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1. Testing Benford's Law (testingbenfordslaw.com)
546 points by brycethornton on June 27, 2011 | 88 comments
2. SearchYC is shutting down (searchyc.com)
303 points by chengmi on June 27, 2011 | 59 comments
3. Why mobile apps suck when you're mobile (TCP over 3G) (davidsingleton.org)
298 points by dps on June 27, 2011 | 68 comments
4. Paper.js — The Swiss Army Knife of Vector Graphics Scripting (paperjs.org)
267 points by hakim on June 27, 2011 | 41 comments
5. Learn Python The Hard Way 2nd Edition Released (learnpythonthehardway.org)
243 points by Ntagg on June 27, 2011 | 58 comments
6. Why founding a 3-person startup with 0 revenue is better than working for GS (adgrok.com)
211 points by pitdesi on June 27, 2011 | 51 comments
7. The case of the 500-mile email (ibiblio.org)
169 points by kachnuv_ocasek on June 27, 2011 | 18 comments
8. Google's War on Nonsense (nytimes.com)
157 points by dirtyaura on June 27, 2011 | 71 comments
9. You Can’t Make Money Charging $1 Per Month (softwarebyrob.com)
154 points by joshuacc on June 27, 2011 | 62 comments
10. GitHub open sources Linguist (github.com/blog)
153 points by DanielRibeiro on June 27, 2011 | 2 comments
11. Groupon May Expire Sooner Than Expected (seekingalpha.com)
148 points by Cmccann7 on June 27, 2011 | 41 comments
12. A cron pitfall that will probably snare you at least once in your career (reddit.com)
136 points by raldi on June 27, 2011 | 67 comments
13. Firefox update policy: the enterprise is wrong, not Mozilla (arstechnica.com)
134 points by abraham on June 27, 2011 | 95 comments
14. Sitting for hours can shave years off life (cnn.com)
126 points by nswanberg on June 27, 2011 | 130 comments
15. Among the costs of war: $20 Billion in Air Conditioning (npr.org)
121 points by wallflower on June 27, 2011 | 72 comments
16. Android's Log.wtf Method
120 points by chuinard on June 27, 2011 | 23 comments
17. HN Points (hnpoints.com)
119 points by karlzt on June 27, 2011 | 48 comments
18. Legend Of Zelda - Link's Awakening, now playable in HTML5 (grantgalitz.org)
117 points by xelfer on June 27, 2011 | 26 comments
19. Supreme Court: first amendment allows mature video games to be sold to minors (arstechnica.com)
108 points by headShrinker on June 27, 2011 | 155 comments
20. “Let's settle this in a Ruby programming contest” (jeffkreeftmeijer.com)
105 points by jkreeftmeijer on June 27, 2011 | 17 comments
21. Type 2 diabetes cure, extreme diet (latimes.com)
103 points by pavel on June 27, 2011 | 59 comments
22. Startups Don't Die, They Commit Suicide (techcrunch.com)
100 points by ttol on June 27, 2011 | 24 comments
23. Inc.'s 30 under 30 List (inc.com)
102 points by mchafkin on June 27, 2011 | 16 comments
24. Appsterdam: A Haven for Indie App Makers? (venturebeat.com)
97 points by DeusExMachina on June 27, 2011 | 53 comments
25. Policing the Police: The Apps That Let You Spy on the Cops (theatlantic.com)
95 points by GiraffeNecktie on June 27, 2011 | 33 comments
26. Dutch parliament passes Europe's first net neutrality law (arstechnica.com)
94 points by wicknicks on June 27, 2011 | 11 comments
27. I made a script to automate django deployments on Amazon EC2 (github.com/gcollazo)
91 points by flexterra on June 27, 2011 | 23 comments
28. Mastering Git Basics by Tom Preston-Werner (video) (ontwik.com)
83 points by ahmicro on June 27, 2011 | 6 comments
29. Open source needs designers (benwerd.com)
78 points by benwerd on June 27, 2011 | 60 comments
30. SSL session caching in nginx (hezmatt.org)
76 points by brkcmd on June 27, 2011 | 17 comments

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