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1.		Bobby Fischer dead at 64 (cnn.com)
		39 points by terpua on Jan 18, 2008 \| 36 comments
2.		List of Datasets on the Web (datawrangling.com)
		31 points by pskomoroch on Jan 18, 2008 \| 4 comments
3.		Have you pondered the moral implications of your startup?
		27 points by ecommercematt on Jan 18, 2008 \| 34 comments
4.		The Netscape Deathmarch Story (jwz.org)
		24 points by iamelgringo on Jan 18, 2008 \| 11 comments
5.		Slide raises $50M at $500M Valuation (nytimes.com)
		23 points by breck on Jan 18, 2008 \| 31 comments
6.		My Personal Trade Deficit (slate.com)
		23 points by __ on Jan 18, 2008 \| 15 comments
7.		Relational Database Experts Jump The MapReduce Shark (typicalprogrammer.com)
		22 points by iamelgringo on Jan 18, 2008 \| 18 comments
8.		Failure Now An Option (theonion.com)
		21 points by raghus on Jan 18, 2008 \| 3 comments
9.		Bosses Don't Wear Bunny Slippers: If Markets Are So Great, Why Are There Firms? (econlib.org)
		20 points by weel on Jan 18, 2008 \| 7 comments
10.		"An absolute idiot with 10-20M users can make a ton of money. So, get to tens of millions of users and forget about money." (calacanis.com)
		19 points by pius on Jan 18, 2008 \| 13 comments
11.		Dvorak: The Sun-MySQL deal stinks of Larry Ellison (marketwatch.com)
		16 points by iamelgringo on Jan 18, 2008 \| 7 comments
12.		New D language pumps up programmer productivity (linux.com)
		14 points by pius on Jan 18, 2008 \| 13 comments
13.		Text Rendering: Why Computer Displays Suck for Reading (daringfireball.net)
		14 points by garret on Jan 18, 2008 \| 8 comments
14.		Ask YC: Why is YC's layout table based?
		14 points by german on Jan 18, 2008 \| 91 comments
15.		Bionic eyes: Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision (uwnews.org)
		13 points by gscott on Jan 18, 2008 \| 8 comments
16.		The $1.4 Trillion Question (What will China do with their massive US dollar holdings?) (theatlantic.com)
		13 points by toffer on Jan 18, 2008 \| 11 comments
17.		Twitter's Business Model (avc.blogs.com)
		13 points by bootload on Jan 18, 2008 \| 5 comments
18.		Tesla Motors - A Letter to Customers (teslamotors.com)
		11 points by auferstehung on Jan 18, 2008 \| 5 comments
19.		MacBook Air battery replacements take only minutes (appleinsider.com)
		11 points by getp on Jan 18, 2008 \| 10 comments
20.		List of device bandwidths (wikipedia.org)
		11 points by himanshu on Jan 18, 2008 \| 3 comments
21.		Which notebook to get: MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro? (arstechnica.com)
		11 points by getp on Jan 18, 2008 \| 8 comments
22.		Flash Tutorials (smashingmagazine.com)
		10 points by kirubakaran on Jan 18, 2008
23.		MapReduce: A major step backwards (databasecolumn.com)
		10 points by iamelgringo on Jan 18, 2008 \| 5 comments
24.		Most of the world's great music is out of copyright and waiting to be free (songseed.com)
		9 points by cratuki on Jan 18, 2008 \| 6 comments
25.		Advice to Aspiring Entrepreneurs: Play Poker (wired.com)
		9 points by mqt on Jan 18, 2008 \| 4 comments
26.		Kevin Rose doesn't deny Digg has secret editors (valleywag.com)
		7 points by transburgh on Jan 18, 2008 \| 1 comment
27.		8 Ways to Find IT Talent for an Undesirable Location (makingitclear.com)
		8 points by pius on Jan 18, 2008 \| 1 comment
28.		Generate mp3 files from Wikipedia (fernuni-hagen.de)
		8 points by terpua on Jan 18, 2008 \| 2 comments
29.		Digg's secret editors (valleywag.com)
		8 points by transburgh on Jan 18, 2008
30.		Benford's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (wikipedia.org)
		7 points by iamwil on Jan 18, 2008 \| 2 comments
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