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1. Tony Hsieh's Email to Employees RE: Zappos' Sale to Amazon (zappos.com)
221 points by dwynings on July 22, 2009 | 32 comments
2. Amazon Buys Zappos (techcrunch.com)
139 points by transburgh on July 22, 2009 | 40 comments
3. China and "our standard of living" (fakesteve.blogspot.com)
102 points by jp_sc on July 22, 2009 | 91 comments
4. Death spiral (sethgodin.typepad.com)
96 points by bearwithclaws on July 22, 2009 | 36 comments
5. Nobody Hates Software More Than Software Developers (codinghorror.com)
87 points by Mintz on July 22, 2009 | 46 comments
6. Could you Survive Without Money? Meet the Guy Who Does. (style.com)
85 points by browngeek on July 22, 2009 | 92 comments
7. The Calculus Trap (artofproblemsolving.com)
78 points by tokenadult on July 22, 2009 | 50 comments
8. Examples of Extreme Minimalism in Web Design (singlefunction.com)
75 points by webmasterish on July 22, 2009 | 36 comments
9. Django 1.1 release candidate available (djangoproject.com)
70 points by zain on July 22, 2009 | 6 comments
10. Computing with JavaScript Web Workers (ejohn.org)
63 points by emontero1 on July 22, 2009 | 26 comments
11. The Collapse of Harvard’s $36.9 Billion Endowment (vanityfair.com)
53 points by robg on July 22, 2009 | 63 comments
12. 4 and 8 year old sisters impress judges in programming contest (straitstimes.com)
46 points by pclark on July 22, 2009 | 19 comments
13. Forget Cuil, check this out: one guy and a bunch of pcs (gigablast.com)
45 points by jacquesm on July 22, 2009 | 40 comments
14. How To Develop a jQuery Plugin (sitepoint.com)
44 points by mcxx on July 22, 2009 | 5 comments
15. Winning team's approach to EY's SHA-1 contest (Fast GPU cluster, not the cloud) (tue.nl)
43 points by olivers on July 22, 2009 | 18 comments
16. Why we say yes to drugs (salon.com)
40 points by bearwithclaws on July 22, 2009 | 21 comments
17. Yahoo to Acquire Xoopit for About $20 Million (allthingsd.com)
39 points by blazamos on July 22, 2009 | 14 comments
18. Build Your Next Web Application with Erlang (pdf) (ginx.com)
34 points by prakash on July 22, 2009 | 2 comments
19. Guess Who Lost Big on the Zappos Deal? (techcrunch.com)
34 points by jasonlbaptiste on July 22, 2009 | 20 comments
20. How breadpig made $30K (for charity) in 2008 selling magnets in our spare time (breadpig.com)
34 points by kn0thing on July 22, 2009 | 2 comments
21. Young German architects are designing structures made out of living trees (spiegel.de)
32 points by robg on July 22, 2009 | 9 comments
22. Cheat Sheets and Reference Guides for Web Professionals (webdesignerdepot.com)
31 points by bearwithclaws on July 22, 2009 | 1 comment
23. Traits of Highly Creative People (copyblogger.com)
29 points by joel_liu on July 22, 2009 | 15 comments
24. Digitize Your Own Books: The Book Ripper Project (bkrpr.org)
25 points by anurag on July 22, 2009 | 8 comments
25. Using Ruby and Python on Web Clients (tirania.org)
25 points by johns on July 22, 2009 | 2 comments
26. On the apparent Apple suicide (crunchgear.com)
24 points by vijayr on July 22, 2009 | 24 comments
27. Dijkstra interview (subtitled, 24 mins, 300MB) [mpg video] (utexas.edu)
24 points by 10ren on July 22, 2009 | 11 comments
28. Reveling in Constraints - GWT is an end-run around Web development obstacles (acm.org)
24 points by Anon84 on July 22, 2009 | 5 comments
29. Is algorithmic trading making markets less efficient & gaming the system? (themistrading.com)
23 points by landist on July 22, 2009 | 15 comments
30. Do You Believe In Magic? (gilesbowkett.blogspot.com)
23 points by astrec on July 22, 2009 | 3 comments

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