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1. Signs that you're a bad programmer (sites.google.com)
273 points by clawrencewenham on Aug 7, 2009 | 121 comments
2. How Much Will the Post Office Put Up With? (improbable.com)
127 points by splat on Aug 7, 2009 | 47 comments
3. Python, client side: Skulpt (skulpt.org)
98 points by s3graham on Aug 7, 2009 | 41 comments
4. Netflix Prize 2 (netflixprize.com)
77 points by elq on Aug 7, 2009 | 7 comments
5. Tesla Says It Is Now Profitable, Ships 109 Roadsters In July (techcrunch.com)
74 points by peter123 on Aug 7, 2009 | 46 comments
6. What's on an airline baggage tag? (jgc.org)
68 points by jgrahamc on Aug 7, 2009 | 20 comments
7. Escherization (uwaterloo.ca)
62 points by fogus on Aug 7, 2009 | 5 comments
8. Twitter, Facebook attack targeted one user (cnet.com)
61 points by mjfern on Aug 7, 2009 | 20 comments
9. Ask YC: Your favorite startups lately
58 points by gaia-forming on Aug 7, 2009 | 67 comments
10. Google account suspended: A post mortem (justinlilly.com)
55 points by twampss on Aug 7, 2009 | 23 comments
11. Meet CI Joe: GitHub's new Continuous Integration server (github.com/blog)
55 points by evdawg on Aug 7, 2009 | 7 comments
12. Washington Versus Silicon Valley (wsj.com)
55 points by jsyedidia on Aug 7, 2009 | 43 comments
13. How to Back Up Gmail In Linux (mattcutts.com)
50 points by jsonscripter on Aug 7, 2009 | 22 comments
14. Practicing Product Minimalism (garry.posterous.com)
52 points by brlewis on Aug 7, 2009 | 19 comments
15. Book'em, Github. (linux-mag.com)
48 points by linuxmag on Aug 7, 2009 | 36 comments
16. Apple and Facebook application development: A rush for fool's gold? (fernblog.com)
46 points by mjfern on Aug 7, 2009 | 32 comments
17. Dean Kamen: Healthcare Debate "Backward Looking" (popularmechanics.com)
48 points by cwan on Aug 7, 2009 | 88 comments
18. Spacelocker, A Social Network To Avoid Like The Plague (techcrunch.com)
46 points by cwan on Aug 7, 2009 | 21 comments
19. Approaching a Minimum Viable Product for a Startup (threeriversinstitute.org)
44 points by plinkplonk on Aug 7, 2009 | 13 comments
20. Differences in the Windows and Unix cultures (joelonsoftware.com)
43 points by krying_krab on Aug 7, 2009 | 30 comments
21. The iPhone is the New Cigarette (bluvox.com)
42 points by abie on Aug 7, 2009 | 26 comments
22. Ask YC: Does interviewing developers leave you depressed?
41 points by Flemlord on Aug 7, 2009 | 124 comments
23. Does your company use Python? The Python Software Foundation wants to know. (spreadsheets.google.com)
41 points by VanL on Aug 7, 2009 | 21 comments
24. JCryption - JavaScript data encryption (jcryption.org)
37 points by Oompa on Aug 7, 2009 | 39 comments
25. Exploiting common crypto flaws (Google Tech Talk) (root.org)
36 points by jremmy on Aug 7, 2009 | 6 comments
26. On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re Dead (shamusyoung.com)
33 points by dmoney on Aug 7, 2009 | 14 comments
27. Renraku OS: The Way Up (daeken.com)
33 points by daeken on Aug 7, 2009 | 11 comments
28. Riak: A decentralized key-value store (basho.com)
33 points by mace on Aug 7, 2009 | 12 comments
29. How People Can Get You To Do What They Want (skorks.com)
32 points by askorkin on Aug 7, 2009 | 13 comments
30. Translation Party: Tapping Into Google Translate’s Untold Creative Genius (techcrunch.com)
31 points by jmonegro on Aug 7, 2009 | 16 comments

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