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1. Emacs follow-mode (stackoverflow.com)
221 points by cpr on July 23, 2011 | 50 comments
2. Sony's Captcha. View source to see why they don't "get" security (sony.com)
211 points by bluesmoon on July 23, 2011 | 82 comments
3. The Little Manual of API Design (troll.no)
207 points by trucious on July 23, 2011 | 16 comments
4. Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the information he wants? (serverfault.com)
195 points by splattne on July 23, 2011 | 48 comments
5. What Happened to the Future? (foundersfund.com)
182 points by clay on July 23, 2011 | 110 comments
6. Ask HN: What has been your most profitable side/weekend project to date?
181 points by riskish on July 23, 2011 | 156 comments
7. Intellectual Ventures on This American Life (npr.org)
178 points by jacobjulius on July 23, 2011 | 52 comments
8. Google Plus Deleting Accounts En Masse: No Clear Answers (zdnet.com)
174 points by dotBen on July 23, 2011 | 111 comments
9. NASA finds water reservoir equivalent to 140 trillion times the world's oceans (nasa.gov)
143 points by tomeast on July 23, 2011 | 85 comments
10. Apple MacBooks Can Be Hacked Through The Battery (digitizor.com)
141 points by dkd903 on July 23, 2011 | 43 comments
11. The Acceleration of Addictiveness vs Willpower, Productivity, and Flow (tantek.com)
128 points by revorad on July 23, 2011 | 29 comments
12. How I Dealt with Student Plagiarism (spinellis.gr)
112 points by reinhardt on July 23, 2011 | 36 comments
13. Advice to young programmers (chestergrant.posterous.com)
111 points by chegra84 on July 23, 2011 | 63 comments
14. When Patents Attack (thisamericanlife.org)
109 points by riordan on July 23, 2011 | 14 comments
15. Don't Let Congress Order Internet Companies to Spy on You (eff.org)
105 points by zoowar on July 23, 2011 | 17 comments
16. Google +1 tracks mouse movements? (stackoverflow.com)
97 points by Gullanian on July 23, 2011 | 26 comments
17. Why you should quit your technology job and get a Ph.D. in the humanities (chronicle.com)
82 points by drewda on July 23, 2011 | 49 comments
18. Introducing ClojureScript (clojure.com)
81 points by abp on July 23, 2011 | 16 comments
19. If you're not famous, joining Twitter is painful (dbasch.posterous.com)
90 points by diego on July 23, 2011 | 75 comments
20. Khan Academy exercise framework (github.com/khan)
77 points by neovive on July 23, 2011 | 18 comments
21. Panos Ipeirotis: A tale about parking (behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com)
74 points by timf on July 23, 2011 | 39 comments
22. Functional Programming Doesn't Work (and what to do about it) (dadgum.com)
71 points by ColinWright on July 23, 2011 | 54 comments
23. NoSQL is a Premature Optimization (smoothspan.wordpress.com)
71 points by timf on July 23, 2011 | 58 comments
24. Giant body of water found in space, black hole claims it was just hydrating (engadget.com)
69 points by bond on July 23, 2011 | 27 comments
25. Show HN: Enter a message, delivery at a random time up to 6 months from now (futuremessage.me)
66 points by yid on July 23, 2011 | 52 comments
26. Fast JSON parser for iOS (nextive.com)
61 points by cstejerean on July 23, 2011 | 11 comments
27. Oracle removes former Sun CEO's blog (digitizor.com)
54 points by dctoedt on July 23, 2011 | 10 comments
28. The problem with "Big Data" (evilmartini.com)
49 points by jchrisa on July 23, 2011 | 10 comments
29. I've Noticed a Major Flaw with Viral Coming Soon Pages (takara.posterous.com)
47 points by Swoopey on July 23, 2011 | 27 comments
30. Revamped Humvee Draws Military’s Eye (nytimes.com)
44 points by antr on July 23, 2011 | 20 comments

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