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1. How To Build Something Real (In Your Spare Time) (messynotebook.com)
155 points by thomanil on May 29, 2009 | 41 comments
2. Curing Python's Neglect (zedshaw.com)
149 points by twampss on May 29, 2009 | 91 comments
3. eieio (alumnit.ca)
136 points by soundsop on May 29, 2009 | 13 comments
4. Excerpts From the Diary of an [iTunes] App Store Reviewer (daringfireball.net)
124 points by tumult on May 29, 2009 | 24 comments
5. Kurt Gödel is Laughing His Ass Off Right Now (chrishecker.com)
96 points by chadaustin on May 29, 2009 | 58 comments
6. Why Women Have Breasts (evolution-x.com)
90 points by IsaacSchlueter on May 29, 2009 | 64 comments
7. Wikipedia bans Church of Scientology (theregister.co.uk)
86 points by Flemlord on May 29, 2009 | 29 comments
8. What I learned from screwing up my first ebook launch (slash7.com)
73 points by ahoyhere on May 29, 2009 | 31 comments
9. Nate Lawson Breaks Google Keyczar's HMAC Crypto Signatures (root.org)
62 points by tptacek on May 29, 2009 | 24 comments
10. Obfuscate Your Company (twilio.com)
53 points by Derferman on May 29, 2009 | 38 comments
11. Database of hidden settings for Mac OS X (blacktree.com)
51 points by mmc on May 29, 2009 | 13 comments
12. Bye-bye kindle (pcworld.com)
47 points by TweedHeads on May 29, 2009 | 48 comments
13. Real Programmers... (pbm.com)
46 points by marcog1 on May 29, 2009 | 17 comments
14. Ask HN: What to do about distracting mental chatter?
45 points by jpeterson on May 29, 2009 | 49 comments
15. Nikola Tesla--The Man Who Lit Up the World (oreilly.com)
44 points by jgrahamc on May 29, 2009 | 13 comments
16. PatchMatch: amazing interactive content-aware image editing (SIGGRAPH 09) (princeton.edu)
39 points by bd on May 29, 2009 | 4 comments
17. Amazon Payments now supports recurring payments (amazon.com)
39 points by songism on May 29, 2009 | 13 comments
18. Why my vote goes to the Pirate Party (copyriot.se)
36 points by kqr2 on May 29, 2009 | 8 comments
19. Django-Based Blog on Google App Engine Tutorial, Part 1 (joeyb.org)
35 points by unfug on May 29, 2009 | 5 comments
20. Opera 10 Browser UA string format changed to accomodate bad applications (opera.com)
32 points by aj on May 29, 2009 | 21 comments
21. 17th century Damascus sabres contained carbon nanotubes (rsc.org)
32 points by rogercosseboom on May 29, 2009 | 17 comments
22. Ask HN: No-names, tell your story on how you got PR coverage
32 points by kineticac on May 29, 2009 | 63 comments
23. Git Hub Serves More Ruby Gems Than Rubyforge (gist.github.com)
30 points by jasonlbaptiste on May 29, 2009 | 17 comments
24. Born free: Open-source software in the recession (economist.com)
29 points by __ on May 29, 2009 | 5 comments
25. The Scribd Story and the Trip Method (scribd.com)
27 points by marketer on May 29, 2009 | 20 comments
26. The Future of Manufacturing, GM, and American Workers (Part I) (robertreich.blogspot.com)
25 points by dangoldin on May 29, 2009 | 19 comments
27. Twitter analytics using mathematica (kevenlin.com)
25 points by sayhello on May 29, 2009
28. Ask HN: please review my technology.
25 points by casta on May 29, 2009 | 25 comments
29. Twitter's peak load is only 200 tweets per second (friendfeed.com)
24 points by boundlessdreamz on May 29, 2009 | 26 comments
30. Create an AI on Your Computer (singularityhub.com)
24 points by kkleiner on May 29, 2009 | 8 comments

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