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1.		Kid Automates Work, Is Fired, Hired Back, Automates Business (reddit.com)
		566 points by andrewcooke on June 27, 2012 \| 198 comments
2.		You're not the CEO - You're the Fucking Janitor (zachbruhnke.com)
		371 points by zbruhnke on June 27, 2012 \| 132 comments
3.		Sergey Brin Demos Google Glass At I/O (techcrunch.com)
		313 points by irunbackwards on June 27, 2012 \| 212 comments
4.		Valve Releases Source Filmmaker Beta (sourcefilmmaker.com)
		292 points by blutonium on June 27, 2012 \| 23 comments
5.		A visual Git reference (marklodato.github.com)
		238 points by dennis_vartan on June 27, 2012 \| 34 comments
6.		Nexus 7, Made for Google Play (play.google.com)
		230 points by sindhiparsani on June 27, 2012 \| 263 comments
7.		Color wheels are wrong? How color vision actually works (asmartbear.com)
		214 points by tobyjsullivan on June 27, 2012 \| 44 comments
8.		Google I/O 2012 (developers.google.com)
		210 points by Achshar on June 27, 2012 \| 119 comments
9.		WakeMate Update (wakemate.com)
		199 points by spydertennis on June 27, 2012 \| 96 comments
10.		There is no retirement
		185 points by nachopg on June 27, 2012 \| 30 comments
11.		TinyPNG: Lossy compression for PNG that preserves full transparency. (tinypng.org)
		184 points by felipellrocha on June 27, 2012 \| 83 comments
12.		Both true and false: a Zen moment with C (markshroyer.com)
		177 points by Niten on June 27, 2012 \| 51 comments
13.		The Design Of SQLite4 (work in progress) (sqlite.org)
		169 points by dchest on June 27, 2012 \| 49 comments
14.		Android 4.1 Jelly Bean is now available (android.com)
		170 points by sindhiparsani on June 27, 2012 \| 139 comments
15.		Python 3.3.0 beta 1 released (python.org)
		143 points by hynek on June 27, 2012 \| 95 comments
16.		OkCupid on Trial - 4 Month Experiment (jonmillward.com)
		136 points by avlok on June 27, 2012 \| 100 comments
17.		Microsoft analyzes over a million PC failures, results shatter enthusiast myths (extremetech.com)
		129 points by evo_9 on June 27, 2012 \| 42 comments
18.		The Game of Distributed Systems Programming (incubaid.com)
		124 points by DanielRibeiro on June 27, 2012 \| 24 comments
19.		Rejection Letters for a faculty position (markchang.tumblr.com)
		123 points by markchang on June 27, 2012 \| 78 comments
20.		Citus Data (YC S11) Wants To Make Scalable Data Analytics Accessible To Anyone (techcrunch.com)
		114 points by umur on June 27, 2012 \| 27 comments
21.		The State of Servo, Mozilla's parallelized Rust browser (groups.google.com)
		114 points by bazzargh on June 27, 2012 \| 39 comments
22.		Mark Cuban: High-Frequency Traders Are the Ultimate Hackers (wsj.com)
		104 points by adventureful on June 27, 2012 \| 121 comments
23.		Make Something People Love: Lessons From a Startup Guy (hyperink.com)
		109 points by kn0thing on June 27, 2012 \| 51 comments
24.		Don't Follow Your Passion: A Smarter Way to Find a Product to Sell (shopify.com)
		103 points by icey on June 27, 2012 \| 33 comments
25.		Garry Kasparov defeats Alan Turing in chess in 15 moves (chessbase.com)
		103 points by lathamcity on June 27, 2012 \| 23 comments
26.		Eclipse Juno released (eclipse.org)
		90 points by Eduard on June 27, 2012 \| 41 comments
27.		Part 2: I analyzed the chords of 1300 popular songs for patterns. (hooktheory.com)
		90 points by quile on June 27, 2012 \| 17 comments
28.		Show HN: Prolifi.cc, a weekend project (prolifi.cc)
		86 points by tamal on June 27, 2012 \| 65 comments
29.		Improve your beta-testing with Nginx, Lua and Redis (mixlr.com)
		72 points by transmit101 on June 27, 2012 \| 16 comments
30.		Tindie: Buy & sell homemade gadgets & parts (tindie.com)
		66 points by grumps on June 27, 2012 \| 32 comments
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