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1. The Disadvantages of an Elite Education (theamericanscholar.org)
130 points by gabriel on June 6, 2009 | 78 comments
2. Rajeev Motwani, Google founders' professor and early investor, dies (venturebeat.com)
115 points by ciscoriordan on June 6, 2009 | 14 comments
3. Leo Laporte loses it with Mike Arrington on the Gillmor Gang (youtube.com)
109 points by zeedotme on June 6, 2009 | 66 comments
4. Postmodernism disrobed by Richard Dawkins (nyu.edu)
80 points by absconditus on June 6, 2009 | 74 comments
5. HN suggestion: A larger margin at the bottom of comment pages
76 points by thristian on June 6, 2009 | 17 comments
6. How to make a movement. Lessons learned from dancing guy. (sivers.org)
75 points by sivers on June 6, 2009 | 25 comments
7. MythBuster Adam Savage's Colossal Failures [video] (fora.tv)
74 points by kqr2 on June 6, 2009 | 8 comments
8. Ask HN: Black bar?
65 points by j2d2 on June 6, 2009 | 25 comments
9. Goodbye Old Friend. R.I.P. Rajeev Motwani (gigaom.com)
63 points by peter123 on June 6, 2009 | 6 comments
10. Blame Drew's Cancer (blamedrewscancer.com)
59 points by winanga on June 6, 2009 | 16 comments
11. A Century of Controversy Over the Foundations of Mathematics (auckland.ac.nz)
55 points by mariorz on June 6, 2009 | 22 comments
12. The newspaper suicide pact (xark.typepad.com)
55 points by kqr2 on June 6, 2009 | 1 comment
13. Apple Gets Pwned, SF Store Is Now Advertising DVD Jon’s doubleTwist (techcrunch.com)
49 points by ciscoriordan on June 6, 2009 | 13 comments
14. Remembering Rajeev (too.blogspot.com)
48 points by comatose_kid on June 6, 2009 | 1 comment
15. New Nintendo DS Game -- Create Any Object You Can Think Of (joystiq.com)
40 points by noaharc on June 6, 2009 | 10 comments
16. Home taping didn’t kill music (badscience.net)
40 points by baha_man on June 6, 2009 | 18 comments
17. “prettyPrint” is an in-browser JavaScript “variable dumper” (padolsey.com)
38 points by niyazpk on June 6, 2009 | 7 comments
18. Ask HN: Are macros still an enormous edge in the power of a language?
35 points by revenant on June 6, 2009 | 52 comments
19. Arrington responds to the Gillmor Gang thing (techcrunch.com)
32 points by vaksel on June 6, 2009 | 22 comments
20. What's new in arc3? (arcfn.com)
31 points by mqt on June 6, 2009 | 6 comments
21. 10 things you (probably) didn't know about App Engine (googleappengine.blogspot.com)
31 points by peter123 on June 6, 2009 | 2 comments
22. Cappuccino meetup/party on Monday, SF, hosted by 280 North and Sofa
29 points by tlrobinson on June 6, 2009 | 2 comments
23. Ask HN: Review my startup (aleveo.com)
27 points by dejan on June 6, 2009 | 31 comments
24. Term Sheet Manners (avc.com)
27 points by peter123 on June 6, 2009 | 1 comment
25. 25 Years of Tetris: From Russia With Fun (time.com)
26 points by Caged on June 6, 2009 | 4 comments
26. S-Corp’s vs. LLC’s (feld.com)
24 points by jasonlbaptiste on June 6, 2009 | 6 comments
27. Writing Low-Pain Massively Scalable Multiplayer Servers (devmaster.net)
24 points by luccastera on June 6, 2009 | 8 comments
28. JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit - Interactive Data Visualizations for the Web (thejit.org)
23 points by zen53 on June 6, 2009 | 3 comments
29. The Fall of Vidoop - Chris Messina's history with an OpenID startup (factoryjoe.com)
23 points by turoczy on June 6, 2009 | 8 comments
30. Ask HN: What's a startup and what's a web app?
23 points by speek on June 6, 2009 | 24 comments

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