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1. Let's Abolish High School (youthrights.net)
132 points by absconditus on Aug 11, 2009 | 113 comments
2. You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again (wired.com)
88 points by edw519 on Aug 11, 2009 | 28 comments
3. JobSpice (YC S09) Makes Resumes Web Friendly, With A Facebook Co-Founder (techcrunch.com)
81 points by suhail on Aug 11, 2009 | 59 comments
4. Ask HN: Best Mathematics book for complete noobie?
78 points by babyboy808 on Aug 11, 2009 | 55 comments
5. Google App Inventor uses Scheme under the hood (googleresearch.blogspot.com)
76 points by mark_h on Aug 11, 2009 | 20 comments
6. On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study (csail.mit.edu)
72 points by kf on Aug 11, 2009 | 14 comments
7. Apple again offers matte screen option for 15-inch MacBook Pro (appleinsider.com)
66 points by peter123 on Aug 11, 2009 | 65 comments
8. Tim Sweeney: The end of the GPU roadmap [pdf] (williams.edu)
64 points by simonb on Aug 11, 2009 | 18 comments
9. Bootstrapping Abroad: why we do it and why it's awesome (spreadsong.com)
60 points by Zsolt on Aug 11, 2009 | 36 comments
10. World's smallest Arc server (arcfn.com)
58 points by krishna2 on Aug 11, 2009 | 6 comments
11. StackOverflow for HTML and CSS (doctype.com)
57 points by whalesalad on Aug 11, 2009 | 45 comments
12. Apple is the New Microsoft (herlein.com)
56 points by gherlein on Aug 11, 2009 | 39 comments
13. California Won't Accept Its Own IOUs (courthousenews.com)
56 points by gasull on Aug 11, 2009 | 28 comments
14. Music to Hack to: Nintendo Mixtape (nintendomixtape.com)
54 points by jeremymims on Aug 11, 2009 | 39 comments
15. Introducing Silent Diving Seagulls: An XMPP Interface for Desktop Notifications (abi.sh)
53 points by abi on Aug 11, 2009 | 11 comments
16. Ask HN: What is something impressive you have built or achieved?
52 points by wave on Aug 11, 2009 | 88 comments
17. The New Google Search (sandbox.google.com)
52 points by brennannovak on Aug 11, 2009 | 45 comments
18. How to Compete Against Open Source Competition (softwarebyrob.com)
52 points by gthank on Aug 11, 2009 | 57 comments
19. Pics: The Facebook/FriendFeed Deal Signed Under The Cover Of Night (techcrunch.com)
51 points by zaveri on Aug 11, 2009 | 8 comments
20. Ask HN: Advice for freshmen entering college
49 points by noahlt on Aug 11, 2009 | 149 comments
21. But what does a sorting algorithm sound like? (pillowsopher.com)
49 points by henryl on Aug 11, 2009 | 6 comments
22. The 1KB CSS Grid (1kbgrid.com)
47 points by chris24 on Aug 11, 2009 | 7 comments
23. Ask HN: Are you a founder?
47 points by hajrice on Aug 11, 2009 | 106 comments
24. Tough times in the porn industry (latimes.com)
46 points by SwellJoe on Aug 11, 2009 | 29 comments
25. Amazon's data could rock Google and online advertising (techvibes.com)
45 points by roblewis on Aug 11, 2009 | 30 comments
26. Withold password, go to jail (theregister.co.uk)
38 points by pmikal on Aug 11, 2009 | 38 comments
27. Steven Frank Gets Reply From Phil Schiller on iPhone Boycott (stevenf.tumblr.com)
38 points by ams1 on Aug 11, 2009 | 23 comments
28. "Caffeine" - Google's new faster search engine (telegraph.co.uk)
35 points by viggity on Aug 11, 2009 | 17 comments
29. Tr.im Resurrected (tr.im)
35 points by chris24 on Aug 11, 2009 | 49 comments
30. Pricing Car Repairs, Before the Repairs (nytimes.com)
34 points by tortilla on Aug 11, 2009 | 20 comments

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