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1.		Steve Yegge quits Google in the middle of his speech [OSCON Data 2011] (youtube.com)
		546 points by kodisha on July 27, 2011 \| 130 comments
2.		The Moment Of Truth For Airbnb As User’s Home Is Utterly Trashed (techcrunch.com)
		432 points by ssclafani on July 27, 2011 \| 226 comments
3.		Hacker News Fires Steve Yegge (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
		340 points by DanielRibeiro on July 27, 2011 \| 92 comments
4.		Judge Finds Apple in Violation of HTC's Newly Acquired Patents (dailytech.com)
		236 points by d0ne on July 27, 2011 \| 132 comments
5.		This is why your newspaper is dying (bradcolbow.com)
		219 points by rmason on July 27, 2011 \| 55 comments
6.		LevelDB: A Fast Persistent Key-Value Store (google-opensource.blogspot.com)
		169 points by skanuj on July 27, 2011 \| 62 comments
7.		LulzSec's 'Topiary' arrested (sophos.com)
		148 points by SubZero on July 27, 2011 \| 107 comments
8.		The $300 Million Button (uie.com)
		142 points by cynusx on July 27, 2011 \| 30 comments
9.		Dropbox Leases Giant New SF Office, Plans To Grow To 400+ Employees (techcrunch.com)
		131 points by aorshan on July 27, 2011 \| 61 comments
10.		The world’s biggest hedge fund, run like a cult (nymag.com)
		126 points by wallflower on July 27, 2011 \| 63 comments
11.		Why we don't need a brain (ketyov.com)
		123 points by ks on July 27, 2011 \| 21 comments
12.		Html2canvas - Webpages Screenshots with JavaScript (hertzen.com)
		120 points by tilt on July 27, 2011 \| 28 comments
13.		Rogue Academic Downloader Busted by MIT Webcam Stakeout, Arrest Report Says (wired.com)
		119 points by jancona on July 27, 2011 \| 90 comments
14.		Show HN: Pump, a dead simple Pythonic abstraction of HTTP. (adeel.github.com)
		118 points by pyninja on July 27, 2011 \| 61 comments
15.		Google's playing the closed-open game again, this time with HTML5 (extremetech.com)
		107 points by mrsebastian on July 27, 2011 \| 62 comments
16.		Bitcoin befuddles US customs agents, thwarting visit by digital currency guru (geekwire.com)
		105 points by calbucci on July 27, 2011 \| 66 comments
17.		MS-DOS is 30 years old today (extremetech.com)
		102 points by ukdm on July 27, 2011 \| 27 comments
18.		In ‘Anonymous’ Raids, Feds Work From List of Top 1,000 Protesters (wired.com)
		94 points by d0ne on July 27, 2011 \| 64 comments
19.		World's Thinnest House is only 4 ft wide (archdaily.com)
		93 points by LiveTheDream on July 27, 2011 \| 33 comments
20.		Google reinstates account of thomasmonopoly (twitlonger.com)
		90 points by tshtf on July 27, 2011 \| 56 comments
21.		Astronomers find Earth's first trojan asteroid (arstechnica.com)
		91 points by evo_9 on July 27, 2011 \| 7 comments
22.		Inside the War for Tech Talent (betabeat.com)
		89 points by jonbot on July 27, 2011 \| 75 comments
23.		All that is wrong with the Recruitment Industry (voltsteve.blogspot.com)
		90 points by Peroni on July 27, 2011 \| 93 comments
24.		Ask HN: How many HN members are there?
		81 points by d0ne on July 27, 2011 \| 65 comments
25.		Show HN: Kondoot - Watch LIVE a day in the life of a startup (kondoot.com)
		97 points by coenhyde on July 27, 2011 \| 25 comments
26.		Bring your half-baked idea to the Half-Bakery (halfbakery.com)
		80 points by rfreytag on July 27, 2011 \| 12 comments
27.		Email Intervention (emailintervention.com)
		78 points by iansinke on July 27, 2011 \| 55 comments
28.		Do You Live In A Protected Freedom Zone? (1729.com)
		75 points by talonx on July 27, 2011 \| 15 comments
29.		High number of infosec textbooks almost 100% copied, according to attrition.org (fastcompany.com)
		67 points by pvarangot on July 27, 2011 \| 16 comments
30.		Apple Finishing Up Work on an Ultra-Thin 15" Mac Notebook (macrumors.com)
		66 points by davidhperry on July 27, 2011 \| 51 comments
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