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31.		What is your best programmer joke? (stackoverflow.com)
		24 points by edw519 on Aug 15, 2009 \| 3 comments
32.		GitHub Talk on Social Coding at Yahoo (yahoo.com)
		21 points by defunkt on Aug 15, 2009 \| 4 comments
33.		Ask HN: How to choose the right language
		20 points by cyruskazemi on Aug 15, 2009 \| 38 comments
34.		Cursor preservation in collaborative editors (fraser.name)
		19 points by jsrn on Aug 15, 2009 \| 8 comments
35.		A Stroke Leads A Brain Scientist To A New Spirituality (nytimes.com)
		17 points by wyw on Aug 15, 2009 \| 29 comments
36.		Why the New American Real Estate Dream Is Renting (wsj.com)
		16 points by mjfern on Aug 15, 2009 \| 25 comments
37.		The Weird World of Hollywood Finance (2001) (guardian.co.uk)
		15 points by jackchristopher on Aug 15, 2009 \| 9 comments
38.		Ask HN: Confronting impossible people (In life and business)
		14 points by netconnect on Aug 15, 2009 \| 28 comments
39.		Phil Schiller Is A Man On A Mission: To Save The App Store (techcrunch.com)
		13 points by peter123 on Aug 15, 2009 \| 7 comments
40.		Key-Value Stores For Ruby Part 2: Tokyo Cabinet (engineyard.com)
		13 points by Locke on Aug 15, 2009 \| 1 comment
41.		Mathematical Model for Surviving a Zombie Attack (wired.com)
		12 points by Anon84 on Aug 15, 2009 \| 2 comments
42.		Organic Food Isn't More Nutritious (seedmagazine.com)
		12 points by colins_pride on Aug 15, 2009 \| 28 comments
43.		Tatjana van Vark. Cryptographer, machinist, hacker (tatjavanvark.nl)
		12 points by dan_the_welder on Aug 15, 2009 \| 5 comments
44.		How People in America Spend Their Day (flowingdata.com)
		11 points by Anon84 on Aug 15, 2009 \| 6 comments
45.		How to use math to choose a spouse (cnet.com)
		11 points by _pius on Aug 15, 2009 \| 8 comments
46.		MatzLisp (nagaokaut.ac.jp)
		11 points by fogus on Aug 15, 2009 \| 5 comments
47.		Sources of inspiration and interesting directions for programming languages (plsadventures.blogspot.com)
		9 points by gdp on Aug 15, 2009 \| 3 comments
48.		Twitter vs. Why we can't concentrate? (swaroopch.com)
		9 points by swaroop on Aug 15, 2009
49.		The diminishing returns on data (roughtype.com)
		9 points by razorburn on Aug 15, 2009
50.		Translating crowdsourcing into crowdfunding - a VC alternative (transcapitalist.com)
		9 points by mhil on Aug 15, 2009 \| 1 comment
51.		A New Approach to Aid: How a Basic Income Program Saved a Namibian Village (spiegel.de)
		8 points by gasull on Aug 15, 2009
52.		ReMail gives email a big boost on the iPhone (xconomy.com)
		8 points by jl on Aug 15, 2009 \| 5 comments
53.		Modeling a zombie outbreak as an infectious disease (uottawa.ca)
		8 points by CoryOndrejka on Aug 15, 2009
54.		The founding of the MIT Artificial Intelligence laboratory [pdf] (web.mit.edu)
		9 points by TriinT on Aug 15, 2009 \| 4 comments
55.		Ask HN: Level of spam / sock puppet activity?
		8 points by dave_au on Aug 15, 2009 \| 4 comments
56.		Ask HN: Do textbooks help?
		7 points by ygd_coder on Aug 15, 2009 \| 8 comments
57.		Ask HN: how would you A/B test iPhone apps?
		7 points by alex_c on Aug 15, 2009 \| 7 comments
58.		Hubble Wallpapers (hubblesite.org)
		7 points by onreact-com on Aug 15, 2009 \| 2 comments
59.		Watch live streams of the talks at Hacking at Random 2009 (har2009.org)
		7 points by aw3c2 on Aug 15, 2009 \| 1 comment
60.		The AKS Primality Test (terrytao.wordpress.com)
		6 points by brg on Aug 15, 2009 \| 1 comment
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