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1.		Jgrowl (stanlemon.net)
		68 points by ajbatac on July 7, 2008 \| 18 comments
2.		Pothead Ph.D. - This is most definitely not a cautionary tale (chronicle.com)
		66 points by robg on July 7, 2008 \| 131 comments
3.		Dabblers and Blowhards - A Criticism of PG (idlewords.com)
		62 points by smanek on July 7, 2008 \| 57 comments
4.		Balsamiq - Software and Website Mockup App (balsamiq.com)
		62 points by tortilla on July 7, 2008 \| 33 comments
5.		Google Protocol Buffers - Open Sourced (google-opensource.blogspot.com)
		57 points by enomar on July 7, 2008 \| 24 comments
6.		See Twitter's SQL. (twitter.com/dpn)
		49 points by ptm on July 7, 2008 \| 43 comments
7.		How to Say Nothing in 500 Words (baylor.edu)
		44 points by imgabe on July 7, 2008 \| 20 comments
8.		The ascendancy of Hacker News & the gentrification of geek news communities (anarchogeek.com)
		37 points by rabble on July 7, 2008 \| 20 comments
9.		The End of Bugs? (heroku.com)
		35 points by sant0sk1 on July 7, 2008 \| 19 comments
10.		Richard Feynman on The Value of Science (u-tokyo.ac.jp)
		37 points by mqt on July 7, 2008 \| 5 comments
11.		Twitter to buy Summize.com (joshchandlerblog.blogspot.com)
		34 points by joshchandler on July 7, 2008 \| 18 comments
12.		Recommended Flaw: 31% of Digg Homepage submitted by 10 Users (popfail.com)
		26 points by ajbatac on July 7, 2008 \| 26 comments
13.		The Facebooker Who Friended Obama (nytimes.com)
		21 points by timr on July 7, 2008 \| 1 comment
14.		As I Get Older, Some Online "Friending" Gets Creepier (louisgray.com)
		28 points by tomh on July 7, 2008 \| 46 comments
15.		Economics of Software (sun.com)
		25 points by gaika on July 7, 2008 \| 2 comments
16.		A Chinese YouTube Disappears, Along With Millions Of Western Dollars. Next? (alleyinsider.com)
		15 points by pakafka on July 7, 2008 \| 9 comments
17.		An Apple User Tries Ubuntu (earthweb.com)
		24 points by rams on July 7, 2008 \| 57 comments
18.		PostgreSQL Gets Religion About Replication (scale-out-blog.blogspot.com)
		23 points by iamelgringo on July 7, 2008 \| 2 comments
19.		Rails employee expected to spend 50% of his time doing what he desires (jamesgolick.com)
		23 points by cawel on July 7, 2008 \| 9 comments
20.		YubNub - a (social) command-line for the web - released as open source (github.com/jcnetdev)
		23 points by nickb on July 7, 2008 \| 3 comments
21.		Google has trained us all to think like marketers (firewatching.com)
		22 points by extantproject on July 7, 2008 \| 14 comments
22.		200 Highest Paying Search Terms (cwire.org)
		22 points by tlrobinson on July 7, 2008 \| 23 comments
23.		LLVM and running C as well as Python in the browser (ajaxian.com)
		21 points by ajbatac on July 7, 2008 \| 5 comments
24.		Economics of a POW Camp (classic paper) (albany.edu)
		20 points by smanek on July 7, 2008 \| 3 comments
25.		Monitor Access to Your Gmail Account (techcrunch.com)
		19 points by enomar on July 7, 2008 \| 5 comments
26.		Top 20 resources to increase Web site traffic (ocinnovationvault.com)
		18 points by OCInnovationVlt on July 7, 2008 \| 7 comments
27.		Don't Quit Your Day Job (forbes.com)
		17 points by aceregen on July 7, 2008 \| 8 comments
28.		Understand YSlow: What Matters; What Doesn't (hostscope.com)
		16 points by jrrl on July 7, 2008
29.		Ask YC: Would you sign this if you were me?
		15 points by PStamatiou on July 7, 2008 \| 29 comments
30.		German company switching 12,000 desktops from PC to Mac (9to5mac.com)
		13 points by cmcginnis on July 7, 2008 \| 33 comments
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