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1.		Phil Schiller Responds to App Store Dictionary Censoring (daringfireball.net)
		157 points by Oompa on Aug 6, 2009 \| 88 comments
2.		Directed Edge sees a post-search web where recommendations rule (techcrunch.com)
		108 points by GVRV on Aug 6, 2009 \| 30 comments
3.		The LED's Dark Secret: "droop" (ieee.org)
		106 points by prakash on Aug 6, 2009 \| 19 comments
4.		Anybots is for real: Check out Trevor's robots on the Surrogates trailer (mtv.com)
		90 points by jaf12duke on Aug 6, 2009 \| 14 comments
5.		For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics (nytimes.com)
		89 points by tokenadult on Aug 6, 2009 \| 42 comments
6.		JavaScript Wolfenstein 3D Engine (myopera.com)
		84 points by boundlessdreamz on Aug 6, 2009 \| 31 comments
7.		Serious Twitter, LiveJournal Outage Ongoing (techcrunch.com)
		77 points by pclark on Aug 6, 2009 \| 76 comments
8.		Canonical Will Own Your Search: New mandatory Ubuntu plugin takes over Firefox (launchpad.net)
		75 points by windsurfer on Aug 6, 2009 \| 36 comments
9.		Icon Driven Development on the App Store- how we make $350/day without marketing (spreadsong.com)
		71 points by colinplamondon on Aug 6, 2009 \| 19 comments
10.		Web citizens trying to kill Internet Explorer 6 (cnn.com)
		69 points by drusenko on Aug 6, 2009 \| 11 comments
11.		Team Apart (YC S08) hits the right price for collaboration: $0.00 (venturebeat.com)
		64 points by whather on Aug 6, 2009 \| 30 comments
12.		Sofware Pricing: Are We Doing It Wrong? (codinghorror.com)
		57 points by nudded on Aug 6, 2009 \| 36 comments
13.		Apple now bans e-books from the App Store (tuaw.com)
		57 points by die_sekte on Aug 6, 2009 \| 28 comments
14.		Team Apart (YC S08) wants to eat Webex's lunch (techcrunch.com)
		55 points by rokhayakebe on Aug 6, 2009 \| 19 comments
15.		Turn boring HTML checkboxes into iPhone toggle switches (jqr.github.com)
		54 points by jqr on Aug 6, 2009 \| 23 comments
16.		Phrack 66 (June 2009) (phrack.org)
		49 points by rw on Aug 6, 2009 \| 9 comments
17.		Under No Circumstances Start A Company Because You Hate Your Job (thefailingpoint.com)
		49 points by BrandonWatson on Aug 6, 2009 \| 25 comments
18.		Inside the World’s Most Hostile Network (wired.com)
		47 points by there on Aug 6, 2009 \| 5 comments
19.		This Day in Tech: Aug. 6, 1997: Apple Rescued - by Microsoft (wired.com)
		45 points by edw519 on Aug 6, 2009 \| 32 comments
20.		The Tyranny of Process Worship Within IT (ciopedia.com)
		42 points by Hume62 on Aug 6, 2009 \| 19 comments
21.		Ask HN: Which tools do you use to optimize your webapps?
		41 points by nixy on Aug 6, 2009 \| 16 comments
22.		Bruce Schneier: Risk Intuition (schneier.com)
		38 points by gaika on Aug 6, 2009 \| 6 comments
23.		Tell HN: It might be a good time to change your twitter password.
		40 points by paulgb on Aug 6, 2009 \| 18 comments
24.		Brand New blog's revised Pepsi vs. Coke branding chart (underconsideration.com)
		39 points by tptacek on Aug 6, 2009 \| 16 comments
25.		Guy Kawasaki: Will anyone pay for anything? (openforum.com)
		38 points by cwan on Aug 6, 2009 \| 22 comments
26.		AMD reverses GPGPU trend, announces OpenCL SDK for x86 (arstechnica.com)
		38 points by habs on Aug 6, 2009 \| 27 comments
27.		Ask HN: where'd my ability to downvote go?
		37 points by xelfer on Aug 6, 2009 \| 28 comments
28.		Did Google spend $106.5m to open source a codec? (theregister.co.uk)
		35 points by Flemlord on Aug 6, 2009 \| 6 comments
29.		MakerBot is pioneering distributed manufacturing (makerbot.com)
		34 points by ph0rque on Aug 6, 2009 \| 9 comments
30.		David Pogue: Is Google Voice a Threat to AT&T? (nytimes.com)
		33 points by kcy on Aug 6, 2009 \| 19 comments
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