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1.		Inside the World's Greatest Keyboard (pcworld.com)
		84 points by jseliger on June 20, 2009 \| 75 comments
2.		Jobs had liver transplant 2 months ago; expected to return to work as planned (wsj.com)
		76 points by bsgamble on June 20, 2009 \| 77 comments
3.		Ask HN: Do you read math & hard science books? How?
		68 points by zkz on June 20, 2009 \| 56 comments
4.		Erik Naggum's wonderful rant about XML (cat-v.org)
		66 points by uriel on June 20, 2009 \| 20 comments
5.		Erik Naggum (1965-2009) RIP (twitter.com/kjetilv)
		61 points by dmm on June 20, 2009 \| 75 comments
6.		IP geolocation database (ipinfodb.com)
		56 points by astine on June 20, 2009 \| 10 comments
7.		Full Commodore 64 Emulator Rejected from App Store (toucharcade.com)
		56 points by sophiebits on June 20, 2009 \| 22 comments
8.		Books that influenced Clojure (amazon.com)
		48 points by mariorz on June 20, 2009 \| 16 comments
9.		Futurebox, lightbox without the JavaScript (thecssninja.com)
		45 points by ahrjay on June 20, 2009 \| 17 comments
10.		Mathematician's Lament: An essay on math education and on how we view math (scottaaronson.com)
		44 points by volodia on June 20, 2009 \| 18 comments
11.		Use pgp with gmail (in-browser) (getfiregpg.org)
		43 points by jauco on June 20, 2009 \| 1 comment
12.		The Accidental Diet (nytimes.com)
		40 points by tyn on June 20, 2009 \| 18 comments
13.		Linux on Netbooks: The Smoking Gun (groklaw.net)
		37 points by sadiq on June 20, 2009 \| 21 comments
14.		Ask HN; How to gain control over frustration?
		36 points by known on June 20, 2009 \| 25 comments
15.		Building Successful Long Term Relationships (avc.com)
		35 points by peter123 on June 20, 2009 \| 7 comments
16.		John Hodgman at Radio & TV Correspondents' Dinner Testing Obama's Nerdiness (youtube.com)
		35 points by jamesjyu on June 20, 2009
17.		Doctorow Says Google & Amazon Stifle Progress (internetevolution.com)
		33 points by urlwolf on June 20, 2009 \| 9 comments
18.		Serve html5-video (ogg/mp4), flash, QT, and WMP with only two video encodes (camendesign.com)
		31 points by uggedal on June 20, 2009 \| 7 comments
19.		Gandhi’s Top Fundamentals for Changing the World (positivityblog.com)
		28 points by known on June 20, 2009 \| 1 comment
20.		Why are modern scientists so dull? (technologyreview.com)
		25 points by zkz on June 20, 2009 \| 63 comments
21.		Google Maps: What’s Here? (techcrunch.com)
		19 points by vaksel on June 20, 2009 \| 5 comments
22.		Ask YC: Favorite email parsing library?
		18 points by cduan on June 20, 2009 \| 5 comments
23.		A Chat with Fred Wilson [video] (howardlindzon.com)
		17 points by spencerfry on June 20, 2009 \| 4 comments
24.		Teach your lawyer to sign contracts electronically (patientsknowbest.com)
		17 points by idiopathic on June 20, 2009 \| 7 comments
25.		A Literary Legend Fights for a Ventura County Library (nytimes.com)
		17 points by alexjmann on June 20, 2009 \| 9 comments
26.		Ask HN: What should I do with this project (HandyFind)?
		16 points by ektimo on June 20, 2009 \| 15 comments
27.		Fast Bikes, Slow Food, and the Workplace Wars (newyorker.com)
		14 points by colins_pride on June 20, 2009 \| 13 comments
28.		Typing In an E-Mail Address, and Giving Up Your Friends’ as Well (nytimes.com)
		14 points by muhamm on June 20, 2009 \| 20 comments
29.		What Helps New Ph.D.s Land Jobs in Academia? A Passport (wsj.com)
		14 points by peter123 on June 20, 2009 \| 6 comments
30.		NY State Senate Code on GitHub (github.com/blog)
		13 points by vaksel on June 20, 2009 \| 2 comments
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