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1.		The Guide to the Freedom and Responsibility Culture at Netflix (slideshare.net)
		144 points by male_salmon on Aug 4, 2009 \| 46 comments
2.		IP geolocation is a bad way to select a UI language (zakwilson.posterous.com)
		139 points by Zak on Aug 4, 2009 \| 53 comments
3.		Your World of Text, my current side project. Requires FF3+ or Safari 4, I think. (yourworldoftext.com)
		136 points by bdr on Aug 4, 2009 \| 71 comments
4.		IE6 No More (ie6nomore.com)
		121 points by 100k on Aug 4, 2009 \| 26 comments
5.		The Guy I Almost Was (1998) (electricsheepcomix.com)
		105 points by juliankrause on Aug 4, 2009 \| 25 comments
6.		Super Mario AI Competition (togelius.com)
		101 points by fogus on Aug 4, 2009 \| 33 comments
7.		Why There Are No Girls In San Francisco (whytherearenogirls.blogspot.com)
		100 points by condor on Aug 4, 2009 \| 106 comments
8.		Inside a Netflix Warehouse (chicagotribune.com)
		89 points by michael_dorfman on Aug 4, 2009 \| 39 comments
9.		Bowline - A Ruby GUI Desktop Framework (leadthinking.com)
		80 points by maccman on Aug 4, 2009 \| 19 comments
10.		The future of fabrication is here: Shapeways announces stainless steel printing (crunchgear.com)
		73 points by edw519 on Aug 4, 2009 \| 23 comments
11.		Inventor's Bike Folds Into Its Own Wheel (sky.com)
		72 points by mlLK on Aug 4, 2009 \| 35 comments
12.		Bump Technologies (YC S09) featured in Apple iPhone Ad (apple.com)
		64 points by comatose_kid on Aug 4, 2009 \| 22 comments
13.		The First Picture on the Web (cern.ch)
		63 points by vaksel on Aug 4, 2009 \| 13 comments
14.		Best Vim Tips (wikia.com)
		60 points by epall on Aug 4, 2009 \| 8 comments
15.		Futuristic Interfaces on Display at SIGGRAPH (technologyreview.com)
		59 points by jp_sc on Aug 4, 2009 \| 17 comments
16.		For Many Americans, Nowhere to Go but Down (washingtonpost.com)
		53 points by paulbaumgart on Aug 4, 2009 \| 91 comments
17.		Python In-Memory Data Structures (doughellmann.com)
		52 points by mace on Aug 4, 2009 \| 1 comment
18.		Code is Not That Important, Marketing Is (itscommonsensestupid.blogspot.com)
		51 points by nsoonhui on Aug 4, 2009 \| 38 comments
19.		Python vs Ruby, slightly more in-depth (rapd.wordpress.com)
		52 points by edw519 on Aug 4, 2009 \| 56 comments
20.		The Second Amendment in Iraq, Combat Robotics, and the Future of Human Liberty (howtolivewiki.com)
		50 points by pchristensen on Aug 4, 2009 \| 24 comments
21.		Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part IV: snipmate.vim (catonmat.net)
		50 points by pkrumins on Aug 4, 2009 \| 8 comments
22.		Clojure Transients (clojure.org)
		47 points by fogus on Aug 4, 2009 \| 4 comments
23.		Ask PG: Would it be possible to do an A/B test on HN?
		46 points by jacquesm on Aug 4, 2009 \| 42 comments
24.		Ask HN: How do you record your thoughts?
		44 points by DavidSJ on Aug 4, 2009 \| 79 comments
25.		Build Your Own PDP-11. (heeltoe.com)
		42 points by asciilifeform on Aug 4, 2009 \| 5 comments
26.		HTML5 Canvas Experiment (9elements.com)
		41 points by paulbaumgart on Aug 4, 2009 \| 6 comments
27.		GSM codes for replacing iPhone VM with Google Voice (geckobeach.com)
		41 points by figital on Aug 4, 2009 \| 10 comments
28.		Announcing Lamson Advertising Marketing Email Synergy (zedshaw.com)
		41 points by jballanc on Aug 4, 2009 \| 13 comments
29.		Large Hadron Collider "Fizzles" (nytimes.com)
		41 points by kingkawn on Aug 4, 2009 \| 15 comments
30.		How I killed my start-up (a post mortem) (ryanleland.com)
		41 points by intregus on Aug 4, 2009 \| 29 comments
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