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1.		Time Wastes Too Fast (nytimes.com)
		202 points by mhb on June 26, 2009 \| 35 comments
2.		Pragmatic Theory, Commendo, Yahoo and AT&T hit the Netflix grand prize (netflixprize.com)
		174 points by derwiki on June 26, 2009 \| 29 comments
3.		_why on teaching kids to code (vimeo.com)
		120 points by audionerd on June 26, 2009 \| 13 comments
4.		Mapping OKCupid answer data: rape fantasies and hygiene by state (okcupid.com)
		98 points by timr on June 26, 2009 \| 44 comments
5.		Netflix Prize 10% barrier broken (att.com)
		80 points by pie on June 26, 2009 \| 15 comments
6.		Wow. So this is what it's like to lust after a Microsoft product. (haythamalaa.blogspot.com)
		79 points by mnemonicsloth on June 26, 2009 \| 43 comments
7.		Why are There 60 Minutes in an Hour? (scienceray.com)
		73 points by dsil on June 26, 2009 \| 34 comments
8.		Cocaine prices around the world (economist.com)
		70 points by csbartus on June 26, 2009 \| 21 comments
9.		Ask HN: Should I give up?
		66 points by sui_generis80 on June 26, 2009 \| 69 comments
10.		The best HN comments (news.ycombinator.com)
		53 points by zachbeane on June 26, 2009 \| 40 comments
11.		Your arteries on Wonder bread (physorg.com)
		52 points by ph0rque on June 26, 2009 \| 54 comments
12.		FireQuery: Firebug enhancements for jQuery (binaryage.com)
		49 points by woid on June 26, 2009 \| 4 comments
13.		Hulu ad rates become higher than tv ad rates (bloomberg.com)
		46 points by quizbiz on June 26, 2009 \| 16 comments
14.		Thumbs Down for Clojure (loper-os.org)
		45 points by yangyang on June 26, 2009 \| 52 comments
15.		JWZ ports xdaliclock to Palm WebOS by rewriting it in Javascript (jwz.livejournal.com)
		38 points by tptacek on June 26, 2009 \| 8 comments
16.		I'll give away one of my startups to someone on HN
		38 points by Sam_Odio on June 26, 2009 \| 30 comments
17.		Pocket Programming: Learning New Skills Anywhere (joelhughes.co.uk)
		37 points by rudenoise on June 26, 2009 \| 9 comments
18.		A Beginners’ Guide to Big O Notation (rob-bell.net)
		37 points by chaostheory on June 26, 2009 \| 6 comments
19.		Atari violates the ScummVM's license (sev-notes.blogspot.com)
		36 points by pmarin on June 26, 2009 \| 11 comments
20.		Seesmic’s CEO: We built it, they didn’t come (venturebeat.com)
		33 points by rokhayakebe on June 26, 2009 \| 35 comments
21.		Early drafts of great work are encouraging (sivers.org)
		32 points by sivers on June 26, 2009 \| 6 comments
22.		The 11-Year Quest to Create Disappearing Colored Bubbles (popsci.com)
		31 points by absconditus on June 26, 2009 \| 6 comments
23.		IronPython in Action and the Decline of Windows (neopythonic.blogspot.com)
		31 points by mace on June 26, 2009 \| 18 comments
24.		Google thought Michael Jackson traffic was attack (cnet.com)
		28 points by zeedotme on June 26, 2009 \| 2 comments
25.		Major League Baseball's outdated, misleading offset camera angle (slate.com)
		28 points by robg on June 26, 2009 \| 17 comments
26.		Copyfraud Is Stealing the Public Domain (theregister.co.uk)
		29 points by FluidDjango on June 26, 2009 \| 3 comments
27.		Web slows after Jackson's death (bbc.co.uk)
		27 points by niyazpk on June 26, 2009 \| 13 comments
28.		The Climate Change Climate Change (wsj.com)
		25 points by nice1 on June 26, 2009 \| 41 comments
29.		Build an Insanely Great Web Service (readwriteweb.com)
		24 points by pierrefar on June 26, 2009 \| 6 comments
30.		Terrible Password Security Advice From Jakob Nielsen (chriskite.com)
		23 points by lucumo on June 26, 2009 \| 24 comments
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