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1.		Growing Number of Prosecutions for Videotaping the Police (abcnews.go.com)
		398 points by mikecane on July 20, 2010 \| 114 comments
2.		One of the most amazing physics engines I’ve ever seen (vimeo.com)
		377 points by jmillerinc on July 20, 2010 \| 49 comments
3.		"Uh-oh. I didn't know conversation had rules." (dilbert.com)
		185 points by cwan on July 20, 2010 \| 66 comments
4.		The absolute bare minimum every programmer should know about regular expressions (immike.net)
		167 points by rayvega on July 20, 2010 \| 55 comments
5.		Do I really want to be using a language where memoize is a PhD-level topic? (groups.google.com)
		128 points by signa11 on July 20, 2010 \| 75 comments
6.		They Will Steal Your Idea. They Cannot Steal What Really Matters. (jasonlbaptiste.com)
		124 points by jasonlbaptiste on July 20, 2010 \| 47 comments
7.		Apple Donates MacPaint Source Code To Computer History Museum (businessweek.com)
		112 points by jdub on July 20, 2010 \| 50 comments
8.		Why I hate frameworks (2005) (benjismith.net)
		111 points by lkozma on July 20, 2010 \| 55 comments
9.		Apple Obliterates Q3 Earnings Estimates: Best Mac Sales Ever, Huge iPad Numbers (techcrunch.com)
		98 points by ssclafani on July 20, 2010 \| 116 comments
10.		Twilio Open Sources Stashboard, the Status Dashboard (twilio.com)
		98 points by johns on July 20, 2010 \| 12 comments
11.		"Work for Hire" Contract Submitted as Evidence in Ceglia v. Facebook (docstoc.com)
		95 points by OoTheNigerian on July 20, 2010 \| 87 comments
12.		Quit Job, Learning to Code (proudn00b.com)
		82 points by emilepetrone on July 20, 2010 \| 49 comments
13.		The Dangerous Art of the Right Question (trailmeme.com)
		77 points by thekguy on July 20, 2010 \| 23 comments
14.		Facebook Lawyer `Unsure' Whether Founder Mark Zuckerberg Signed Contract (bloomberg.com)
		76 points by vegasbrianc on July 20, 2010 \| 47 comments
15.		Aloha Editor: an awesome HTML5 browser based editor (aloha-editor.com)
		73 points by whalesalad on July 20, 2010 \| 23 comments
16.		Facebook hated as much as airlines, cable companies (msn.com)
		72 points by edw519 on July 20, 2010 \| 44 comments
17.		Handy Light: Tethering App Camouflaged as Flashlight (appshopper.com)
		70 points by ajg1977 on July 20, 2010 \| 64 comments
18.		Teen Trades up on Craigslist from Phone to Porsche in 2 Years (mercurynews.com)
		69 points by dpatru on July 20, 2010 \| 56 comments
19.		A Guide to Meditation for the Rest of Us (lifehacker.com)
		65 points by martey on July 20, 2010 \| 11 comments
20.		Groundhog Day - or the Problem with A/B Testing (codinghorror.com)
		65 points by fogus on July 20, 2010 \| 17 comments
21.		Ask HN: Loosing Faith - the startup killer
		64 points by rmoriz on July 20, 2010 \| 45 comments
22.		Camping vs. Sinatra (librelist.com)
		61 points by razerbeans on July 20, 2010 \| 19 comments
23.		GCC optimization flag makes your 64-bit binary fatter and slower (timetobleed.com)
		61 points by mudgemeister on July 20, 2010 \| 37 comments
24.		TrueCrypt 7.0 released, now with hardware-accelerated AES support (truecrypt.org)
		61 points by keyist on July 20, 2010 \| 18 comments
25.		WakeMate: The Home Stretch (wakemate.com)
		60 points by itsandrew on July 20, 2010 \| 56 comments
26.		NoSQL, Heroku, and You (heroku.com)
		59 points by peter123 on July 20, 2010 \| 12 comments
27.		Talk by Founder and CEO of Omniture (vimeo.com)
		58 points by lionhearted on July 20, 2010 \| 9 comments
28.		Google Security Team: Rebooting Responsible Disclosure (googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com)
		59 points by simonw on July 20, 2010 \| 14 comments
29.		World’s First Pirate ISP Launches In Sweden (torrentfreak.com)
		55 points by Grauwolf on July 20, 2010 \| 60 comments
30.		Gawker Media Currently Under Successful Attack by 4chan (villagevoice.com)
		54 points by jsm386 on July 20, 2010 \| 20 comments
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