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1.The Tricks Investors Use Against Founders (theprivateequiteer.com)
309 points by flmyngo on Sept 8, 2011 | 44 comments
2.Ask HN: How do you promote your web apps?
292 points by samrat on Sept 8, 2011 | 77 comments
3.~/.osx — a collection of sensible defaults for OS X Lion (github.com/mathiasbynens)
291 points by mathias on Sept 8, 2011 | 87 comments
4.Google buys Zagat (googleblog.blogspot.com)
243 points by rryan on Sept 8, 2011 | 70 comments
5.Notifo (YC W10) Will be Shutting Down (notifo.com)
231 points by jazzychad on Sept 8, 2011 | 84 comments
6.The $700 Million Yogurt Startup (forbes.com/sites/christophersteiner)
221 points by Gaussian on Sept 8, 2011 | 89 comments
7.Amazon is More Interesting than Google (abtinforouzandeh.com)
209 points by abtinf on Sept 8, 2011 | 79 comments
8.Fouling Out and Moving On (re: Notifo Shutdown) (jazzychad.net)
190 points by jazzychad on Sept 8, 2011 | 56 comments
9.Kernel module for advanced rickrolling replaces open() call (github.com/fpletz)
177 points by wink on Sept 8, 2011 | 63 comments
10.Java 8 lambda syntax decided - same as C# and Scala (java.net)
169 points by tomeast on Sept 8, 2011 | 78 comments
11.Most Pressed Keys and Programming Syntaxes (mahdiyusuf.com)
152 points by deniszgonjanin on Sept 8, 2011 | 93 comments
12.Raspberry Pi demos $25 PC running 1080p video, promises CD-quality audio (geek.com)
149 points by ukdm on Sept 8, 2011 | 108 comments
13.Mozilla Openness facts (paulrouget.com)
149 points by girishmony on Sept 8, 2011 | 17 comments

Really, sad. But his legacy lives on in one of the finest projects on the internet. It's provided me and my family with countless hours of enjoyment and immensely lowered the cost of ownership of my Kindle.

Imagine my wonderful surprise when I found not just one, but an entire library of Oz and Edgar Rice Burroughs novels that I quickly disseminated to all of the youngsters in my extended family ... then watched them spend hours entertained by these century old tails of fantasy and adventure.

No project has proven more firmly that our modern endless extensions to copyright is hopelessly wrong headed.

15.Building your own secure storage space that mirrors Dropbox's functionality (defcon.org)
137 points by buckwild on Sept 8, 2011 | 55 comments
16.EU votes to extend music copyright to 70 years (bbc.co.uk)
131 points by sambeau on Sept 8, 2011 | 90 comments
17.Show HN: Bitcoinica - Advanced Bitcoin Trading Platform (bitcoinica.com)
129 points by zhoutong on Sept 8, 2011 | 93 comments
18.Arrington out at AOL (for real this time) (cnn.com)
115 points by asanwal on Sept 8, 2011 | 80 comments
19.$200,000 from Kickstarter = 1 year of runway for Diaspora (dropbox.com)
113 points by joeybaker on Sept 8, 2011 | 111 comments
20.Senate passes Patent Reform Bill (ap.org)
113 points by raymondh on Sept 8, 2011 | 48 comments
21.Why Some Languages Sound Faster Than Others (time.com)
110 points by metellus on Sept 8, 2011 | 55 comments
22.TrollScript, an esoteric dialect of Brainfuck. (github.com/tombell)
111 points by wlll on Sept 8, 2011 | 43 comments
23.RIP Michael S. Hart: founder of Project Gutenberg (oreilly.com)
104 points by armored on Sept 8, 2011 | 6 comments
24.Google to Android Developers: 'Do Not Develop in the Open' (readwriteweb.com)
95 points by pushingbits on Sept 8, 2011 | 74 comments
25.Grouper Sets You Up With Three Facebook Strangers, But ‘It’s Not a Date’ (betabeat.com)
93 points by anto210 on Sept 8, 2011 | 54 comments
26.Former TechCrunch Writer Spills the Truth about TechCrunch (medacity.com)
95 points by moses1400 on Sept 8, 2011 | 26 comments
27.Zero to Profitable - LiberWriter Lessons Learned (dedasys.com)
90 points by davidw on Sept 8, 2011 | 12 comments
28.Firefox and IE's "View source" can be spoofed to show anything (scriptjunkie.us)
85 points by dave1010uk on Sept 8, 2011 | 40 comments
29.Amazon.com cuts California sales tax deal in stunning turnabout (mercurynews.com)
85 points by scommab on Sept 8, 2011 | 76 comments
30.Minecraft Makes Little Girls Cry (jeff-vogel.blogspot.com)
79 points by felipemnoa on Sept 8, 2011 | 25 comments

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