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1.Dev stays without pay to finish Mac Graphing Calculator as skunkworks project (pacifict.com)
117 points by maryrosecook on July 2, 2009 | 25 comments
2.Meeting Ticker (tobytripp.github.com)
103 points by chaostheory on July 2, 2009 | 23 comments
3.Ant mega-colony takes over world (bbc.co.uk)
90 points by edw519 on July 2, 2009 | 36 comments
4.No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam (computerworld.com)
84 points by johns on July 2, 2009 | 100 comments
5.The Awesome Foundation: $1K grants every month in the name of awesomeness (awesomefoundation.org)
84 points by jonpierce on July 2, 2009 | 40 comments
6.Open source software only comes in one edition: awesome. (codinghorror.com)
75 points by fogus on July 2, 2009 | 61 comments
7.Two Centuries On, a Cryptologist Cracks a Presidential Code (wsj.com)
71 points by sharksandwich on July 2, 2009 | 11 comments
8.MySpace now a “digital ghetto” (inquisitr.com)
71 points by sho on July 2, 2009 | 64 comments
9.Google App Engine Broken For 4 Hours And Counting (techcrunch.com)
61 points by peter123 on July 2, 2009 | 46 comments
10.Michael Jackson is the First to Sell 1 Million Downloads in a Week (thenextweb.com)
49 points by theforay on July 2, 2009 | 26 comments
11.Data Processing -- Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid (hubspot.com)
49 points by tonystubblebine on July 2, 2009 | 12 comments
12.Vim plugin for Firefox (vimperator.org)
46 points by kumar0us on July 2, 2009 | 23 comments
13.Teaching code optimization to 11-year-old son. (carymillsap.blogspot.com)
47 points by robg on July 2, 2009 | 10 comments
14.Entrepreneurs are not unusually risk tolerant; rather, they are overconfident. (businessweek.com)
46 points by amichail on July 2, 2009 | 21 comments
15.Root vulnerability found in iPhone OS, exploitable via SMS (yahoo.com)
44 points by sounddust on July 2, 2009 | 28 comments
16."Self-esteem has gone up in the United States; achievement has not." (incharacter.org)
43 points by robg on July 2, 2009 | 37 comments
17.Mercurial 1.3 released (gmane.org)
41 points by aiiie on July 2, 2009 | 3 comments
18.Refactoring vs Just Changin' Crap (hamletdarcy.blogspot.com)
40 points by batasrki on July 2, 2009 | 17 comments
19.Best Online To-Do Lists (slate.com)
40 points by edw519 on July 2, 2009 | 28 comments
20.Will your Michael Jackson tickets be worth more than the refund? (timesonline.typepad.com)
39 points by Flemlord on July 2, 2009 | 16 comments
21.C++ - The Forgotten Trojan Horse (ejohnson.blogs.com)
38 points by silentbicycle on July 2, 2009 | 38 comments
22.Tell HN: San Francisco Meetup on July 8th
38 points by anigbrowl on July 2, 2009 | 7 comments
23.Germany's Green Idea: Street Lighting on Demand (time.com)
39 points by aswanson on July 2, 2009 | 16 comments
24.Feel the cache size: a definitive experiment (melikyan.blogspot.com)
37 points by mojuba on July 2, 2009 | 29 comments
25.Chyrp v2.0 released (chyrp.net)
36 points by vito on July 2, 2009 | 26 comments
26.How to Crack a Wi-Fi Network's WEP Password with BackTrack (lifehacker.com)
33 points by vaksel on July 2, 2009 | 8 comments
27.FriendFeed gets real-time search. (friendfeed.com)
33 points by theforay on July 2, 2009 | 13 comments
28.Rasterization on Larrabee (ddj.com)
32 points by dfox on July 2, 2009 | 10 comments
29.Spezify (new visual search engine) (spezify.com)
33 points by ctingom on July 2, 2009 | 14 comments
30.Google Maps API V3 (code.google.com)
30 points by mshafrir on July 2, 2009 | 2 comments

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