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1.		Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale (vimeo.com)
		210 points by marcusbooster on July 31, 2009 \| 48 comments
2.		I Quit The iPhone (techcrunch.com)
		191 points by terpua on July 31, 2009 \| 99 comments
3.		C# is now a better language than Java (clapper.org)
		152 points by fogus on July 31, 2009 \| 133 comments
4.		Light slowed down to 38 mph (news.harvard.edu)
		124 points by aliasaria on July 31, 2009 \| 39 comments
5.		I’m furious with Apple and AT&T right now, with regard to the iPhone (stevenf.tumblr.com)
		104 points by blasdel on July 31, 2009 \| 39 comments
6.		Gmail: Send mail from another address without "on behalf of" (gmailblog.blogspot.com)
		102 points by philfreo on July 31, 2009 \| 32 comments
7.		Hidden Secrets of the Amazon Shopping Cart (grokdotcom.com)
		72 points by peter123 on July 31, 2009 \| 7 comments
8.		Confess HN: Share your Immoral Hacks, Codes or Tweaks
		55 points by janitha on July 31, 2009 \| 65 comments
9.		Use Google Docs & Google Checkout to Sell Online (googledocs.blogspot.com)
		49 points by dc2k08 on July 31, 2009 \| 11 comments
10.		I still recommend AES-256 (daemonology.net)
		49 points by cperciva on July 31, 2009 \| 1 comment
11.		Twitter URL Service Bit.ly Says No to Ads, Yes to Data-Mining News (wired.com)
		40 points by aditya on July 31, 2009 \| 20 comments
12.		Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part II: Line Numbering (catonmat.net)
		39 points by Anon84 on July 31, 2009 \| 6 comments
13.		Concentrate helps you work & study by eliminating distractions (mac app) (getconcentrating.com)
		39 points by tortilla on July 31, 2009 \| 19 comments
14.		Television and Loneliness (scienceblogs.com)
		39 points by arthurk on July 31, 2009 \| 13 comments
15.		Ask HN: Income on the Side?
		38 points by janitha on July 31, 2009 \| 31 comments
16.		Shock threat to shut Skype (theage.com.au)
		35 points by leriksen on July 31, 2009 \| 14 comments
17.		Why the dollar is going to collapse (angloaustria.blogspot.com)
		36 points by stuffthatmatter on July 31, 2009 \| 58 comments
18.		Meter hackers find free parking in San Francisco (itworld.com)
		33 points by abennett on July 31, 2009 \| 28 comments
19.		How to avoid Gmail's Sponsored Links (mac.com)
		34 points by tlrobinson on July 31, 2009 \| 15 comments
20.		Is it possible to reassemble a shredded document? (slate.com)
		31 points by terpua on July 31, 2009 \| 26 comments
21.		Should I Be Worried About Scaling? (shouldibeworriedaboutscaling.info)
		31 points by MicahWedemeyer on July 31, 2009 \| 30 comments
22.		How Ben Franklin made America the land of invention (nytimes.com)
		30 points by mathewgj on July 31, 2009 \| 5 comments
23.		C: A Technological Landmine (expandrive.com)
		30 points by jonshea on July 31, 2009 \| 57 comments
24.		Should biologists study computer science? (arstechnica.com)
		29 points by terpua on July 31, 2009 \| 41 comments
25.		The Miracle of Smalltalk's become: (gbracha.blogspot.com)
		28 points by blasdel on July 31, 2009 \| 5 comments
26.		RIAA wins $675,000, or $22,500 per song in Tenenbaum Case (arstechnica.com)
		28 points by jasonlbaptiste on July 31, 2009 \| 17 comments
27.		Ask HN - Is it worth joining Mensa?
		26 points by vijayr on July 31, 2009 \| 67 comments
28.		McKinnon's last appeal has failed (bbc.co.uk)
		26 points by Robin_Message on July 31, 2009 \| 22 comments
29.		The Next Industrial Revolution (justinidea.com)
		26 points by ricaurte on July 31, 2009 \| 4 comments
30.		50% 0f doctors have used wikipedia as a reference. (newscientist.com)
		26 points by olefoo on July 31, 2009 \| 21 comments
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