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1. John Carmack demos Rage on iPhone (kotaku.com)
206 points by samlittlewood on Aug 12, 2010 | 69 comments
2. Burning man defeats PayPal (fastcompany.com)
200 points by alexandros on Aug 12, 2010 | 98 comments
3. Making GitHub More Open: Git-backed Wikis (github.com/blog)
145 points by technoweenie on Aug 12, 2010 | 29 comments
4. Ask HN: Tips for Hackers having Kids?
136 points by thegyppo on Aug 12, 2010 | 130 comments
5. Jugaad, an inspired kind of duct-taped ingenuity (economist.com)
125 points by maheshs on Aug 12, 2010 | 45 comments
6. Google responds: Facts about our network neutrality policy proposal (googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com)
108 points by woodrow on Aug 12, 2010 | 124 comments
7. Megan McArdle: The Great Stock Market Myth (theatlantic.com)
103 points by cwan on Aug 12, 2010 | 92 comments
8. VC Insanity: How the economics of venture funds explain the crazy things VCs do (danshapiro.com)
99 points by danshapiro on Aug 12, 2010 | 19 comments
9. Straight Dope on the IPod's Birth (wired.com)
94 points by jdc on Aug 12, 2010 | 33 comments
10. Google Unveils Awesomely Fast And Accurate Voice Actions For Android (techcrunch.com)
89 points by edw519 on Aug 12, 2010 | 62 comments
11. Don't Hire That Developer (earthweb.com)
82 points by bconway on Aug 12, 2010 | 64 comments
12. Why They Were Able To Raise Money (jasonlbaptiste.com)
82 points by jasonlbaptiste on Aug 12, 2010 | 38 comments
13. $500k Selling Camera+ pulled from AppStore over 'Easter Egg' (9to5mac.com)
79 points by ajg1977 on Aug 12, 2010 | 85 comments
14. First-timer entrepreneur symptoms and cures (gabrielweinberg.com)
76 points by jordanmessina on Aug 12, 2010 | 11 comments
15. Inexplicable Superconductor Fractals Hint at Higher Universal Laws (wired.com)
70 points by signa11 on Aug 12, 2010 | 27 comments
16. Bug 626593 – Gnome ate my boyfriend Help (gnome.org)
69 points by bluesmoon on Aug 12, 2010 | 11 comments
17. Hello (Distributed) World: Designing Software that Spreads P2P (cyll.org)
65 points by tophercyll on Aug 12, 2010 | 30 comments
18. Terence Tao summarizing current status of P!=NP paper. (rjlipton.wordpress.com)
63 points by amichail on Aug 12, 2010 | 10 comments
19. Pushing Our (Tweet) Button (blog.twitter.com)
58 points by mrduncan on Aug 12, 2010 | 31 comments
20. Gmail plugin that lets send (or receive) email later [invites] (thenextweb.com)
58 points by zeedotme on Aug 12, 2010 | 19 comments
21. Kayak co-founder Paul English on "hiring religion" (2002) (paulenglish.com)
55 points by adammichaelc on Aug 12, 2010 | 9 comments
22. Deolalikar Responds To Issues About His P≠NP Proof (rjlipton.wordpress.com)
51 points by nsoonhui on Aug 12, 2010 | 21 comments
23. Heyzap (YC W09) Launches Support For HTML5 Games (techcrunch.com)
49 points by foobar2k on Aug 12, 2010 | 3 comments
24. New Website Builds Minimum Viable Products for Startups (ibuildmvps.com)
46 points by rcavezza on Aug 12, 2010 | 45 comments
25. The Pen Gets Mightier (theatlantic.com)
45 points by frossie on Aug 12, 2010 | 16 comments
26. Ruby on Ramen? (yahoo.co.jp)
44 points by jdeseno on Aug 12, 2010 | 18 comments
27. Where Did Demand Media’s Profits Go? (wsj.com)
43 points by bjplink on Aug 12, 2010 | 19 comments
28. Android-apktool: reverse-engineer Android apps (code.google.com)
40 points by gasull on Aug 12, 2010 | 7 comments
29. Clojure 1.2 RC3 released (groups.google.com)
39 points by bitsai on Aug 12, 2010 | 2 comments
30. Telling Swiss secrets: 222 billionaires (globalpost.com)
38 points by skushch on Aug 12, 2010 | 3 comments

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