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1.		Google: we're having scaling issues, please stop distributing your FF extension (splitbrain.org)
		99 points by gaika on June 26, 2008 \| 19 comments
2.		Ask HN: The Secret Sauce of Angel Investment?
		66 points by gscott on June 26, 2008 \| 22 comments
3.		Microsoft to buy semantic search engine Powerset for $100M plus (venturebeat.com)
		55 points by ajbatac on June 26, 2008 \| 63 comments
4.		Bill Gates on iTunes Store: another interesting memo (daringfireball.net)
		53 points by sanj on June 26, 2008 \| 24 comments
5.		The Choice of Work (einfall.wordpress.com)
		52 points by DaniFong on June 26, 2008 \| 27 comments
6.		Facebook needs to quit with its thuggish attitude
		50 points by stats101 on June 26, 2008 \| 35 comments
7.		Richard Hamming: You and Your Research (virginia.edu)
		42 points by DaniFong on June 26, 2008 \| 7 comments
8.		I've Seen the Future, and It Has a Kill Switch (wired.com)
		42 points by nreece on June 26, 2008 \| 17 comments
9.		Clickpass enables Hotmail, Yahoo, Google and Facebook through OpenID (techcrunch.com)
		40 points by petenixey on June 26, 2008 \| 6 comments
10.		Books That Changed My Life (kk.org)
		41 points by markbao on June 26, 2008 \| 40 comments
11.		Ask cperciva: Are great mathematicians born or made?
		36 points by dwaters on June 26, 2008 \| 82 comments
12.		Ask HN: "Simple" sharding tutorials using MySQL or PostgreSQL?
		32 points by sanj on June 26, 2008 \| 20 comments
13.		LinkedIn is 99% Java but 100% Mac (linkedin.com)
		30 points by kungfudoi on June 26, 2008 \| 18 comments
14.		37Signals "just says no" to feature request: "please fix that security flaw" (matasano.com)
		29 points by tptacek on June 26, 2008 \| 33 comments
15.		WoW (mattmaroon.com)
		29 points by kf on June 26, 2008 \| 14 comments
16.		Stephen Hawking's explosive new theory (telegraph.co.uk)
		27 points by edw519 on June 26, 2008 \| 12 comments
17.		Ask YC: decent JavaScript resource and reference sites?
		25 points by ulfstein on June 26, 2008 \| 16 comments
18.		Smart Enough Not To Build This Website (codinghorror.com)
		23 points by bdfh42 on June 26, 2008 \| 40 comments
19.		Readable MySQL command line output (Looks like YAML) (rubyisawesome.com)
		23 points by kevTheDev on June 26, 2008 \| 6 comments
20.		The Employable Web Designer (andyrutledge.com)
		21 points by riklomas on June 26, 2008 \| 4 comments
21.		How to avoid being "fan boy" or "fan girl" when building relationships with people you admire (escapefromcubiclenation.com)
		20 points by markbao on June 26, 2008 \| 11 comments
22.		LHC: Better safe than sorry. (scottaaronson.com)
		21 points by Stubbs on June 26, 2008 \| 9 comments
23.		ICANN approves relaxation of TLD rules (guardian.co.uk)
		20 points by sah on June 26, 2008 \| 19 comments
24.		Why the new wire tapping law is a lot worse than you think (slate.com)
		17 points by smanek on June 26, 2008 \| 5 comments
25.		Will broadband caps strangle Web growth? (thestandard.com)
		17 points by ilamont on June 26, 2008 \| 13 comments
26.		The Itch: reverse-engineering of human perception (newyorker.com)
		16 points by mechanical_fish on June 26, 2008 \| 3 comments
27.		Make your own IM bot in Ruby, and interface it with your Rails app (rubypond.com)
		15 points by nickb on June 26, 2008 \| 1 comment
28.		Xobni, Xoopit, Gmail Labs: Inbox Addons Are Getting Hot (readwriteweb.com)
		14 points by ajbatac on June 26, 2008 \| 5 comments
29.		I'm In Like With You raises $1.5 million, plans to use it all to hold a big party (cnet.com)
		13 points by gscott on June 26, 2008 \| 6 comments
30.		Xobni Gets Even Better With LinkedIn Data For Your Contacts (techcrunch.com)
		13 points by jkopelman on June 26, 2008
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