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1.If You Build It, They Won’t Come. (jasonlbaptiste.com)
216 points by jasonlbaptiste on July 27, 2010 | 54 comments
2.Big Bang Abandoned In New Model of the Universe (technologyreview.com)
185 points by jdub on July 27, 2010 | 105 comments
3.Node and Scaling in the Small vs Scaling in the Large (al3x.net)
184 points by ssclafani on July 27, 2010 | 64 comments
4.Guido van Rossum: Thoughts about Python Future (python.org)
182 points by fogus on July 27, 2010 | 37 comments
5.What Do You Lack? Probably Vitamin D (nytimes.com)
175 points by robg on July 27, 2010 | 130 comments
6.Reality: Old Spice sales are actually up 107% in the last month (adweek.blogs.com)
161 points by sferik on July 27, 2010 | 55 comments
7.Apple Magic Trackpad (apple.com)
156 points by mickeyben on July 27, 2010 | 164 comments
8.Ask HN: Please, help me understand what I am doing wrong.
147 points by throwaway72010 on July 27, 2010 | 144 comments
9.Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music (microsoft.com)
108 points by jblesage on July 27, 2010 | 45 comments
10.Pokémon Black (tinycartridge.com)
95 points by paulgerhardt on July 27, 2010 | 17 comments
11.Your code should be taken out back, lined up against a wall, and machine-gunned (cygwin.com)
94 points by RyanMcGreal on July 27, 2010 | 73 comments
12.Startup Country (dilbert.com)
94 points by jeff18 on July 27, 2010 | 55 comments
13.Starcraft II Launched Today (goodbye free time) (battle.net)
91 points by MikeCapone on July 27, 2010 | 68 comments
14.Why is computer science a sausage fest? (stubbornella.org)
80 points by limedaring on July 27, 2010 | 148 comments
15.Rethinking the iPad Browsing Experience (arc90.com)
81 points by ab9 on July 27, 2010 | 32 comments
16.US rail freight is the world’s best. High-speed passenger trains could ruin it (economist.com)
78 points by cwan on July 27, 2010 | 42 comments
17.If the Earth Stood Still (esri.com)
76 points by bjonathan on July 27, 2010 | 14 comments
18.Google Web spam - Gabriel Weinberg's Blog (gabrielweinberg.com)
69 points by taylorwc on July 27, 2010 | 19 comments
19.Wikileaks: the World's First Stateless News Organization (nyu.edu)
69 points by Flemlord on July 27, 2010 | 33 comments
20.Gamestop acquires Kongregate (techcrunch.com)
66 points by ojbyrne on July 27, 2010 | 18 comments
21.Kickstartup: Successful fundraising with Kickstarter (craigmod.com)
66 points by riklomas on July 27, 2010 | 3 comments
22.There will be blood: why Apple and Intel are destined to clash (arstechnica.com)
65 points by evo_9 on July 27, 2010 | 40 comments
23.Ask HN: How Do I Get Math?
64 points by todayiamme on July 27, 2010 | 76 comments
24.Hacker News User Base Changed? (r-bloggers.com)
63 points by TalGalili on July 27, 2010 | 59 comments
25.The Tyranny of the Credit Score (nytimes.com)
62 points by dminor on July 27, 2010 | 43 comments
26.An Improved Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs (daringfireball.net)
55 points by blazamos on July 27, 2010 | 16 comments
27.Monocle - An async programming framework with a blocking look-alike syntax (github.com/saucelabs)
55 points by jperras on July 27, 2010 | 14 comments
28.Firefox 4 Beta 2 is here – Welcome CSS3 transitions (hacks.mozilla.org)
52 points by paulrouget on July 27, 2010 | 16 comments
29."Google Alarm" Firefox addon alerts you when you're sending data to Google (fffff.at)
49 points by jamiew on July 27, 2010 | 22 comments
30.Disallow: /harming/humans (robots.txt) (last.fm)
48 points by donohoe on July 27, 2010 | 6 comments

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