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1.		How To Build Something Real (In Your Spare Time) (messynotebook.com)
		155 points by thomanil on May 29, 2009 \| 41 comments
2.		Curing Python's Neglect (zedshaw.com)
		149 points by twampss on May 29, 2009 \| 91 comments
3.		eieio (alumnit.ca)
		136 points by soundsop on May 29, 2009 \| 13 comments
4.		Excerpts From the Diary of an [iTunes] App Store Reviewer (daringfireball.net)
		124 points by tumult on May 29, 2009 \| 24 comments
5.		Kurt Gödel is Laughing His Ass Off Right Now (chrishecker.com)
		96 points by chadaustin on May 29, 2009 \| 58 comments
6.		Why Women Have Breasts (evolution-x.com)
		90 points by IsaacSchlueter on May 29, 2009 \| 64 comments
7.		Wikipedia bans Church of Scientology (theregister.co.uk)
		86 points by Flemlord on May 29, 2009 \| 29 comments
8.		What I learned from screwing up my first ebook launch (slash7.com)
		73 points by ahoyhere on May 29, 2009 \| 31 comments
9.		Nate Lawson Breaks Google Keyczar's HMAC Crypto Signatures (root.org)
		62 points by tptacek on May 29, 2009 \| 24 comments
10.		Obfuscate Your Company (twilio.com)
		53 points by Derferman on May 29, 2009 \| 38 comments
11.		Database of hidden settings for Mac OS X (blacktree.com)
		51 points by mmc on May 29, 2009 \| 13 comments
12.		Bye-bye kindle (pcworld.com)
		47 points by TweedHeads on May 29, 2009 \| 48 comments
13.		Real Programmers... (pbm.com)
		46 points by marcog1 on May 29, 2009 \| 17 comments
14.		Ask HN: What to do about distracting mental chatter?
		45 points by jpeterson on May 29, 2009 \| 49 comments
15.		Nikola Tesla--The Man Who Lit Up the World (oreilly.com)
		44 points by jgrahamc on May 29, 2009 \| 13 comments
16.		PatchMatch: amazing interactive content-aware image editing (SIGGRAPH 09) (princeton.edu)
		39 points by bd on May 29, 2009 \| 4 comments
17.		Amazon Payments now supports recurring payments (amazon.com)
		39 points by songism on May 29, 2009 \| 13 comments
18.		Why my vote goes to the Pirate Party (copyriot.se)
		36 points by kqr2 on May 29, 2009 \| 8 comments
19.		Django-Based Blog on Google App Engine Tutorial, Part 1 (joeyb.org)
		35 points by unfug on May 29, 2009 \| 5 comments
20.		17th century Damascus sabres contained carbon nanotubes (rsc.org)
		32 points by rogercosseboom on May 29, 2009 \| 17 comments
21.		Opera 10 Browser UA string format changed to accomodate bad applications (opera.com)
		32 points by aj on May 29, 2009 \| 21 comments
22.		Ask HN: No-names, tell your story on how you got PR coverage
		32 points by kineticac on May 29, 2009 \| 63 comments
23.		Git Hub Serves More Ruby Gems Than Rubyforge (gist.github.com)
		30 points by jasonlbaptiste on May 29, 2009 \| 17 comments
24.		Born free: Open-source software in the recession (economist.com)
		29 points by __ on May 29, 2009 \| 5 comments
25.		The Scribd Story and the Trip Method (scribd.com)
		27 points by marketer on May 29, 2009 \| 20 comments
26.		The Future of Manufacturing, GM, and American Workers (Part I) (robertreich.blogspot.com)
		25 points by dangoldin on May 29, 2009 \| 19 comments
27.		Twitter analytics using mathematica (kevenlin.com)
		25 points by sayhello on May 29, 2009
28.		Ask HN: please review my technology.
		25 points by casta on May 29, 2009 \| 25 comments
29.		Create an AI on Your Computer (singularityhub.com)
		24 points by kkleiner on May 29, 2009 \| 8 comments
30.		Outrageous Canadian research study on Internet piracy is itself pirated. (nowtoronto.com)
		24 points by dxjones on May 29, 2009 \| 3 comments
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