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1. Nginx established as a company (nginx.org)
463 points by rplnt on July 18, 2011 | 71 comments
2. Tame.JS: Flow-control by the makers of OkCupid.com (tamejs.org)
247 points by petar on July 18, 2011 | 52 comments
3. Netflix for baby clothes (plumgear.com)
239 points by daviday on July 18, 2011 | 100 comments
4. Chain World: a game that exists on a unique USB flash drive (wired.com)
216 points by fserb on July 18, 2011 | 41 comments
5. 9.2% Unemployment? Blame Microsoft. (blogs.forbes.com)
217 points by grellas on July 18, 2011 | 243 comments
6. Apple deals massive patent blow to HTC, Android in serious trouble (zdnet.com)
212 points by rbanffy on July 18, 2011 | 280 comments
7. LulzSec Redirects ‘The Sun’ Homepage To Fake Murdoch Death Story (techcrunch.com)
197 points by ssclafani on July 18, 2011 | 76 comments
8. Use Google+ to Improve Your UI (pixify.com)
183 points by blakeperdue on July 18, 2011 | 44 comments
9. Bookstore Chain Borders is Dead (wsj.com)
163 points by hung on July 18, 2011 | 124 comments
10. When free markets make it worse: new TLDs (asmartbear.com)
157 points by amirmc on July 18, 2011 | 64 comments
11. Ask HN: Where is the Django community?
147 points by ciniglio on July 18, 2011 | 155 comments
12. reddit gold, one year later (spoiler: the naysayers were wrong) (reddit.com)
140 points by raldi on July 18, 2011 | 88 comments
13. College Students Can Now Rent Textbooks Electronically From Amazon (mashable.com)
118 points by tathagatadg on July 18, 2011 | 41 comments
14. Indian Official Puts Public Webcam in Government office (nytimes.com)
104 points by wicknicks on July 18, 2011 | 30 comments
15. Scala comes to .Net (scala-lang.org)
95 points by markokocic on July 18, 2011 | 70 comments
16. Astronomers Discover Potentially Earthlike Planet Orbiting Binary Star (technologyreview.com)
93 points by JohnIdol on July 18, 2011 | 31 comments
17. Spotify bitrategate: 320kbps premium quality not there yet (spotifyclassical.com)
89 points by kraymer on July 18, 2011 | 79 comments
18. The Fruits of Immigration (marginalrevolution.com)
87 points by martingordon on July 18, 2011 | 88 comments
19. Machine Learning Fairy Dust (stdout.be)
86 points by stdbrouw on July 18, 2011 | 34 comments
20. Confessions of a custom-essay writer (2010) (chronicle.com)
81 points by redcap on July 18, 2011 | 30 comments
21. Bruce Eckel on JavaScript (artima.com)
78 points by tbassetto on July 18, 2011 | 56 comments
22. A slight discrepancy (bit-player.org)
77 points by wglb on July 18, 2011 | 13 comments
23. Google Prediction API - Google Code (code.google.com)
76 points by ColinWright on July 18, 2011 | 13 comments
24. Novell and Xamarin Partnership around Mono (tirania.org)
71 points by RuadhanMc on July 18, 2011 | 30 comments
25. Open source graphic design (ponnuki.net)
70 points by damaru on July 18, 2011 | 39 comments
26. Japan's preference for hardware over software is fading (economist.com)
67 points by ab9 on July 18, 2011 | 42 comments
27. Errant cron task yields yearlong time lapse of nytimes.com (joshuanguyen.com)
61 points by ChrisArchitect on July 18, 2011 | 20 comments
28. Lightsaber + Kinect + robotic arm = JediBot (extremetech.com)
55 points by ukdm on July 18, 2011 | 9 comments
29. Is anyone there? (nytimes.com)
54 points by chaosmachine on July 18, 2011 | 42 comments
30. Military software predicts Greek default (financialpost.com)
54 points by chailatte on July 18, 2011 | 28 comments

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