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1.		The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture (codinghorror.com)
		85 points by ajbatac on Feb 9, 2009 \| 56 comments
2.		Auto-Tune: Why Pop Music Sounds Perfect (time.com)
		75 points by ALee on Feb 9, 2009 \| 96 comments
3.		A critique of The Black Swan (stat.berkeley.edu)
		72 points by biohacker42 on Feb 9, 2009 \| 16 comments
4.		How did we geeks become experts on macroeconomics? (lbrandy.com)
		70 points by lbrandy on Feb 9, 2009 \| 113 comments
5.		Twits Know: Google Quietly Laying Off Engineers (searchenginewatch.com)
		70 points by nickb on Feb 9, 2009 \| 59 comments
6.		How one guy with a 20yo telephone did $30m in damages in less than one night. (reddit.com)
		67 points by joshwa on Feb 9, 2009 \| 27 comments
7.		Kindle 2: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device (amazon.com)
		64 points by sdfx on Feb 9, 2009 \| 61 comments
8.		Why aren't developers interested in Ada? (embedded.com)
		54 points by lbrandy on Feb 9, 2009 \| 52 comments
9.		How to game the U.S. higher-education system (kuro5hin.org)
		50 points by Alex3917 on Feb 9, 2009 \| 32 comments
10.		One free interaction (cooper.com)
		50 points by bouncingsoul on Feb 9, 2009 \| 21 comments
11.		Alex Payne: The Problem With Email Clients (al3x.net)
		49 points by mqt on Feb 9, 2009 \| 29 comments
12.		Good programmers aren’t lazy (devchix.com)
		48 points by r11t on Feb 9, 2009 \| 24 comments
13.		Snaptalent relaunches - completely changes business model (YC W08) (snaptalent.com)
		48 points by flavio87 on Feb 9, 2009 \| 42 comments
14.		Mint CEO on how to build a startup (scribd.com)
		48 points by marketer on Feb 9, 2009 \| 14 comments
15.		Porting Hacker News links to Delicious (delicious.com)
		31 points by nose on Feb 9, 2009 \| 16 comments
16.		Js-scheme - a Scheme interpreter written in JavaScript (eriksilkensen.com)
		29 points by mariorz on Feb 9, 2009 \| 15 comments
17.		Job losses in six recessions: Percent decline in payroll employment from peak month (motherjones.com)
		28 points by curtis on Feb 9, 2009 \| 4 comments
18.		Does removing "override" on noprocrast increase HN's market share? (nielsolson.us)
		28 points by niels_olson on Feb 9, 2009 \| 18 comments
19.		Spolksy and Atwood's StackOver is a huge success (compete.com)
		28 points by staunch on Feb 9, 2009 \| 43 comments
20.		Leaked NYT memo on paper's future on the web (hint: it won't be free) (poynter.org)
		28 points by eli on Feb 9, 2009 \| 33 comments
21.		So maybe the slackers had it right after all (boston.com)
		26 points by robg on Feb 9, 2009 \| 23 comments
22.		Google Quietly Laying Off Engineers (searchenginejournal.com)
		25 points by gibsonf1 on Feb 9, 2009 \| 2 comments
23.		Microchip: 7x faster, 30x less power (rice.edu)
		24 points by superkarn on Feb 9, 2009 \| 5 comments
24.		Startup Websites that Work (onstartups.com)
		24 points by sabon on Feb 9, 2009 \| 6 comments
25.		K7: a standard library for the V8 Javascript interpreter (github.com/sebastien)
		21 points by Jebdm on Feb 9, 2009 \| 5 comments
26.		Ask HN: Please provide feedback on our soon-to-launch dating site and widget (yumbunny.com)
		21 points by thorax on Feb 9, 2009 \| 31 comments
27.		Careers and Marriage (forbes.com)
		20 points by swombat on Feb 9, 2009 \| 45 comments
28.		Ask HN: Hacker Listing?
		20 points by Oompa on Feb 9, 2009 \| 30 comments
29.		Calendar and contact syncing for iPhone and Windows Mobile devices (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		20 points by Anon84 on Feb 9, 2009 \| 4 comments
30.		It's No Joke: Real Time Search is a Big Deal. (intridea.com)
		19 points by mbleigh on Feb 9, 2009 \| 10 comments
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