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1. Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale (vimeo.com)
210 points by marcusbooster on July 31, 2009 | 48 comments
2. I Quit The iPhone (techcrunch.com)
191 points by terpua on July 31, 2009 | 99 comments
3. C# is now a better language than Java (clapper.org)
152 points by fogus on July 31, 2009 | 133 comments
4. Light slowed down to 38 mph (news.harvard.edu)
124 points by aliasaria on July 31, 2009 | 39 comments
5. I’m furious with Apple and AT&T right now, with regard to the iPhone (stevenf.tumblr.com)
104 points by blasdel on July 31, 2009 | 39 comments
6. Gmail: Send mail from another address without "on behalf of" (gmailblog.blogspot.com)
102 points by philfreo on July 31, 2009 | 32 comments
7. Hidden Secrets of the Amazon Shopping Cart (grokdotcom.com)
72 points by peter123 on July 31, 2009 | 7 comments
8. Confess HN: Share your Immoral Hacks, Codes or Tweaks
55 points by janitha on July 31, 2009 | 65 comments
9. Use Google Docs & Google Checkout to Sell Online (googledocs.blogspot.com)
49 points by dc2k08 on July 31, 2009 | 11 comments
10. I still recommend AES-256 (daemonology.net)
49 points by cperciva on July 31, 2009 | 1 comment
11. Twitter URL Service Bit.ly Says No to Ads, Yes to Data-Mining News (wired.com)
40 points by aditya on July 31, 2009 | 20 comments
12. Concentrate helps you work & study by eliminating distractions (mac app) (getconcentrating.com)
39 points by tortilla on July 31, 2009 | 19 comments
13. Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part II: Line Numbering (catonmat.net)
39 points by Anon84 on July 31, 2009 | 6 comments
14. Television and Loneliness (scienceblogs.com)
39 points by arthurk on July 31, 2009 | 13 comments
15. Ask HN: Income on the Side?
38 points by janitha on July 31, 2009 | 31 comments
16. Shock threat to shut Skype (theage.com.au)
35 points by leriksen on July 31, 2009 | 14 comments
17. Why the dollar is going to collapse (angloaustria.blogspot.com)
36 points by stuffthatmatter on July 31, 2009 | 58 comments
18. Meter hackers find free parking in San Francisco (itworld.com)
33 points by abennett on July 31, 2009 | 28 comments
19. How to avoid Gmail's Sponsored Links (mac.com)
34 points by tlrobinson on July 31, 2009 | 15 comments
20. Should I Be Worried About Scaling? (shouldibeworriedaboutscaling.info)
31 points by MicahWedemeyer on July 31, 2009 | 30 comments
21. Is it possible to reassemble a shredded document? (slate.com)
31 points by terpua on July 31, 2009 | 26 comments
22. How Ben Franklin made America the land of invention (nytimes.com)
30 points by mathewgj on July 31, 2009 | 5 comments
23. C: A Technological Landmine (expandrive.com)
30 points by jonshea on July 31, 2009 | 57 comments
24. Should biologists study computer science? (arstechnica.com)
29 points by terpua on July 31, 2009 | 41 comments
25. The Miracle of Smalltalk's become: (gbracha.blogspot.com)
28 points by blasdel on July 31, 2009 | 5 comments
26. RIAA wins $675,000, or $22,500 per song in Tenenbaum Case (arstechnica.com)
28 points by jasonlbaptiste on July 31, 2009 | 17 comments
27. Ask HN - Is it worth joining Mensa?
26 points by vijayr on July 31, 2009 | 67 comments
28. McKinnon's last appeal has failed (bbc.co.uk)
26 points by Robin_Message on July 31, 2009 | 22 comments
29. The Next Industrial Revolution (justinidea.com)
26 points by ricaurte on July 31, 2009 | 4 comments
30. 50% 0f doctors have used wikipedia as a reference. (newscientist.com)
26 points by olefoo on July 31, 2009 | 21 comments

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