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1. Will it optimize? (ridiculousfish.com)
357 points by mark_h on July 23, 2010 | 59 comments
2. Too many laws, too many prisoners (economist.com)
293 points by gruseom on July 23, 2010 | 167 comments
3. 1099 will end the world in 2012 (academicvc.com)
235 points by ajaimk on July 23, 2010 | 153 comments
4. For God's sake, follow your dreams (rootein.com)
201 points by whitegloveapps on July 23, 2010 | 84 comments
5. Peter Norvig's Library (books.google.com)
174 points by fogus on July 23, 2010 | 48 comments
6. How Digg does continuous deployment (digg.com)
143 points by malyk on July 23, 2010 | 24 comments
7. Xcode 4 public preview - Single window, LLVM 2.0, streamlined editing (developer.apple.com)
136 points by d_r on July 23, 2010 | 126 comments
8. How to Build a Data-Driven Startup (davidcancel.com)
129 points by dcancel on July 23, 2010 | 20 comments
9. Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet (azarask.in)
115 points by mbrubeck on July 23, 2010 | 87 comments
10. Step 1) Install pyre2 2) import re2 as re 3) 10x faster regex (github.com/axiak)
97 points by axiak on July 23, 2010 | 27 comments
11. Is The Game Industry A Happy Place? (gamasutra.com)
74 points by chaostheory on July 23, 2010 | 20 comments
12. Ask HN: What's been your best investment?
74 points by uptown on July 23, 2010 | 113 comments
13. Tornado Web Framework/Server hits 1.0 (groups.google.com)
73 points by rudd on July 23, 2010 | 3 comments
14. Making the world's fastest VP8 decoder (multimedia.cx)
73 points by kierank on July 23, 2010 | 20 comments
15. Why people think computers can't (media.mit.edu)
70 points by xtacy on July 23, 2010 | 51 comments
16. Preview fonts with Google Font Previewer (code.google.com)
65 points by keltex on July 23, 2010 | 9 comments
17. Six Months Later: Seven Major Websites that Send Passwords Unprotected (adamsmith.cc)
60 points by adamsmith on July 23, 2010 | 26 comments
18. Robot needs 50 tries to learn how to flip pancakes. (wired.com)
58 points by spif on July 23, 2010 | 33 comments
19. Rats trained to play the forex market (artmarcovici.com)
56 points by mjtokelly on July 23, 2010 | 21 comments
20. Insufficient data (antipope.org)
54 points by michael_nielsen on July 23, 2010 | 24 comments
21. Bad Code Isn’t Technical Debt, It’s an Unhedged Call Option (m3p.co.uk)
51 points by thekguy on July 23, 2010 | 24 comments
22. India unveils $30 Tablet PC (in.com)
49 points by aditiyaa1 on July 23, 2010 | 30 comments
23. PHP 5.3.3 Released (php.net)
49 points by Uncle_Sam on July 23, 2010 | 31 comments
24. WordPress Theme Thesis Maker Backs Down, Adopts GPL (mashable.com)
48 points by jolie on July 23, 2010 | 35 comments
25. Riak JS Lib, with implementations for Node.js & jQuery (riakjs.org)
50 points by roder on July 23, 2010 | 12 comments
26. What I learned at the Emerging Languages Camp (stuffwithstuff.com)
45 points by fogus on July 23, 2010 | 15 comments
27. Intel Paid Dell $4.3 Billion to Pad Earnings From 2003 to 2006 (nytimes.com)
41 points by alain94040 on July 23, 2010 | 26 comments
28. Many in Japan Are Outsourcing Themselves (nytimes.com)
39 points by credo on July 23, 2010 | 35 comments
29. Ask HN: Your "Keeper" articles.
39 points by RiderOfGiraffes on July 23, 2010 | 8 comments
30. W3C Core Styles (w3.org)
39 points by mshafrir on July 23, 2010 | 18 comments

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