 | 30 comments
4. The LED's Dark Secret: "droop" (ieee.org)
106 points by prakash on Aug 6, 2009 | 19 comments
5. Anybots is for real: Check out Trevor's robots on the Surrogates trailer (mtv.com)
90 points by jaf12duke on Aug 6, 2009 | 14 comments
6. For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics (nytimes.com)
89 points by tokenadult on Aug 6, 2009 | 42 comments
7. JavaScript Wolfenstein 3D Engine (myopera.com)
84 points by boundlessdreamz on Aug 6, 2009 | 31 comments
8. Serious Twitter, LiveJournal Outage Ongoing (techcrunch.com)
77 points by pclark on Aug 6, 2009 | 76 comments
9. Canonical Will Own Your Search: New mandatory Ubuntu plugin takes over Firefox (launchpad.net)
75 points by windsurfer on Aug 6, 2009 | 36 comments
10. Icon Driven Development on the App Store- how we make $350/day without marketing (spreadsong.com)
71 points by colinplamondon on Aug 6, 2009 | 19 comments
11. Web citizens trying to kill Internet Explorer 6 (cnn.com)
69 points by drusenko on Aug 6, 2009 | 11 comments
12. Team Apart (YC S08) hits the right price for collaboration: $0.00 (venturebeat.com)
64 points by whather on Aug 6, 2009 | 30 comments
13. Sofware Pricing: Are We Doing It Wrong? (codinghorror.com)
57 points by nudded on Aug 6, 2009 | 36 comments
14. Apple now bans e-books from the App Store (tuaw.com)
57 points by die_sekte on Aug 6, 2009 | 28 comments
15. Team Apart (YC S08) wants to eat Webex's lunch (techcrunch.com)
55 points by rokhayakebe on Aug 6, 2009 | 19 comments
16. Turn boring HTML checkboxes into iPhone toggle switches (jqr.github.com)
54 points by jqr on Aug 6, 2009 | 23 comments
17. Phrack 66 (June 2009) (phrack.org)
49 points by rw on Aug 6, 2009 | 9 comments
18. Under No Circumstances Start A Company Because You Hate Your Job (thefailingpoint.com)
49 points by BrandonWatson on Aug 6, 2009 | 25 comments
19. Inside the World’s Most Hostile Network (wired.com)
47 points by there on Aug 6, 2009 | 5 comments
20. This Day in Tech: Aug. 6, 1997: Apple Rescued - by Microsoft (wired.com)
45 points by edw519 on Aug 6, 2009 | 32 comments
21. The Tyranny of Process Worship Within IT (ciopedia.com)
42 points by Hume62 on Aug 6, 2009 | 19 comments
22. Ask HN: Which tools do you use to optimize your webapps?
41 points by nixy on Aug 6, 2009 | 16 comments
23. Bruce Schneier: Risk Intuition (schneier.com)
38 points by gaika on Aug 6, 2009 | 6 comments
24. Tell HN: It might be a good time to change your twitter password.
40 points by paulgb on Aug 6, 2009 | 18 comments
25. Brand New blog's revised Pepsi vs. Coke branding chart (underconsideration.com)
39 points by tptacek on Aug 6, 2009 | 16 comments
26. Guy Kawasaki: Will anyone pay for anything? (openforum.com)
38 points by cwan on Aug 6, 2009 | 22 comments
27. AMD reverses GPGPU trend, announces OpenCL SDK for x86 (arstechnica.com)
38 points by habs on Aug 6, 2009 | 27 comments
28. Ask HN: where'd my ability to downvote go?
37 points by xelfer on Aug 6, 2009 | 28 comments
29. Did Google spend $106.5m to open source a codec? (theregister.co.uk)
35 points by Flemlord on Aug 6, 2009 | 6 comments
30. MakerBot is pioneering distributed manufacturing (makerbot.com)
34 points by ph0rque on Aug 6, 2009 | 9 comments

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