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1. Ask HN: What are you working on?
136 points by Anon84 on July 12, 2009 | 229 comments
2. Want to keep your wallet? Carry a baby picture (timesonline.co.uk)
76 points by kqr2 on July 12, 2009 | 24 comments
3. Freemium did not work for Phanfare (phanfare.com)
74 points by jasonlbaptiste on July 12, 2009 | 18 comments
4. RentHop (YC S09): Easier Apartment Hunting, Without The Broker Fee (techcrunch.com)
63 points by jasonlbaptiste on July 12, 2009 | 44 comments
5. Swoopo: The crack cocaine of auction sites (thebigmoney.com)
67 points by gabrielroth on July 12, 2009 | 73 comments
6. "We Bring Fear" (motherjones.com)
56 points by sho on July 12, 2009 | 15 comments
7. Ruby on Rails default templates now comes with HTML5 doctype (github.com/rails)
51 points by laktek on July 12, 2009 | 20 comments
8. Posterous now supports Github Gist code drops (blog.posterous.com)
50 points by rantfoil on July 12, 2009 | 6 comments
9. How The Average U.S. Consumer Spends Their Paycheck (visualeconomics.com)
48 points by kqr2 on July 12, 2009 | 71 comments
10. Poll: Bay area startup founders/C*Os/early employees: how much do you work?
47 points by rjurney on July 12, 2009 | 55 comments
11. Armed Bear Common Lisp actively developed (abcl-dev.blogspot.com)
43 points by stefano on July 12, 2009
12. Ask HN: What's your favorite site for hacking on things other than computers?
42 points by manvsmachine on July 12, 2009 | 25 comments
13. The Cathedral and the Pirate (artima.com)
35 points by emontero1 on July 12, 2009 | 21 comments
14. Mercurial: The Definitive Guide (red-bean.com)
35 points by mariorz on July 12, 2009
15. Scala is my next choice (khelll.com)
34 points by khelll on July 12, 2009 | 9 comments
16. Stealing Data Via Electrical Outlet (networkworld.com)
32 points by aj on July 12, 2009 | 4 comments
17. CMS.txt: 6kb approach to CMS (thewikies.com)
26 points by jrnkntl on July 12, 2009 | 6 comments
18. IE Memory Leak – jQuery Fix (kossovsky.net)
26 points by kossovsky on July 12, 2009 | 1 comment
19. Ask HN: Lightweight Programmer's CMS?
25 points by amouat on July 12, 2009 | 30 comments
20. Is Free The Future Of Enterprise Software? Yes And No. (techcrunch.com)
25 points by jasonlbaptiste on July 12, 2009 | 1 comment
21. Share with HN: Bookmarklet to graph HN polls
25 points by bouncingsoul on July 12, 2009 | 4 comments
22. Debug PHP Using Firefox with FirePHP (sixrevisions.com)
24 points by profquail on July 12, 2009 | 5 comments
23. Evolved Virtual Creatures (karlsims.com)
23 points by whughes on July 12, 2009 | 6 comments
24. Reusable static sheets that turn walls (or any surface) into a whiteboard. (magicwhiteboard.co.uk)
22 points by madmotive on July 12, 2009 | 10 comments
25. OpenBitTorrent Tracker Muscles In On The Old Pirate Bay (torrentfreak.com)
20 points by aj on July 12, 2009 | 2 comments
26. In the 1950s, one could buy a miniature electron microscope. (smecc.org)
19 points by asciilifeform on July 12, 2009 | 18 comments
27. The High Cost of Poverty: Why the Poor Pay More (washingtonpost.com)
18 points by gasull on July 12, 2009 | 44 comments
28. We Choose The Moon - Apollo 11 mission recreated in realtime (bostonherald.com)
18 points by javanix on July 12, 2009 | 5 comments
29. Akka Actor Kernel (wiki.github.com)
18 points by fogus on July 12, 2009
30. Ask HN: Is success impossible for a part-time startup?
15 points by Deejahll on July 12, 2009 | 19 comments

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