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1. Humans prefer cockiness to expertise (newscientist.com)
125 points by kungfooey on June 12, 2009 | 72 comments
2. Why "next-gen games" went gray, brown, and grey. (allegory-of-the-game.com)
91 points by EvilTrout on June 12, 2009 | 39 comments
3. Zombie Operating Systems and ASP.NET MVC (bitquabit.com)
88 points by wmorein on June 12, 2009 | 21 comments
4. Why Mono doesn't suck (apebox.org)
77 points by antileet on June 12, 2009 | 83 comments
5. Linus Torvalds on some good git development practices (mail-archive.com)
75 points by michael_nielsen on June 12, 2009 | 6 comments
6. Celery: A Distributed Task Queue for Django (ask.github.com)
71 points by Jasber on June 12, 2009 | 22 comments
7. The hairy ball theorem (wikipedia.org)
63 points by acangiano on June 12, 2009 | 36 comments
8. Authors, poets replace reporters at an Israeli newspaper for one day (forward.com)
61 points by sweetdreams on June 12, 2009 | 14 comments
9. Sniffing Browser History with No Javascript (making-the-web.com)
57 points by vaksel on June 12, 2009 | 28 comments
10. How To Find An Idea For A New Startup (mixergy.com)
52 points by oliviakuhn on June 12, 2009 | 17 comments
11. Ask YC: Review Trendly, new analytics app from the folks behind Dabble DB (trendly.com)
50 points by avibryant on June 12, 2009 | 26 comments
12. All Hell May Break Loose On Twitter In 2 Hours (techcrunch.com)
49 points by peter123 on June 12, 2009 | 38 comments
13. Free Anonymous BitTorrent Becomes Reality With BitBlinder (torrentfreak.com)
47 points by peter123 on June 12, 2009 | 14 comments
14. The Economics of the HDMI Cable Ripoff (marginalrevolution.com)
46 points by mhb on June 12, 2009 | 40 comments
15. Ghetto Geo-Location or How To Find Your Users Location Using Pron [SFW] (msteigerwalt.com)
44 points by Corrado on June 12, 2009 | 22 comments
16. Tagged: The World's Most Annoying Website (time.com)
42 points by designtofly on June 12, 2009 | 29 comments
17. A Python Script to Automatically Extract Excerpts From Articles (davidziegler.net)
41 points by thomaspaine on June 12, 2009 | 2 comments
18. How to find new startup ideas? The answer is in the question. (dashnine.org)
40 points by raffi on June 12, 2009 | 10 comments
19. The Wrong Level of Abstraction (codinghorror.com)
39 points by bdfh42 on June 12, 2009 | 11 comments
20. New Arc Out (arclanguage.org)
36 points by rams on June 12, 2009 | 19 comments
21. Great talk on the Python GIL [video][slides in comments] (blip.tv)
34 points by cstejerean on June 12, 2009 | 5 comments
22. Teen diagnoses her own disease in science class (cnn.com)
34 points by mshafrir on June 12, 2009 | 8 comments
23. Papers on PageRank you should read (scienceforseo.com)
33 points by Anon84 on June 12, 2009
24. IPhone UI Stencil Kit (designcommission.com)
33 points by tlrobinson on June 12, 2009 | 7 comments
25. Does It Matter If The Future Isn't Available In Canada? (techvibes.com)
34 points by jl1 on June 12, 2009 | 10 comments
26. Trying To Make a Living At Etsy? Think Again. (doublex.com)
31 points by peter123 on June 12, 2009 | 36 comments
27. Turn Hacker News' headlines & comments into ambient histograms (elzr.com)
30 points by elzr on June 12, 2009 | 14 comments
28. Linus' blog: Happiness is a warm SCM (torvalds-family.blogspot.com)
26 points by Anon84 on June 12, 2009 | 6 comments
29. Flash raises the bar on Rails: more presentation nonsense. (geekgirlsguide.com)
25 points by knieveltech on June 12, 2009 | 13 comments
30. The TV industry is where the newspaper industry was five years ago: In denial. (businessinsider.com)
24 points by daviday on June 12, 2009 | 8 comments

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