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1.Bill Gates Enrolls His Kids In Khan Academy (cnn.com)
344 points by cwan on Aug 30, 2010 | 93 comments
2.Arcade Fire meets HTML5 (googleblog.blogspot.com)
234 points by larrykubin on Aug 30, 2010 | 54 comments
3.The Illusion of Winning (dilbert.com)
209 points by cwan on Aug 30, 2010 | 47 comments
4.Python Visual Tutorial (csail.mit.edu)
159 points by prog on Aug 30, 2010 | 25 comments
5.Jason Fried: The Truth About Real Estate (inc.com)
155 points by slater on Aug 30, 2010 | 73 comments
6.Clicking Facebook "Like" Buttons Gives Owner Permission To Spam You (w/ demo) (bingocardcreator.com)
139 points by patio11 on Aug 30, 2010 | 52 comments
7.What A CEO Does (avc.com)
129 points by mgrouchy on Aug 30, 2010 | 39 comments
8.The Tragic Death of Practically Everything (technologizer.com)
112 points by dhotson on Aug 30, 2010 | 12 comments
9.Burning Man's open source cell phone system could help save the world (networkworld.com)
107 points by mcantelon on Aug 30, 2010 | 15 comments
10.Boys Rules, Girls Lose - Women at Work (steveblank.com)
100 points by icey on Aug 30, 2010 | 57 comments
11.Cloudant's BigCouch is Now Open Source (cloudant.com)
99 points by ahoff on Aug 30, 2010 | 16 comments
12.Digg freezes manual story submissions as user anger mounts (venturebeat.com)
89 points by ssclafani on Aug 30, 2010 | 60 comments
13.Dell's Aero Smartphone: An Embarrassment to Android (pcworld.com)
87 points by techiediy on Aug 30, 2010 | 73 comments
14.Hacker builds working 1/10th scale Cray 1 (nycresistor.com)
86 points by henning on Aug 30, 2010 | 14 comments
15.Ageism in silicon valley: a foreign perspective (karaten.posterous.com)
85 points by karaten on Aug 30, 2010 | 24 comments
16.Email needs to be realtime (sachin.posterous.com)
81 points by ssclafani on Aug 30, 2010 | 52 comments
17.How a startup should leverage a personal assistant (asmartbear.com)
78 points by nathanh on Aug 30, 2010 | 25 comments
18.How Google Cost Me $4 Million (inc.com)
70 points by tommizzle on Aug 30, 2010 | 55 comments
19.Seaswarm: we can clean up the Gulf in a month (hackaday.com)
70 points by IgorPartola on Aug 30, 2010 | 26 comments
20.I wrote an LLVM-powered trace-based JIT for Brainfuck (github.com/resistor)
64 points by Halienja on Aug 30, 2010 | 54 comments
21.AMD to Retire the ATI Brand Later this Year (anandtech.com)
63 points by spcmnspff on Aug 30, 2010 | 13 comments
22.The Most Important Business Lessons I’ve Learned (ryanallis.com)
58 points by zaidf on Aug 30, 2010 | 10 comments
23.Net Neutrality is now law in Chile (mailfighter.net)
57 points by nfriedly on Aug 30, 2010 | 7 comments
24.My Reflections on Node.js Knockout Competition (catonmat.net)
57 points by pkrumins on Aug 30, 2010 | 5 comments
25.A chinese villager who sells more software daily than you do (maxkle.in)
51 points by bjonathan on Aug 30, 2010 | 20 comments
26.Ask HN: How do people really test their code?
50 points by dsc on Aug 30, 2010 | 28 comments
27.HN voting ring improvement (twitter.com/paulg)
50 points by dman on Aug 30, 2010 | 49 comments
28.Ask HN: Review my app, LayoutGenerator
50 points by okayzedd on Aug 30, 2010 | 25 comments
29.Tell HN: My rule of thumb for initial estimation
48 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Aug 30, 2010 | 20 comments
30.The Right Kind of Ambition (bhorowitz.com)
47 points by dwynings on Aug 30, 2010 | 21 comments

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