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31.		1 in 200 of men alive today are direct descendants of Genghis Khan (discovermagazine.com)
		32 points by lionhearted on Aug 6, 2011 \| 29 comments
32.		Creating a 3D sound visualiser with WebGL and the HTML5 Audio Data API (rawkes.com)
		31 points by robhawkes on Aug 6, 2011 \| 5 comments
33.		ApplePy - Apple ][ emulator in python (jtauber.com)
		30 points by dajobe on Aug 6, 2011 \| 3 comments
34.		Give Me A Lever (rjlipton.wordpress.com)
		29 points by wglb on Aug 6, 2011
35.		Ask HN: what are some good resources to understand economics?
		28 points by toumhi on Aug 6, 2011 \| 45 comments
36.		Tiny village in Nebraska hides world’s largest rare earth mineral deposits (geek.com)
		25 points by ukdm on Aug 6, 2011 \| 22 comments
37.		Does Windows still rely on MS-DOS? - Super User (superuser.com)
		23 points by ivoflipse on Aug 6, 2011 \| 25 comments
38.		Fukushima Radiation Breaks the Scale — No Idea by How Much.. Can’t Measure It (cleantechnica.com)
		24 points by megaman821 on Aug 6, 2011 \| 27 comments
39.		Ask HN: Average start-up salary & equity (Silicon Valley)?
		20 points by mikeburrelljr on Aug 6, 2011 \| 2 comments
40.		Why Distinct Icon Outlines Help Users Scan Faster (uxmovement.com)
		20 points by waterhole on Aug 6, 2011 \| 6 comments
41.		What will your next phone be? [poll] (gopollgo.com)
		17 points by Arkid on Aug 6, 2011 \| 15 comments
42.		John Carmack on Software Reliability, Code Analysis, and Functional Programming (youtube.com)
		16 points by evdawg on Aug 6, 2011 \| 1 comment
43.		Fewer people go to college than you think (iainmcqueen.posterous.com)
		15 points by imcqueen on Aug 6, 2011 \| 9 comments
44.		Programming and Scaling (Alan Kay) (tele-task.de)
		16 points by swannodette on Aug 6, 2011
45.		SEO Meets Magic: The Gathering (SEO card game) (serpsandspyders.com)
		15 points by blackboxxx on Aug 6, 2011 \| 2 comments
46.		U.S. loses AAA credit rating from S&P (reuters.com)
		14 points by micrypt on Aug 6, 2011 \| 2 comments
47.		Learning Lisp - Why? (stackoverflow.com)
		14 points by ecounysis on Aug 6, 2011 \| 28 comments
48.		Ask HN: How to "seed" new social network with non-users.
		14 points by starter on Aug 6, 2011 \| 29 comments
49.		Greenspun's Tenth Rule (wikipedia.org)
		13 points by rtg on Aug 6, 2011 \| 3 comments
50.		Perma-noob (tbray.org)
		13 points by wglb on Aug 6, 2011
51.		Google should buy RIM
		12 points by BvS on Aug 6, 2011 \| 6 comments
52.		The startup you want to work at the most is your own (techcrunch.com)
		13 points by canistr on Aug 6, 2011 \| 7 comments
53.		John Carmack QuakeCon 2011 Keynote (youtube.com)
		11 points by angrycoder on Aug 6, 2011 \| 2 comments
54.		Oracle and Google keep wrangling over potentially impactful Lindholm draft email (fosspatents.blogspot.com)
		11 points by joshus on Aug 6, 2011 \| 1 comment
55.		Math Error Fuels Fight Over US Credit Rating (wsj.com)
		10 points by HardyLeung on Aug 6, 2011 \| 4 comments
56.		Ask HN: Who are trustworthy contractors with low hourly rates to outsource to?
		10 points by jjets718 on Aug 6, 2011 \| 14 comments
57.		What every 13 year child should know about internet (zythom-en.blogspot.com)
		9 points by Kell on Aug 6, 2011
58.		QuakeCon 2011 - John Carmack Keynote (youtube.com)
		9 points by 6ren on Aug 6, 2011 \| 1 comment
59.		Ask HN: How scared should a new grad be of the possible economic downturn?
		9 points by kubrickslair on Aug 6, 2011 \| 20 comments
60.		API Stack – Image to CSS Conversion with Img to CSS API (apievangelist.com)
		10 points by apievangelist on Aug 6, 2011
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