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1. Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS (fakesteve.blogspot.com)
204 points by gabrielroth on July 8, 2009 | 104 comments
2. Tools of the Modern Python Hacker: Virtualenv, Fabric and Pip (clemesha.org)
157 points by iamelgringo on July 8, 2009 | 41 comments
3. BBC open source their "Glow" Javascript library (bbc.co.uk)
107 points by intranation on July 8, 2009 | 61 comments
4. No thanks Google, we've got Ubuntu (zdnet.com.au)
104 points by nreece on July 8, 2009 | 75 comments
5. The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship (nytimes.com)
73 points by asnyder on July 8, 2009 | 62 comments
6. Google Plans to Introduce a PC Operating System (for netbooks) (nytimes.com)
72 points by aston on July 8, 2009 | 49 comments
7. Memristor Minds (newscientist.com)
65 points by russell on July 8, 2009 | 13 comments
8. OpenSSH update from Damien Miller (lwn.net)
62 points by bcl on July 8, 2009 | 13 comments
9. Google Drops A Nuclear Bomb On Microsoft. And It’s Made of Chrome. (techcrunch.com)
60 points by vaksel on July 8, 2009 | 35 comments
10. IDrive spammed my Gmail contacts (aviary.com)
56 points by ironkeith on July 8, 2009 | 18 comments
11. Blind man sees wife for first time after having a tooth implanted into his eye (dailymail.co.uk)
55 points by dlnovell on July 8, 2009 | 44 comments
12. Stranger than Fiction: The story of PostgreSQL and Online Poker (codingthewheel.com)
53 points by 4chan4ever on July 8, 2009 | 22 comments
13. HalfMask - an Experiment in Password Masking (arc90.com)
52 points by nirmal on July 8, 2009 | 34 comments
14. Swedish Army Personality Test (mil.se)
51 points by pkrumins on July 8, 2009 | 46 comments
15. Can your programming language do this? (arohner.blogspot.com)
50 points by arohner on July 8, 2009 | 61 comments
16. Why ServInt (competitor) stands behind Rackspace (servint.net)
46 points by billclerico on July 8, 2009 | 14 comments
17. Here is the robots.txt of Google (google.com)
40 points by coliveira on July 8, 2009 | 33 comments
18. Most Printers Secretly Add Their Serial # to Everything They Print (eff.org)
39 points by DannyDover on July 8, 2009 | 13 comments
19. Non-technical mistakes made by programmers (makinggoodsoftware.com)
39 points by wtfdeveloper on July 8, 2009 | 13 comments
20. Traffic Server Proposal (apache.org)
35 points by lpgauth on July 8, 2009 | 9 comments
21. How a Minnesota programmer figured out that a NYT photo was altered (publicradio.org)
33 points by ams1 on July 8, 2009 | 10 comments
22. How much is a Petabyte? (mozy.com)
32 points by quizbiz on July 8, 2009 | 24 comments
23. Milw0rm Shut Down By Owner (74.125.47.132)
31 points by tsally on July 8, 2009 | 12 comments
24. All the Web's a Database: Yahoo Extends YQL With Insert, Update, Delete (readwriteweb.com)
29 points by sh1mmer on July 8, 2009 | 1 comment
25. Entrepreneurs Win Tax Case Versus IRS (wsj.com)
29 points by gamerates on July 8, 2009 | 8 comments
26. HTML 5 Parsing (ejohn.org)
29 points by twampss on July 8, 2009 | 9 comments
27. Interesting thoughts on Windows 7 design from a long-time Mac user (marco.org)
27 points by zimbabwe on July 8, 2009 | 41 comments
28. Zero money down, not subprime loans, led to the mortgage meltdown (wsj.com)
26 points by rglovejoy on July 8, 2009 | 15 comments
29. Scientists claim to have created human sperm in laboratory (bbc.co.uk)
26 points by nreece on July 8, 2009 | 23 comments
30. Bing, the Imitator, Often Goes Google One Better (nytimes.com)
25 points by healthylivingal on July 8, 2009 | 22 comments

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