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31. Nickb missing?
63 points by miles on Aug 20, 2009 | 41 comments
32. The Only Truly Failed Project (codinghorror.com)
62 points by fogus on Aug 20, 2009 | 26 comments
33. Dirty Coding tricks used in Production Video Games (gamasutra.com)
330 points by e1ven on Aug 20, 2009 | 45 comments
34. Infiltrating a Botnet - A Conversation With a Botmaster (cisco.com)
126 points by jperras on Aug 20, 2009 | 21 comments
35. ATT dumps Kevin Mitnick (theregister.co.uk)
88 points by trader on Aug 20, 2009 | 44 comments
36. A response to Dropping Django (uswaretech.com)
86 points by zumda on Aug 20, 2009 | 17 comments
37. Something was wrong. It seemed I had angered the techno libertarians. (squashed.tumblr.com)
53 points by blasdel on Aug 20, 2009 | 105 comments
38. Ask HN: Who is looking for a co-founder?
53 points by adityakothadiya on Aug 20, 2009 | 53 comments
39. Canon drops out of the megapixel race (crunchgear.com)
52 points by Flemlord on Aug 20, 2009 | 28 comments
40. The Cabal: Valve’s Design Process For Creating Half-Life (gamasutra.com)
51 points by pchristensen on Aug 20, 2009 | 11 comments
41. A Tour of my Brain (dustincurtis.com)
101 points by kyro on Aug 20, 2009 | 15 comments
42. Swombat missing?
49 points by swombat on Aug 20, 2009 | 11 comments
43. The fallacy in the Netflix algorithm (scienceblogs.com)
50 points by cwan on Aug 20, 2009 | 17 comments
44. How long do you have to work to earn a Big Mac? (economist.com)
49 points by qeek on Aug 20, 2009 | 44 comments
45. Seagate: If Flash Drives Get Too Cheap, We'll Use Patents To Make Them Expensive (techdirt.com)
49 points by asciilifeform on Aug 20, 2009 | 2 comments
46. Get through to a human (gethuman.com)
46 points by DTrejo on Aug 20, 2009 | 13 comments
47. James Cameron's Avatar trailer posted (apple.com)
46 points by edw519 on Aug 20, 2009 | 17 comments
48. Kilogram's Future Hangs In The Balance (npr.org)
44 points by vibhavs on Aug 20, 2009 | 20 comments
49. Stephen Wolfram on how Alpha is being refined technically (wolframalpha.com)
45 points by anigbrowl on Aug 20, 2009 | 25 comments
50. Performance Measurements of Threads in Java and Processes in Erlang (sics.se)
42 points by arthurk on Aug 20, 2009 | 4 comments
51. Git: A Designer's Perspective (viget.com)
42 points by bscofield on Aug 20, 2009 | 5 comments
52. PicPosterous, the Posterous iPhone app, released today (blog.posterous.com)
41 points by dcurtis on Aug 20, 2009 | 3 comments
53. Approached by competitor (joelonsoftware.com)
40 points by mattjung on Aug 20, 2009 | 13 comments
54. What Kind of a Thing is Twitter? (aaronsw.com)
39 points by blasdel on Aug 20, 2009 | 2 comments
55. Science toys you can make with your kids (scitoys.com)
38 points by mbrubeck on Aug 20, 2009 | 3 comments
56. Bad Design in Star Wars (amctv.com)
37 points by fogus on Aug 20, 2009 | 26 comments
57. Ask HN: Rate my Start-up webticketing.net
40 points by matclayton on Aug 20, 2009 | 40 comments
58. Richard Branson accepting micropitches via Twitter (fastcompany.com)
36 points by Tichy on Aug 20, 2009 | 28 comments
59. Video to Appear in Paper Magazines [Worlds First] (thenextweb.com)
35 points by mgcreed on Aug 20, 2009 | 30 comments
60. Reversing The Pokerstars Protocol, Part 1: Compression and transport basics (daeken.com)
34 points by daeken on Aug 20, 2009 | 8 comments

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