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1.		RethinkDB (YC S09): MySQL Storage Engine Built From The Ground Up For SSD (techcrunch.com)
		178 points by vaksel on July 29, 2009 \| 66 comments
2.		Alan Cox Quits As Linux TTY Maintainer — "I've Had Enough" (slashdot.org)
		153 points by boundlessdreamz on July 29, 2009 \| 50 comments
3.		Yahoo committed seppuku today (calacanis.com)
		140 points by timtrueman on July 29, 2009 \| 73 comments
4.		Django 1.1 is out (djangoproject.com)
		123 points by mtrichardson on July 29, 2009 \| 13 comments
5.		YC-Funded HighlightCam Makes It Easy To Remotely Watch Babies, Pets And Burglars (techcrunch.com)
		101 points by anateus on July 29, 2009 \| 20 comments
6.		Emacs 23 is very near (emacs-fu.blogspot.com)
		92 points by thunk on July 29, 2009 \| 55 comments
7.		New JDK 7 Feature: Support for Dynamically Typed Languages in the JVM (sun.com)
		87 points by davatk on July 29, 2009 \| 15 comments
8.		Chroma-Hash: a sexy, non-reversible, live visualization of password field input (mattt.github.com)
		83 points by bkudria on July 29, 2009 \| 66 comments
9.		Steve Jobs on why Apple doesn’t do market research (bokardo.com)
		75 points by craigbellot on July 29, 2009 \| 44 comments
10.		GitHub Recommended Repos Contest (contest.github.com)
		71 points by pjhyett on July 29, 2009 \| 20 comments
11.		Sam Altman of Loopt on Charlie Rose [video] (charlierose.com)
		66 points by rjett on July 29, 2009 \| 16 comments
12.		Embrace technical debt (startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com)
		68 points by nreece on July 29, 2009 \| 27 comments
13.		Toyota Humanoid Robot Runs At 7 Km/hr - Awesome Vid (singularityhub.com)
		64 points by kkleiner on July 29, 2009 \| 33 comments
14.		Dallas data center raided by the FBI based on false claims by former employee (uwwwb.com)
		60 points by shalmanese on July 29, 2009 \| 27 comments
15.		Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes (debian.org)
		60 points by JeremyChase on July 29, 2009 \| 14 comments
16.		Apple's Chickenshit Approval Process Has Gone Too Far (gizmodo.com)
		59 points by icey on July 29, 2009 \| 45 comments
17.		Results of: 7 developers, working 24/7 for 90 days, 1 house (in Colombia) (letmego.com)
		66 points by andreshb on July 29, 2009 \| 46 comments
18.		How To Hijack 'Every iPhone In The World' (forbes.com)
		50 points by thinkzig on July 29, 2009 \| 25 comments
19.		Black Hat 2009: Get an SSL cert valid for any domain using a null character (hackaday.com)
		48 points by blasdel on July 29, 2009 \| 6 comments
20.		GUI Icon Sets for Web Designers (hongkiat.com)
		47 points by profquail on July 29, 2009 \| 12 comments
21.		There’s No Such Thing As A Google Killer (skrenta.com)
		47 points by trs90 on July 29, 2009 \| 24 comments
22.		8 ways a VC can force a sale without having equity control (thefunded.com)
		46 points by cwan on July 29, 2009 \| 1 comment
23.		Organic has no health benefits (bbc.co.uk)
		46 points by epi0Bauqu on July 29, 2009 \| 133 comments
24.		Functional Alcoholics Meetup in SF (spreadsheets.google.com)
		45 points by moonpolysoft on July 29, 2009 \| 17 comments
25.		Is This Your Brain On God? (npr.org)
		43 points by onreact-com on July 29, 2009 \| 18 comments
26.		The $12 Startup (seanpercival.com)
		41 points by bootload on July 29, 2009 \| 17 comments
27.		OMG QIP=PSPACE (scienceblogs.com)
		41 points by amichail on July 29, 2009 \| 6 comments
28.		New Twitter Homepage Goes Live With Search Front And Center (techcrunch.com)
		41 points by vaksel on July 29, 2009 \| 15 comments
29.		Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Struck, Will Be Announced Within Next 24 Hours (allthingsd.com)
		38 points by krishna2 on July 29, 2009 \| 22 comments
30.		Microsoft and Yahoo Reach Agreement on Search (nytimes.com)
		40 points by helloworld on July 29, 2009 \| 24 comments
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