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1. Airbnb Nightmare: No End In Sight (ejroundtheworld.blogspot.com)
1017 points by moonlighter on July 29, 2011 | 482 comments
2. Poll: What should be done about the endless repetition of stories?
428 points by ColinWright on July 29, 2011 | 148 comments
3. Airbnb Victim Speaks Again: Homeless, Scared And Angry (techcrunch.com)
397 points by jamesgagan on July 29, 2011 | 132 comments
4. Auditor's response to "Our security auditor is an idiot" (Update 3) (serverfault.com)
395 points by sharjeel on July 29, 2011 | 137 comments
5. The Secret Ingredient In Your Orange Juice (foodrenegade.com)
338 points by bradly on July 29, 2011 | 188 comments
6. Vandalised home puts pressure on Airbnb (ft.com)
318 points by arghnoname on July 29, 2011 | 138 comments
7. Why my Mom Bought an Android, Returned It, and Got an iPhone (betabeat.com)
291 points by spiffae on July 29, 2011 | 196 comments
8. Airbnb Competitor Checks IDs: 'We Don't Want to Trade Security for Volume' (betabeat.com)
265 points by citadrianne on July 29, 2011 | 96 comments
9. "SQLite is not designed to replace Oracle. It is designed to replace fopen()." (sqlite.org)
249 points by ma2rten on July 29, 2011 | 57 comments
10. Researchers Expose Cunning Online Tracking Service That Can’t Be Dodged (wired.com)
191 points by bmcmanus on July 29, 2011 | 146 comments
11. Vim & Python: Making yourself at home (justinlilly.com)
184 points by abrahms on July 29, 2011 | 29 comments
12. How to work with me - a no BS approach (nullisnull.blogspot.com)
181 points by beagledude on July 29, 2011 | 125 comments
13. Simpson's paradox (wikipedia.org)
174 points by nhebb on July 29, 2011 | 34 comments
14. Get $40k grant for your startup. Live in Chile for 6 months. (startupchile.org)
158 points by iamelgringo on July 29, 2011 | 74 comments
15. Apple now holding more cash than USA (bbc.co.uk)
150 points by JacobAldridge on July 29, 2011 | 126 comments
16. Raspberry Pi $25 PC goes into alpha production (geek.com)
149 points by adeelarshad82 on July 29, 2011 | 50 comments
17. Unsolicited Redesigns (Khoi Vinh responds to NYTimes redesign) (subtraction.com)
148 points by prawn on July 29, 2011 | 67 comments
18. Sublime Text 2 Build 2091 (sublimetext.com)
147 points by shawndumas on July 29, 2011 | 86 comments
19. Google Acquires Over 1,000 IBM Patents (seobythesea.com)
142 points by rmrm on July 29, 2011 | 62 comments
20. Don't use Java 7 for anything, unless you have no loops in your program (lucidimagination.com)
139 points by suprgeek on July 29, 2011 | 26 comments
21. Emacs violates GPL since 2009 (lists.gnu.org)
134 points by pk on July 29, 2011 | 39 comments
22. Burt Rutan’s Boomerang – Safety Through Asymmetry (wired.com)
129 points by inetsee on July 29, 2011 | 19 comments
23. SQL Injection Pocket Reference (Google Doc) (docs.google.com)
112 points by rudenoise on July 29, 2011 | 13 comments
24. Happy Sysadmin Day (wikipedia.org)
107 points by _ut0p on July 29, 2011 | 25 comments
25. Sqlite and couchdb creators announce unQL. SQL for NoSQL (unqlspec.org)
99 points by buster on July 29, 2011 | 65 comments
26. Backbone.js Tips : Lessons from the trenches (supportbee.com)
95 points by prateekdayal on July 29, 2011 | 22 comments
27. Why I love Smalltalk (pupeno.com)
86 points by mordaroso on July 29, 2011 | 37 comments
28. Groupon's accounting practices under SEC scrutiny (itworld.com)
86 points by Suraj-Sun on July 29, 2011 | 11 comments
29. House Committee Approves Bill Mandating That Companies Spy on Their Users (eff.org)
83 points by d0ne on July 29, 2011 | 20 comments
30. Experienced Users View Reddit Differently (gazehawk.com)
85 points by bkrausz on July 29, 2011 | 34 comments

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