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1. Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (kalzumeus.com)
176 points by philwelch on June 17, 2010 | 138 comments
2. Ask HN: Who is Hiring?
158 points by mschaecher on June 17, 2010 | 174 comments
3. 'First to Do It' vs. 'First to Do It Right' (daringfireball.net)
153 points by aaronbrethorst on June 17, 2010 | 187 comments
4. How I Almost Got Acquired By Apple And Then Snubbed (kandarpmadhav.wordpress.com)
152 points by kanny96 on June 17, 2010 | 131 comments
5. WWDC10 videos are here and are available free. (developer.apple.com)
147 points by pietrofmaggi on June 17, 2010 | 52 comments
6. Notepad.cc - a piece of paper in the cloud (notepad.cc)
134 points by jacobbijani on June 17, 2010 | 67 comments
7. Your last name contains invalid characters (jgc.org)
132 points by jgrahamc on June 17, 2010 | 73 comments
8. JRuby Creator's Short List of Key Missing JVM Features (headius.com)
124 points by gthank on June 17, 2010 | 37 comments
9. Mike Replies To A Slightly Offended, Not Very Enthusiastic Scout. (mikeroweworks.com)
121 points by Sukotto on June 17, 2010 | 76 comments
10. Google is eating Microsoft’s lunch, one tasty bite at a time (rescuetime.com)
119 points by bfioca on June 17, 2010 | 46 comments
11. WordPress 3.0 available (wordpress.org)
112 points by barredo on June 17, 2010 | 58 comments
12. Mongrel2 Is "Self-Hosting" (sheddingbikes.com)
112 points by twampss on June 17, 2010 | 50 comments
13. Beating Binary Search (sna-projects.com)
84 points by boredandroid on June 17, 2010 | 47 comments
14. The biggest bet on longbets.com: $1,000,000 (longbets.org)
83 points by JustinSeriously on June 17, 2010 | 32 comments
15. A guide to the latest Mahalo spam techniques (blogsblogsblogs.com)
81 points by dazz on June 17, 2010 | 44 comments
16. Bringing improved PDF support to Google Chrome (chromium.org)
78 points by jancona on June 17, 2010 | 21 comments
17. The Velluvial Matrix (newyorker.com)
78 points by spydez on June 17, 2010 | 26 comments
18. Schneier on Filming the Police (schneier.com)
77 points by Natsu on June 17, 2010 | 17 comments
19. First replicating creature spawned in life simulator (newscientist.com)
73 points by ca98am79 on June 17, 2010 | 21 comments
20. Ask HN: Trading Algorithms
72 points by jchonphoenix on June 17, 2010 | 32 comments
21. Ask HN: I'm 20 and I need advice.
70 points by meric on June 17, 2010 | 96 comments
22. Ask HN: Let's Revive PG's /ideas.html discussion
61 points by parkern on June 17, 2010 | 34 comments
23. 'They say Chinese is difficult - European languages are more difficult' (pixnet.net)
58 points by soyelmango on June 17, 2010 | 111 comments
24. Facebook employee responds on robots.txt controversy (petewarden.typepad.com)
54 points by petewarden on June 17, 2010 | 39 comments
25. Working at Google - the first 6 months (dondodge.typepad.com)
49 points by frognibble on June 17, 2010 | 71 comments
26. How to Train an Animator, by Walt Disney (lettersofnote.com)
48 points by vaporstun on June 17, 2010 | 6 comments
27. Internet 'kill switch' proposed for US (zdnet.com.au)
47 points by petercooper on June 17, 2010 | 64 comments
28. Oracle sued for alleged fraud against US gov (theregister.co.uk)
43 points by gaius on June 17, 2010 | 7 comments
29. Thoughts on Rule-Based Programming (eblong.com)
43 points by lazugod on June 17, 2010 | 9 comments
30. Cryp.sr - the next step (corte.si)
43 points by alexandros on June 17, 2010 | 26 comments

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