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1.Startup Competitive Advantages that Work (asmartbear.com)
211 points by stakent on July 19, 2010 | 39 comments
2.Openstack: Open source cloud computing software (openstack.org)
179 points by andyangelos on July 19, 2010 | 52 comments
3.We’re Apple. We don’t wear suits. We don’t even own suits. (daringfireball.net)
171 points by mickeyben on July 19, 2010 | 89 comments
4.Shell scripts to improve your writing, or "My advisor rewrote himself in bash." (might.net)
143 points by mbrubeck on July 19, 2010 | 31 comments
5.The worst visualization I've ever seen (CNBC on the oil spill) (cnbc.com)
133 points by viggity on July 19, 2010 | 47 comments

A couple months ago I wanted to get rid of an old Dell printer. My uncle gave it to me for free so I thought I would just give it away for free on Craigslist. I had a total of 9 people contact me saying they were interested in it. Many people expressed skepticism and asked "Does it work?" and "Why are you giving it away for free?" Out of those 9 people that contacted me saying they were interested, 0 actually showed up to pick it up. One person even asked me if I could "deliver" it to their house as they "really wanted it" but were too sick to come pick it up. I wasted so much time dealing with these people.

After realising this wasn't working, I re-listed it for $5 and the first person who contacted me actually came and picked it up without any issues.

7.Google pulls plug on Nexus One (zdnet.com)
126 points by jasongullickson on July 19, 2010 | 150 comments
8.Tumblr Is On Fire. Now Over 6 Million Users, 1.5 Billion Pageviews A Month (techcrunch.com)
121 points by spencerfry on July 19, 2010 | 62 comments
9.70,000 Blogs Shut Down by U.S. Law Enforcement (readwriteweb.com)
118 points by dwynings on July 19, 2010 | 67 comments
10.HN: Hire me. For free.
112 points by ehsanul on July 19, 2010 | 60 comments
11."Top Secret America": The Washington Post's contracting investigation (washingtonpost.com)
109 points by jakevoytko on July 19, 2010 | 46 comments

These are awesome numbers. Posterous' dying platforms campaign looks ever more lame now.
13.Abandoned open source projects (jeffkreeftmeijer.com)
102 points by jkreeftmeijer on July 19, 2010 | 33 comments
14.How to find start-up ideas (mattcutts.com)
95 points by InfinityX0 on July 19, 2010 | 33 comments
15.Deploy your own satellite for $8000 (makezine.com)
90 points by seancron on July 19, 2010 | 30 comments
16.Mongrel2 Is Now BSD Licensed (sheddingbikes.com)
83 points by jcsalterego on July 19, 2010 | 40 comments
17.Ask HN: Review my status board startup
78 points by pmjoyce on July 19, 2010 | 108 comments
18.NASA to deploy PostgreSQL/Nagios on Space Station (postgresql.org)
75 points by moe on July 19, 2010 | 21 comments
19.The Great Ruby Shootout (July 2010) (programmingzen.com)
74 points by acangiano on July 19, 2010 | 41 comments
20.Homeowners Use Airbnb to Dodge Foreclosure (bloomberg.com)
75 points by brianchesky on July 19, 2010 | 61 comments
21.Twitter feed of Hacker News stories as soon as they reach 20 points (twitter.com/newsyc20)
71 points by jmillerinc on July 19, 2010 | 39 comments
22.Help save the newspapers -- Seeing Interactive (YC W10) needs Ruby hackers.
on July 19, 2010
23.Multi-core HTTP Server with Node.js (yahoo.net)
67 points by sh1mmer on July 19, 2010 | 26 comments
24.Windows Phone 7 in-depth preview (engadget.com)
65 points by ssclafani on July 19, 2010 | 44 comments
25.Can Honest Tea Say No to Coke, Its Biggest Investor? (nytimes.com)
61 points by fogus on July 19, 2010 | 47 comments
26.Microsoft changed IronPython, IronRuby and DLR licenses to Apache 2 (codeplex.com)
60 points by DrJokepu on July 19, 2010 | 21 comments
27.Our Reddit Ad By The Numbers - Whiteyboard (tinycomb.com)
59 points by jasonwilk on July 19, 2010 | 40 comments
28.Book: Compiler Construction, by Niklaus Wirth [pdf] (ethz.ch)
53 points by Herald_MJ on July 19, 2010 | 17 comments
29.Blekko Review (techcrunch.com)
53 points by obelix on July 19, 2010 | 22 comments
30.Ask HN: Heard of any good startups?
52 points by markchristian on July 19, 2010 | 91 comments

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