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10:00pm - 11:59pm
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2.Old School Color Cycling with HTML5 (effectgames.com)
284 points by jhuckaby on July 25, 2010 | 51 comments
2:00am - 3:59am
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4.Ask HN: My brain refuses to think, what should I do?
247 points by DeusExMachina on July 25, 2010 | 147 comments
5.-2000 Lines of Code (2004) (folklore.org)
210 points by aycangulez on July 25, 2010 | 50 comments
6.Wannabe entrepreneur symptoms and cures (gabrielweinberg.com)
158 points by jasonlbaptiste on July 25, 2010 | 32 comments
7.XOR patent ended CD32, and Commodore-Amiga (1994/2005) (xcssa.org)
112 points by gokhan on July 25, 2010 | 20 comments
8.Tweet Less, Kiss More (nytimes.com)
111 points by ricaurte on July 25, 2010 | 42 comments
9.GitHub Hits One Million Hosted Projects (techcrunch.com)
105 points by bkudria on July 25, 2010 | 19 comments
10.Poll: When do you usually go to bed?
105 points by antichaos on July 25, 2010 | 52 comments
11.The War Logs: An archive of classified military documents (nytimes.com)
100 points by tysone on July 25, 2010 | 98 comments
12.What I Did When I Couldn't Find a Job [in the US] (chronicle.com)
99 points by kranner on July 25, 2010 | 92 comments
after 4:00am
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14.DIY: Cheap, ultra low-power radios that communicate over thousands of miles (nycresistor.com)
87 points by elimisteve on July 25, 2010 | 29 comments
15.Ask HN: Food hacks for eating well?
81 points by haliax on July 25, 2010 | 163 comments
16.Full data sets of WikiLeaks Afghan war logs (wikileaks.org)
80 points by agconway on July 25, 2010 | 35 comments

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. - Bill Gates

Questions that might illuminate if there's a problem -

When's the last time you went for a walk?

When's the last time you were in nature for a while?

When's the last time you spent a day absolutely, completely relaxing?

How's your diet?

How's your sleep?

How's your sleep schedule?

When's the last time you had a vacation?

How much inspirational media have you been through in the last week - books, movies, audio, whatever.

When's the last time you hung out around or talked on the phone with someone really inspirational?

Beyond that - changing environment can bring you out of a funk, bringing a laptop to a cafe with no internet can be a great option if you can do some work offline.

19.Threaded vs Evented Servers (mmcgrana.github.com)
75 points by khingebjerg on July 25, 2010 | 30 comments
20.Thoughts about Rails from a Django guy (lenni.info)
73 points by lenni on July 25, 2010 | 40 comments

“If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as 'lines produced' but as 'lines spent'" - Edsger Dijkstra
22.Fake femme fatale shows social network risks (computerworld.com)
60 points by bluesmoon on July 25, 2010 | 16 comments
23.Enterprise Software Is Sexy Again (techcrunch.com)
58 points by dgudkov on July 25, 2010 | 31 comments
before 10:00pm
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26.Bach on a mobius strip (youtube.com)
53 points by planckscnst on July 25, 2010 | 21 comments
27.Build a $200 Linux PC (extremetech.com)
51 points by edw519 on July 25, 2010 | 21 comments
28.Awesome swedish built 8-bit synthesizer inside an old electronic organ (linusakesson.net)
49 points by sgt on July 25, 2010 | 10 comments

I live on a boat, and sometimes I sail out, throw an anchor somewhere and just enjoy the silence for a few days. No phone, no television, no Internet. Nothing.

It's absolutely wonderful. There's time to think through problems, time to reflect on life and time to think about new ideas. I can also drink my morning coffee not caring how I look or sound.

When I come back I'm refreshed and have an inner peace that's somewhat hard to describe. But getting totally away from everything every once in a while is recommendable.

30.A wiki for prepaid SIM cards around the world, suitable for iPhone & Android (wikia.com)
45 points by skr on July 25, 2010 | 17 comments

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