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1. Welcome to the new decade (twitter.com/phil_nash)
486 points by tswicegood on Aug 15, 2010 | 158 comments
2. Applications open for Winter 2011 YC Funding, Deadline October 19 (ycombinator.com)
176 points by pg on Aug 15, 2010 | 60 comments
3. How to Write an Operating System (uiuc.edu)
177 points by superberliner on Aug 15, 2010 | 58 comments
4. Ask HN: All startup websites look the same
165 points by phugoid on Aug 15, 2010 | 82 comments
5. Ask PG: Why do you think Africa cannot produce global scale start ups?
130 points by OoTheNigerian on Aug 15, 2010 | 85 comments
6. Corruption is forcing Russia’s best and brightest to flee the country (newsweek.com)
123 points by sharms on Aug 15, 2010 | 91 comments
7. James Gosling: Quite the Firestorm (nighthacks.com)
119 points by bokchoi on Aug 15, 2010 | 53 comments
8. Is a Crash Coming? Reasons to Be Cautious (wsj.com)
119 points by andrewljohnson on Aug 15, 2010 | 105 comments
9. Ask HN: Learning Web Design
107 points by notnoop on Aug 15, 2010 | 32 comments
10. Free Parking Comes at a Price (nytimes.com)
104 points by rafaelc on Aug 15, 2010 | 115 comments
11. P vs. NP for Dummies (scottaaronson.com)
97 points by bdr on Aug 15, 2010 | 36 comments
12. Start-Up Chile (corfo.cl)
95 points by tswicegood on Aug 15, 2010 | 37 comments
13. Good-bye to Dubai (nybooks.com)
90 points by cwan on Aug 15, 2010 | 92 comments
14. Start-Up Chile: $40k to Live There and Start a Company (casnocha.com)
81 points by dsplittgerber on Aug 15, 2010 | 15 comments
15. World Population Graphed By Latitude And Longitude (chrisblattman.com)
70 points by Tichy on Aug 15, 2010 | 23 comments
16. Map/Reduce in Bash (github.com/erikfrey)
69 points by coderdude on Aug 15, 2010 | 14 comments
17. Introducing lisp.js: a Lisp for node.js (lisp-js.posterous.com)
64 points by devijvers on Aug 15, 2010 | 30 comments
18. Stanford Guidelines for Web Credibility (stanford.edu)
59 points by ccarpenterg on Aug 15, 2010 | 16 comments
19. Ask HN: How do you control consulting work and concentrate on startup work?
57 points by milofelipe on Aug 15, 2010 | 42 comments
20. Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth (captainrecruiter.blogspot.com)
56 points by _d8fd on Aug 15, 2010 | 38 comments
21. Understanding Python decorators (stackoverflow.com)
56 points by spoon16 on Aug 15, 2010 | 6 comments
22. The best sites for content
54 points by kinnth on Aug 15, 2010 | 40 comments
23. Hacker Uses XSS and Google Street View Data to Determine Physical Location (securityweek.com)
53 points by alecco on Aug 15, 2010 | 30 comments
24. How Oracle might kill Google’s Android and software patents all at once (roughlydrafted.com)
44 points by raganwald on Aug 15, 2010 | 26 comments
25. Ask HN: Please review our startup: historious
42 points by stavros on Aug 15, 2010 | 46 comments
26. Are Charities Killing African Entrepreneurship? (theatlantic.com)
36 points by cwan on Aug 15, 2010 | 8 comments
27. P≠NP proof update (rjlipton.wordpress.com)
35 points by amichail on Aug 15, 2010 | 42 comments
28. Ask HN: Can you make a living with free flash games?
32 points by scotty79 on Aug 15, 2010 | 18 comments
29. Ask HN: How long did it take you to pay off your student loans?
31 points by wcarss on Aug 15, 2010 | 71 comments
30. Brain's wiring: More like the Internet than a pyramid? (sciencedaily.com)
30 points by desigooner on Aug 15, 2010 | 17 comments

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