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1. UN announces launch of world’s first tuition-free, online university (un.org)
122 points by dsil on June 8, 2009 | 41 comments
2. The Start-up Guru: Y Combinator's Paul Graham (inc.com)
84 points by peter123 on June 8, 2009 | 26 comments
3. Too small to fail: How startups can grow in recessions (asmartbear.com)
84 points by lrm242 on June 8, 2009 | 1 comment
4. Pirate Party wins a seat at the European Parliament (stockholmnews.com)
75 points by daviday on June 8, 2009 | 78 comments
5. Air France 447: The ‘Coffin Corner’ and a ‘Mesoscale’ Maw (trueslant.com)
71 points by old-gregg on June 8, 2009 | 53 comments
6. How To Become A Software Engineer/Programmer (maximporges.blogspot.com)
59 points by benatkin on June 8, 2009 | 34 comments
7. AT&T Is Screwing Over US iPhone Users (gizmodo.com)
59 points by jasonlbaptiste on June 8, 2009 | 47 comments
8. Microsoft Releases Bing API - With No Usage Quotas (programmableweb.com)
58 points by raju on June 8, 2009 | 25 comments
9. Scalable Web Architectures: Common Patterns and Approaches (slideshare.net)
52 points by wave on June 8, 2009 | 12 comments
10. The day pain died (boston.com)
45 points by kf on June 8, 2009 | 2 comments
11. Plurk Comet: Handling of 100.000+ open connections (amix.dk)
44 points by niels on June 8, 2009 | 38 comments
12. Universal ‘Rubik’s Cube’ Could Become Pentagon Shapeshifter (wired.com)
42 points by mjfern on June 8, 2009 | 14 comments
13. Technology Brief for Apple's Grand Central Multicore Paradigm [pdf] (images.apple.com)
42 points by nickb on June 8, 2009 | 12 comments
14. Firefox 3.5 - dreaming about the future of the web. (hacks.mozilla.org)
41 points by chanux on June 8, 2009 | 20 comments
15. IPhone 3GS Feature Guide (gizmodo.com)
40 points by mtinkerhess on June 8, 2009 | 17 comments
16. People who live in older, walkable neighborhoods have better health (nytimes.com)
38 points by ksvs on June 8, 2009 | 34 comments
17. Icon Sets (smashingmagazine.com)
36 points by callmeed on June 8, 2009 | 4 comments
18. Electric Bike Review: We Ride the Pacific E-Bike Terra 7-Speed (treehugger.com)
31 points by MikeCapone on June 8, 2009 | 27 comments
19. TechCrunch Now Number Two Tech Blog As Mashable Surges (businessinsider.com)
30 points by zeedotme on June 8, 2009 | 10 comments
20. Writing a face recognition library interface is hard. Really hard. (lbrandy.com)
30 points by mariorz on June 8, 2009 | 6 comments
21. Umm guys, parrotsecrets.com no longer sells an ebook.. were we scammed? (parrotsecrets.com)
30 points by tocomment on June 8, 2009 | 29 comments
22. Microsoft SuperPreview: a New Way to Test Web Sites (sitepoint.com)
30 points by nreece on June 8, 2009 | 8 comments
23. Throwing Money Away (Buying vs Renting) (messymatters.com)
29 points by samueladam on June 8, 2009 | 50 comments
24. How Clemson manipulates their US News ranking (insidehighered.com)
29 points by DocSavage on June 8, 2009 | 12 comments
25. Perl 6 new regexp rules (wikipedia.org)
29 points by soundsop on June 8, 2009 | 4 comments
26. The (Unspeakable) Ultimate Machine (kk.org)
29 points by asciilifeform on June 8, 2009 | 5 comments
27. Apple rolls out new MacBooks, drops prices (news.google.ca)
28 points by newacc on June 8, 2009 | 40 comments
28. Ray Kurzweil: A university for the coming singularity (ted.com)
27 points by quizbiz on June 8, 2009 | 28 comments
29. Why REST (Representational State Transfer) ? (dhananjaynene.com)
26 points by dnene on June 8, 2009 | 1 comment
30. Ask HN: So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day?
26 points by trickjarrett on June 8, 2009 | 54 comments

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