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1. Traffic Hacks: How One Driver Can Vastly Improve Traffic (trafficwaves.org)
237 points by Mintz on Aug 25, 2009 | 146 comments
2. Hacking a Google Interview - MIT's guide to Google interviews (csail.mit.edu)
185 points by mindhacker on Aug 25, 2009 | 41 comments
3. The Hacker Survey (spreadsheets.google.com)
139 points by tialys on Aug 25, 2009 | 61 comments
4. Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why. (wired.com)
113 points by mcantelon on Aug 25, 2009 | 69 comments
5. Massive Twitter Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (davidnaylor.co.uk)
83 points by byrneseyeview on Aug 25, 2009 | 35 comments
6. Being poor at modeling is essential to OOP (comment on LtU) (lambda-the-ultimate.org)
67 points by blasdel on Aug 25, 2009 | 22 comments
7. Y Combinator - Startup Library as Single pdf (12 MB) (ff.im)
65 points by Chirag on Aug 25, 2009 | 8 comments
8. Ask HN: How much?
63 points by hackeronymous on Aug 25, 2009 | 83 comments
9. Why boycotting Whole Foods is Stupid (scottberkun.com)
62 points by Anon84 on Aug 25, 2009 | 111 comments
10. Six strategies for overcoming "chicken and egg" problems (cdixon.org)
60 points by Laurentvw on Aug 25, 2009 | 6 comments
11. Why Craigslist Is Such a Mess (wired.com)
58 points by raju on Aug 25, 2009 | 29 comments
12. How to Debug Bash Scripts (aymanh.com)
55 points by kirubakaran on Aug 25, 2009 | 7 comments
13. What was the cargo ship, Arctic Sea, transporting, and why was it hijacked? (atimes.com)
55 points by sutro on Aug 25, 2009 | 19 comments
14. Tell HN: Public apology to dcurtis
50 points by edw519 on Aug 25, 2009 | 18 comments
15. Beijing loves IKEA -- but not for shopping (latimes.com)
50 points by adamhowell on Aug 25, 2009 | 27 comments
16. Joe Hewitt's take on the iphone App Store (joehewitt.com)
50 points by geeko on Aug 25, 2009 | 22 comments
17. Neutron Bomb (cringely.com)
49 points by johns on Aug 25, 2009 | 35 comments
18. The worst time to join a startup is right after it gets initial VC financing (cdixon.org)
48 points by prakash on Aug 25, 2009 | 16 comments
19. Review HN: Feedback Army
47 points by pclark on Aug 25, 2009 | 22 comments
20. The Pirate Bay's ISP has shut them down (dn.se)
44 points by michael_dorfman on Aug 25, 2009 | 11 comments
21. The Internet is about to change (blogmaverick.com)
44 points by Anon84 on Aug 25, 2009 | 33 comments
22. Justin.tv is holding a hack day at Y Combinator (justin.tv)
57 points by justin on Aug 25, 2009 | 7 comments
23. What We Can Learn From Mess (known as Craigslist) (avc.com)
41 points by cwan on Aug 25, 2009 | 27 comments
24. The Pirate Bay Returns With Guns Blazing (torrentfreak.com)
40 points by Sandman on Aug 25, 2009 | 14 comments
25. The Craigslist Credo: Unbrand, Demonetize, Uncompete (wired.com)
40 points by edw519 on Aug 25, 2009 | 19 comments
26. Poverty Kills (aaronsw.com)
36 points by ph0rque on Aug 25, 2009 | 69 comments
27. Disqus Forks Into Two Products, Launches Revamped Real-Time Comment System (techcrunch.com)
35 points by terpua on Aug 25, 2009 | 3 comments
28. Yahoo! acquires مكتوب (techcrunch.com)
35 points by sibilsalim on Aug 25, 2009 | 24 comments
29. Microsoft OneApp : Microsoft Introducing OneApp (msdn.com)
33 points by andrewbadera on Aug 25, 2009 | 15 comments
30. NoSQL East : A conference of non-relational data stores (nosqleast.com)
33 points by logicalstack on Aug 25, 2009 | 14 comments

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