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1.		Dev stays without pay to finish Mac Graphing Calculator as skunkworks project (pacifict.com)
		117 points by maryrosecook on July 2, 2009 \| 25 comments
2.		Meeting Ticker (tobytripp.github.com)
		103 points by chaostheory on July 2, 2009 \| 23 comments
3.		Ant mega-colony takes over world (bbc.co.uk)
		90 points by edw519 on July 2, 2009 \| 36 comments
4.		No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam (computerworld.com)
		84 points by johns on July 2, 2009 \| 100 comments
5.		The Awesome Foundation: $1K grants every month in the name of awesomeness (awesomefoundation.org)
		84 points by jonpierce on July 2, 2009 \| 40 comments
6.		Open source software only comes in one edition: awesome. (codinghorror.com)
		75 points by fogus on July 2, 2009 \| 61 comments
7.		Two Centuries On, a Cryptologist Cracks a Presidential Code (wsj.com)
		71 points by sharksandwich on July 2, 2009 \| 11 comments
8.		MySpace now a “digital ghetto” (inquisitr.com)
		71 points by sho on July 2, 2009 \| 64 comments
9.		Google App Engine Broken For 4 Hours And Counting (techcrunch.com)
		61 points by peter123 on July 2, 2009 \| 46 comments
10.		Michael Jackson is the First to Sell 1 Million Downloads in a Week (thenextweb.com)
		49 points by theforay on July 2, 2009 \| 26 comments
11.		Data Processing -- Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid (hubspot.com)
		49 points by tonystubblebine on July 2, 2009 \| 12 comments
12.		Vim plugin for Firefox (vimperator.org)
		46 points by kumar0us on July 2, 2009 \| 23 comments
13.		Teaching code optimization to 11-year-old son. (carymillsap.blogspot.com)
		47 points by robg on July 2, 2009 \| 10 comments
14.		Entrepreneurs are not unusually risk tolerant; rather, they are overconfident. (businessweek.com)
		46 points by amichail on July 2, 2009 \| 21 comments
15.		Root vulnerability found in iPhone OS, exploitable via SMS (yahoo.com)
		44 points by sounddust on July 2, 2009 \| 28 comments
16.		"Self-esteem has gone up in the United States; achievement has not." (incharacter.org)
		43 points by robg on July 2, 2009 \| 37 comments
17.		Mercurial 1.3 released (gmane.org)
		41 points by aiiie on July 2, 2009 \| 3 comments
18.		Refactoring vs Just Changin' Crap (hamletdarcy.blogspot.com)
		40 points by batasrki on July 2, 2009 \| 17 comments
19.		Best Online To-Do Lists (slate.com)
		40 points by edw519 on July 2, 2009 \| 28 comments
20.		Will your Michael Jackson tickets be worth more than the refund? (timesonline.typepad.com)
		39 points by Flemlord on July 2, 2009 \| 16 comments
21.		C++ - The Forgotten Trojan Horse (ejohnson.blogs.com)
		38 points by silentbicycle on July 2, 2009 \| 38 comments
22.		Tell HN: San Francisco Meetup on July 8th
		38 points by anigbrowl on July 2, 2009 \| 7 comments
23.		Germany's Green Idea: Street Lighting on Demand (time.com)
		39 points by aswanson on July 2, 2009 \| 16 comments
24.		Feel the cache size: a definitive experiment (melikyan.blogspot.com)
		37 points by mojuba on July 2, 2009 \| 29 comments
25.		Chyrp v2.0 released (chyrp.net)
		36 points by vito on July 2, 2009 \| 26 comments
26.		How to Crack a Wi-Fi Network's WEP Password with BackTrack (lifehacker.com)
		33 points by vaksel on July 2, 2009 \| 8 comments
27.		FriendFeed gets real-time search. (friendfeed.com)
		33 points by theforay on July 2, 2009 \| 13 comments
28.		Rasterization on Larrabee (ddj.com)
		32 points by dfox on July 2, 2009 \| 10 comments
29.		Spezify (new visual search engine) (spezify.com)
		33 points by ctingom on July 2, 2009 \| 14 comments
30.		Google Maps API V3 (code.google.com)
		30 points by mshafrir on July 2, 2009 \| 2 comments
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