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1. Tom Williams: Hired by Apple at 14. His full story. (sivers.org)
181 points by sivers on July 6, 2009 | 40 comments
2. Hacker Hacker News - see just the programming/math/science links from HN (hackerhackernews.com)
164 points by sqs on July 6, 2009 | 56 comments
3. SQL Databases Don't Scale (heroku.com)
100 points by sant0sk1 on July 6, 2009 | 108 comments
4. Did someone try to steal Goldman Sachs’ secret sauce (source code)? (reuters.com)
87 points by hachiya on July 6, 2009 | 37 comments
5. Why IKEA Is Fed Up with Russia (businessweek.com)
79 points by cellis on July 6, 2009 | 78 comments
6. The Hydrogen Myth (slideshare.net)
72 points by TriinT on July 6, 2009 | 37 comments
7. Introducing our new venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (pmarca.com)
72 points by kungfudoi on July 6, 2009 | 10 comments
8. This is the exploit equivalent of that guy who played the perfect game (2008) (matasano.com)
71 points by req2 on July 6, 2009 | 33 comments
9. The Mythical Man Weekend (clickdeck360.com)
66 points by kolya3 on July 6, 2009 | 35 comments
10. Scala as long-term replacement for Java (macstrac.blogspot.com)
62 points by fogus on July 6, 2009 | 38 comments
11. Physical reality of string theory demonstrated (esciencenews.com)
61 points by ph0rque on July 6, 2009 | 16 comments
12. Finally... Goto in Javascript (summerofgoto.com)
61 points by aheilbut on July 6, 2009 | 35 comments
13. Erlang scores a marketing coup (zerohedge.blogspot.com)
59 points by leoc on July 6, 2009 | 19 comments
14. New algorithm guesses SSNs (arstechnica.com)
53 points by fogus on July 6, 2009 | 19 comments
15. Mathematica vs. Matlab vs. Python (larssono.com)
52 points by soundsop on July 6, 2009 | 14 comments
16. Haml & Sass 2.2 Released (nex-3.com)
51 points by chriseppstein on July 6, 2009 | 19 comments
17. How high school students start thinking about code (computinged.wordpress.com)
51 points by llimllib on July 6, 2009 | 44 comments
18. Professor Studies Social Customs in Video Games - Becomes Most Hated Player (nola.com)
50 points by TallGuyShort on July 6, 2009 | 27 comments
19. Passenger fixes faulty airliner (bbc.co.uk)
45 points by vaksel on July 6, 2009 | 14 comments
20. Details on Marc Andreessen’s New Fund (techcrunch.com)
42 points by terpua on July 6, 2009 | 1 comment
21. Paypal Looks to Crush Amazon’s Fledgling Payment Service With A New, Secret API (techcrunch.com)
42 points by vaksel on July 6, 2009 | 16 comments
22. Why Incompetence Spreads Through Big Organisations (technologyreview.com)
42 points by Anon84 on July 6, 2009 | 25 comments
23. Use the same password on multiple sites safely (stanford.edu)
41 points by Confusion on July 6, 2009 | 20 comments
24. The Longevity Experiment (nationalgeographic.com)
40 points by limist on July 6, 2009 | 78 comments
25. JSON: What It Is, How It Works, and How to Use It (ennuidesign.com)
39 points by jmonegro on July 6, 2009 | 4 comments
26. Would you want it if it were free? (feld.com)
39 points by brm on July 6, 2009 | 5 comments
27. Decoding the HTML 5 video codec debate (arstechnica.com)
39 points by nickb on July 6, 2009 | 26 comments
28. Interview with Sam Odio, Founder of Divvyshot (YC W09) (examiner.com)
34 points by zaveri on July 6, 2009 | 5 comments
29. Chris Anderson's Free Audiobook [zip] (wired.com)
35 points by PeterRosdahl on July 6, 2009 | 6 comments
30. Why web log analyzers are better than JavaScript based analytics (datalandsoftware.com)
33 points by mindaugas on July 6, 2009 | 30 comments

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