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1.		Hacker Hacker News - see just the programming/math/science links from HN (hackerhackernews.com)
		164 points by sqs on July 6, 2009 \| 56 comments
2.		SQL Databases Don't Scale (heroku.com)
		100 points by sant0sk1 on July 6, 2009 \| 108 comments
3.		Did someone try to steal Goldman Sachs’ secret sauce (source code)? (reuters.com)
		87 points by hachiya on July 6, 2009 \| 37 comments
4.		Why IKEA Is Fed Up with Russia (businessweek.com)
		79 points by cellis on July 6, 2009 \| 78 comments
5.		The Hydrogen Myth (slideshare.net)
		72 points by TriinT on July 6, 2009 \| 37 comments
6.		Introducing our new venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (pmarca.com)
		72 points by kungfudoi on July 6, 2009 \| 10 comments
7.		This is the exploit equivalent of that guy who played the perfect game (2008) (matasano.com)
		71 points by req2 on July 6, 2009 \| 33 comments
8.		The Mythical Man Weekend (clickdeck360.com)
		66 points by kolya3 on July 6, 2009 \| 35 comments
9.		Scala as long-term replacement for Java (macstrac.blogspot.com)
		62 points by fogus on July 6, 2009 \| 38 comments
10.		Finally... Goto in Javascript (summerofgoto.com)
		61 points by aheilbut on July 6, 2009 \| 35 comments
11.		Physical reality of string theory demonstrated (esciencenews.com)
		61 points by ph0rque on July 6, 2009 \| 16 comments
12.		Erlang scores a marketing coup (zerohedge.blogspot.com)
		59 points by leoc on July 6, 2009 \| 19 comments
13.		New algorithm guesses SSNs (arstechnica.com)
		53 points by fogus on July 6, 2009 \| 19 comments
14.		Mathematica vs. Matlab vs. Python (larssono.com)
		52 points by soundsop on July 6, 2009 \| 14 comments
15.		How high school students start thinking about code (computinged.wordpress.com)
		51 points by llimllib on July 6, 2009 \| 44 comments
16.		Haml & Sass 2.2 Released (nex-3.com)
		51 points by chriseppstein on July 6, 2009 \| 19 comments
17.		Professor Studies Social Customs in Video Games - Becomes Most Hated Player (nola.com)
		50 points by TallGuyShort on July 6, 2009 \| 27 comments
18.		Passenger fixes faulty airliner (bbc.co.uk)
		45 points by vaksel on July 6, 2009 \| 14 comments
19.		Why Incompetence Spreads Through Big Organisations (technologyreview.com)
		42 points by Anon84 on July 6, 2009 \| 25 comments
20.		Paypal Looks to Crush Amazon’s Fledgling Payment Service With A New, Secret API (techcrunch.com)
		42 points by vaksel on July 6, 2009 \| 16 comments
21.		Details on Marc Andreessen’s New Fund (techcrunch.com)
		42 points by terpua on July 6, 2009 \| 1 comment
22.		Use the same password on multiple sites safely (stanford.edu)
		41 points by Confusion on July 6, 2009 \| 20 comments
23.		The Longevity Experiment (nationalgeographic.com)
		40 points by limist on July 6, 2009 \| 78 comments
24.		Would you want it if it were free? (feld.com)
		39 points by brm on July 6, 2009 \| 5 comments
25.		JSON: What It Is, How It Works, and How to Use It (ennuidesign.com)
		39 points by jmonegro on July 6, 2009 \| 4 comments
26.		Decoding the HTML 5 video codec debate (arstechnica.com)
		39 points by nickb on July 6, 2009 \| 26 comments
27.		Interview with Sam Odio, Founder of Divvyshot (YC W09) (examiner.com)
		34 points by zaveri on July 6, 2009 \| 5 comments
28.		Chris Anderson's Free Audiobook [zip] (wired.com)
		35 points by PeterRosdahl on July 6, 2009 \| 6 comments
29.		Why web log analyzers are better than JavaScript based analytics (datalandsoftware.com)
		33 points by mindaugas on July 6, 2009 \| 30 comments
30.		Review my app coded in the past two days: BookBox
		32 points by lkozma on July 6, 2009 \| 4 comments
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