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1. America’s Secret Innovation Weapon: Immigration (gigaom.com)
71 points by mspeiser on July 4, 2009 | 76 comments
2. How To build a radio in a POW camp -- the real life King Rat (zerobeat.net)
68 points by ivankirigin on July 4, 2009 | 11 comments
3. Nerds and Jocks (nat.org)
58 points by mariorz on July 4, 2009 | 45 comments
4. Why do the rich keep working? (forbes.com)
55 points by TriinT on July 4, 2009 | 72 comments
5. Ask HN: What to do after graduation with 100k?
48 points by graduating on July 4, 2009 | 41 comments
6. Renraku: Future OS (daeken.com)
46 points by daeken on July 4, 2009 | 31 comments
7. Sweden Cuts Deposit Rate to Negative 0.25% (globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com)
45 points by gasull on July 4, 2009 | 24 comments
8. India creating new identity card system for 1.2Bn people (economist.com)
43 points by haasted on July 4, 2009 | 35 comments
9. Work and Meaning: View from a Senior HP Manager (theonda.org)
43 points by replicatorblog on July 4, 2009 | 27 comments
10. The Cult of Genius (discovermagazine.com)
39 points by TriinT on July 4, 2009 | 17 comments
11. Ask HN: What programming language are you currently learning?
38 points by khingebjerg on July 4, 2009 | 92 comments
12. "A New C Compiler" by Ken Thompson (cat-v.org)
38 points by neilc on July 4, 2009 | 10 comments
13. Kamikaze Marketing (why usage billing kicks freemium's bottom) (lmframework.com)
37 points by hymanroth on July 4, 2009 | 17 comments
14. Systems Software Research is Irrelevant by Rob Pike (2000) (cat-v.org)
39 points by uriel on July 4, 2009 | 28 comments
15. What does a CEO do? (steverrobbins.com)
37 points by christonog on July 4, 2009 | 11 comments
16. Benford’s law, Zipf’s law, and the Pareto distribution (terrytao.wordpress.com)
31 points by michael_nielsen on July 4, 2009 | 1 comment
17. Ask HN: start with python 2.6 or 3?
31 points by jgamman on July 4, 2009 | 17 comments
18. Pirate Bay's Weird New Business Plan (businessweek.com)
30 points by jmonegro on July 4, 2009 | 12 comments
19. Ask HN: Books on getting rich?
25 points by seshagiric on July 4, 2009 | 44 comments
20. Survey: The iPhone is No. 1 in Japan (cnn.com)
24 points by kungfudoi on July 4, 2009 | 10 comments
21. Patrick Collison Puts the Squeeze on Wikipedia (oreilly.com)
23 points by toffer on July 4, 2009 | 9 comments
22. What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic (sun.com)
23 points by TriinT on July 4, 2009 | 2 comments
23. Why don't we rewrite the Linux kernel in C++? (tux.org)
20 points by vinutheraj on July 4, 2009 | 31 comments
24. The Hunt For Gollum (thehuntforgollum.com)
20 points by noonespecial on July 4, 2009 | 3 comments
25. Spinning the Web: P.R. in Silicon Valley (nytimes.com)
19 points by newacc on July 4, 2009 | 14 comments
26. How to Become More Successful (stevepavlina.com)
19 points by maximumwage on July 4, 2009 | 3 comments
27. Subtractive Design (sirlin.net)
18 points by pushcx on July 4, 2009 | 4 comments
28. TheGreatHatsby, an ingenious AIMbot (wikipedia.org)
17 points by frisco on July 4, 2009 | 6 comments
29. Gamer steals from virtual world to pay real debts (reuters.com)
16 points by aj on July 4, 2009 | 14 comments
30. Apple, Acer, and...Arrington? (nytimes.com)
14 points by newacc on July 4, 2009 | 5 comments

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