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1.		Welcome to Your Quarter Life Crisis (eyeweekly.com)
		114 points by apwalker on June 29, 2009 \| 62 comments
2.		Laboratory tests of vegan restaurants in LA find some aren't (quarrygirl.com)
		89 points by mariorz on June 29, 2009 \| 45 comments
3.		Keeping News of Kidnapping Off Wikipedia (nytimes.com)
		88 points by firebug on June 29, 2009 \| 47 comments
4.		Malcolm Gladwell: Is free the future? (newyorker.com)
		83 points by nevan on June 29, 2009 \| 40 comments
5.		The story of Mel (1983) (pbm.com)
		80 points by vaksel on June 29, 2009 \| 22 comments
6.		You may use your class notes and Feynman (wards.net)
		67 points by mindhacker on June 29, 2009 \| 12 comments
7.		The End of Retirement (economist.com)
		66 points by daviday on June 29, 2009 \| 39 comments
8.		Sacrifice your health for your startup (asmartbear.com)
		57 points by lrm242 on June 29, 2009 \| 54 comments
9.		Start Implementing HTML5 Today (html5doctor.com)
		51 points by laktek on June 29, 2009 \| 11 comments
10.		Surreal Appeal of the Falkirk Wheel (quazen.com)
		48 points by KaiP on June 29, 2009 \| 17 comments
11.		Look at me, I'm skinny (fistfulayen.com)
		43 points by feverishaaron on June 29, 2009 \| 74 comments
12.		Apple Says Jobs Has Returned to Work (nytimes.com)
		40 points by terpua on June 29, 2009 \| 6 comments
13.		Hidden Features Of Perl, PHP, Javascript, C, C++, C#, Java, Ruby, Python, Others (beerpla.net)
		40 points by archon810 on June 29, 2009 \| 7 comments
14.		Yes, Rackspace Is Down And So Are Many Of Your Favorite Sites (techcrunch.com)
		40 points by vaksel on June 29, 2009 \| 35 comments
15.		There, I Fixed It (thereifixedit.com)
		39 points by 10ren on June 29, 2009 \| 6 comments
16.		Bit.ly’s Grand Plans, And Their Inevitable Clash With Digg: Bitly Now (techcrunch.com)
		38 points by blazamos on June 29, 2009 \| 15 comments
17.		Engineering Student Builds Real Transforming Robot Car (techeblog.com)
		37 points by vaksel on June 29, 2009 \| 4 comments
18.		Pizza Party - Order Pizza via Command Line (beigerecords.com)
		35 points by jmonegro on June 29, 2009 \| 13 comments
19.		Books About Parsing (reverberate.org)
		35 points by mbrubeck on June 29, 2009 \| 6 comments
20.		Metro Crash May Exemplify Paradox of Human-Machine Interaction (washingtonpost.com)
		34 points by robg on June 29, 2009 \| 30 comments
21.		Giving up my iPod for a Walkman (bbc.co.uk)
		34 points by fiaz on June 29, 2009 \| 28 comments
22.		Billie Tweets - a Twitter tribute to Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" (billietweets.com)
		34 points by mshafrir on June 29, 2009 \| 9 comments
23.		How Industries Fail (and who could be next) (michaelnielsen.org)
		32 points by llimllib on June 29, 2009 \| 4 comments
24.		Scientists create first electronic quantum processor (physorg.com)
		31 points by dlnovell on June 29, 2009 \| 3 comments
25.		Refactoring Rails tips from Yehuda Katz (engineyard.com)
		30 points by imajes on June 29, 2009 \| 4 comments
26.		Ask HN: Review our startup - Classlet.com
		30 points by sgk284 on June 29, 2009 \| 49 comments
27.		Investigating sine waves in Google Trends (cryptogon.com)
		29 points by emmett on June 29, 2009 \| 15 comments
28.		Amazon Taps its Inner Apple (fastcompany.com)
		28 points by mlinsey on June 29, 2009 \| 17 comments
29.		Being first doesn't mean proprietary - even if it is Microsoft (f5.com)
		26 points by lmacvittie on June 29, 2009 \| 1 comment
30.		Cryptographic Problem Solved (IBM and "fully homomorphic encryption") (ddj.com)
		26 points by michael_dorfman on June 29, 2009 \| 14 comments
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