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31. Taking more math in school will raise your income (economist.com)
31 points by cwan on Aug 12, 2009 | 29 comments
32. The surprising links between anger and time perception (bps-research-digest.blogspot.com)
30 points by kqr2 on Aug 12, 2009 | 18 comments
33. MemcacheDB, Tokyo Tyrant, Redis performance test (timyang.net)
28 points by _pius on Aug 12, 2009 | 5 comments
34. Oh, By the way: The Palm Pre phones home with your location (mobilecrunch.com)
26 points by jasonlbaptiste on Aug 12, 2009 | 7 comments
35. Why Auckland, New Zealand is a great place for startups (centernetworks.com)
26 points by moses1400 on Aug 12, 2009 | 16 comments
36. Greasemonkey script: sort the Hacker News homepage (dionidium.com)
24 points by dionidium on Aug 12, 2009 | 15 comments
37. Interview with John Carmack (on Rage, id Software) [video] (cdaction.pl)
24 points by kenshi on Aug 12, 2009 | 5 comments
38. Texas Judge rules Microsoft can’t sell Word anymore (crunchgear.com)
23 points by njrc on Aug 12, 2009 | 1 comment
39. Big Pharma Abusing Patent Laws To Seize And Destroy Legal Indian Generic Drugs (techdirt.com)
23 points by aj on Aug 12, 2009 | 20 comments
40. Silverlight: Good for Adobe, Bad for Microsoft (bitsandbuzz.com)
23 points by bbuffone on Aug 12, 2009 | 17 comments
41. Is Google Knol failing? (techcrunch.com)
22 points by larryfreeman on Aug 12, 2009 | 15 comments
42. Schneier on Security: Lockpicking and the Intenet (schneier.com)
21 points by billpg on Aug 12, 2009 | 1 comment
43. Full Details On Mint’s $14 Million Series C Round (techcrunch.com)
21 points by vaksel on Aug 12, 2009 | 14 comments
44. Where 14 Of The Top Internet Businesses Got Started (incomediary.com)
21 points by mojaam on Aug 12, 2009 | 2 comments
45. FreeRice: Hack a site to feed the world (giantrobotlasers.com)
21 points by ivankirigin on Aug 12, 2009 | 12 comments
46. Tell HN: Perseids: "Last Chance" for Best Meteor Viewing Tonight (wikipedia.org)
20 points by dawie on Aug 12, 2009 | 13 comments
47. It's Hard To Get The News From The News (larrycheng.com)
20 points by lwc123 on Aug 12, 2009 | 14 comments
48. Judge: Microsoft Banned from Selling Word in the US (mashable.com)
20 points by transburgh on Aug 12, 2009 | 4 comments
49. Google shows parts of Arunachal Pradesh (India) in Chinese Language (pluggd.in)
20 points by aj on Aug 12, 2009 | 8 comments
50. Facebook Begins Testing Facebook Lite, A Faster Simpler Version Of The Service (techcrunch.com)
19 points by jmorin007 on Aug 12, 2009
51. Exploring the Basecamp Account (Upgrade/Billing) screen [Usability] (37signals.com)
19 points by arjunlall on Aug 12, 2009
52. The Razor Blade Business Model (thehopkinsonreport.com)
19 points by avner on Aug 12, 2009 | 16 comments
53. Stunning Examples of Data Visualization (webdesignledger.com)
19 points by edw519 on Aug 12, 2009 | 7 comments
54. What's luck got to do with it? The math of gambling (newscientist.com)
18 points by badcarl on Aug 12, 2009 | 11 comments
55. The Prague Pneumatic Post system (early mechanical networking) (wikipedia.org)
18 points by dgtized on Aug 12, 2009 | 3 comments
56. Scala – The Next 5 Years (scala-lang.org)
18 points by fogus on Aug 12, 2009 | 6 comments
57. Rate my web app: 360 Voltage is in Alpha (see comments) (360voltage.com)
17 points by wmeredith on Aug 12, 2009 | 35 comments
58. Ask HN: How did you get your product idea?
17 points by hajrice on Aug 12, 2009 | 17 comments
59. Chameleon Guitar (premierguitar.com)
16 points by NonEUCitizen on Aug 12, 2009 | 4 comments
60. "Digital Sharecropping"? Hah (itgoon.blogspot.com)
16 points by itgoon on Aug 12, 2009 | 3 comments

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