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1.		Show HN: HackerNewsers,com, find other hackers near you
		221 points by phpnode on July 16, 2010 \| 111 comments
2.		Zed Shaw on C++ (librelist.com)
		202 points by mattrepl on July 16, 2010 \| 200 comments
3.		Apple’s Antenna Design and Test Labs (apple.com)
		197 points by ujeezy on July 16, 2010 \| 148 comments
4.		Plain english explanation of Big O (stackoverflow.com)
		155 points by alrex021 on July 16, 2010 \| 24 comments
5.		Google acquires Metaweb (Freebase) (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		154 points by aschobel on July 16, 2010 \| 40 comments
6.		Paul Allen commits majority of his wealth to philanthropy (nwsource.com)
		119 points by muon on July 16, 2010 \| 80 comments
7.		Brother to replace AA & AAA with shake-to-wake batteries (geek.com)
		110 points by ukdm on July 16, 2010 \| 35 comments
8.		Ask HN: anyone ever drop everything and leave software dev behind?
		102 points by brosephius on July 16, 2010 \| 105 comments
9.		Apple to give away free cases to iPhone 4 users (engadget.com)
		98 points by ssclafani on July 16, 2010 \| 75 comments
		johns on July 16, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Apple’s Antenna Design and Test Labs I think we've found the problem. The guy in the chair is only testing the phone with his right hand.
11.		Dropbox Startup Lessons Learned (slideshare.net)
		89 points by paulsb on July 16, 2010 \| 13 comments
		raimondious on July 16, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Apple’s Antenna Design and Test Labs After getting called out for having an issue every cell phone has, Apple did a photo shoot of a testing facility that every other cell phone manufacturer also has and used it as marketing.
		thought_alarm on July 16, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Apple to give away free cases to iPhone 4 users The people who don't have iPhones are really upset about it, though. Perhaps Apple should send them some free stuff.
14.		Optimizely (YC W10) Makes It Remarkably Easy to A/B Test (techcrunch.com)
		80 points by cominatchu on July 16, 2010 \| 67 comments
		edw519 on July 16, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Ask HN: anyone ever drop everything and leave soft... I'm really just a mediocre programmer with really good domain knowledge Your problem is that you have no problem. Let me explain... I believe that the "quality" of a programmer is not how much you know, but what you can do with it. So it you have "really good domain knowledge", then you probably aren't a mediocre programmer at all, you're probably a good programmer or even better. Like many other hn'ers, I love to come here are check out the latest cool stuff people are doing. Then I hear the 2 voices in my head. One says, "That is so cool - I have to learn that!" The other says, "Big deal, I could do that in BASIC. I may need a few more lines of codes and a couple of hacks, but it will still do the exact same thing." It's tricky to balance all the cool stuff going on with your ability to just get stuff done. You will never learn everything. You will never become the expert at more than one or two things. It's great to learn, but not at the expense of doing. You need both. There were many times I had to build something with my limited knowledge and wished I knew more. But then I built it anyway. Something built with limited resources today is better than something built perfectly tomorrow. If you're unhappy with your job but like coding, then either find another job or start something on the side. But please don't fall into the trap that you aren't good enough because someone else knows something more. That will always be the case. You can't win that battle. Just do the best with what you have and make a practice of adding to it a little at a time. Get satisfaction from the benefits you provide others with what you know now.
16.		Password crack [affecting OAuth and OpenID] could affect millions (computerworld.com)
		74 points by chaostheory on July 16, 2010 \| 53 comments
17.		Save My Life: an update (Celiac biopsy negative) (savemylyfe.blogspot.com)
		74 points by savemylife on July 16, 2010 \| 63 comments
18.		Ask HN: Surprised by your revenue? Easier than you thought?
		74 points by route3 on July 16, 2010 \| 35 comments
19.		How we launched Chrometa, flopped, and then and learned to build traction. (chrometa.com)
		70 points by akalsey on July 16, 2010 \| 6 comments
20.		How To Make Sure People Will Remember Your Ideas (zacharyburt.com)
		71 points by zackattack on July 16, 2010 \| 17 comments
21.		'Junkware' comes standard on Verizon, T-Mobile smart phones (latimes.com)
		65 points by bjplink on July 16, 2010 \| 76 comments
22.		What’s Really Going on in the VC Industry? What Does it Mean for Startups? (bothsidesofthetable.com)
		65 points by wheels on July 16, 2010 \| 22 comments
23.		The Feynman Algorithm (c2.com)
		60 points by jsharpe on July 16, 2010 \| 31 comments
24.		Founders at work: Interview with Steve Wozniak (foundersatwork.com)
		60 points by svag on July 16, 2010 \| 11 comments
		MikeCapone on July 16, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Apple’s Antenna Design and Test Labs They certainly don't kid around when they finally decide to answer bad PR.
		adityakothadiya on July 16, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Optimizely (YC W10) Makes It Remarkably Easy to A/... Having Optimizely featured on TechCrunch reminds me founder of another A/B testing startup visualwebsiteoptimizer.com asking advice on HN about why his startup is not getting featured on TechCrunch. VWO is definitely compelling and valuable product, but it didn't get covered after multiple tries. Many folks on HN gave advice that - "have a compelling story." The compelling story in Optimizely's case is - "A YC funded company". I'm not against of Optimizely in any way, but this just shows the power of being YC network.
27.		Harvard Professor Matt Welsh: Working for Google (matt-welsh.blogspot.com)
		58 points by rxin on July 16, 2010 \| 22 comments
28.		Why I Like Ruby (wekeroad.com)
		57 points by robconery on July 16, 2010 \| 43 comments
29.		Ask HN:Small ideas
		55 points by europa on July 16, 2010 \| 38 comments
		DanielStraight on July 16, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Steve Yegge is a "non-notable programmer" It never ceases to amaze how little Wikipedia understands Wikipedia. The purpose of Wikipedia to the end user (at least from my own personal experience and how I've seen other people use it) is to be able look up anything of any importance and get a quick overview of it. Wikipedia will happily include every obscure city, animal and flower species on Earth (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizothorax_yunnanensis_yunnan...), but will try to delete articles on bloggers and singers that are very well known within their niche. I don't get it. Adding additional pages to Wikipedia does very little to reduce its value and plenty to increase its value (always coming up first in Google to give a basic overview). No one is going to read or print the whole thing anyway. Whether it's 3.3 million or 13.3 million articles doesn't seem to make a difference.
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