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1. Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO (Official Letter) (wsj.com)
641 points by hunterowens on Aug 24, 2011 | 65 comments
2. If Software Is Eating The World, Why Don't Coders Get Any Respect?
618 points by throwaway37 on Aug 24, 2011 | 265 comments
3. Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice) (objectmentor.com)
358 points by ColinWright on Aug 24, 2011 | 26 comments
4. Steve Jobs' Best Quotes (wsj.com)
333 points by arst829 on Aug 24, 2011 | 67 comments
5. Mac OS X Lion accepts any password when authenticating via LDAP (macrumors.com)
279 points by d0ne on Aug 24, 2011 | 82 comments
6. When Not To Quit: Man Revived After 96 Minutes (npr.org)
276 points by raleec on Aug 24, 2011 | 61 comments
7. Facebook Partners with Stack Overflow (facebook.com)
278 points by ssclafani on Aug 24, 2011 | 50 comments
8. Peter Norvig on a 45-year-old article about a checkers-playing program (scientificamerican.com)
226 points by mayoff on Aug 24, 2011 | 31 comments
9. What does 0^0 equal? Why do mathematicians and high school teachers disagree? (askamathematician.com)
223 points by ColinWright on Aug 24, 2011 | 130 comments
10. Annual Developer Income Report (kreci.net)
190 points by kreci on Aug 24, 2011 | 58 comments
11. GameStop opening Deus Ex boxes, removing free OnLive game code (arstechnica.com)
183 points by sp332 on Aug 24, 2011 | 71 comments
12. Russia plans $65bn tunnel to America (timesonline.co.uk)
181 points by pwg on Aug 24, 2011 | 95 comments
13. Netherlands judge rules Samsung Galaxy S, S II violate Apple patents, bans sales (engadget.com)
171 points by bond on Aug 24, 2011 | 137 comments
14. Y Combinator Demo Day: The Ultimate Roundup (techcrunch.com)
143 points by brendanlim on Aug 24, 2011 | 27 comments
15. $25 PC alpha board successfully runs Linux (geek.com)
138 points by ukdm on Aug 24, 2011 | 80 comments
16. How to sell: tips from a marketing guy who can actually sell something (bostinnovation.com)
137 points by sliggity on Aug 24, 2011 | 41 comments
17. An Intern Guide to a Summer in the Bay Area (alexeymk.com)
132 points by AlexeyMK on Aug 24, 2011 | 37 comments
18. Windows 8: Improving our file management basics: copy, move, rename, and delete (msdn.com)
127 points by ghurlman on Aug 24, 2011 | 131 comments
19. NPR tried Google's 20%-time with their developers (niemanlab.org)
126 points by freejoe76 on Aug 24, 2011 | 39 comments
20. Announcing the first release of batman.js (batmanjs.org)
123 points by nciagra on Aug 24, 2011 | 72 comments
21. Design Secrets For Engineers (pulse.me)
126 points by jeanhsu on Aug 24, 2011 | 38 comments
22. The most stupid C bug ever (elpauer.org)
121 points by Garbage on Aug 24, 2011 | 85 comments
23. Compiling to λ-calculus (might.net)
114 points by sindoc on Aug 24, 2011 | 16 comments
24. Preparing To Fire an Executive (bhorowitz.com)
104 points by jayliew on Aug 24, 2011 | 33 comments
25. Thoughtbot Releases Playbook for Building Web & Mobile Applications (bostinnovation.com)
103 points by kmccarth on Aug 24, 2011 | 10 comments
26. How dead is dead? (economist.com)
93 points by brianl on Aug 24, 2011 | 21 comments
27. What Every Computer Science Major Should Know (might.net)
87 points by sindoc on Aug 24, 2011 | 29 comments
28. DoubleRecall (YC S11) Turns Paywalls Into Advertising Dollars (nytimes.com)
86 points by tadruj on Aug 24, 2011 | 25 comments
29. BankSimple moves to Portland (banksimple.com)
82 points by ahhrrr on Aug 24, 2011 | 96 comments
30. Fastest sort of fixed length 6 int array (stackoverflow.com)
80 points by g-garron on Aug 24, 2011 | 17 comments

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