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1.		Let's Abolish High School (youthrights.net)
		132 points by absconditus on Aug 11, 2009 \| 113 comments
2.		You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again (wired.com)
		88 points by edw519 on Aug 11, 2009 \| 28 comments
3.		JobSpice (YC S09) Makes Resumes Web Friendly, With A Facebook Co-Founder (techcrunch.com)
		81 points by suhail on Aug 11, 2009 \| 59 comments
4.		Ask HN: Best Mathematics book for complete noobie?
		78 points by babyboy808 on Aug 11, 2009 \| 55 comments
5.		Google App Inventor uses Scheme under the hood (googleresearch.blogspot.com)
		76 points by mark_h on Aug 11, 2009 \| 20 comments
6.		On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study (csail.mit.edu)
		72 points by kf on Aug 11, 2009 \| 14 comments
7.		Apple again offers matte screen option for 15-inch MacBook Pro (appleinsider.com)
		66 points by peter123 on Aug 11, 2009 \| 65 comments
8.		Tim Sweeney: The end of the GPU roadmap [pdf] (williams.edu)
		64 points by simonb on Aug 11, 2009 \| 18 comments
9.		Bootstrapping Abroad: why we do it and why it's awesome (spreadsong.com)
		60 points by Zsolt on Aug 11, 2009 \| 36 comments
10.		World's smallest Arc server (arcfn.com)
		58 points by krishna2 on Aug 11, 2009 \| 6 comments
11.		StackOverflow for HTML and CSS (doctype.com)
		57 points by whalesalad on Aug 11, 2009 \| 45 comments
12.		California Won't Accept Its Own IOUs (courthousenews.com)
		56 points by gasull on Aug 11, 2009 \| 28 comments
13.		Apple is the New Microsoft (herlein.com)
		56 points by gherlein on Aug 11, 2009 \| 39 comments
14.		Music to Hack to: Nintendo Mixtape (nintendomixtape.com)
		54 points by jeremymims on Aug 11, 2009 \| 39 comments
15.		Introducing Silent Diving Seagulls: An XMPP Interface for Desktop Notifications (abi.sh)
		53 points by abi on Aug 11, 2009 \| 11 comments
16.		Ask HN: What is something impressive you have built or achieved?
		52 points by wave on Aug 11, 2009 \| 88 comments
17.		The New Google Search (sandbox.google.com)
		52 points by brennannovak on Aug 11, 2009 \| 45 comments
18.		How to Compete Against Open Source Competition (softwarebyrob.com)
		52 points by gthank on Aug 11, 2009 \| 57 comments
19.		Pics: The Facebook/FriendFeed Deal Signed Under The Cover Of Night (techcrunch.com)
		51 points by zaveri on Aug 11, 2009 \| 8 comments
20.		But what does a sorting algorithm sound like? (pillowsopher.com)
		49 points by henryl on Aug 11, 2009 \| 6 comments
21.		Ask HN: Advice for freshmen entering college
		49 points by noahlt on Aug 11, 2009 \| 149 comments
22.		The 1KB CSS Grid (1kbgrid.com)
		47 points by chris24 on Aug 11, 2009 \| 7 comments
23.		Ask HN: Are you a founder?
		47 points by hajrice on Aug 11, 2009 \| 106 comments
24.		Tough times in the porn industry (latimes.com)
		46 points by SwellJoe on Aug 11, 2009 \| 29 comments
25.		Amazon's data could rock Google and online advertising (techvibes.com)
		45 points by roblewis on Aug 11, 2009 \| 30 comments
26.		Withold password, go to jail (theregister.co.uk)
		38 points by pmikal on Aug 11, 2009 \| 38 comments
27.		Steven Frank Gets Reply From Phil Schiller on iPhone Boycott (stevenf.tumblr.com)
		38 points by ams1 on Aug 11, 2009 \| 23 comments
28.		Tr.im Resurrected (tr.im)
		35 points by chris24 on Aug 11, 2009 \| 49 comments
29.		"Caffeine" - Google's new faster search engine (telegraph.co.uk)
		35 points by viggity on Aug 11, 2009 \| 17 comments
30.		Pricing Car Repairs, Before the Repairs (nytimes.com)
		34 points by tortilla on Aug 11, 2009 \| 20 comments
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