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2.		Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?
		309 points by tnorthcutt on July 25, 2011 \| 238 comments
		No, but I do use Reader at least weekly
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4.		Aaron Swartz v. United States (law.harvard.edu)
		304 points by edsu on July 25, 2011 \| 159 comments
		No, but I do use another RSS reader on a daily basis
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6.		Monroe or Einstein? Instant eyesight check. (lifehacker.com)
		212 points by btilly on July 25, 2011 \| 50 comments
7.		It Flies: Da Vinci's Dream Comes True (npr.org)
		198 points by richardofyork on July 25, 2011 \| 50 comments
8.		Twice the height of the Empire State - massive solar tower for AZ (gizmag.com)
		192 points by aditiyaa1 on July 25, 2011 \| 127 comments
9.		Veteran developer Steve Lacey (Google, Microsoft) Killed in Auto Accident (loopinsight.com)
		187 points by msredmond on July 25, 2011 \| 143 comments
		Eclipse 3.6 (Helios)
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11.		Guido van Rossum: Before Python (neopythonic.blogspot.com)
		171 points by tathagatadg on July 25, 2011 \| 19 comments
12.		Who's your SSH buddy? (jgc.org)
		149 points by jgrahamc on July 25, 2011 \| 102 comments
13.		50 Google +1s on sale at SEO shop for $9.99 (theatlantic.com)
		142 points by bproper on July 25, 2011 \| 61 comments
14.		Automatically fixing bugs in C programs with Genetic Algorithms (unm.edu)
		140 points by peterhunt on July 25, 2011 \| 43 comments
15.		Airbnb bags $112 million in Series B From Andreessen, DST And General Catalyst (techcrunch.com)
		135 points by guynamedloren on July 25, 2011 \| 19 comments
16.		Bitcoin is Not Anonymous (anonymity-in-bitcoin.blogspot.com)
		135 points by harrigan on July 25, 2011 \| 53 comments
17.		How not to handle open source feedback (jacquesmattheij.com)
		130 points by ColinWright on July 25, 2011 \| 35 comments
18.		Thanks, HN Here are the vocab survey results from all your participation (testyourvocab.com)
		118 points by crazygringo on July 25, 2011 \| 32 comments
19.		Using MySQL as a NoSQL - A story for exceeding 750,000 qps on a commodity server (yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com)
		112 points by mcantor on July 25, 2011 \| 11 comments
		Eclipse 3.7 (Indigo)
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21.		Why Google cares if you use your real name (scripting.com)
		106 points by davewiner on July 25, 2011 \| 111 comments
		cstuder on July 25, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Faster than jQuery(document).ready() - Wait Until ... You know how you can accelerate your page even further? Don't use 1.49mb large GIF animations as background images...
23.		Rack-webconsole: a Ruby/Rails console inside your browser (codegram.com)
		104 points by rohitarondekar on July 25, 2011 \| 55 comments
24.		Angry Birds Maker Sued for Patent Violation (mashable.com)
		101 points by dean on July 25, 2011 \| 100 comments
25.		Setup a complete Django server, deploy, rollback – all in one powerful script. (askthepony.com)
		102 points by myusuf3 on July 25, 2011 \| 11 comments
26.		Faster than jQuery(document).ready() - Wait Until Exists (javascriptisawesome.blogspot.com)
		96 points by AltIvan on July 25, 2011 \| 44 comments
27.		Web Operations 101 For Developers (paperplanes.de)
		88 points by roidrage on July 25, 2011 \| 1 comment
		conesus on July 25, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis? I used to use Google Reader, but I found that I missed seeing the original site and that I couldn't easily filter out stories I didn't want to read. So I built NewsBlur -- http://www.newsblur.com. It's open-source and I'd love if more folks followed my development: http://github.com/samuelclay. It's been a weekend project but it's been a wild ride so far. One of my main goals is to have much of the functionality of Google Reader, most of which has slowly made its way into NewsBlur. I'm currently working on a free iOS app for NewsBlur. I also put out an API so that others could also make their own feed reader. But really, I missed seeing the original site more than anything. It looks like a security hole, but NewsBlur actually just proxies the site and displays it back to the user. And the intelligence slider keeps me sane, since I slide it towards green and my unread count comes down to a manageable level.
		pg on July 25, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Airbnb bags $112 million in Series B From Andreess... I recently went to an office warming party at Airbnb's new place. My first thought when I walked out of the elevator was "this company is going public." A lot of startups, even quite big ones, hope/expect in the backs of their minds that one day they'll end up being acquired. But Airbnb has palpably settled in for the long haul, and you can sense it. And that is a big source of power for them.
30.		Boot to Gecko: building a complete, standalone operating system for the open web (groups.google.com)
		84 points by robin_reala on July 25, 2011 \| 36 comments
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