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1. Regrets of the Dying (inspirationandchai.com)
371 points by vijaydev on Aug 29, 2010 | 90 comments
2. What happens when you give homeless people a prepaid credit card. (thestar.com)
369 points by pavs on Aug 29, 2010 | 242 comments
3. Jason Calacanis' Warning To Y Combinator Startups [video] (youtube.com)
209 points by hajrice on Aug 29, 2010 | 123 comments
4. Swarmation: like musical chairs for pixels (swarmation.com)
208 points by mcantelon on Aug 29, 2010 | 73 comments
5. Less Framework 2.0 Released (lessframework.com)
150 points by alexkiwi on Aug 29, 2010 | 27 comments
6. Obesity: Drink till you drop (economist.com)
125 points by jsyedidia on Aug 29, 2010 | 105 comments
7. Too Few Women In Tech? Stop Blaming The Men. (techcrunch.com)
121 points by MediaSquirrel on Aug 29, 2010 | 153 comments
8. IPhone App in Approval Limbo for 3 Months, Dev Decides to Open Source It (robrhyne.com)
118 points by peter123 on Aug 29, 2010 | 41 comments
9. Satoshi Kon's last words (makikoitoh.com)
88 points by wallflower on Aug 29, 2010 | 10 comments
10. Realtime monitoring of Wikipedia edits via node.js (no.de)
87 points by mcantelon on Aug 29, 2010 | 12 comments
11. World's fastest radix sort? 1B 32bit keys a second using a stock GTX 480 (code.google.com)
74 points by junkbit on Aug 29, 2010 | 31 comments
12. When to Make the First Offer in Negotiations (hbs.edu)
74 points by kristiandupont on Aug 29, 2010 | 8 comments
13. Founder Institute: How To Launch In 10 Steps With Less Than $2,000 (techcrunch.com)
74 points by transburgh on Aug 29, 2010 | 20 comments
14. All about GNU Screen (lugatgt.org)
72 points by mace on Aug 29, 2010 | 26 comments
15. Clean People Feel Morally Superior (wired.com)
67 points by robg on Aug 29, 2010 | 42 comments
16. DuckDuckGo on This Week in Startups (youtube.com)
67 points by jasonmcalacanis on Aug 29, 2010 | 18 comments
17. Basic Command-Line Data Processing in Linux (symkat.com)
63 points by symkat on Aug 29, 2010 | 21 comments
18. What they say about age is true (scripting.com)
56 points by st3fan on Aug 29, 2010 | 74 comments
19. Windows applications making GRUB2 unbootable (greenend.org.uk)
55 points by mtigas on Aug 29, 2010 | 33 comments
20. Arrington is completely wrong about women in technology (seldo.com)
54 points by seldo on Aug 29, 2010 | 62 comments
21. Why social media gurus should be trampled by elephants (alexblom.com)
48 points by AlexBlom on Aug 29, 2010 | 21 comments
22. De-emphasize Age, Refocus on Play (simplyryan.com)
50 points by rwaliany on Aug 29, 2010 | 9 comments
23. More on the war against photography (washingtonexaminer.com)
46 points by cwan on Aug 29, 2010 | 39 comments
24. Rails 3.0 final coming (github.com/rails)
45 points by bjonathan on Aug 29, 2010 | 6 comments
25. Tethering (tbray.org)
45 points by wglb on Aug 29, 2010 | 30 comments
26. Arrington Is Denied Injunction Against Fusion Garage Over CrunchPad (scribd.com)
44 points by tptacek on Aug 29, 2010 | 17 comments
27. New Yorkers: help me defeat the evil NYC real estate market (rentenforcer.com)
43 points by rentenforcer on Aug 29, 2010 | 42 comments
28. Google Chrome Labs (Featuring Tabs on the Left) (googlesystem.blogspot.com)
40 points by stanleydrew on Aug 29, 2010 | 19 comments
29. The Twitter Revolution That Wasn't (foreignpolicy.com)
39 points by points on Aug 29, 2010 | 7 comments
30. Node Knockout entries are up (nodeknockout.com)
39 points by samdk on Aug 29, 2010 | 11 comments

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