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1. Why I do not want to work at Google (canonical.org)
351 points by rl1987 on Aug 28, 2011 | 132 comments
2. Hacker News Like Button (hacksandthoughts.posterous.com)
302 points by thebmax on Aug 28, 2011 | 25 comments
3. Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine (songrabbit.com)
291 points by songrabbit on Aug 28, 2011 | 141 comments
4. Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers (greenteapress.com)
213 points by samrat on Aug 28, 2011 | 25 comments
5. Javascript Cryptography Considered Harmful (matasano.com)
207 points by adgar on Aug 28, 2011 | 174 comments
6. Keymaster.js: painless keyboard shortcuts for javascript (github.com/madrobby)
164 points by bmaeser on Aug 28, 2011 | 19 comments
7. Just fixed a 20-year-old bug… (azulsystems.com)
149 points by swah on Aug 28, 2011 | 29 comments
8. Antivirus Software Pioneer John McAfee Loses Fortune (2009) (go.com)
142 points by a5seo on Aug 28, 2011 | 57 comments
9. So you want to be a video game programmer? - The Specs (all-things-andy-gavin.com)
117 points by agavin on Aug 28, 2011 | 79 comments
10. Python web micro-framework battle (slideshare.net)
100 points by whit537 on Aug 28, 2011 | 57 comments
11. Demo: Raspberry Pi running Quake 3 (raspberrypi.org)
96 points by mcantelon on Aug 28, 2011 | 9 comments
12. Show HN: My personal project, animated and narrated children's storybooks (storyfun.com)
95 points by ardit33 on Aug 28, 2011 | 34 comments
13. Ask HN: Any good Macbook Air alternatives?
85 points by puredemo on Aug 28, 2011 | 134 comments
14. How Doing Less Work for More Money Saved Client Work (joshuablankenship.com)
83 points by joshuacc on Aug 28, 2011 | 7 comments
15. Do you want to sell sugar water or do you want to change the world? (cdixon.org)
82 points by dwynings on Aug 28, 2011 | 67 comments
16. Xbox 360 Reset Glitch Hack - Unsigned Code on current Kernels incl. X360 SLIM (libxenon.org)
78 points by ttol on Aug 28, 2011 | 18 comments
17. Cryptico.js - strong encryption system utilizing RSA and AES for javascript (wwwtyro.net)
77 points by genieyclo on Aug 28, 2011 | 61 comments
18. ClojureScript vs Coffeescript (metaphysicaldeveloper.wordpress.com)
74 points by DanielRibeiro on Aug 28, 2011 | 14 comments
19. Cockpit crisis (macleans.ca)
71 points by adamtmca on Aug 28, 2011 | 37 comments
20. Entries — Node.js Knockout (nodeknockout.com)
71 points by nathanhammond on Aug 28, 2011 | 23 comments
21. Now Can We All Agree That The "High Quality Web Content" Experiment Has Failed? (techcrunch.com)
67 points by ColinWright on Aug 28, 2011 | 59 comments
22. Deus Ex: The Eyeborg Documentary (eyeborgproject.com)
57 points by evo_9 on Aug 28, 2011 | 17 comments
23. Peer-to-peer overlay networks are a bad idea on a DSL-based internet. (canonical.org)
56 points by laughinghan on Aug 28, 2011 | 35 comments
24. Ask HN: Is there something like HN for successful entrepreneurs?
51 points by icode on Aug 28, 2011 | 50 comments
25. Batman.js vs Knockout.js (erlware.org)
52 points by jwilberding on Aug 28, 2011 | 6 comments
26. Kernel Comparison: Linux (2.6.28) versus Windows (Vista SP1) (pbworks.com)
52 points by zengr on Aug 28, 2011 | 13 comments
27. The Mentor Manifesto (davidgcohen.com)
51 points by dshah on Aug 28, 2011 | 10 comments
28. Why is C++ still a very popular language in quantitative finance? (quant.stackexchange.com)
50 points by BlackJack on Aug 28, 2011 | 46 comments
29. Is Copyright Only For the Big Guys? (torrentfreak.com)
49 points by davewiner on Aug 28, 2011 | 14 comments
30. A bot fixes spelling mistakes in github readme files (holdenkarau.com)
48 points by holdenk on Aug 28, 2011 | 14 comments

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