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1. The Guide to the Freedom and Responsibility Culture at Netflix (slideshare.net)
144 points by male_salmon on Aug 4, 2009 | 46 comments
2. IP geolocation is a bad way to select a UI language (zakwilson.posterous.com)
139 points by Zak on Aug 4, 2009 | 53 comments
3. Your World of Text, my current side project. Requires FF3+ or Safari 4, I think. (yourworldoftext.com)
136 points by bdr on Aug 4, 2009 | 71 comments
4. IE6 No More (ie6nomore.com)
121 points by 100k on Aug 4, 2009 | 26 comments
5. The Guy I Almost Was (1998) (electricsheepcomix.com)
105 points by juliankrause on Aug 4, 2009 | 25 comments
6. Super Mario AI Competition (togelius.com)
101 points by fogus on Aug 4, 2009 | 33 comments
7. Why There Are No Girls In San Francisco (whytherearenogirls.blogspot.com)
100 points by condor on Aug 4, 2009 | 106 comments
8. Inside a Netflix Warehouse (chicagotribune.com)
89 points by michael_dorfman on Aug 4, 2009 | 39 comments
9. Bowline - A Ruby GUI Desktop Framework (leadthinking.com)
80 points by maccman on Aug 4, 2009 | 19 comments
10. The future of fabrication is here: Shapeways announces stainless steel printing (crunchgear.com)
73 points by edw519 on Aug 4, 2009 | 23 comments
11. Inventor's Bike Folds Into Its Own Wheel (sky.com)
72 points by mlLK on Aug 4, 2009 | 35 comments
12. Bump Technologies (YC S09) featured in Apple iPhone Ad (apple.com)
64 points by comatose_kid on Aug 4, 2009 | 22 comments
13. The First Picture on the Web (cern.ch)
63 points by vaksel on Aug 4, 2009 | 13 comments
14. Best Vim Tips (wikia.com)
60 points by epall on Aug 4, 2009 | 8 comments
15. Futuristic Interfaces on Display at SIGGRAPH (technologyreview.com)
59 points by jp_sc on Aug 4, 2009 | 17 comments
16. For Many Americans, Nowhere to Go but Down (washingtonpost.com)
53 points by paulbaumgart on Aug 4, 2009 | 91 comments
17. Python In-Memory Data Structures (doughellmann.com)
52 points by mace on Aug 4, 2009 | 1 comment
18. Code is Not That Important, Marketing Is (itscommonsensestupid.blogspot.com)
51 points by nsoonhui on Aug 4, 2009 | 38 comments
19. Python vs Ruby, slightly more in-depth (rapd.wordpress.com)
52 points by edw519 on Aug 4, 2009 | 56 comments
20. Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part IV: snipmate.vim (catonmat.net)
50 points by pkrumins on Aug 4, 2009 | 8 comments
21. The Second Amendment in Iraq, Combat Robotics, and the Future of Human Liberty (howtolivewiki.com)
50 points by pchristensen on Aug 4, 2009 | 24 comments
22. Clojure Transients (clojure.org)
47 points by fogus on Aug 4, 2009 | 4 comments
23. Ask PG: Would it be possible to do an A/B test on HN?
46 points by jacquesm on Aug 4, 2009 | 42 comments
24. Ask HN: How do you record your thoughts?
44 points by DavidSJ on Aug 4, 2009 | 79 comments
25. Build Your Own PDP-11. (heeltoe.com)
42 points by asciilifeform on Aug 4, 2009 | 5 comments
26. GSM codes for replacing iPhone VM with Google Voice (geckobeach.com)
41 points by figital on Aug 4, 2009 | 10 comments
27. Announcing Lamson Advertising Marketing Email Synergy (zedshaw.com)
41 points by jballanc on Aug 4, 2009 | 13 comments
28. HTML5 Canvas Experiment (9elements.com)
41 points by paulbaumgart on Aug 4, 2009 | 6 comments
29. Large Hadron Collider "Fizzles" (nytimes.com)
41 points by kingkawn on Aug 4, 2009 | 15 comments
30. How I killed my start-up (a post mortem) (ryanleland.com)
41 points by intregus on Aug 4, 2009 | 29 comments

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