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1. Command line tools for web developers (coderholic.com)
322 points by coderholic on Aug 13, 2011 | 68 comments
2. Hyperpolyglot: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby (hyperpolyglot.org)
311 points by tathagatadg on Aug 13, 2011 | 54 comments
3. Leaked AT&T Letter Demolishes Case For T-Mobile Merger (broadbandreports.com)
303 points by rosser on Aug 13, 2011 | 41 comments
4. C++ 11 Approved (herbsutter.com)
203 points by feydr on Aug 13, 2011 | 71 comments
5. The Sad Reality of Post-Mature Optimization (yafla.com)
192 points by p4bl0 on Aug 13, 2011 | 62 comments
6. Silence: Because I talked so rarely, people took the time to listen to me (swombat.com)
169 points by joshuacc on Aug 13, 2011 | 59 comments
7. AWS Post-Mortem (amazon.com)
145 points by zeit_geist on Aug 13, 2011 | 65 comments
8. Understanding "Prototypes" in JavaScript (yehudakatz.com)
144 points by wycats on Aug 13, 2011 | 9 comments
9. "When you're done talking, stop" (theatlantic.com)
139 points by jseliger on Aug 13, 2011 | 13 comments
10. John Carmack: Script Interpreters Considered Harmful (codingthewheel.com)
131 points by LiveTheDream on Aug 13, 2011 | 87 comments
11. Jonathan's Card shut down (jonathanstark.com)
119 points by aaronbrethorst on Aug 13, 2011 | 103 comments
12. If We’re Turning Off Social Media, I Want News Channels Shut Down, Too (wired.com)
115 points by d0ne on Aug 13, 2011 | 32 comments
13. Watch Google Map Edits Live (google.com)
109 points by NathanKP on Aug 13, 2011 | 21 comments
14. Should Your Employees Take Naps? (inc.com)
90 points by tbanks on Aug 13, 2011 | 35 comments
15. Graphwar -- Artillery game where you use mathematical functions (graphwar.com)
90 points by bane on Aug 13, 2011 | 20 comments
16. What is Google's real market share in the US? (gabrielweinberg.com)
87 points by pardo on Aug 13, 2011 | 34 comments
17. How much of an iPhone is made by Samsung? (economist.com)
84 points by asifjamil on Aug 13, 2011 | 31 comments
18. Homeless Man Has Three Degrees and Can't Find a Job (time.com)
79 points by ekm2 on Aug 13, 2011 | 71 comments
19. Pjscrape: A web-scraping framework written in JS using PhantomJS and jQuery (nrabinowitz.github.com)
79 points by jamesjyu on Aug 13, 2011 | 8 comments
20. The BBC’s fundamental misunderstanding of copyright (pigsonthewing.org.uk)
76 points by iSimone on Aug 13, 2011 | 21 comments
21. Raspberry Pi - The alpha boards are here (raspberrypi.org)
74 points by DanWaterworth on Aug 13, 2011 | 26 comments
22. Redhat 5.1 Redneck Internationalization (ninesys.com)
72 points by rcfox on Aug 13, 2011 | 9 comments
23. “The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee” (blissbat.net)
63 points by tryitnow on Aug 13, 2011 | 21 comments
24. Initial Thoughts on Clojure (acooke.org)
59 points by andrewcooke on Aug 13, 2011 | 36 comments
25. Updated iOS device and OS version stats from Instapaper (marco.org)
57 points by siglesias on Aug 13, 2011 | 17 comments
26. On rvm's *cd* script (batkin.tumblr.com)
54 points by benatkin on Aug 13, 2011 | 16 comments
27. Think Windows is insecure? You're wrong, says security firm Kaspersky. (computerworld.com)
53 points by barista on Aug 13, 2011 | 72 comments
28. Jonathan's Card 2.0 (talkaboutdesign.com)
55 points by NickKampe on Aug 13, 2011 | 33 comments
29. Apple, publishers 'sued for price fixing' (google.com)
53 points by yariang on Aug 13, 2011 | 42 comments
30. Update HN: Amazon has thankfully removed my free ebook
49 points by latch on Aug 13, 2011 | 2 comments

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