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1. 13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence (inhabitat.com)
649 points by jedwhite on Aug 19, 2011 | 142 comments
2. Please confirm your email address (bvckup.tumblr.com)
422 points by huhtenberg on Aug 19, 2011 | 79 comments
3. The Secret of the Fibonacci Sequence in Trees (amnh.org)
344 points by pigbucket on Aug 19, 2011 | 26 comments
4. The Architecture of Open Source Applications (aosabook.org)
184 points by kachnuv_ocasek on Aug 19, 2011 | 13 comments
5. IE9 deletes stuff (techno-weenie.net)
169 points by srozet on Aug 19, 2011 | 35 comments
6. 90 Percent of People Don't Know How to Use CTRL+F (or CMD + F) (theatlantic.com)
162 points by dm8 on Aug 19, 2011 | 140 comments
7. How To Become A Better Programmer By Not Programming (codinghorror.com)
152 points by davidjnelson on Aug 19, 2011 | 117 comments
8. Apple phasing out developer access to the UDID in iOS 5 (techcrunch.com)
128 points by canistr on Aug 19, 2011 | 62 comments
9. Can’t Wait (YC S11) is a mobile social network for movie trailers (techcrunch.com)
121 points by canistr on Aug 19, 2011 | 43 comments
10. New Visual Proportions for the iOS User Interface (aentan.com)
117 points by aen on Aug 19, 2011 | 46 comments
11. GeekStack Postmortem (geekstack.com)
116 points by pavel_lishin on Aug 19, 2011 | 36 comments
12. The stock market hates HP's new strategy (google.com)
105 points by pemulis on Aug 19, 2011 | 101 comments
13. HP To Apple: You Win. (techcrunch.com)
103 points by ssclafani on Aug 19, 2011 | 114 comments
14. Psychologist James Pennebaker reveals the hidden meaning of pronouns (scientificamerican.com)
103 points by jericsinger on Aug 19, 2011 | 23 comments
15. Show HN: CodeMatch: IDE autocomplete on overdrive (languageinterfaces.com)
102 points by moondistance on Aug 19, 2011 | 63 comments
16. An Introduction to Asynchronous Programming and Twisted (krondo.com)
99 points by bentoner on Aug 19, 2011 | 6 comments
17. Why Leo Apotheker will be fired from Hewlett Packard (February 2011) (cringely.com)
88 points by blumentopf on Aug 19, 2011 | 24 comments
18. Tagstand (YC S11) Greases The Wheels Of NFC Development (techcrunch.com)
86 points by canistr on Aug 19, 2011 | 16 comments
19. Aisle50 (YC S11) is Group Buying for Groceries. (mashable.com)
85 points by Gaussian on Aug 19, 2011 | 15 comments
20. Persistant and unblockable browser cookies using last-modified HTTP header (nikcub.appspot.com)
87 points by nikcub on Aug 19, 2011 | 32 comments
21. Microsoft offers webOS developers free Windows Phones and dev tools (winrumors.com)
82 points by Flemlord on Aug 19, 2011 | 81 comments
22. How To Use UTF-8 Throughout Your Web Stack (rentzsch.tumblr.com)
79 points by shawndumas on Aug 19, 2011 | 42 comments
23. A test which predicts ability to program before the start of training (mdx.ac.uk)
77 points by ColinWright on Aug 19, 2011 | 36 comments
24. Germany vs. Facebook: Like Button Declared Illegal, Sites Threatened With Fine (siliconfilter.com)
74 points by flardinois on Aug 19, 2011 | 75 comments
25. "..best direction for evolving Java is to encourage a more functional style" (java.net)
73 points by sadiq on Aug 19, 2011 | 42 comments
26. The Fall of Groupon: Is the Daily-Deals Site Running Out of Cash? (theatlantic.com)
67 points by nbj914 on Aug 19, 2011 | 75 comments
27. Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (Intern Edition)
65 points by adbge on Aug 19, 2011 | 39 comments
28. 100,000+ Sign Up For Stanford’s Open Class on Artificial Intelligence. (singularityhub.com)
64 points by ph0rque on Aug 19, 2011 | 26 comments
29. The Dollar-Store Economy: How the lowest end of American retail does business (nytimes.com)
62 points by linhir on Aug 19, 2011 | 35 comments
30. The Terrible Cost Of Patents (techcrunch.com)
59 points by canistr on Aug 19, 2011 | 6 comments

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