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31.		Facebook Lite - Direct shot at twitter? (Full screenshot) (jasonlbaptiste.com)
		31 points by jasonlbaptiste on Aug 12, 2009 \| 22 comments
32.		The surprising links between anger and time perception (bps-research-digest.blogspot.com)
		30 points by kqr2 on Aug 12, 2009 \| 18 comments
33.		MemcacheDB, Tokyo Tyrant, Redis performance test (timyang.net)
		28 points by _pius on Aug 12, 2009 \| 5 comments
34.		Oh, By the way: The Palm Pre phones home with your location (mobilecrunch.com)
		26 points by jasonlbaptiste on Aug 12, 2009 \| 7 comments
35.		Why Auckland, New Zealand is a great place for startups (centernetworks.com)
		26 points by moses1400 on Aug 12, 2009 \| 16 comments
36.		Interview with John Carmack (on Rage, id Software) [video] (cdaction.pl)
		24 points by kenshi on Aug 12, 2009 \| 5 comments
37.		Greasemonkey script: sort the Hacker News homepage (dionidium.com)
		24 points by dionidium on Aug 12, 2009 \| 15 comments
38.		Texas Judge rules Microsoft can’t sell Word anymore (crunchgear.com)
		23 points by njrc on Aug 12, 2009 \| 1 comment
39.		Big Pharma Abusing Patent Laws To Seize And Destroy Legal Indian Generic Drugs (techdirt.com)
		23 points by aj on Aug 12, 2009 \| 20 comments
40.		Silverlight: Good for Adobe, Bad for Microsoft (bitsandbuzz.com)
		23 points by bbuffone on Aug 12, 2009 \| 17 comments
41.		Is Google Knol failing? (techcrunch.com)
		22 points by larryfreeman on Aug 12, 2009 \| 15 comments
42.		FreeRice: Hack a site to feed the world (giantrobotlasers.com)
		21 points by ivankirigin on Aug 12, 2009 \| 12 comments
43.		Where 14 Of The Top Internet Businesses Got Started (incomediary.com)
		21 points by mojaam on Aug 12, 2009 \| 2 comments
44.		Schneier on Security: Lockpicking and the Intenet (schneier.com)
		21 points by billpg on Aug 12, 2009 \| 1 comment
45.		Full Details On Mint’s $14 Million Series C Round (techcrunch.com)
		21 points by vaksel on Aug 12, 2009 \| 14 comments
46.		Judge: Microsoft Banned from Selling Word in the US (mashable.com)
		20 points by transburgh on Aug 12, 2009 \| 4 comments
47.		It's Hard To Get The News From The News (larrycheng.com)
		20 points by lwc123 on Aug 12, 2009 \| 14 comments
48.		Tell HN: Perseids: "Last Chance" for Best Meteor Viewing Tonight (wikipedia.org)
		20 points by dawie on Aug 12, 2009 \| 13 comments
49.		Google shows parts of Arunachal Pradesh (India) in Chinese Language (pluggd.in)
		20 points by aj on Aug 12, 2009 \| 8 comments
50.		Exploring the Basecamp Account (Upgrade/Billing) screen [Usability] (37signals.com)
		19 points by arjunlall on Aug 12, 2009
51.		The Razor Blade Business Model (thehopkinsonreport.com)
		19 points by avner on Aug 12, 2009 \| 16 comments
52.		Facebook Begins Testing Facebook Lite, A Faster Simpler Version Of The Service (techcrunch.com)
		19 points by jmorin007 on Aug 12, 2009
53.		Stunning Examples of Data Visualization (webdesignledger.com)
		19 points by edw519 on Aug 12, 2009 \| 7 comments
54.		The Prague Pneumatic Post system (early mechanical networking) (wikipedia.org)
		18 points by dgtized on Aug 12, 2009 \| 3 comments
55.		What's luck got to do with it? The math of gambling (newscientist.com)
		18 points by badcarl on Aug 12, 2009 \| 11 comments
56.		Scala – The Next 5 Years (scala-lang.org)
		18 points by fogus on Aug 12, 2009 \| 6 comments
57.		Ask HN: How did you get your product idea?
		17 points by hajrice on Aug 12, 2009 \| 17 comments
58.		Rate my web app: 360 Voltage is in Alpha (see comments) (360voltage.com)
		17 points by wmeredith on Aug 12, 2009 \| 35 comments
59.		"Digital Sharecropping"? Hah (itgoon.blogspot.com)
		16 points by itgoon on Aug 12, 2009 \| 3 comments
60.		Chameleon Guitar (premierguitar.com)
		16 points by NonEUCitizen on Aug 12, 2009 \| 4 comments
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