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1.Xkcd Password Generator (preshing.com)
347 points by preshing on Aug 11, 2011 | 291 comments
2.New leukemia treatment "exceeded our wildest expectations" (msn.com)
289 points by xd on Aug 11, 2011 | 106 comments
3.2011 Startup School (startupschool.org)
282 points by pg on Aug 11, 2011 | 82 comments
4.Google releases Games for Google+ (googleblog.blogspot.com)
259 points by skorgu on Aug 11, 2011 | 95 comments
5.Google Admits Handing over European User Data to US Intelligence Agencies (softpedia.com)
255 points by itg on Aug 11, 2011 | 86 comments
6.Rbenv, an unobtrusive rvm replacement (github.com/sstephenson)
251 points by vamsee on Aug 11, 2011 | 112 comments
7.Death to the 'noreply' mailbox (josscrowcroft.com)
244 points by josscrowcroft on Aug 11, 2011 | 87 comments
8.Facebook Wins “Worst API” in Developer Survey (techcrunch.com)
190 points by Andrex on Aug 11, 2011 | 49 comments
9.An Idea for the Economy that will Freak Out a lot of People (blogmaverick.com)
186 points by knowtheory on Aug 11, 2011 | 190 comments
10.In wake of riots, British PM proposes social media ban (cnn.com)
156 points by ojbyrne on Aug 11, 2011 | 135 comments
11.Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory (geek.com)
149 points by ukdm on Aug 11, 2011 | 99 comments
12.Someone patented linked lists (google.com)
146 points by jarin on Aug 11, 2011 | 88 comments
13.The Art of Assembly Language Programming (wustl.edu)
131 points by wyclif on Aug 11, 2011 | 40 comments
14.A lack of sleep can kill you (usmansheikh.com)
128 points by iapi on Aug 11, 2011 | 48 comments
15.Why software patents are not fixable (marco.org)
127 points by stevefink on Aug 11, 2011 | 61 comments

> when people are using social media for violence, we need to stop them.

Is this the same Cameron who criticized Libya when they shut off the Internet against what, in their view, were violent protesters?

17.The patent system isn’t broken — we are (thisismynext.com)
121 points by berberich on Aug 11, 2011 | 73 comments
18.Django Offline Docs (sramana.in)
118 points by senko on Aug 11, 2011 | 22 comments

Jobs are a means not an end. I've never worked at a job to work at a job. I work at a job to provide for my family and for my other goals in life.

This sort of top down thinking is just toxic. It seems so great and tidy until you actually try to implement it and then you realize that your level of ignorance was greater than you could have possibly imagined. You can't solve a debt problem with more debt and you can't solve a jobs problem by just creating meaningless jobs. The only jobs that are sustainable are the jobs that produce something that other people actually want.

The whole idea of the price system is that we're given signals about the best ways to serve other people in society. The price system in financial and real estate markets is completely insane and basically non-functioning. We're all suffering with these zombie banks we've created for ourselves.

The real question shouldn't be how to create jobs but rather how to create a society where needs can be met by entrepreneurs and businesses. We've all seen that when people are having their needs met then jobs end up being created by the businesses that form in the process of meeting those needs.

20.HIV virus used to turn white blood cells into cancer serial killers (geek.com)
112 points by ukdm on Aug 11, 2011 | 35 comments
21.Street Fighting Mathematics: The art of educated guessing (mitpress.mit.edu)
107 points by xtacy on Aug 11, 2011 | 7 comments
22.LinkedIn opts 100 million users into sharing information with ads (yahoo.com)
107 points by evilswan on Aug 11, 2011 | 25 comments
23.MoonScript - A programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua. (moonscript.org)
107 points by newtonapple on Aug 11, 2011 | 67 comments
24.Opez (YC S11) Is Yelp Meets Facebook, For Service Professionals (techcrunch.com)
105 points by csmajorfive on Aug 11, 2011 | 22 comments
25.Munch On Me (YC S11) Helps You Discover Tasty Dishes (mashable.com)
104 points by jwang815 on Aug 11, 2011 | 35 comments
26.How to be a faster writer (slate.com)
103 points by maalyex on Aug 11, 2011 | 27 comments
27.Git: fetch and merge, don’t pull (longair.net)
101 points by eplanit on Aug 11, 2011 | 20 comments
28.Fast and free Speech Recognition with Google's Voice API (fennb.com)
101 points by taybenlor on Aug 11, 2011 | 15 comments
29.Understanding JavaScript function invocation and "this" (yehudakatz.com)
100 points by wycats on Aug 11, 2011 | 9 comments
30.Show HN: My First Commercial Game Is Now Online (cardinalquest.com)
97 points by ido on Aug 11, 2011 | 52 comments

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