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1.		UN announces launch of world’s first tuition-free, online university (un.org)
		122 points by dsil on June 8, 2009 \| 41 comments
2.		The Start-up Guru: Y Combinator's Paul Graham (inc.com)
		84 points by peter123 on June 8, 2009 \| 26 comments
3.		Too small to fail: How startups can grow in recessions (asmartbear.com)
		84 points by lrm242 on June 8, 2009 \| 1 comment
4.		Pirate Party wins a seat at the European Parliament (stockholmnews.com)
		75 points by daviday on June 8, 2009 \| 78 comments
5.		Air France 447: The ‘Coffin Corner’ and a ‘Mesoscale’ Maw (trueslant.com)
		71 points by old-gregg on June 8, 2009 \| 53 comments
6.		How To Become A Software Engineer/Programmer (maximporges.blogspot.com)
		59 points by benatkin on June 8, 2009 \| 34 comments
7.		AT&T Is Screwing Over US iPhone Users (gizmodo.com)
		59 points by jasonlbaptiste on June 8, 2009 \| 47 comments
8.		Microsoft Releases Bing API - With No Usage Quotas (programmableweb.com)
		58 points by raju on June 8, 2009 \| 25 comments
9.		Scalable Web Architectures: Common Patterns and Approaches (slideshare.net)
		52 points by wave on June 8, 2009 \| 12 comments
10.		The day pain died (boston.com)
		45 points by kf on June 8, 2009 \| 2 comments
11.		Plurk Comet: Handling of 100.000+ open connections (amix.dk)
		44 points by niels on June 8, 2009 \| 38 comments
12.		Technology Brief for Apple's Grand Central Multicore Paradigm [pdf] (images.apple.com)
		42 points by nickb on June 8, 2009 \| 12 comments
13.		Universal ‘Rubik’s Cube’ Could Become Pentagon Shapeshifter (wired.com)
		42 points by mjfern on June 8, 2009 \| 14 comments
14.		Firefox 3.5 - dreaming about the future of the web. (hacks.mozilla.org)
		41 points by chanux on June 8, 2009 \| 20 comments
15.		IPhone 3GS Feature Guide (gizmodo.com)
		40 points by mtinkerhess on June 8, 2009 \| 17 comments
16.		People who live in older, walkable neighborhoods have better health (nytimes.com)
		38 points by ksvs on June 8, 2009 \| 34 comments
17.		Icon Sets (smashingmagazine.com)
		36 points by callmeed on June 8, 2009 \| 4 comments
18.		Electric Bike Review: We Ride the Pacific E-Bike Terra 7-Speed (treehugger.com)
		31 points by MikeCapone on June 8, 2009 \| 27 comments
19.		Microsoft SuperPreview: a New Way to Test Web Sites (sitepoint.com)
		30 points by nreece on June 8, 2009 \| 8 comments
20.		Umm guys, parrotsecrets.com no longer sells an ebook.. were we scammed? (parrotsecrets.com)
		30 points by tocomment on June 8, 2009 \| 29 comments
21.		TechCrunch Now Number Two Tech Blog As Mashable Surges (businessinsider.com)
		30 points by zeedotme on June 8, 2009 \| 10 comments
22.		Writing a face recognition library interface is hard. Really hard. (lbrandy.com)
		30 points by mariorz on June 8, 2009 \| 6 comments
23.		Throwing Money Away (Buying vs Renting) (messymatters.com)
		29 points by samueladam on June 8, 2009 \| 50 comments
24.		The (Unspeakable) Ultimate Machine (kk.org)
		29 points by asciilifeform on June 8, 2009 \| 5 comments
25.		Perl 6 new regexp rules (wikipedia.org)
		29 points by soundsop on June 8, 2009 \| 4 comments
26.		How Clemson manipulates their US News ranking (insidehighered.com)
		29 points by DocSavage on June 8, 2009 \| 12 comments
27.		Apple rolls out new MacBooks, drops prices (news.google.ca)
		28 points by newacc on June 8, 2009 \| 40 comments
28.		Ray Kurzweil: A university for the coming singularity (ted.com)
		27 points by quizbiz on June 8, 2009 \| 28 comments
29.		Ask HN: So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day?
		26 points by trickjarrett on June 8, 2009 \| 54 comments
30.		Why REST (Representational State Transfer) ? (dhananjaynene.com)
		26 points by dnene on June 8, 2009 \| 1 comment
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