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1.		Introducing Atlas: A Visual Development Tool for Creating Web Apps (carsonified.com)
		115 points by sant0sk1 on Oct 7, 2009 \| 63 comments
2.		We Just Undid Three Months of Dev work. Here's What We Learned. (scoutapp.com)
		98 points by acl on Oct 7, 2009 \| 30 comments
3.		Two common mistakes when using databases (inria.fr)
		96 points by Rexxar on Oct 7, 2009 \| 14 comments
4.		Google's new culture: Perks are out. Being grateful you have a job is in (allthingsd.com)
		90 points by pakafka on Oct 7, 2009 \| 92 comments
5.		My GMail password scares me with its power (benmetcalfe.com)
		86 points by pospischil on Oct 7, 2009 \| 45 comments
6.		JDK7 to have escape analysis on by default...also back ported to JDK6 (java.net)
		84 points by suprgeek on Oct 7, 2009 \| 21 comments
7.		What happened to Argentina? (nytimes.com)
		84 points by jseliger on Oct 7, 2009 \| 59 comments
8.		What's the Secret Success of Mint.com? The Real Numbers... (christine.net)
		76 points by kakooljay on Oct 7, 2009 \| 31 comments
9.		The myth of the page fold: evidence from user testing (cxpartners.co.uk)
		69 points by jmorin007 on Oct 7, 2009 \| 31 comments
10.		Hal Finney diagnosed with ALS. Wants to keep coding open source when paralyzed. (lesswrong.com)
		67 points by Eliezer on Oct 7, 2009 \| 12 comments
11.		JWZ and the Palm App Catalog, Part II (jwz.livejournal.com)
		64 points by mosburger on Oct 7, 2009 \| 47 comments
12.		* is Unix (jacobian.org)
		62 points by jacobian on Oct 7, 2009 \| 48 comments
13.		RethinkDB looking for a technical cofounder (defmacro.org)
		61 points by andreyf on Oct 7, 2009 \| 54 comments
14.		Putting your life on the line for a 50% chance to fail (drstarcat.com)
		60 points by grosales on Oct 7, 2009 \| 26 comments
15.		IPhone App Store Developers Aren't Getting Rich (newsweek.com)
		59 points by gcheong on Oct 7, 2009 \| 65 comments
16.		FlightCaster (YC S09) predicts future of development (sdtimes.com)
		57 points by yarapavan on Oct 7, 2009 \| 20 comments
17.		Cray - A Clojure Ray Tracer (code.google.com)
		53 points by fogus on Oct 7, 2009 \| 15 comments
18.		What Makes Us Happy (theatlantic.com)
		49 points by fogus on Oct 7, 2009 \| 13 comments
19.		A Conversation with Sergey Brin (techcrunch.com)
		47 points by bastian on Oct 7, 2009 \| 18 comments
20.		Classic review of "The Story of Ping" (amazon.com)
		45 points by btilly on Oct 7, 2009 \| 8 comments
21.		Amazon Kindle now available outside US, plus price drop (amazon.com)
		45 points by goodside on Oct 7, 2009 \| 44 comments
22.		Google changes logo - traffic to our site spikes
		44 points by chexov on Oct 7, 2009 \| 21 comments
23.		C:\ONGRTLNS.OSX (daringfireball.net)
		41 points by gthank on Oct 7, 2009 \| 26 comments
24.		How We Jumped 50 Places in the iPhone App Store - for Free (gymfu.com)
		38 points by JofArnold on Oct 7, 2009 \| 13 comments
25.		Rich Hickey and Brian Beckman - Inside Clojure (54 minute video interview) (msdn.com)
		37 points by berrow on Oct 7, 2009 \| 4 comments
26.		Clojure, Parallelism, and Genetic Algorithms (ethanjfast.com)
		36 points by unignorant on Oct 7, 2009 \| 2 comments
27.		Mac OS X’s Hidden Single-Application Mode (tidbits.com)
		35 points by e1ven on Oct 7, 2009 \| 11 comments
28.		Announcing GWT 2.0 Milestone 1 (groups.google.com)
		35 points by silkodyssey on Oct 7, 2009 \| 32 comments
29.		Java, OCaml, and F# (csail.mit.edu)
		34 points by yarapavan on Oct 7, 2009 \| 8 comments
30.		The 'Veritas' About Harvard (chronicle.com)
		32 points by yarapavan on Oct 7, 2009 \| 48 comments
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