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31. Student Arrested for Jailbreaking Game Consoles (wired.com)
40 points by MicahWedemeyer on Aug 4, 2009 | 53 comments
32. Ask HN: What is your favorite hand-rolled malloc?
39 points by leif on Aug 4, 2009 | 19 comments
33. The Six Phases of Bootstrapping A One-Man Startup (factorthree.com)
38 points by donniefitz2 on Aug 4, 2009 | 24 comments
34. Full-time Startup: Skribit Week 30 (Coding, Coding, Coding) (paulstamatiou.com)
37 points by PStamatiou on Aug 4, 2009 | 9 comments
35. Nobody cares - a fundamental principle for startup socialites (30sleeps.com)
35 points by bumbledraven on Aug 4, 2009 | 11 comments
36. Hanging with hackers can make you paranoid (cnet.com)
35 points by edw519 on Aug 4, 2009 | 5 comments
37. PostgreSQL, Rails, and why you should care (awesomeful.net)
30 points by _pius on Aug 4, 2009 | 9 comments
38. Ask HN: How did you really learn a foreign language?
28 points by zaidf on Aug 4, 2009 | 69 comments
39. Rails in the Enterprise (lesseverything.com)
27 points by lessallan on Aug 4, 2009 | 15 comments
40. Hacking the DefCon 17 Badges (wired.com)
27 points by edw519 on Aug 4, 2009 | 2 comments
41. Free legal documents for entrepreneurs (venturebeat.com)
26 points by gasull on Aug 4, 2009 | 3 comments
42. A Java old timer reminisces - Oak, 0XCAFEBABE, Green Threads, RuntimeException (suprgeek.wordpress.com)
26 points by suprgeek on Aug 4, 2009 | 5 comments
43. Freakonomics: Q&A With the Author of $20 Per Gallon (nytimes.com)
25 points by paulgb on Aug 4, 2009 | 13 comments
44. Leave the math to us: Advertisers increase profits with Conversion Optimizer (googleblog.blogspot.com)
24 points by Anon84 on Aug 4, 2009 | 19 comments
45. Copyrighting the English language (fhtr.blogspot.com)
23 points by madboy on Aug 4, 2009 | 14 comments
46. 'Teach Naked' Effort Strips Computers From Classrooms (chronicle.com)
23 points by malte on Aug 4, 2009 | 26 comments
47. Interface Zen: Zenning out while writing code (1999) (slashdot.org)
22 points by aditya on Aug 4, 2009 | 5 comments
48. YC/HN: Name a problem, any problem, you'd like to see someone solve.
23 points by Mystalic on Aug 4, 2009 | 33 comments
49. Traction with Steve Barsh (new interview series) (gabrielweinberg.com)
21 points by epi0Bauqu on Aug 4, 2009 | 4 comments
50. Make your own diamond-based thermal grease (inventgeek.com)
19 points by profquail on Aug 4, 2009 | 5 comments
51. JVM Notebook: Basic Clojure, Java and JVM Language performance (berlinbrowndev.blogspot.com)
19 points by icey on Aug 4, 2009 | 9 comments
52. How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought you Think (speakeasy.org)
19 points by bowman on Aug 4, 2009 | 4 comments
53. Ask HN: Highest rated story?
18 points by polvi on Aug 4, 2009 | 4 comments
54. The Robots Are The Chefs In This Japanese Restaurant (singularityhub.com)
18 points by kkleiner on Aug 4, 2009 | 9 comments
55. Twilio Contest Entry - PhoneSimon (jazzychad.com)
18 points by jazzychad on Aug 4, 2009 | 12 comments
56. Call for ethical debate surrounding use of "killer robots" (bbc.co.uk)
18 points by theblackbox on Aug 4, 2009 | 30 comments
57. Steal This Professionally Reported Content (nytimes.com)
17 points by jakewolf on Aug 4, 2009 | 8 comments
58. Apple Wants To Build A PayPal Killer, Say Wall Street Gossips (businessinsider.com)
17 points by troystribling on Aug 4, 2009 | 20 comments
59. KDE 4.3.0 (Caizen) released (kde.org)
17 points by mapleoin on Aug 4, 2009 | 7 comments
60. Tips on writing C macros (commonsense4commonpeople.net)
17 points by adamo on Aug 4, 2009 | 21 comments

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