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1. Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline (daringfireball.net)
142 points by tumult on July 30, 2009 | 172 comments
2. "All I do is work here" (sethgodin.typepad.com)
138 points by pclark on July 30, 2009 | 44 comments
3. How To Live (Comfortably) on $36 A Month For Food (andrewhyde.net)
137 points by markbao on July 30, 2009 | 132 comments
4. Teen Decomposes Plastic Bag In 3 Months (wired.com)
102 points by keltecp11 on July 30, 2009 | 72 comments
5. GNU Emacs 23.1 has been released (gnu.org)
85 points by boskom on July 30, 2009 | 25 comments
6. Confessions of a Math Idiot (funcall.blogspot.com)
72 points by blasdel on July 30, 2009 | 44 comments
7. He’s Only in Field Service (steveblank.com)
65 points by terpua on July 30, 2009 | 14 comments
8. Successful officeless game studio tells its secrets (gamedev.net)
63 points by joss82 on July 30, 2009 | 10 comments
9. "We are more possible than you can powerfully imagine" (badscience.net)
60 points by baha_man on July 30, 2009 | 14 comments
10. It's hard to like Android. (jerakeen.org)
56 points by pclark on July 30, 2009 | 40 comments
11. The best way to load external JavaScript (nczonline.net)
50 points by sant0sk1 on July 30, 2009 | 12 comments
12. Kevin Mitnick & Dan Kaminsky rm -rf (r00tsecurity.org)
49 points by Steve0 on July 30, 2009 | 15 comments
13. Scoping out the Galileoscope: $15 telescope designed by professional astronomers (msn.com)
45 points by mbrubeck on July 30, 2009 | 25 comments
14. JamLegend’s ‘Guitar Hero For The Web’ Lets You Play Any Song You’d Like (techcrunch.com)
43 points by RWilson on July 30, 2009 | 8 comments
15. Portland, Oregon, is (one of the) most entrepreneurial towns in the world (siliconflorist.com)
42 points by markbao on July 30, 2009 | 39 comments
16. Student sues Amazon after Kindle eats his homework (engadget.com)
42 points by pmikal on July 30, 2009 | 38 comments
17. What if: The New New York Times (techcrunch.com)
41 points by cwan on July 30, 2009 | 20 comments
18. CentOS Project Administrator Goes AWOL (slashdot.org)
41 points by alexkay on July 30, 2009 | 37 comments
19. The China Bubble's Coming -- But Not the One You Think (foreignpolicy.com)
38 points by rfreytag on July 30, 2009 | 29 comments
20. Hacker News clone for Singapore (sigint.sg)
37 points by dgr on July 30, 2009 | 27 comments
21. Boeing 787 wing flaw extends inside plane (nwsource.com)
37 points by tortilla on July 30, 2009 | 18 comments
22. The RE: 4chan email that is going around AT&T HQ
36 points by 3pt14159 on July 30, 2009 | 13 comments
23. The Emperor’s New Clothes - The App Store is an embarassment (polarbearfarm.com)
34 points by blasdel on July 30, 2009 | 7 comments
24. Where do I sign up? Thoughts on iPhone app development, one year later (carpeaqua.com)
33 points by RyanGWU82 on July 30, 2009 | 12 comments
25. Tell HN: I blocked HN, etc. during work today. It was a whole new world. Try it (addons.mozilla.org)
33 points by falsestprophet on July 30, 2009 | 37 comments
26. Strangers at a cocktail party (37signals.com)
31 points by mattjaynes on July 30, 2009 | 4 comments
27. PostScript interpreter in JavaScript (logand.com)
30 points by fogus on July 30, 2009 | 6 comments
28. Anatomy of a Feature (inessential.com)
30 points by joao on July 30, 2009 | 3 comments
29. Starting Up, One Year Later: Recovery (dislocatedday.com)
29 points by ivankirigin on July 30, 2009 | 7 comments
30. Ask HN: Had an original idea for a start-up...but
28 points by netconnect on July 30, 2009 | 36 comments

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