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1.		Poll: What should be done about the endless repetition of stories?
		428 points by ColinWright on July 29, 2011 \| 148 comments
2.		Airbnb Victim Speaks Again: Homeless, Scared And Angry (techcrunch.com)
		397 points by jamesgagan on July 29, 2011 \| 132 comments
3.		Auditor's response to "Our security auditor is an idiot" (Update 3) (serverfault.com)
		395 points by sharjeel on July 29, 2011 \| 137 comments
4.		The Secret Ingredient In Your Orange Juice (foodrenegade.com)
		338 points by bradly on July 29, 2011 \| 188 comments
5.		Vandalised home puts pressure on Airbnb (ft.com)
		318 points by arghnoname on July 29, 2011 \| 138 comments
6.		Why my Mom Bought an Android, Returned It, and Got an iPhone (betabeat.com)
		291 points by spiffae on July 29, 2011 \| 196 comments
7.		Airbnb Competitor Checks IDs: 'We Don't Want to Trade Security for Volume' (betabeat.com)
		265 points by citadrianne on July 29, 2011 \| 96 comments
8.		"SQLite is not designed to replace Oracle. It is designed to replace fopen()." (sqlite.org)
		249 points by ma2rten on July 29, 2011 \| 57 comments
9.		Researchers Expose Cunning Online Tracking Service That Can’t Be Dodged (wired.com)
		191 points by bmcmanus on July 29, 2011 \| 146 comments
10.		Vim & Python: Making yourself at home (justinlilly.com)
		184 points by abrahms on July 29, 2011 \| 29 comments
11.		How to work with me - a no BS approach (nullisnull.blogspot.com)
		181 points by beagledude on July 29, 2011 \| 125 comments
12.		Simpson's paradox (wikipedia.org)
		174 points by nhebb on July 29, 2011 \| 34 comments
13.		Get $40k grant for your startup. Live in Chile for 6 months. (startupchile.org)
		158 points by iamelgringo on July 29, 2011 \| 74 comments
14.		Apple now holding more cash than USA (bbc.co.uk)
		150 points by JacobAldridge on July 29, 2011 \| 126 comments
15.		Raspberry Pi $25 PC goes into alpha production (geek.com)
		149 points by adeelarshad82 on July 29, 2011 \| 50 comments
16.		Unsolicited Redesigns (Khoi Vinh responds to NYTimes redesign) (subtraction.com)
		148 points by prawn on July 29, 2011 \| 67 comments
17.		Sublime Text 2 Build 2091 (sublimetext.com)
		147 points by shawndumas on July 29, 2011 \| 86 comments
18.		Google Acquires Over 1,000 IBM Patents (seobythesea.com)
		142 points by rmrm on July 29, 2011 \| 62 comments
19.		Don't use Java 7 for anything, unless you have no loops in your program (lucidimagination.com)
		139 points by suprgeek on July 29, 2011 \| 26 comments
20.		Emacs violates GPL since 2009 (lists.gnu.org)
		134 points by pk on July 29, 2011 \| 39 comments
21.		Burt Rutan’s Boomerang – Safety Through Asymmetry (wired.com)
		129 points by inetsee on July 29, 2011 \| 19 comments
22.		SQL Injection Pocket Reference (Google Doc) (docs.google.com)
		112 points by rudenoise on July 29, 2011 \| 13 comments
23.		Happy Sysadmin Day (wikipedia.org)
		107 points by _ut0p on July 29, 2011 \| 25 comments
24.		Sqlite and couchdb creators announce unQL. SQL for NoSQL (unqlspec.org)
		99 points by buster on July 29, 2011 \| 65 comments
25.		Backbone.js Tips : Lessons from the trenches (supportbee.com)
		95 points by prateekdayal on July 29, 2011 \| 22 comments
26.		Groupon's accounting practices under SEC scrutiny (itworld.com)
		86 points by Suraj-Sun on July 29, 2011 \| 11 comments
27.		Why I love Smalltalk (pupeno.com)
		86 points by mordaroso on July 29, 2011 \| 37 comments
28.		House Committee Approves Bill Mandating That Companies Spy on Their Users (eff.org)
		83 points by d0ne on July 29, 2011 \| 20 comments
29.		Experienced Users View Reddit Differently (gazehawk.com)
		85 points by bkrausz on July 29, 2011 \| 34 comments
30.		Anonymous releases internal data on another FBI contractor, ManTech (thepiratebay.org)
		83 points by redthrowaway on July 29, 2011 \| 30 comments
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