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1.		Burnout (alistapart.com)
		131 points by sant0sk1 on May 26, 2009 \| 23 comments
2.		Minimalistic (vim-like) web browser based on Webkit (uzbl.org)
		100 points by mindaugas on May 26, 2009 \| 28 comments
3.		Can I Set Up An LLC To Avoid Personal Liability In A Lawsuit? (litigationandtrial.com)
		95 points by brlewis on May 26, 2009 \| 27 comments
4.		A short list of things I don’t like about Python (jessenoller.com)
		95 points by mace on May 26, 2009 \| 67 comments
5.		Dice-O-Matic hopper and elevator (gamesbyemail.com)
		81 points by Corrado on May 26, 2009 \| 4 comments
6.		1984: The masterpiece that killed George Orwell (guardian.co.uk)
		74 points by ksvs on May 26, 2009 \| 21 comments
7.		How Perl 6 just sells itself (excerpt from IRC) (perl.org)
		75 points by draegtun on May 26, 2009 \| 59 comments
8.		Creative anti-debugger technique in Spotify for Windows (steike.com)
		65 points by tkiley on May 26, 2009 \| 19 comments
9.		Use RunPee.com to know when to go to the bathroom during a movie (runpee.com)
		64 points by shard on May 26, 2009 \| 26 comments
10.		Why Isn't Paypal More Successful? (avc.com)
		55 points by terpua on May 26, 2009 \| 53 comments
11.		What People Search First at Duck Duck Go (with an HN subset) (duckduckgo.com)
		55 points by epi0Bauqu on May 26, 2009 \| 16 comments
12.		Penny Auctions: They're Gambling (codinghorror.com)
		51 points by w1ntermute on May 26, 2009 \| 29 comments
13.		How To Use Twitter and Not Be a Douchebag (darowski.com)
		50 points by twism on May 26, 2009 \| 11 comments
14.		Ask HN: Outdoor jobs for geeks?
		49 points by Tichy on May 26, 2009 \| 39 comments
15.		Users Love Microsoft, Yahoo Search -- When It's Branded With A Google Logo (businessinsider.com)
		48 points by lukas on May 26, 2009 \| 33 comments
16.		Why Accountants are Dull and Guitarists are Glamorous (reprap.org)
		43 points by mixmax on May 26, 2009 \| 29 comments
17.		Scaling Memcached: 500,000+ Operations/Second (sun.com)
		41 points by cyberian on May 26, 2009 \| 9 comments
18.		Business Intelligence Rap Video (rjmetrics.com)
		38 points by robertjmoore on May 26, 2009 \| 2 comments
19.		How to Be a Better Entrepreneur in the Next 30 Minutes (quicksprout.com)
		37 points by jasonlbaptiste on May 26, 2009 \| 13 comments
20.		What a Texas town can teach us about health care (newyorker.com)
		34 points by jakarta on May 26, 2009 \| 8 comments
21.		Achieving Fame, Wealth And Beauty Are Psychological Dead Ends, Study Says (sciencedaily.com)
		34 points by villageidiot on May 26, 2009 \| 32 comments
22.		The New Résumé: Dumb and Dumber (wsj.com)
		31 points by prakash on May 26, 2009 \| 21 comments
23.		Growing a Language, by Guy Steele [video] (video.google.com)
		30 points by vorador on May 26, 2009 \| 3 comments
24.		Amusing ourselves to death - Huxley vs Orwell (recombinantrecords.net)
		30 points by cloudhead on May 26, 2009 \| 17 comments
25.		Facebook Takes $200 Million From Russian Investors At $10 Billion Valuation (allthingsd.com)
		29 points by jasonlbaptiste on May 26, 2009 \| 35 comments
26.		Using Git with Vim (osnews.com)
		29 points by mindaugas on May 26, 2009 \| 2 comments
27.		Memcpy() concurrency curiosities (sun.com)
		29 points by Anon84 on May 26, 2009 \| 7 comments
28.		The Cutting Edge (wired.com)
		29 points by io on May 26, 2009 \| 7 comments
29.		Ask HN: Which persistent in-memory database to use?
		28 points by paraschopra on May 26, 2009 \| 24 comments
30.		How Game Design Can Revolutionize Everyday Life (wired.com)
		28 points by peter123 on May 26, 2009 \| 7 comments
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