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1. Why I won't be at my high school reunion (scienceblogs.com)
271 points by saurabh on July 17, 2009 | 262 comments
2. Serious doubts about the App Store (marco.org)
131 points by functional-tree on July 17, 2009 | 41 comments
3. When I died (maryrosecook.com)
126 points by maryrosecook on July 17, 2009 | 31 comments
4. Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics (ycombinator.com)
88 points by kf on July 17, 2009 | 37 comments
5. Companies Don't Get Killed by Competition, They Commit Suicide (zoho.com)
70 points by terpua on July 17, 2009 | 17 comments
6. Software Engineering: An idea whose time has come and gone? (computer.org)
69 points by swombat on July 17, 2009 | 30 comments
7. IE6 Must Die (along with 7 and 8) (walkerart.org)
64 points by audionerd on July 17, 2009 | 37 comments
8. Dark Flash Photography - UV/IR Flash Instead of Visible Light (nyu.edu)
64 points by anarcticpuffin on July 17, 2009 | 12 comments
9. Clever PNG Optimization Techniques (smashingmagazine.com)
63 points by swombat on July 17, 2009 | 13 comments
10. Managing Hierarchical Data in MySQL (or really any database) (mysql.com)
58 points by mattculbreth on July 17, 2009 | 23 comments
11. Poll: Do you smoke marijuana?
57 points by BigCanOfTuna on July 17, 2009 | 102 comments
12. Memcached 1.4.0 released (dustin.github.com)
51 points by mbrubeck on July 17, 2009 | 3 comments
13. WebKit: 3D Transforms (webkit.org)
50 points by arthurk on July 17, 2009 | 12 comments
14. Why a firm wants staff with autism (bbc.co.uk)
49 points by andyking on July 17, 2009 | 12 comments
15. How to recover a combination to a lost Master combination pad lock (fusor.us)
48 points by timf on July 17, 2009 | 6 comments
16. The Hacker's Diet (fourmilab.ch)
45 points by jacquesm on July 17, 2009 | 33 comments
17. How to Understand The Derivatives Market (theatlantic.com)
44 points by timf on July 17, 2009
18. Exploiting the unexploitable, Linux 2.6.30+/SELinux/RHEL5 test kernel 0day (grok.org.uk)
44 points by kirubakaran on July 17, 2009 | 10 comments
19. Cure for Radiation Sickness Found? (ynetnews.com)
44 points by darshan on July 17, 2009 | 27 comments
20. CAPTCHAs' Effect on Conversion Rates (seomoz.org)
43 points by epi0Bauqu on July 17, 2009 | 9 comments
21. Must Google Reader copy Twitter and Facebook? "Features" add clutter (latimes.com)
40 points by Shakescode on July 17, 2009 | 19 comments
22. Complete Yale courses now on iTunes U (tuaw.com)
39 points by Anon84 on July 17, 2009 | 4 comments
23. Renraku OS: Initial Release (daeken.com)
39 points by daeken on July 17, 2009 | 20 comments
24. Seth's Blog: How to make graphs that work (sethgodin.typepad.com)
38 points by GVRV on July 17, 2009 | 18 comments
25. The Calorie delusion: why food labels are wrong (newscientist.com)
37 points by seldo on July 17, 2009 | 27 comments
26. Mark Cuban Wins Bid to Toss out SEC Claims (bloomberg.com)
35 points by rjett on July 17, 2009 | 8 comments
27. Insights From Street-Smart Entrepreneurs (onstartups.com)
34 points by theforay on July 17, 2009 | 7 comments
28. LRO Sees Apollo Landing Sites (nasa.gov)
33 points by drm237 on July 17, 2009 | 16 comments
29. App stores are not the future, says Google (ft.com)
31 points by Anon84 on July 17, 2009 | 21 comments
30. An Interview with Douglas R. Hofstadter, following ''I am a Strange Loop'' (forum2.org)
30 points by kf on July 17, 2009 | 5 comments

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