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1.		Aaron Swartz v. United States (law.harvard.edu)
		304 points by edsu on July 25, 2011 \| 159 comments
2.		Monroe or Einstein? Instant eyesight check. (lifehacker.com)
		212 points by btilly on July 25, 2011 \| 50 comments
3.		It Flies: Da Vinci's Dream Comes True (npr.org)
		198 points by richardofyork on July 25, 2011 \| 50 comments
4.		Twice the height of the Empire State - massive solar tower for AZ (gizmag.com)
		192 points by aditiyaa1 on July 25, 2011 \| 127 comments
5.		Veteran developer Steve Lacey (Google, Microsoft) Killed in Auto Accident (loopinsight.com)
		187 points by msredmond on July 25, 2011 \| 143 comments
6.		Guido van Rossum: Before Python (neopythonic.blogspot.com)
		171 points by tathagatadg on July 25, 2011 \| 19 comments
7.		Who's your SSH buddy? (jgc.org)
		149 points by jgrahamc on July 25, 2011 \| 102 comments
8.		50 Google +1s on sale at SEO shop for $9.99 (theatlantic.com)
		142 points by bproper on July 25, 2011 \| 61 comments
9.		Automatically fixing bugs in C programs with Genetic Algorithms (unm.edu)
		140 points by peterhunt on July 25, 2011 \| 43 comments
10.		Airbnb bags $112 million in Series B From Andreessen, DST And General Catalyst (techcrunch.com)
		135 points by guynamedloren on July 25, 2011 \| 19 comments
11.		Bitcoin is Not Anonymous (anonymity-in-bitcoin.blogspot.com)
		135 points by harrigan on July 25, 2011 \| 53 comments
12.		How not to handle open source feedback (jacquesmattheij.com)
		130 points by ColinWright on July 25, 2011 \| 35 comments
13.		Thanks, HN Here are the vocab survey results from all your participation (testyourvocab.com)
		118 points by crazygringo on July 25, 2011 \| 32 comments
14.		Using MySQL as a NoSQL - A story for exceeding 750,000 qps on a commodity server (yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com)
		112 points by mcantor on July 25, 2011 \| 11 comments
15.		Why Google cares if you use your real name (scripting.com)
		106 points by davewiner on July 25, 2011 \| 111 comments
16.		Rack-webconsole: a Ruby/Rails console inside your browser (codegram.com)
		104 points by rohitarondekar on July 25, 2011 \| 55 comments
17.		Angry Birds Maker Sued for Patent Violation (mashable.com)
		101 points by dean on July 25, 2011 \| 100 comments
18.		Setup a complete Django server, deploy, rollback – all in one powerful script. (askthepony.com)
		102 points by myusuf3 on July 25, 2011 \| 11 comments
19.		Faster than jQuery(document).ready() - Wait Until Exists (javascriptisawesome.blogspot.com)
		96 points by AltIvan on July 25, 2011 \| 44 comments
20.		Web Operations 101 For Developers (paperplanes.de)
		88 points by roidrage on July 25, 2011 \| 1 comment
21.		Boot to Gecko: building a complete, standalone operating system for the open web (groups.google.com)
		84 points by robin_reala on July 25, 2011 \| 36 comments
22.		It's Me, In an Ad, On Facebook. Is This Legal? Allowed? Who Knows? (battellemedia.com)
		80 points by Dramatize on July 25, 2011 \| 26 comments
23.		How Scientists and Engineers Got It Right, and VCs Got It Wrong (steveblank.com)
		80 points by joshuacc on July 25, 2011 \| 26 comments
24.		Ask HN: How should I apply for U.S. jobs as a non-resident?
		75 points by imalolz on July 25, 2011 \| 27 comments
25.		The Future of Lighting (arstechnica.com)
		74 points by necubi on July 25, 2011 \| 14 comments
26.		Mark Suster: One Book Every Entrepreneur and VC Should Own (techcrunch.com)
		73 points by cwan on July 25, 2011 \| 12 comments
27.		Texas Battlefield 3 launch LAN bans women from attending (borderhouseblog.com)
		68 points by Total_Meltdown on July 25, 2011 \| 73 comments
28.		Graph and Network Analysis: Tutorial, datasets and code (ucd.ie)
		68 points by alexmr on July 25, 2011 \| 4 comments
29.		The nytimes they are a-changin' (okayfail.com)
		67 points by sahillavingia on July 25, 2011 \| 25 comments
30.		Poll: Android developers, what IDE do you use?
		68 points by lacker on July 25, 2011 \| 75 comments
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