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1.		Did you mean recursion? (google.com)
		290 points by _pius on July 23, 2009 \| 50 comments
2.		Joel Spolsky: The Day My Industry Died (inc.com)
		175 points by twampss on July 23, 2009 \| 63 comments
3.		How A Pretty Face Can Push Visitors Away (grokdotcom.com)
		116 points by bensummers on July 23, 2009 \| 18 comments
4.		Why a woman's attractiveness acts as a repellent, explained using probability. (maths.org)
		104 points by amichail on July 23, 2009 \| 95 comments
5.		Lisp outside the Box (O'Reilly book) (lisp-book.org)
		83 points by RK on July 23, 2009 \| 34 comments
6.		On "magic", once again (from James Bennet, Django dev) (b-list.org)
		83 points by jerf on July 23, 2009 \| 14 comments
7.		Very Cool 3D Sketching Program (rhondaforever.com)
		76 points by Davertron on July 23, 2009 \| 10 comments
8.		Jeff Bezos apologizes for 1984-Kindle debacle (amazon.com)
		77 points by blazamos on July 23, 2009 \| 43 comments
9.		Etherpad gets a makeover and becomes even more of a threat to Google Docs (techcrunch.com)
		67 points by mrduncan on July 23, 2009 \| 24 comments
10.		Bill Gates: My 1979 Memories (gizmodo.com)
		67 points by mgcreed on July 23, 2009 \| 7 comments
11.		What is a functional programming language? (enfranchisedmind.com)
		66 points by e1ven on July 23, 2009 \| 33 comments
12.		Segway inventor on future technology – and why videogames aren't it (guardian.co.uk)
		61 points by emontero1 on July 23, 2009 \| 24 comments
13.		Nicholas Negroponte's sweet nonsense omelet (radian.org)
		57 points by blasdel on July 23, 2009 \| 11 comments
14.		Gmail auto-unsubscribe simplifies your life (itworld.com)
		54 points by abennett on July 23, 2009 \| 28 comments
15.		How to Make Phone Calls from the Command Line (twilio.com)
		54 points by dmor on July 23, 2009 \| 10 comments
16.		Something's pretty broken with Firebug... (addons.mozilla.org)
		52 points by geuis on July 23, 2009 \| 59 comments
17.		Apple Claims 91% of $1,000+ PC Market Revenue in June (macrumors.com)
		46 points by intregus on July 23, 2009 \| 61 comments
18.		Zappos CEO Wanted To Stay Independent, Sequoia Wanted Liquidity (pehub.com)
		43 points by trs90 on July 23, 2009 \| 14 comments
19.		Hate Driven Development (rc3.org)
		41 points by ionfish on July 23, 2009 \| 6 comments
20.		Five Features from Mercurial That Would Make Git Suck Less (nubyonrails.com)
		37 points by ionfish on July 23, 2009 \| 14 comments
21.		Indian moon mission eclipsed by Apollo 11 anniversary (telegraph.co.uk)
		36 points by medianama on July 23, 2009 \| 3 comments
22.		Zappos Deal Shows VCs Hate Entrepreneurs (manyniches.com)
		36 points by BrandonWatson on July 23, 2009 \| 27 comments
23.		A timely Times correction from 1969 (regrettheerror.com)
		34 points by iamelgringo on July 23, 2009 \| 2 comments
24.		Startup CTO mistakes I'd rather not repeat... (carlschmidt.ca)
		30 points by mgenzel on July 23, 2009 \| 13 comments
25.		Low Bar, High Ceiling - The Posterous Philosophy (sexywidget.com)
		30 points by lawrence on July 23, 2009 \| 8 comments
26.		Open-Source Tools for Working With Video and Audio (nytimes.com)
		28 points by newacc on July 23, 2009 \| 14 comments
27.		Intel X25-M G2: Dissected and Performance Preview (anandtech.com)
		27 points by profquail on July 23, 2009 \| 3 comments
28.		Mac Versus PC Debate Has Never Been Clearer (techcrunch.com)
		28 points by ExJournalist on July 23, 2009 \| 63 comments
29.		Extremely simple productivity tool I wrote (twogoals.com)
		26 points by zacman85 on July 23, 2009 \| 15 comments
30.		Rich Harvard, Poor Harvard (vanityfair.com)
		24 points by navanit on July 23, 2009 \| 2 comments
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