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1.		Answers.OnStartups.com -- StackOverflow for startups (onstartups.com)
		98 points by smartbear on Oct 10, 2009 \| 49 comments
2.		The Universal Law of Leverage (defmacro.org)
		90 points by JBiserkov on Oct 10, 2009 \| 13 comments
3.		Ask HN: Little things/tools that improved your work or life lately?
		75 points by rokhayakebe on Oct 10, 2009 \| 139 comments
4.		The real Ajay Bhatt, co-inventor of the USB port (engadget.com)
		73 points by siculars on Oct 10, 2009 \| 32 comments
5.		How to Become a Design Genius: Take Time Off. Lots of It. (fastcompany.com)
		73 points by wgj on Oct 10, 2009 \| 16 comments
6.		Chile Wants Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses, Your Tech Entrepreneurs (techcrunch.com)
		62 points by davidw on Oct 10, 2009 \| 37 comments
7.		Microsoft/Danger lose Sidekick user data in server failure (t-mobile.com)
		60 points by bensummers on Oct 10, 2009 \| 69 comments
8.		New instrument scales musical heights (bbc.co.uk)
		59 points by acangiano on Oct 10, 2009 \| 47 comments
9.		Codepad.org \| a pastebin that executes code for you (codepad.org)
		55 points by Luyt on Oct 10, 2009 \| 35 comments
10.		A catalog of wealth creation mechanisms (rondam.blogspot.com)
		45 points by lisper on Oct 10, 2009 \| 21 comments
11.		Hating What You Do (economist.com)
		44 points by riffer on Oct 10, 2009 \| 15 comments
12.		GitHub discontinues building gems (github.com/blog)
		41 points by jseifer on Oct 10, 2009 \| 23 comments
13.		Turn stairs into piano = 66% more people use them (todaysbigthing.com)
		33 points by dzlobin on Oct 10, 2009 \| 9 comments
14.		C graffiti (boingboing.net)
		31 points by ca98am79 on Oct 10, 2009 \| 13 comments
15.		The "free electron" programmer (jasonsupdates.posterous.com)
		29 points by j_baker on Oct 10, 2009 \| 13 comments
16.		Ten Teen Entrepreneurs To Watch (techcrunch.com)
		28 points by edw519 on Oct 10, 2009 \| 26 comments
17.		Users don’t want rich (neilmiddleton.com)
		27 points by toni on Oct 10, 2009 \| 20 comments
18.		Riak - web-shaped data storage system (highscalability.com)
		27 points by aatif on Oct 10, 2009 \| 21 comments
19.		BBC Ends Its Use of RealMedia for Streaming Audio (bbc.co.uk)
		26 points by rg on Oct 10, 2009 \| 16 comments
20.		Netflix boss says DVD has two years left (yahoo.com)
		25 points by mjfern on Oct 10, 2009 \| 32 comments
21.		Would a Ratting System Work? (dilbert.com)
		24 points by cwan on Oct 10, 2009 \| 19 comments
22.		The Applied Theory of writing bug-free code (sites.google.com)
		22 points by clawrencewenham on Oct 10, 2009 \| 31 comments
23.		Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human (telegraph.co.uk)
		20 points by riffer on Oct 10, 2009 \| 5 comments
24.		Layman's Guide to the Banach-Tarski Paradox (kuro5hin.org)
		21 points by carterschonwald on Oct 10, 2009 \| 20 comments
25.		ClusterShot: How a Startup’s Pet Project Became Profitable (gigaom.com)
		20 points by qwirty on Oct 10, 2009 \| 7 comments
26.		PubSubHubbub vs. RSSCloud : market shares (superfeedr.com)
		21 points by julien on Oct 10, 2009 \| 4 comments
27.		Looking Deeper into Forges, And Not Liking What I See - esr (ibiblio.org)
		17 points by billswift on Oct 10, 2009 \| 13 comments
28.		Cringely: Apple and the future of publishing (cringely.com)
		16 points by hernan7 on Oct 10, 2009 \| 6 comments
29.		Man and superman (cdixon.org)
		15 points by lrm242 on Oct 10, 2009 \| 10 comments
30.		Public Table of Seed Funding Incubators (startupmelbourne.com)
		14 points by ungerik on Oct 10, 2009 \| 1 comment
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