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1.		User gets fed up with bug; cracks program to fix it himself. (skype.com)
		126 points by vaksel on June 13, 2009 \| 34 comments
2.		How I Learned French in One Year (kuro5hin.org)
		102 points by antiform on June 13, 2009 \| 48 comments
3.		Ask HN: Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN?
		84 points by jcapote on June 13, 2009 \| 85 comments
4.		What Opera is about to Unveil? (asserttrue.blogspot.com)
		61 points by techdog on June 13, 2009 \| 26 comments
5.		A #1 iPhone game-app dev says: Don't expect to make a living from the AppStore (macworld.com)
		55 points by credo on June 13, 2009 \| 21 comments
6.		Why Amazon Vine is a Threat Worth Talking About (jonbischke.com)
		54 points by jbischke on June 13, 2009 \| 21 comments
7.		Integer Square Roots (embedded.com)
		49 points by chanux on June 13, 2009 \| 10 comments
8.		What Pair-Programing is Not (hevery.com)
		44 points by jcsalterego on June 13, 2009 \| 9 comments
9.		From C# on Mono, to Clojure on the JVM (agilehead.com)
		43 points by mariorz on June 13, 2009 \| 32 comments
10.		The joy of electronic books (sealedabstract.com)
		42 points by drewcrawford on June 13, 2009 \| 13 comments
11.		Ask HN: What web/desktop apps do you use to manage your startup?
		38 points by acangiano on June 13, 2009 \| 23 comments
12.		The inside story of the Conficker worm (newscientist.com)
		38 points by vaksel on June 13, 2009 \| 3 comments
13.		How to blow your investor pitch (slideshare.net)
		35 points by replicatorblog on June 13, 2009 \| 8 comments
14.		Neo4j - a Graph Database that Kicks Buttox (highscalability.com)
		36 points by timf on June 13, 2009
15.		Podcast Interview with Peldi of Balsamiq (500K of revenue in only 10 months) (techzinglive.com)
		35 points by jayro on June 13, 2009 \| 4 comments
16.		Knuth: Programs to Read (archive.org)
		34 points by zkz on June 13, 2009 \| 7 comments
17.		Is multicore hype or reality? (embedded.com)
		34 points by iamelgringo on June 13, 2009 \| 14 comments
18.		Images of technical PDFs on the Kindle DX (matthewdavidwilliams.com)
		28 points by mdweezer on June 13, 2009 \| 14 comments
19.		Open letter to Microsoft: It's time for a single version of Windows (zdnet.com)
		28 points by vaksel on June 13, 2009 \| 22 comments
20.		Daily Routines: How writers, artists, and others organize their days (dailyroutines.typepad.com)
		27 points by kqr2 on June 13, 2009 \| 3 comments
21.		Facebook \| Username (facebook.com)
		27 points by mshafrir on June 13, 2009 \| 48 comments
22.		MySpace Is In Far Worse Shape Than Its New Executives Thought (businessinsider.com)
		24 points by jasonlbaptiste on June 13, 2009 \| 13 comments
23.		Seeking a Better Way of Living in Co-housing (nytimes.com)
		23 points by robg on June 13, 2009 \| 4 comments
24.		Even Amid This Slump, Demand for Toyota Prius Is Insatiable (nytimes.com)
		22 points by peter123 on June 13, 2009 \| 24 comments
25.		Single Logout: the other half of the identity equation (sociallipstick.com)
		22 points by danw on June 13, 2009 \| 5 comments
26.		Let's reimplement Eurisko (lesswrong.com)
		21 points by kf on June 13, 2009 \| 25 comments
27.		The Crack-Up By F. Scott Fitzgerald (esquire.com)
		19 points by gabriel on June 13, 2009 \| 6 comments
28.		Google Launches Fusion Tables (googlelabs.com)
		18 points by vaksel on June 13, 2009 \| 4 comments
29.		High population density triggers cultural explosions (theatlantic.com)
		17 points by robg on June 13, 2009
30.		4Chan Flooding YouTube with Childrens' Clips Containing Porn (bbc.co.uk)
		16 points by ComputerGuru on June 13, 2009 \| 49 comments
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