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1.		Rajeev Motwani, Google founders' professor and early investor, dies (venturebeat.com)
		115 points by ciscoriordan on June 6, 2009 \| 14 comments
2.		Leo Laporte loses it with Mike Arrington on the Gillmor Gang (youtube.com)
		109 points by zeedotme on June 6, 2009 \| 66 comments
3.		Postmodernism disrobed by Richard Dawkins (nyu.edu)
		80 points by absconditus on June 6, 2009 \| 74 comments
4.		HN suggestion: A larger margin at the bottom of comment pages
		76 points by thristian on June 6, 2009 \| 17 comments
5.		How to make a movement. Lessons learned from dancing guy. (sivers.org)
		75 points by sivers on June 6, 2009 \| 25 comments
6.		MythBuster Adam Savage's Colossal Failures [video] (fora.tv)
		74 points by kqr2 on June 6, 2009 \| 8 comments
7.		Ask HN: Black bar?
		65 points by j2d2 on June 6, 2009 \| 25 comments
8.		Goodbye Old Friend. R.I.P. Rajeev Motwani (gigaom.com)
		63 points by peter123 on June 6, 2009 \| 6 comments
9.		Blame Drew's Cancer (blamedrewscancer.com)
		59 points by winanga on June 6, 2009 \| 16 comments
10.		The newspaper suicide pact (xark.typepad.com)
		55 points by kqr2 on June 6, 2009 \| 1 comment
11.		A Century of Controversy Over the Foundations of Mathematics (auckland.ac.nz)
		55 points by mariorz on June 6, 2009 \| 22 comments
12.		Apple Gets Pwned, SF Store Is Now Advertising DVD Jon’s doubleTwist (techcrunch.com)
		49 points by ciscoriordan on June 6, 2009 \| 13 comments
13.		Remembering Rajeev (too.blogspot.com)
		48 points by comatose_kid on June 6, 2009 \| 1 comment
14.		Home taping didn’t kill music (badscience.net)
		40 points by baha_man on June 6, 2009 \| 18 comments
15.		New Nintendo DS Game -- Create Any Object You Can Think Of (joystiq.com)
		40 points by noaharc on June 6, 2009 \| 10 comments
16.		“prettyPrint” is an in-browser JavaScript “variable dumper” (padolsey.com)
		38 points by niyazpk on June 6, 2009 \| 7 comments
17.		Ask HN: Are macros still an enormous edge in the power of a language?
		35 points by revenant on June 6, 2009 \| 52 comments
18.		Arrington responds to the Gillmor Gang thing (techcrunch.com)
		32 points by vaksel on June 6, 2009 \| 22 comments
19.		What's new in arc3? (arcfn.com)
		31 points by mqt on June 6, 2009 \| 6 comments
20.		10 things you (probably) didn't know about App Engine (googleappengine.blogspot.com)
		31 points by peter123 on June 6, 2009 \| 2 comments
21.		Cappuccino meetup/party on Monday, SF, hosted by 280 North and Sofa
		29 points by tlrobinson on June 6, 2009 \| 2 comments
22.		Term Sheet Manners (avc.com)
		27 points by peter123 on June 6, 2009 \| 1 comment
23.		Ask HN: Review my startup (aleveo.com)
		27 points by dejan on June 6, 2009 \| 31 comments
24.		25 Years of Tetris: From Russia With Fun (time.com)
		26 points by Caged on June 6, 2009 \| 4 comments
25.		Writing Low-Pain Massively Scalable Multiplayer Servers (devmaster.net)
		24 points by luccastera on June 6, 2009 \| 8 comments
26.		S-Corp’s vs. LLC’s (feld.com)
		24 points by jasonlbaptiste on June 6, 2009 \| 6 comments
27.		Ask HN: What's a startup and what's a web app?
		23 points by speek on June 6, 2009 \| 24 comments
28.		The Fall of Vidoop - Chris Messina's history with an OpenID startup (factoryjoe.com)
		23 points by turoczy on June 6, 2009 \| 8 comments
29.		JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit - Interactive Data Visualizations for the Web (thejit.org)
		23 points by zen53 on June 6, 2009 \| 3 comments
30.		The computer crash (timesonline.co.uk)
		22 points by tokenadult on June 6, 2009 \| 7 comments
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