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1.		How to get into the Hottest Restaurants in Town (gourmet.com)
		117 points by antiform on Sept 29, 2008 \| 41 comments
2.		Cloud computing is a trap, says Stallman (guardian.co.uk)
		99 points by razorburn on Sept 29, 2008 \| 70 comments
3.		The Diskette That Blew Trixter's Mind (trixter.wordpress.com)
		89 points by comatose_kid on Sept 29, 2008 \| 11 comments
4.		SpaceX launches 1st commercial rocket into orbit (ap.google.com)
		78 points by jasonlbaptiste on Sept 29, 2008 \| 33 comments
5.		Wil Shipley on OCD and depression (wilshipley.com)
		64 points by yters on Sept 29, 2008 \| 24 comments
6.		I've watched the economy for 30 years. Now I'm truly scared (guardian.co.uk)
		51 points by nreece on Sept 29, 2008 \| 36 comments
7.		Apple stock plunging, Google stock diving, Yahoo stock melting (venturebeat.com)
		43 points by mariorz on Sept 29, 2008 \| 26 comments
8.		Why The Flow Of Innovation Has Reversed (unionsquareventures.com)
		41 points by wave on Sept 29, 2008 \| 16 comments
9.		How Flickr polices 2.8 billion photos (sfgate.com)
		37 points by browser411 on Sept 29, 2008 \| 8 comments
10.		Don't abandon websites to spammers (stevex.net)
		28 points by henning on Sept 29, 2008 \| 2 comments
11.		Why Is America So Religious? (nytimes.com)
		28 points by robg on Sept 29, 2008 \| 89 comments
12.		Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (nytimes.com)
		27 points by qhoxie on Sept 29, 2008 \| 41 comments
13.		DNA is object code (eyeondna.com)
		26 points by maxwell on Sept 29, 2008 \| 17 comments
14.		Alan Kay: Is Computer Science an Oxymoron? (windley.com)
		22 points by parenthesis on Sept 29, 2008 \| 9 comments
15.		Novell Engineer Blasts Ubuntu for not Helping Linux (webmonkey.com)
		21 points by qhoxie on Sept 29, 2008 \| 13 comments
16.		The Google 20 Year Usenet Timeline (google.com)
		21 points by marketer on Sept 29, 2008 \| 5 comments
17.		Everybody's Free (To Learn a Powerful Editor) (groups.google.com)
		19 points by antiform on Sept 29, 2008 \| 4 comments
18.		GoDaddy Charges Customer $6,579 in Fees; Points Finger at Drupal (huffingtonpost.com)
		19 points by aasarava on Sept 29, 2008 \| 12 comments
19.		Success is complex, Failure is a no-brainer (gapingvoid.com)
		18 points by danielh on Sept 29, 2008 \| 3 comments
20.		Ask YC: UK VC and Mentoring
		16 points by pkill on Sept 29, 2008 \| 18 comments
21.		The Angle of repose (wikipedia.org)
		16 points by marketer on Sept 29, 2008 \| 5 comments
22.		Citigroup buys Wachovia (cnn.com)
		15 points by visakhcr on Sept 29, 2008 \| 10 comments
23.		Ask YC: Review my app (pycmds, a web-based command line) (pycmds.org)
		14 points by csytan on Sept 29, 2008 \| 32 comments
24.		Erlang: Getting Started with EUnit (spawnlink.com)
		17 points by mitchellh on Sept 29, 2008
25.		Why The Enterprise Space Needs To Build Companies Like The Consumer Space (publictivity.com)
		14 points by jasonlbaptiste on Sept 29, 2008 \| 20 comments
26.		The Bellic School of Management Training (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
		13 points by dill_day on Sept 29, 2008 \| 3 comments
27.		Microsoft unveils the F# programming language (techrepublic.com.com)
		13 points by 0_o on Sept 29, 2008 \| 9 comments
28.		Ask Hacker News: Review our block-based collaborative editor (draftastic.com)
		13 points by celoyd on Sept 29, 2008 \| 8 comments
29.		The old-fashioned way of making strings for musical instruments (daniellarson.com)
		13 points by marketer on Sept 29, 2008
30.		Xkcd - Height (xkcd.com)
		13 points by cstejerean on Sept 29, 2008 \| 3 comments
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