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1.		Y Combinator Numbers (ycombinator.com)
		506 points by pg on June 1, 2011 \| 115 comments
2.		Previewing Windows 8 (Video) (microsoft.com)
		364 points by desigooner on June 1, 2011 \| 202 comments
3.		Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (June 2011)
		326 points by whoishiring on June 1, 2011 \| 327 comments
4.		GitHub: Block the Bullies (github.com/blog)
		255 points by remi on June 1, 2011 \| 141 comments
5.		Google open sourcing voice and video engine for the web (sites.google.com)
		228 points by gaika on June 1, 2011 \| 43 comments
6.		Open source remakes of games you're still loving (osgameclones.com)
		208 points by murkt on June 1, 2011 \| 82 comments
7.		Battleships: a ridiculous but awesome idea (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
		205 points by fogus on June 1, 2011 \| 157 comments
8.		Blunt and necessary review of programming language books. (drdobbs.com)
		200 points by thewonggei on June 1, 2011 \| 109 comments
9.		Google uncovers major account-hijacking campaign targeting senior US officials (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		183 points by raldi on June 1, 2011 \| 85 comments
10.		We want software patents abolished (askforit.com)
		165 points by ajennings on June 1, 2011 \| 17 comments
11.		Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation (zdnet.co.uk)
		162 points by rb01usa on June 1, 2011 \| 34 comments
12.		"I trust Redis-on-disk every day less." --Salvatore (groups.google.com)
		137 points by techscruggs on June 1, 2011 \| 31 comments
13.		Stopping Screenlock Smudge Attacks On Android (whispersys.com)
		127 points by moxie on June 1, 2011 \| 31 comments
14.		How much GNU is there in GNU/Linux? (pedrocr.net)
		125 points by pedrocr on June 1, 2011 \| 126 comments
15.		5 ways to reboot a PC. None of them reliable. (mjg59.livejournal.com)
		124 points by beza1e1 on June 1, 2011 \| 33 comments
16.		Google +1 button for websites (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		123 points by abraham on June 1, 2011 \| 95 comments
17.		A way to take out spammers? 3 banks process 95% of spam transactions (arstechnica.com)
		121 points by stonemetal on June 1, 2011 \| 28 comments
18.		Bitcoin is not decentralized (ezyang.com)
		119 points by ezyang on June 1, 2011 \| 77 comments
19.		Intrade CEO dies climbing Mt. Everest (intrade.com)
		111 points by lbrdn on June 1, 2011 \| 110 comments
20.		Google Apps dropping support for older browsers (feedproxy.google.com)
		104 points by spaetzel on June 1, 2011 \| 44 comments
21.		Autodidactism for the chronically lazy and hyperactive (somebeautifulplace.tumblr.com)
		101 points by lhnz on June 1, 2011 \| 15 comments
22.		Heisting the App Store: 500,000 Paid Downloads in 1 Week (taptaptap.com)
		99 points by Encosia on June 1, 2011 \| 19 comments
23.		Making Sense of Our First Look at Windows 8 (allthingsd.com)
		98 points by Flemlord on June 1, 2011 \| 56 comments
24.		Comcast Decided To Shut Down SearchYC (searchyc.com)
		94 points by stevenj on June 1, 2011 \| 64 comments
25.		Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (June 2011)
		90 points by whoishiring on June 1, 2011 \| 69 comments
26.		Show HN: Ducksboard, from nothing to private beta in four months (ducksboard.com)
		92 points by wulczer on June 1, 2011 \| 34 comments
27.		Museum of me - A museum made from your own facebook data
		88 points by ThomPete on June 1, 2011 \| 37 comments
28.		The Harder I Work, The Luckier I Get (bothsidesofthetable.com)
		86 points by happyfeet on June 1, 2011 \| 7 comments
29.		HaNS is a pure Haskell network stack: 802.3, IPv4, ..., UDP, and TCP. (haskell.org)
		82 points by thesz on June 1, 2011 \| 12 comments
30.		EFF Files Petition Opposing Proposed AT&T/T-Mobile Merger (eff.org)
		68 points by there on June 1, 2011 \| 3 comments
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