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1. The Fall of Hacking
176 points by noname123 on Aug 14, 2009 | 112 comments
2. An employee at Ubisoft quits in style. (newgrounds.com)
109 points by tri on Aug 14, 2009 | 16 comments
3. Coding Horror: All Programming is Web Programming (codinghorror.com)
85 points by Anon84 on Aug 14, 2009 | 98 comments
4. When less is more (economist.com)
69 points by yan on Aug 14, 2009 | 27 comments
5. YC-Funded GraffitiGeo: Foursquare Meets Yelp, With A Dash Of Augmented Reality (techcrunch.com)
67 points by siong1987 on Aug 14, 2009 | 11 comments
6. How I Built Mixtape.me from Scratch with No Experience (lifehacker.com)
62 points by bearwithclaws on Aug 14, 2009 | 6 comments
7. What Movies Get Wrong About Time Travel (slate.com)
60 points by edw519 on Aug 14, 2009 | 65 comments
8. Hacker Dojo - community center for hackers (Mountain View, CA) (pbworks.com)
58 points by tortilla on Aug 14, 2009 | 6 comments
9. Douglas Crockford: The JSON Saga [video] (yuiblog.com)
56 points by vladocar on Aug 14, 2009 | 3 comments
10. The Nine Eyes of Google Street View (artfagcity.com)
54 points by DaniFong on Aug 14, 2009 | 12 comments
11. Firefox extension liberates US court docs from paywall (arstechnica.com)
52 points by malte on Aug 14, 2009 | 6 comments
12. Why Portland is a great place for startups (centernetworks.com)
51 points by moses1400 on Aug 14, 2009 | 43 comments
13. The problem with taking seed money from big VCs (cdixon.org)
46 points by pclark on Aug 14, 2009 | 10 comments
14. I did what any sensible Lisp hacker does: I wrote my own object system (mikelevins.livejournal.com)
45 points by fogus on Aug 14, 2009 | 16 comments
15. The United States is not the nation of small businesses (guardian.co.uk)
42 points by gasull on Aug 14, 2009 | 52 comments
16. 1960s Braun Products Hold the Secrets to Apple's Future (2008) (gizmodo.com)
42 points by kirubakaran on Aug 14, 2009 | 6 comments
17. Cave Complex Found Under Giza Pyramids (discovery.com)
38 points by pg on Aug 14, 2009 | 10 comments
18. Lisp and Smalltalk are dead: It’s C all the way down (computinged.wordpress.com)
35 points by seiji on Aug 14, 2009 | 59 comments
19. Apple’s Cash Hoard (wsj.com)
32 points by fogus on Aug 14, 2009 | 44 comments
20. The Movie Studios Have A Great Idea To Ramp Up Piracy. (techcrunch.com)
32 points by edw519 on Aug 14, 2009 | 9 comments
21. Science and Pseudoscience in Adult Nutrition Research and Practice (csicop.org)
32 points by michael_dorfman on Aug 14, 2009 | 13 comments
22. Linux Kernel NULL Pointer Vulnerability (securityfocus.com)
30 points by ErrantX on Aug 14, 2009 | 15 comments
23. Hacker Dojo, finally a hangout where coders can go 24/7 (venturebeat.com)
29 points by transburgh on Aug 14, 2009 | 13 comments
24. Netscape Founder Backs New Browser (nytimes.com)
28 points by mjfern on Aug 14, 2009 | 13 comments
25. Bespin 0.4: Stop, Collaborate and Code (labs.mozilla.com)
27 points by chanux on Aug 14, 2009 | 2 comments
26. Recap: A Firefox Plugin That Liberates Paywalled Court Records (recapthelaw.org)
27 points by dc2k08 on Aug 14, 2009 | 10 comments
27. Google Chrome 4.0: Fastest OS X browser by 34 per cent (cnet.co.uk)
27 points by davecardwell on Aug 14, 2009 | 25 comments
28. Tell HN: Rochester, NY Hackers - Unite! (meetup.com)
26 points by wooby on Aug 14, 2009 | 10 comments
29. Cloning Vi Using Haskell (objectmentor.com)
26 points by fogus on Aug 14, 2009 | 14 comments
30. In response to GraffitiGeo Techcrunch article ... (geograffiti.com)
24 points by oGLOWo on Aug 14, 2009 | 11 comments

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