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1.		Spin.js, a pure JS spinner (fgnass.github.com)
		548 points by michokest on Aug 18, 2011 \| 66 comments
2.		It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad (techcrunch.com)
		437 points by canistr on Aug 18, 2011 \| 305 comments
3.		The Greatest Customer Service Story Ever Told, Starring Morton’s Steakhouse (shankman.com)
		413 points by jsherry on Aug 18, 2011 \| 139 comments
4.		Updated US immigration rules: H1-B can work for own company (washingtonpost.com)
		322 points by limist on Aug 18, 2011 \| 91 comments
5.		"Any time you have worked long hours, it is a sign of a broken process." (programmers.stackexchange.com)
		323 points by zzzeek on Aug 18, 2011 \| 162 comments
6.		A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) (moserware.com)
		267 points by llambda on Aug 18, 2011 \| 24 comments
7.		Who Does Facebook Think You Are Searching For? (thekeesh.com)
		269 points by jkeesh on Aug 18, 2011 \| 108 comments
8.		PyPy 1.6 Released - Full Python 2.7.1 Implementation (morepypy.blogspot.com)
		244 points by jparise on Aug 18, 2011 \| 54 comments
9.		Show HN: a free multi-user whiteboard with unlimited, zoomable surface (sketchub.com)
		215 points by florianguenther on Aug 18, 2011 \| 72 comments
10.		Dead Man's Switch (deadmansswitch.net)
		185 points by coderdude on Aug 18, 2011 \| 99 comments
11.		Google Reexam Requests Devastating to Lodsys (groklaw.net)
		181 points by grellas on Aug 18, 2011 \| 65 comments
12.		Think Twice Before Installing Any Chrome Extension (arpitnext.com)
		168 points by arpitnext on Aug 18, 2011 \| 73 comments
13.		Apple, It’s Time To Block iOS 5 Beta Users From Reviewing Apps (techcrunch.com)
		163 points by davidedicillo on Aug 18, 2011 \| 45 comments
14.		Oh, Adobe... read the copy, then view the source. (adobe.com)
		143 points by josscrowcroft on Aug 18, 2011 \| 146 comments
15.		Company Scans Your Books For a Dollar – Ship ‘Em In, Get a PDF via Email (singularityhub.com)
		138 points by ph0rque on Aug 18, 2011 \| 94 comments
16.		Why Rounded Corners are Easier on the Eyes (uxmovement.com)
		133 points by waterhole on Aug 18, 2011 \| 29 comments
17.		Evernote Acquires Skitch (allthingsd.com)
		124 points by jamesjyu on Aug 18, 2011 \| 9 comments
18.		How GitHub Works: Creativity is Important (zachholman.com)
		124 points by mcos on Aug 18, 2011 \| 19 comments
19.		Try the A* pathfinding algorithm with HTML5 canvas (matthewtrost.org)
		114 points by coderdude on Aug 18, 2011 \| 43 comments
20.		How Google's build system works (google-engtools.blogspot.com)
		113 points by skybrian on Aug 18, 2011 \| 18 comments
21.		Google's Rubin split his Android bonus with team (pcmag.com)
		104 points by xtacy on Aug 18, 2011 \| 7 comments
22.		Apprenticeships - Employers Must Get Past Degree Snobbery (codemanship.co.uk)
		101 points by csjohnst on Aug 18, 2011 \| 85 comments
23.		How Elon Musk Thinks: Reasoning from First Principles. (oninnovation.com)
		94 points by jasonjackson on Aug 18, 2011 \| 41 comments
		edw519 on Aug 18, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: "Any time you have worked long hours, it is a sign... What do long hours often represent? Enterprise: Incompetent management, lazy co-workers, and spoiled users. Small Business: Tough competition and limited resources. Startup: Taking advantage of opportunites that may not pass this way again.
25.		Minecraft creator challenges Bethesda to winner-take-all Quake deathmatch (boingboing.net)
		82 points by jaybol on Aug 18, 2011 \| 17 comments
		CJefferson on Aug 18, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: The Greatest Customer Service Story Ever Told, Sta... While I don't bemoan this man his steak, this kind of things increasingly bothers me. On the internet I sometimes get the impression that "everyone" has cute things like this happen to them. When you dig, it often turns out, like this, the person is big in PR or some related field. It can get easy to forget that 99(.99?)% of the people regularly on the internet aren't getting free stuff, lighting up twitter, hitting the front page of reddit, etc. From the article: "I don’t think it’s about my follower numbers. I think it’s about Morton’s knowing I’m a good customer, who frequents their establishments regularly. " I am 100% convinced this is not true. I'm sure if I (with 15 twitter followers) had posted something similar there would be no chance of something similar happening.
27.		Chrome extension "Awesome Screenshot" messes with Google search results (seroundtable.com)
		81 points by antimora on Aug 18, 2011 \| 36 comments
28.		IBM produces first working chips modeled on the human brain (venturebeat.com)
		80 points by RobertHubert on Aug 18, 2011 \| 24 comments
29.		Should UTF-16 be considered harmful? (stackoverflow.com)
		77 points by ch0wn on Aug 18, 2011 \| 45 comments
30.		Paper: The Akamai Network - 61,000 Servers, 1,000 Networks, 70 Countries (highscalability.com)
		77 points by yarapavan on Aug 18, 2011 \| 16 comments
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