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1.		Steve Jobs Sometimes Lies to You (zachholman.com)
		306 points by holman on July 28, 2011 \| 124 comments
2.		Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result (google.com)
		301 points by ColinWright on July 28, 2011 \| 130 comments
3.		The Supreme Court Should Invalidate Software Patents (blogs.forbes.com)
		296 points by praptak on July 28, 2011 \| 115 comments
4.		Could You Modify It ‘To Stop Students From Becoming This Advanced?’ (cato-at-liberty.org)
		279 points by docgnome on July 28, 2011 \| 234 comments
5.		Page Speed Service (googlecode.blogspot.com)
		192 points by handraiser on July 28, 2011 \| 61 comments
6.		Spotify Sued For Patent Infringement Just Weeks After Entering US Market (techdirt.com)
		184 points by jsherry on July 28, 2011 \| 70 comments
7.		Every language fixes something - a DiGraph - just for fun (solipsys.co.uk)
		172 points by ColinWright on July 28, 2011 \| 101 comments
8.		On Safety: A Word From Airbnb (techcrunch.com)
		162 points by ssclafani on July 28, 2011 \| 106 comments
9.		Isostick: the USB memory stick that thinks it’s an optical drive (extremetech.com)
		161 points by ukdm on July 28, 2011 \| 68 comments
10.		New Khan Academy Exercise Framework Is Live (ejohn.org)
		156 points by rubergly on July 28, 2011 \| 29 comments
11.		Norway’s Premier Vows to Keep an Open Society (nytimes.com)
		144 points by rberger on July 28, 2011 \| 61 comments
12.		British Police Duped by LulzSec Into Arresting the Wrong Guy? (dailytech.com)
		136 points by nextparadigms on July 28, 2011 \| 33 comments
13.		Feds Approve $44K Doctor Reimbursement for Using Drchrono (YC W11) iPad App (techcrunch.com)
		136 points by Skeletor on July 28, 2011 \| 49 comments
14.		Hotelling’s Game, or Why Gas Stations Have Competitors Nearby (mindyourdecisions.com)
		128 points by madiator on July 28, 2011 \| 71 comments
15.		Finding your way in vim: tags, cscope, grep and more (stolowski.blogspot.com)
		124 points by paweln on July 28, 2011 \| 31 comments
16.		WSGI and the Pluggable Pipe Dream (pocoo.org)
		121 points by DasIch on July 28, 2011 \| 20 comments
17.		Illustrated: Apple's Fear of Android (osnews.com)
		120 points by ukdm on July 28, 2011 \| 105 comments
18.		Symfony 2.0 is now available (symfony.com)
		113 points by j0k3r on July 28, 2011 \| 72 comments
19.		Steve Perlman unveils white paper explaining “impossible” wireless data rates (venturebeat.com)
		110 points by evo_9 on July 28, 2011 \| 59 comments
20.		KDE 4.7 released (kde.org)
		96 points by sandGorgon on July 28, 2011 \| 27 comments
21.		Minecraft.Print() (minecraftprint.com)
		93 points by lostbit on July 28, 2011 \| 5 comments
22.		Beware of Asshole VCs (sethlevine.com)
		92 points by joshfraser on July 28, 2011 \| 34 comments
23.		ClojureScript gets a REPL that drives the browser (github.com/ibdknox)
		92 points by ibdknox on July 28, 2011 \| 9 comments
24.		Offer HN: Free Maths Lessons
		90 points by dataduck on July 28, 2011 \| 46 comments
25.		19 year-old Stanford Ph.D. dropout Andrew Hsu is Changing Education (startupsopensourced.com)
		90 points by jmtame on July 28, 2011 \| 59 comments
26.		The racial performance gap explained (method.ac)
		84 points by duopixel on July 28, 2011 \| 33 comments
27.		Signs of life from GNU Hurd (lwn.net)
		76 points by sciurus on July 28, 2011 \| 62 comments
28.		What's the Matter with Boston VCs? (ownlocal.com)
		74 points by AustinEnigmatic on July 28, 2011 \| 27 comments
29.		Are Software Patents Evil? (2006) (paulgraham.com)
		74 points by joejohnson on July 28, 2011 \| 74 comments
30.		Is Domestically Produced Ethanol Worth the Cost? (scientificamerican.com)
		73 points by terio on July 28, 2011 \| 48 comments
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