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Stories from August 3, 2011
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1. SICP is Under Attack (vedantk.tumblr.com)
570 points by vedantk on Aug 3, 2011 | 196 comments
2. When patents attack Android (googleblog.blogspot.com)
387 points by MikeCapone on Aug 3, 2011 | 279 comments
3. Free icons for any object in the world (thenounproject.com)
323 points by tansey on Aug 3, 2011 | 58 comments
4. How to remove yourself from all background check websites (reddit.com)
231 points by suprgeek on Aug 3, 2011 | 32 comments
5. See what Google knows about you (google.com)
224 points by nhoss2 on Aug 3, 2011 | 94 comments
6. How I Made $350 In Two Days With Three Pages and Some Payment Code (dshipper.posterous.com)
224 points by dshipper on Aug 3, 2011 | 84 comments
7. Why I Quit My Job to Start a Tech Company (viniciusvacanti.com)
222 points by frankdenbow on Aug 3, 2011 | 75 comments
8. Shock, awe: British government agrees that copyright has gone too far (arstechnica.com)
214 points by shawndumas on Aug 3, 2011 | 23 comments
9. Update: Internet Explorer IQ story was bogus (bbc.co.uk)
206 points by ColinWright on Aug 3, 2011 | 52 comments
10. Working Remotely (arandomurl.com)
201 points by daleharvey on Aug 3, 2011 | 73 comments
11. Scalability (gregor-wagner.com)
198 points by zobzu on Aug 3, 2011 | 161 comments
12. Why Van Halen had brown M&Ms contractually removed (snopes.com)
184 points by pitdesi on Aug 3, 2011 | 55 comments
13. Linus Torvalds dumps Gnome3 for XFCE (G+ discussion) (plus.google.com)
183 points by ricw on Aug 3, 2011 | 143 comments
14. Google Please Hire Me (googlepleasehire.me)
164 points by PStamatiou on Aug 3, 2011 | 106 comments
15. Swedish man caught trying to split atoms at home (ap.org)
157 points by danso on Aug 3, 2011 | 77 comments
16. Quantly: News for quants (quant.ly)
148 points by kefeizhou on Aug 3, 2011 | 27 comments
17. Polyglot Platform (heroku.com)
140 points by adamwiggins on Aug 3, 2011 | 10 comments
18. PyCon 2012 (pycon.org)
135 points by jacobian on Aug 3, 2011 | 31 comments
19. Randi Zuckerberg Runs in the Wrong Direction on Pseudonymity Online (eff.org)
135 points by protomyth on Aug 3, 2011 | 59 comments
20. Google: Patently Absurd (daringfireball.net)
135 points by joshus on Aug 3, 2011 | 151 comments
21. Notch defends his previous statement calling Euclideon a scam (notch.tumblr.com)
128 points by Auguste on Aug 3, 2011 | 52 comments
22. Google Should Publicly Oppose Software Patents (blogs.forbes.com)
126 points by yanw on Aug 3, 2011 | 25 comments
23. The future of CSS layouts (netmagazine.com)
121 points by tilt on Aug 3, 2011 | 37 comments
24. The Official Ruby Site Is Proudly Maintained by No-One (rubyinside.com)
116 points by jordanmessina on Aug 3, 2011 | 15 comments
25. NYT Crossword editor: "I was willing to endure a life of poverty to do this." (nytimes.com)
104 points by danso on Aug 3, 2011 | 42 comments
26. Elegant Markdown for a more civilized age (vmarti.net)
97 points by tanoku on Aug 3, 2011 | 63 comments
27. Operation Shady Rat Is The Largest Cyber Attack Ever Uncovered (vanityfair.com)
97 points by BioGeek on Aug 3, 2011 | 30 comments
28. Windows 8 to feature stripped-down kernel, built-in virtualization (itworld.com)
97 points by jfruh on Aug 3, 2011 | 63 comments
29. Bootstrapping an Ultra Low Latency Trading Firm, Part 3 (veyronb.wordpress.com)
91 points by veyron on Aug 3, 2011 | 16 comments
30. What's Special About Lisp? (kresimirbojcic.com)
88 points by aerique on Aug 3, 2011 | 64 comments

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