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1. R.I.P. Les Paul (yahoo.com)
196 points by jamesbritt on Aug 13, 2009 | 34 comments
2. How American Health Care Killed My Father (theatlantic.com)
166 points by mhb on Aug 13, 2009 | 105 comments
3. TED Talk: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success (ted.com)
160 points by qeek on Aug 13, 2009 | 29 comments
4. A Lesson In Timing Attacks (or, Don't use MessageDigest.isEquals) (codahale.com)
113 points by codahale on Aug 13, 2009 | 30 comments
5. How to price enterprise software (onstartups.com)
112 points by arihelgason on Aug 13, 2009 | 36 comments
6. IE6 is not going away for a long time because of corporate nightmares like these (sprint.com)
85 points by chime on Aug 13, 2009 | 58 comments
7. White Collars Turn Blue (1996) (mit.edu)
85 points by juliusdavies on Aug 13, 2009 | 40 comments
8. GraffitiGeo shows first augmented reality app for restaurant recommendations (graffitigeo.posterous.com)
79 points by jmtame on Aug 13, 2009 | 37 comments
9. Rifle-Oriented Programming with Clojure (thinkrelevance.com)
76 points by raju on Aug 13, 2009 | 1 comment
10. Springboard. A new incubator (in Cambridge, UK), takes no equity. (red-gate.com)
74 points by babul on Aug 13, 2009 | 28 comments
11. What are eigen values? (physlink.com)
73 points by apr on Aug 13, 2009 | 47 comments
12. Google releases Neatx NX server (lwn.net)
73 points by zby on Aug 13, 2009 | 5 comments
13. Perl Cannot Be Parsed: A Formal Proof (perlmonks.org)
65 points by fogus on Aug 13, 2009 | 52 comments
14. New ICANN policy stops domain tasting (cnet.com)
63 points by johns on Aug 13, 2009 | 18 comments
15. Radiohead Says No More Albums (wsj.com)
60 points by jnorthrop on Aug 13, 2009 | 27 comments
16. World’s first formal machine-checked proof of a kernel (nicta.com.au)
58 points by cromulent on Aug 13, 2009 | 29 comments
17. From one photo, we know there are at least one hundred billion galaxies (scienceblogs.com)
58 points by Flemlord on Aug 13, 2009 | 48 comments
18. Under No Circumstances Believe That You Need To Hire Rock Stars (thefailingpoint.com)
56 points by BrandonWatson on Aug 13, 2009 | 38 comments
19. Octopart launches Company Tools, allows part suppliers to easily upload data (octopart.com)
52 points by sam on Aug 13, 2009 | 9 comments
20. Deletionists slowing Wikipedia's growth (guardian.co.uk)
49 points by boredguy8 on Aug 13, 2009 | 85 comments
21. Dean Kamen Takes His Island Off-Grid (ieee.org)
44 points by mhb on Aug 13, 2009 | 29 comments
22. 3D Printers for $750 (wired.com)
43 points by onreact-com on Aug 13, 2009 | 16 comments
23. Twitter Announces A Retweeting API (techcrunch.com)
41 points by vaksel on Aug 13, 2009 | 20 comments
24. New battery could change world, one house at a time (heraldextra.com)
40 points by ph0rque on Aug 13, 2009 | 17 comments
25. ReMail Brings Speedy Full Text Search & Entire Offline Mailbox To The iPhone (techcrunch.com)
38 points by pclark on Aug 13, 2009 | 20 comments
26. The Daily WTF maliciously infringes Programming Praxis trademark (programmingpraxis.com)
38 points by igorhvr on Aug 13, 2009 | 34 comments
27. Seeking - How the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting (slate.com)
37 points by raju on Aug 13, 2009 | 6 comments
28. Ask HN: Who's Hiring... Students?
36 points by windsurfer on Aug 13, 2009 | 28 comments
29. Microsoft: the bold, yet timid, giant (misplaced innovation at MS) (surkanstance.blogspot.com)
34 points by bensummers on Aug 13, 2009 | 12 comments
30. Are hackers too young and too busy bettering their lives? (kineticac.posterous.com)
32 points by kineticac on Aug 13, 2009 | 15 comments

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