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1.		Joel Spolsky: A Visit to Microsoft and Google (inc.com)
		107 points by twampss on June 9, 2009 \| 61 comments
2.		Google Open Source Blog: Introducing Android Scripting Environment (google-opensource.blogspot.com)
		81 points by Anon84 on June 9, 2009 \| 29 comments
3.		Bullion and Bandits: The Improbable Rise and Fall of E-Gold (wired.com)
		69 points by mjfern on June 9, 2009 \| 33 comments
4.		Complete List of Mac OS X Snow Leopard Enhancements (apple.com)
		65 points by jasongullickson on June 9, 2009 \| 82 comments
5.		Twitter's UID associated to each tweet will very soon exceed 2,147,483,647 (twitpocalypse.com)
		66 points by timothychung on June 9, 2009 \| 43 comments
6.		Astalavista Hack Act 2 (pastebin.com)
		64 points by treo on June 9, 2009 \| 24 comments
7.		Corrupted Word Files for Sale (schneier.com)
		62 points by aminuit on June 9, 2009 \| 32 comments
8.		PHP introduces "goto" (php.net)
		59 points by zain on June 9, 2009 \| 87 comments
9.		Comcast's Incompetence Puts You At Risk (unixjunkie.blogspot.com)
		53 points by comatose_kid on June 9, 2009 \| 9 comments
10.		Writing Microcopy (bokardo.com)
		53 points by tortilla on June 9, 2009 \| 2 comments
11.		5 Things I Learned From Year One In My Startup (techvibes.com)
		54 points by mikeyur on June 9, 2009 \| 20 comments
12.		Facebook Vanity URLs Available this Saturday (facebook.com)
		49 points by eo on June 9, 2009 \| 13 comments
13.		The iPhone is White Label Hardware (dbreunig.tumblr.com)
		48 points by dbreunig on June 9, 2009 \| 61 comments
14.		Introducing Yip: A Unified Notification System for the Web (abcdefu.wordpress.com)
		47 points by abi on June 9, 2009 \| 31 comments
15.		The Economist: The World's Biggest Military Spenders by Population (economist.com)
		47 points by ComputerGuru on June 9, 2009 \| 35 comments
16.		Japanese camera buff builds 130-megapixel scanner camera for next to nothing (bouncingredball.com)
		39 points by markup on June 9, 2009 \| 13 comments
17.		Google Fusion Tables (googlelabs.com)
		38 points by eduardoflores on June 9, 2009 \| 8 comments
18.		How To Write an Equality Method in Java (artima.com)
		38 points by trjordan on June 9, 2009 \| 11 comments
19.		Making things work (nytimes.com)
		38 points by rglovejoy on June 9, 2009 \| 15 comments
20.		Why your brain just can't remember that word (btw bilingualism makes it harder) (newscientist.com)
		37 points by amichail on June 9, 2009 \| 26 comments
21.		Songkick Aims To Make A Database Of Every Concert Ever (techcrunch.com)
		37 points by lucraft on June 9, 2009 \| 6 comments
22.		LxLabs boss found hanged after vuln wipes websites (theregister.co.uk)
		37 points by pert on June 9, 2009 \| 14 comments
23.		Success & Motivation - 2009 (blogmaverick.com)
		36 points by jrbedard on June 9, 2009 \| 6 comments
24.		Essay Questions from China's "Brutally Long" College Entrance Exam (sun-zoo.com)
		35 points by cwan on June 9, 2009 \| 29 comments
25.		Tutoring company pilfers logo from Linux distro (archlinux.org)
		35 points by javert on June 9, 2009 \| 27 comments
26.		Graduate school for unemployed college students (sethgodin.typepad.com)
		34 points by oscardelben on June 9, 2009 \| 8 comments
27.		Reiner's tileset: free quality game sprites for commercial use (4players.de)
		30 points by SingAlong on June 9, 2009 \| 1 comment
28.		Ask HN: How many of you play music?
		29 points by bart on June 9, 2009 \| 81 comments
29.		Very Concurrent Mark&Sweep Garbage Collection without Fine-Grain Synchronization (cat-v.org)
		29 points by uriel on June 9, 2009
30.		The EuroLisp Symposium and the Future of Common Lisp (artima.com)
		27 points by dragonquest on June 9, 2009
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