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1.		Where Is Xu Zhiyong? (newyorker.com)
		99 points by nice1 on Aug 1, 2009 \| 36 comments
2.		Can you trust TechCrunch enough to share their stories? (kullin.net)
		95 points by noss on Aug 1, 2009 \| 29 comments
3.		PythonTurtle - the most low-threshold way for learning/teaching Python (pythonturtle.com)
		73 points by cool-RR on Aug 1, 2009 \| 26 comments
4.		YC-Funded FanChatter Takes Social Media To The Ball Game (techcrunch.com)
		63 points by vaksel on Aug 1, 2009 \| 11 comments
5.		Iranian Nuclear Accident? (wikileaks.org)
		60 points by jackdawjack on Aug 1, 2009 \| 7 comments
6.		AMS Feature Column: Singular Value Decomposition (ams.org)
		57 points by nixme on Aug 1, 2009 \| 10 comments
7.		How work expands to fill available time (1955) (economist.com)
		52 points by dmnd on Aug 1, 2009 \| 3 comments
8.		6000 Chess Players Take Part in a "Beauty Contest" (chessbase.com)
		51 points by mhb on Aug 1, 2009 \| 9 comments
9.		HTML is object code (rondam.blogspot.com)
		48 points by lisper on Aug 1, 2009 \| 67 comments
10.		Big Brother Switzerland: real-time Internet interception to start on August 1 (wikileaks.org)
		46 points by gasull on Aug 1, 2009 \| 12 comments
11.		Forget Shorter Showers (orionmagazine.org)
		42 points by onreact-com on Aug 1, 2009 \| 30 comments
12.		How Steve Jobs validates the Customer Development model. (startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com)
		41 points by charliepark on Aug 1, 2009 \| 11 comments
13.		21H.001: How to Stage a Revolution (ocw.mit.edu)
		41 points by kf on Aug 1, 2009 \| 19 comments
14.		The Art of Failure (2000) (gladwell.com)
		39 points by bootload on Aug 1, 2009 \| 11 comments
15.		Heroku: Amazon EBS Performance (YC W08) (heroku.com)
		37 points by jnl on Aug 1, 2009 \| 2 comments
16.		The Next Lisp: Back to the Future (lambdassociates.org)
		36 points by parenthesis on Aug 1, 2009 \| 13 comments
17.		I Hacked My Diet with Science (thras.blogspot.com)
		34 points by thras on Aug 1, 2009 \| 54 comments
18.		No Need to Change It (thedailywtf.com)
		31 points by edw519 on Aug 1, 2009 \| 15 comments
19.		Ask HN: review my idea for a consultancy/incubator [slides] (sliderocket.com)
		31 points by chrisduesing on Aug 1, 2009 \| 18 comments
20.		CentOS Administrator Reappears (centos.org)
		29 points by mariana on Aug 1, 2009 \| 18 comments
21.		Should solar panels be cleaned? (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		27 points by sahaj on Aug 1, 2009 \| 10 comments
22.		Unemployment in Silicon Valley higher than after dot-com bubble burst (businessinsider.com)
		27 points by baran on Aug 1, 2009 \| 21 comments
23.		Conan O'Brien Harvard Speech (2000) "Fall down, make a mess" [video] (guba.com)
		26 points by iman on Aug 1, 2009 \| 2 comments
24.		Electrons split into two new particles, Holons and Spinons. (sciencedaily.com)
		26 points by chaosmachine on Aug 1, 2009 \| 5 comments
25.		There is no free software, only software that is paid for by somebody else. (lambdassociates.org)
		24 points by asciilifeform on Aug 1, 2009 \| 55 comments
26.		Advanced vim tips and tricks (swarthmore.edu)
		21 points by bnmrrs on Aug 1, 2009 \| 10 comments
27.		Pygame 1.9.0 released. Lots of goodies for creative programmers. (renesd.blogspot.com)
		21 points by illumen on Aug 1, 2009 \| 5 comments
28.		Apple adds queue time, contact info to iPhone developer pages (tuaw.com)
		21 points by _pius on Aug 1, 2009 \| 5 comments
29.		Training Your Focus (dragosroua.com)
		21 points by edragonu on Aug 1, 2009 \| 13 comments
30.		Seth Godin's Thoughts on Social Networking (brandinfection.com)
		18 points by nader on Aug 1, 2009 \| 6 comments
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