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1.		Would you work with micromanaging boss, no salary, and all your work thrown away? (shlang.com)
		91 points by gaika on June 19, 2008 \| 54 comments
2.		June 19, 240 B.C.: The Earth Is Round, and It's This Big (wired.com)
		56 points by nreece on June 19, 2008 \| 19 comments
3.		Enter about:robots in the URL field if you're running Firefox 3
		56 points by ivankirigin on June 19, 2008 \| 6 comments
4.		How to get Cross Browser Compatibility Every Time (anthonyshort.com.au)
		56 points by chaostheory on June 19, 2008 \| 12 comments
5.		Cancer patient makes full recovery after being injected with billions of his own immune cells (telegraph.co.uk)
		49 points by gibsonf1 on June 19, 2008 \| 12 comments
6.		I'm Joining Craigslist in July (by Jeremy Zawodny) (zawodny.com)
		50 points by ajbatac on June 19, 2008 \| 24 comments
7.		37signals Paper: An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design (37signals.com)
		45 points by nreece on June 19, 2008 \| 7 comments
8.		Explosive productivity (31fps.com)
		38 points by sdpurtill on June 19, 2008 \| 13 comments
9.		Are you sick of being downvoted for having a different opinion?
		35 points by gaika on June 19, 2008 \| 45 comments
10.		“Ninety percent of doctors I know are fed up with medicine.” (nytimes.com)
		32 points by czik on June 19, 2008 \| 49 comments
11.		Carl Icahn just started a blog - lots of rants (icahnreport.com)
		33 points by dangoldin on June 19, 2008 \| 26 comments
12.		First beta releases of Python 2.6 and Python 3.0 (groups.google.com)
		30 points by ii on June 19, 2008 \| 2 comments
13.		Eclipse to Textmate: An IDEological Change (particletree.com)
		26 points by johns on June 19, 2008 \| 31 comments
14.		Why Hygienic Macros Rock (randomhacks.net)
		26 points by raganwald on June 19, 2008 \| 16 comments
15.		Yahoo!, eBay and Amazon: The three survivors (economist.com)
		25 points by maurycy on June 19, 2008 \| 5 comments
16.		Gitjour: share git repositories with bonjour (zeroconf) (drnicwilliams.com)
		24 points by mark_h on June 19, 2008
17.		List of Free Online Python Books (linkmingle.com)
		23 points by Anon84 on June 19, 2008 \| 6 comments
18.		Google now giving priority to fast ads (adwords.blogspot.com)
		19 points by timr on June 19, 2008 \| 7 comments
19.		Stewart Butterfield's bizarre resignation letter to Yahoo (latimes.com)
		18 points by edw519 on June 19, 2008 \| 5 comments
20.		EaRing: A Meta-Literal Machine (high-level dynamic assembler) by Zed Shaw (scribd.com)
		17 points by rincewind on June 19, 2008 \| 7 comments
21.		Ask YC: How does funding actually work?
		16 points by j2d2 on June 19, 2008 \| 13 comments
22.		Big breakfast 'aids weight loss' (bbc.co.uk)
		15 points by swombat on June 19, 2008 \| 21 comments
23.		Taking More Risks Because You Feel Safe (washingtonpost.com)
		14 points by pg on June 19, 2008 \| 5 comments
24.		BricaBox: Goodbye World! (lessons learned from a failed startup) (innonate.com)
		13 points by terpua on June 19, 2008 \| 7 comments
25.		Now Opensourced: Project Code_Swarm, an experiment in organic software visualization (code.google.com)
		13 points by DaniFong on June 19, 2008 \| 4 comments
26.		Ask HN: Recommendation for a good UI/UX expert?
		12 points by richesh on June 19, 2008 \| 19 comments
27.		Plugin allows inline PDFs for Firefox (tuaw.com)
		12 points by timr on June 19, 2008 \| 7 comments
28.		Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers (nytimes.com)
		10 points by naish on June 19, 2008 \| 16 comments
29.		Schoolboy hacker Omar Khan who upped his grades faces 38 years in jail (timesonline.co.uk)
		11 points by gibsonf1 on June 19, 2008 \| 9 comments
30.		Software Company Ditches AdWords for... Kiva? (readwriteweb.com)
		11 points by terpua on June 19, 2008 \| 2 comments
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