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1.		Ask HN: What are you working on?
		136 points by Anon84 on July 12, 2009 \| 229 comments
2.		Want to keep your wallet? Carry a baby picture (timesonline.co.uk)
		76 points by kqr2 on July 12, 2009 \| 24 comments
3.		Freemium did not work for Phanfare (phanfare.com)
		74 points by jasonlbaptiste on July 12, 2009 \| 18 comments
4.		RentHop (YC S09): Easier Apartment Hunting, Without The Broker Fee (techcrunch.com)
		63 points by jasonlbaptiste on July 12, 2009 \| 44 comments
5.		Swoopo: The crack cocaine of auction sites (thebigmoney.com)
		67 points by gabrielroth on July 12, 2009 \| 73 comments
6.		"We Bring Fear" (motherjones.com)
		56 points by sho on July 12, 2009 \| 15 comments
7.		Ruby on Rails default templates now comes with HTML5 doctype (github.com/rails)
		51 points by laktek on July 12, 2009 \| 20 comments
8.		Posterous now supports Github Gist code drops (blog.posterous.com)
		50 points by rantfoil on July 12, 2009 \| 6 comments
9.		How The Average U.S. Consumer Spends Their Paycheck (visualeconomics.com)
		48 points by kqr2 on July 12, 2009 \| 71 comments
10.		Poll: Bay area startup founders/C*Os/early employees: how much do you work?
		47 points by rjurney on July 12, 2009 \| 55 comments
11.		Armed Bear Common Lisp actively developed (abcl-dev.blogspot.com)
		43 points by stefano on July 12, 2009
12.		Ask HN: What's your favorite site for hacking on things other than computers?
		42 points by manvsmachine on July 12, 2009 \| 25 comments
13.		Mercurial: The Definitive Guide (red-bean.com)
		35 points by mariorz on July 12, 2009
14.		The Cathedral and the Pirate (artima.com)
		35 points by emontero1 on July 12, 2009 \| 21 comments
15.		Scala is my next choice (khelll.com)
		34 points by khelll on July 12, 2009 \| 9 comments
16.		Stealing Data Via Electrical Outlet (networkworld.com)
		32 points by aj on July 12, 2009 \| 4 comments
17.		IE Memory Leak – jQuery Fix (kossovsky.net)
		26 points by kossovsky on July 12, 2009 \| 1 comment
18.		CMS.txt: 6kb approach to CMS (thewikies.com)
		26 points by jrnkntl on July 12, 2009 \| 6 comments
19.		Ask HN: Lightweight Programmer's CMS?
		25 points by amouat on July 12, 2009 \| 30 comments
20.		Is Free The Future Of Enterprise Software? Yes And No. (techcrunch.com)
		25 points by jasonlbaptiste on July 12, 2009 \| 1 comment
21.		Share with HN: Bookmarklet to graph HN polls
		25 points by bouncingsoul on July 12, 2009 \| 4 comments
22.		Debug PHP Using Firefox with FirePHP (sixrevisions.com)
		24 points by profquail on July 12, 2009 \| 5 comments
23.		Evolved Virtual Creatures (karlsims.com)
		23 points by whughes on July 12, 2009 \| 6 comments
24.		Reusable static sheets that turn walls (or any surface) into a whiteboard. (magicwhiteboard.co.uk)
		22 points by madmotive on July 12, 2009 \| 10 comments
25.		OpenBitTorrent Tracker Muscles In On The Old Pirate Bay (torrentfreak.com)
		20 points by aj on July 12, 2009 \| 2 comments
26.		In the 1950s, one could buy a miniature electron microscope. (smecc.org)
		19 points by asciilifeform on July 12, 2009 \| 18 comments
27.		Akka Actor Kernel (wiki.github.com)
		18 points by fogus on July 12, 2009
28.		We Choose The Moon - Apollo 11 mission recreated in realtime (bostonherald.com)
		18 points by javanix on July 12, 2009 \| 5 comments
29.		The High Cost of Poverty: Why the Poor Pay More (washingtonpost.com)
		18 points by gasull on July 12, 2009 \| 44 comments
30.		Ask HN: Is success impossible for a part-time startup?
		15 points by Deejahll on July 12, 2009 \| 19 comments
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