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31.		Choosing a non-relational database; why we migrated from MySQL to MongoDB (boxedice.com)
		21 points by dmytton on July 25, 2009
32.		Against group think and political correctness (technologyreview.com)
		19 points by jp_sc on July 25, 2009
33.		Fake Steve Jobs: Orwell versus Huxley (comic repost with added tech commentary) (fakesteve.blogspot.com)
		19 points by zimbabwe on July 25, 2009 \| 1 comment
34.		Palm complains about Apple to USB governing body (engadget.com)
		19 points by tlrobinson on July 25, 2009 \| 12 comments
35.		Solar energy in Israel: It's a knockout (economist.com)
		18 points by mblakele on July 25, 2009 \| 15 comments
36.		Monetize The Audience, Not The Content (avc.com)
		17 points by toni on July 25, 2009 \| 6 comments
37.		Vancouver HN Meetup Tuesday (groups.google.com)
		16 points by simonk on July 25, 2009
38.		Standards, Stepanov, Stroustrup, and Stevens (dobbscodetalk.com)
		13 points by Anon84 on July 25, 2009 \| 1 comment
39.		Taking "Me, Inc." Public: Market Caps for Individuals (500hats.typepad.com)
		12 points by peter123 on July 25, 2009 \| 16 comments
40.		Bill Gates quits Facebook over 'too many friends' (yahoo.com)
		10 points by BrentRitterbeck on July 25, 2009 \| 9 comments
41.		Will anyone pay for anything? (building43.com)
		9 points by peter123 on July 25, 2009 \| 8 comments
42.		Cannabis iPhoneApp passes 1,000 paid downloads; SoCal developers stoked (latimes.com)
		9 points by ExJournalist on July 25, 2009 \| 1 comment
43.		Perfect versus Better (dragosroua.com)
		9 points by edragonu on July 25, 2009 \| 2 comments
44.		Does open-sourcing your product automatically destroy your business model? (geekofthehill.com)
		9 points by bcwood on July 25, 2009 \| 10 comments
45.		Twitter Banned from White House (readwriteweb.com)
		12 points by kajecounterhack on July 25, 2009 \| 7 comments
46.		Web based file managers with jquery & PHP (dreamcss.com)
		8 points by seasoup on July 25, 2009 \| 1 comment
47.		Vista Speech Recognition - Equation Editor in Word (youtube.com)
		8 points by sown on July 25, 2009 \| 4 comments
48.		It’s Time To Pony Up. Why Good Websites Shouldn't Be Free. (newsweek.com)
		8 points by quoderat on July 25, 2009 \| 3 comments
49.		Silly Javascript (learnr.org)
		8 points by s3graham on July 25, 2009 \| 28 comments
50.		Red Hat to join S&P 500 (newsobserver.com)
		7 points by jacquesm on July 25, 2009 \| 2 comments
51.		Ask HN: What are the best tools for doing reports on your data?
		7 points by cpg on July 25, 2009 \| 1 comment
52.		Open Source Community Building -- Barriers to Entry (dneary.free.fr)
		7 points by blasdel on July 25, 2009 \| 4 comments
53.		OK, so it’s not exactly "grim" up North for tech - But there are some issues (techcrunch.com)
		7 points by paulsb on July 25, 2009 \| 2 comments
54.		Intuitive Equals Familiar (1994) (asktog.com)
		6 points by mridulkhan on July 25, 2009 \| 1 comment
55.		FreeYourID Gives Up On Trying To Monetize OpenID (techcrunch.com)
		6 points by JournalistHack on July 25, 2009
56.		HadoopDB: MapReduce over Relational Data (mvdirona.com)
		6 points by Maro on July 25, 2009
57.		Retrieving Kernel32's Base Address (harmonysecurity.com)
		6 points by rogue on July 25, 2009
58.		Can a biologically accurate brain be built from a supercomputer? (seedmagazine.com)
		5 points by robg on July 25, 2009 \| 4 comments
59.		Ask HN: Do you aggregate your social networks/what do you use?
		5 points by adnymarc on July 25, 2009 \| 12 comments
60.		Superstition and finance: A total eclipse of the brain (economist.com)
		5 points by mblakele on July 25, 2009
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