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1. Visualization of L1, L2, Ram and Disk latencies [gif] (imgur.com)
117 points by Sam_Odio on July 13, 2009 | 59 comments
2. Have you ever been successful in changing your personality?
105 points by bgurupra on July 13, 2009 | 80 comments
3. Couldn't sleep. Wrote some code to displays live feed of latest twitpics. (pingwire.com)
102 points by allang on July 13, 2009 | 50 comments
4. Rsync.net Warrant Canary (rsync.net)
99 points by jcsalterego on July 13, 2009 | 46 comments
5. Persistent Myths in Feminist Scholarship (chronicle.com)
90 points by kylec on July 13, 2009 | 44 comments
6. Blue and Green color illusion (discovermagazine.com)
81 points by shard on July 13, 2009 | 10 comments
7. Night owls have more mental stamina than those who awaken at the crack of dawn (theglobeandmail.com)
81 points by soundsop on July 13, 2009 | 41 comments
8. Calorie restrictive eating for longer life? The story we didn’t hear in the news (junkfoodscience.blogspot.com)
78 points by soundsop on July 13, 2009 | 45 comments
9. 'This is what an IED looks like. I took this photo near Kandahar.' (trueslant.com)
75 points by noheartanthony on July 13, 2009 | 76 comments
10. Built to Fail: What Google, Ideo, and 37signals have in common (andrewchenblog.com)
71 points by andrew_null on July 13, 2009 | 28 comments
11. The Principles of Product Development Flow (startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com)
68 points by peter123 on July 13, 2009
12. If You Want to Write Useful Software, You Have to Do Tech Support (nick.typepad.com)
63 points by pchristensen on July 13, 2009 | 24 comments
13. The unstoppable Google (wired.co.uk)
51 points by PeterRosdahl on July 13, 2009 | 14 comments
14. Polish teen derails tram after hacking train network (2008) (theregister.co.uk)
50 points by TriinT on July 13, 2009 | 26 comments
15. Ask HN: review my web app, a wiki for code snippets (refactory.org)
47 points by smokestack on July 13, 2009 | 11 comments
16. Microsoft Has Turned The Corner (minimsft.blogspot.com)
46 points by markbao on July 13, 2009 | 38 comments
17. Ask HN: Have you ever had one of your sites get hacked?
44 points by vaksel on July 13, 2009 | 29 comments
18. Webkit 3D CSS Transforms: Snow Stack (satine.org)
44 points by functional-tree on July 13, 2009 | 23 comments
19. Animated Engines (animatedengines.com)
44 points by streblo on July 13, 2009 | 11 comments
20. Torrents hidden in PNG images (hid.im)
45 points by mixmax on July 13, 2009 | 22 comments
21. “Without Haste, Without Fear. We Will Conquer the World” (ft.com)
41 points by blasdel on July 13, 2009 | 19 comments
22. Social Skydiving Days 18-20: Winners are Made of Fail (socialskydivingwithjustin.posterous.com)
41 points by darkxanthos on July 13, 2009 | 17 comments
23. Keep losing freelance work
41 points by plate-it on July 13, 2009 | 37 comments
24. Cringely: Chrome vs. Bing vs. You and Me (nytimes.com)
40 points by tokenadult on July 13, 2009 | 19 comments
25. Cache Oblivious Algorithms (catonmat.net)
39 points by pkrumins on July 13, 2009 | 3 comments
26. PostgreSQL Development: Lessons for Perl? (justatheory.com)
39 points by keyist on July 13, 2009 | 6 comments
27. India prays for rain as water wars break out (guardian.co.uk)
31 points by chaostheory on July 13, 2009 | 25 comments
28. Schneier says he was 'probably wrong' on masked passwords (theregister.co.uk)
31 points by prodigal_erik on July 13, 2009 | 30 comments
29. Ask HN: Best approach for taking on well funded competitors ?
31 points by FreeRadical on July 13, 2009 | 24 comments
30. The significance of Claude Shannon's work (bell-labs.com)
30 points by TriinT on July 13, 2009 | 3 comments

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