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1. On those "Entitled" Twenty-Somethings (squashed.tumblr.com)
105 points by bkudria on Aug 18, 2009 | 102 comments
2. Lessons I Learned Earning $119,725.45 from Amazon Associates Program (problogger.net)
102 points by AndrewWarner on Aug 18, 2009 | 44 comments
3. It's official: NASA is a jobs program. (fourmilab.ch)
86 points by nebula on Aug 18, 2009 | 83 comments
4. A bestiary of algorithmic trading strategies (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
85 points by Anon84 on Aug 18, 2009 | 20 comments
5. The Whore of Mensa (tripod.com)
85 points by gnosis on Aug 18, 2009 | 37 comments
6. Nassim Taleb (Black Swan) open letter to David Cameron (guardian.co.uk)
71 points by keven on Aug 18, 2009 | 64 comments
7. Call for a Better Web (callforabetterweb.org)
68 points by markup on Aug 18, 2009 | 65 comments
8. The iPhone is Not Easy to Use: A New Direction for User Experience Design (johnnyholland.org)
67 points by Yrlec on Aug 18, 2009 | 29 comments
9. 140 Characters? Just Post A Picture On DailyBooth (YC S09) (techcrunch.com)
61 points by suvike on Aug 18, 2009 | 36 comments
10. Why I hate programming competitions (archive.org)
62 points by gnosis on Aug 18, 2009 | 25 comments
11. JavaScript MVC (alistapart.com)
59 points by naish on Aug 18, 2009 | 15 comments
12. Signs not to Work for a Software Company or Startup (codemonkeyism.com)
57 points by alrex021 on Aug 18, 2009 | 50 comments
13. What Europeans do at Night (arbornetworks.com)
54 points by there on Aug 18, 2009 | 13 comments
14. Let's Call it a Draw(ing Surface) (oreilly.com)
48 points by RyanMcGreal on Aug 18, 2009 | 8 comments
15. Found: first amino acid on a comet (newscientist.com)
46 points by JohnIdol on Aug 18, 2009 | 42 comments
16. Is Taleb a crank? (falkenblog.blogspot.com)
46 points by kingkongrevenge on Aug 18, 2009 | 29 comments
17. Disruption and My Next Startup... You Help Decide (jasonlbaptiste.com)
45 points by markbao on Aug 18, 2009 | 43 comments
18. Visualizing up to 10 dimensions (boingboing.net)
41 points by bradgessler on Aug 18, 2009 | 27 comments
19. Personal Cell Phone Jammer, $27.41 (dealextreme.com)
40 points by frisco on Aug 18, 2009 | 52 comments
20. How do you scale your web application?
38 points by kenjin on Aug 18, 2009 | 39 comments
21. SuperUser now open to the public: it's the StackOverflow site for power users (superuser.com)
38 points by prakash on Aug 18, 2009 | 19 comments
22. Disqus 3 Preview (disqus.com)
37 points by simanyay on Aug 18, 2009 | 14 comments
23. Cops Use Old Brink's Truck to Shame Suspects (wsj.com)
34 points by robg on Aug 18, 2009 | 92 comments
24. Ask HN: Review my startup, HipHopGoblin.com (Pandora + HypeM + Hip Hop)
33 points by zackattack on Aug 18, 2009 | 41 comments
25. Stanford, Duke, Rice, … and Gates? (chronicle.com)
33 points by dhimes on Aug 18, 2009 | 33 comments
26. 6 Awesome Apps Begging to Be Developed (readwriteweb.com)
33 points by drm237 on Aug 18, 2009 | 13 comments
27. On reducing the size of compressed Javascript (timepedia.blogspot.com)
32 points by mark_h on Aug 18, 2009 | 3 comments
28. The Unreal Engine: Building the Empire State Building with Playing Cards (kotaku.com)
32 points by sutro on Aug 18, 2009 | 7 comments
29. MongoDB 0.9.9 Released (mongodb.org)
32 points by mcxx on Aug 18, 2009 | 22 comments
30. How a Perl 5 Program Works (modernperlbooks.com)
34 points by draegtun on Aug 18, 2009 | 28 comments

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