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1.		America’s Secret Innovation Weapon: Immigration (gigaom.com)
		71 points by mspeiser on July 4, 2009 \| 76 comments
2.		How To build a radio in a POW camp -- the real life King Rat (zerobeat.net)
		68 points by ivankirigin on July 4, 2009 \| 11 comments
3.		Nerds and Jocks (nat.org)
		58 points by mariorz on July 4, 2009 \| 45 comments
4.		Why do the rich keep working? (forbes.com)
		55 points by TriinT on July 4, 2009 \| 72 comments
5.		Ask HN: What to do after graduation with 100k?
		48 points by graduating on July 4, 2009 \| 41 comments
6.		Renraku: Future OS (daeken.com)
		46 points by daeken on July 4, 2009 \| 31 comments
7.		Sweden Cuts Deposit Rate to Negative 0.25% (globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com)
		45 points by gasull on July 4, 2009 \| 24 comments
8.		Work and Meaning: View from a Senior HP Manager (theonda.org)
		43 points by replicatorblog on July 4, 2009 \| 27 comments
9.		India creating new identity card system for 1.2Bn people (economist.com)
		43 points by haasted on July 4, 2009 \| 35 comments
10.		The Cult of Genius (discovermagazine.com)
		39 points by TriinT on July 4, 2009 \| 17 comments
11.		Ask HN: What programming language are you currently learning?
		38 points by khingebjerg on July 4, 2009 \| 92 comments
12.		"A New C Compiler" by Ken Thompson (cat-v.org)
		38 points by neilc on July 4, 2009 \| 10 comments
13.		Kamikaze Marketing (why usage billing kicks freemium's bottom) (lmframework.com)
		37 points by hymanroth on July 4, 2009 \| 17 comments
14.		Systems Software Research is Irrelevant by Rob Pike (2000) (cat-v.org)
		39 points by uriel on July 4, 2009 \| 28 comments
15.		What does a CEO do? (steverrobbins.com)
		37 points by christonog on July 4, 2009 \| 11 comments
16.		Benford’s law, Zipf’s law, and the Pareto distribution (terrytao.wordpress.com)
		31 points by michael_nielsen on July 4, 2009 \| 1 comment
17.		Ask HN: start with python 2.6 or 3?
		31 points by jgamman on July 4, 2009 \| 17 comments
18.		Pirate Bay's Weird New Business Plan (businessweek.com)
		30 points by jmonegro on July 4, 2009 \| 12 comments
19.		Ask HN: Books on getting rich?
		25 points by seshagiric on July 4, 2009 \| 44 comments
20.		Survey: The iPhone is No. 1 in Japan (cnn.com)
		24 points by kungfudoi on July 4, 2009 \| 10 comments
21.		What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic (sun.com)
		23 points by TriinT on July 4, 2009 \| 2 comments
22.		Patrick Collison Puts the Squeeze on Wikipedia (oreilly.com)
		23 points by toffer on July 4, 2009 \| 9 comments
23.		The Hunt For Gollum (thehuntforgollum.com)
		20 points by noonespecial on July 4, 2009 \| 3 comments
24.		Why don't we rewrite the Linux kernel in C++? (tux.org)
		20 points by vinutheraj on July 4, 2009 \| 31 comments
25.		How to Become More Successful (stevepavlina.com)
		19 points by maximumwage on July 4, 2009 \| 3 comments
26.		Spinning the Web: P.R. in Silicon Valley (nytimes.com)
		19 points by newacc on July 4, 2009 \| 14 comments
27.		Subtractive Design (sirlin.net)
		18 points by pushcx on July 4, 2009 \| 4 comments
28.		TheGreatHatsby, an ingenious AIMbot (wikipedia.org)
		17 points by frisco on July 4, 2009 \| 6 comments
29.		Gamer steals from virtual world to pay real debts (reuters.com)
		16 points by aj on July 4, 2009 \| 14 comments
30.		Apple, Acer, and...Arrington? (nytimes.com)
		14 points by newacc on July 4, 2009 \| 5 comments
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