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31. A new factory can turn almost any plastic into a useful product (economist.com)
29 points by ryanb on Aug 19, 2009 | 5 comments
32. Code vs. Create (ideasurfer.tumblr.com)
29 points by jballanc on Aug 19, 2009 | 16 comments
33. How to Eat on a Dollar a Day (onedollardietproject.wordpress.com)
29 points by _bbks on Aug 19, 2009 | 45 comments
34. What My 7 Year Old Learned From MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) (steve-olson.com)
28 points by solson on Aug 19, 2009 | 34 comments
35. Death by PowerPoint (bbc.co.uk)
28 points by justin_hancock on Aug 19, 2009 | 18 comments
36. Radiohead Leak Their New Track To BitTorrent (torrentfreak.com)
26 points by mariorz on Aug 19, 2009 | 6 comments
37. DailyBooth (YC S09), 4chan and the importance of context (jonathandeamer.com)
26 points by jonathandeamer on Aug 19, 2009 | 6 comments
38. The world's first cocaine bar (guardian.co.uk)
26 points by chaostheory on Aug 19, 2009 | 16 comments
39. Turning off the distracting parts of the Internet (rescuetime.com)
26 points by bfioca on Aug 19, 2009 | 13 comments
40. Forum discussion about cracking the TI-83+ key (unitedti.org)
23 points by edw519 on Aug 19, 2009 | 8 comments
41. Have We Entered a Post-Literate Technological Age? (tidbits.com)
22 points by spudlyo on Aug 19, 2009 | 20 comments
42. Ask HN: Has PG written any essays about "people who shouldn't do startups"?
22 points by wyw on Aug 19, 2009 | 19 comments
43. Tell HN : JetBlue All-You-Can-Jet Pass Sale Ends Today (jetblue.com)
21 points by kqr2 on Aug 19, 2009 | 5 comments
44. Rate my Startup: Uzvy.com (grouping reloaded)
22 points by metastart on Aug 19, 2009 | 19 comments
45. The Insufficiency of Scrum (billschofield.typepad.com)
21 points by BillSchofield on Aug 19, 2009 | 17 comments
46. Startups: Working in "bizarro world" (charuhas.com)
21 points by gislebertus on Aug 19, 2009 | 6 comments
47. Distributed software development with git and n2n (geniedb.com)
20 points by alaricsp on Aug 19, 2009 | 3 comments
48. Ask: Enterprise Heirarchy/Phone Navigation HOWTO?
20 points by mahmud on Aug 19, 2009 | 6 comments
49. A whopping 40% of Mozilla’s work is done by volunteers (pingdom.com)
20 points by vaksel on Aug 19, 2009 | 3 comments
50. Picwing (YC S08) and the importance of print photos (vator.tv)
19 points by edawerd on Aug 19, 2009 | 8 comments
51. Windows 7 to sell in UK for half the US price (cnet.co.uk)
19 points by nreece on Aug 19, 2009 | 19 comments
52. Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion (downlode.org)
18 points by gnosis on Aug 19, 2009 | 11 comments
53. Johns Hopkins investigating potential source of resistant pathogens: US farms (jhu.edu)
17 points by chaostheory on Aug 19, 2009 | 3 comments
54. URL shortener speed and reliability shootout (pingdom.com)
17 points by nreece on Aug 19, 2009 | 3 comments
55. ILike's $20m Valuation - Platform Dependency has a Cost (techflash.com)
17 points by webwright on Aug 19, 2009 | 8 comments
56. Seth's Blog: The talking pad (sethgodin.typepad.com)
18 points by javery on Aug 19, 2009 | 7 comments
57. Twitter's "Tweet" Trademark Torpedoed (samj.net)
16 points by mgcreed on Aug 19, 2009 | 3 comments
58. Is C++ still needed? (gerd-riesselmann.net)
16 points by davidsantoro on Aug 19, 2009 | 26 comments
59. Coffee's Dirty Little Secret (thedailybeast.com)
16 points by malvosenior on Aug 19, 2009 | 1 comment
60. Three Steps to Kickass Customer Service - the best investment a company can make (spreadsong.com)
16 points by supaspoida on Aug 19, 2009 | 2 comments

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