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1.		Papers Every Programmer Should Read (objectmentor.com)
		189 points by soundsop on Feb 27, 2009 \| 14 comments
2.		On Building A Stupidly Fast Graph Database (directededge.com)
		159 points by wheels on Feb 27, 2009 \| 43 comments
3.		One Thing You Don't Need To Be An Entrepreneur: A College Degree (avc.com)
		79 points by ciscoriordan on Feb 27, 2009 \| 86 comments
4.		Jason Calacanis: What to do if your startup is about fail (ramamia.com)
		78 points by jasonlbaptiste on Feb 27, 2009 \| 51 comments
5.		Pirate Bay Witness’ Wife Overwhelmed With Flowers (torrentfreak.com)
		62 points by brk on Feb 27, 2009 \| 18 comments
6.		Middle Men, Aggregators, And Apologies (zedshaw.com)
		60 points by twampss on Feb 27, 2009 \| 12 comments
7.		The Hacker's Diet: Losing weight the hacker way (fourmilab.ch)
		50 points by jjguy on Feb 27, 2009 \| 53 comments
8.		Install a DNS resolver on your laptop (bueno.org)
		49 points by aristus on Feb 27, 2009 \| 34 comments
9.		The Size of Social Networks: Primates on Facebook (economist.com)
		46 points by sanj on Feb 27, 2009 \| 4 comments
10.		Kestrel: Twitter's new message queue, written in 1500 lines of Scala (lag.net)
		46 points by nreece on Feb 27, 2009 \| 4 comments
11.		jQuery Chart Plugins For Your App (reynoldsftw.com)
		44 points by mootymoots on Feb 27, 2009 \| 16 comments
12.		Bruce Schneier: Privacy in the Age of Persistence (schneier.com)
		42 points by anuraggoel on Feb 27, 2009 \| 18 comments
13.		Why the Japanese Hate the iPhone (wired.com)
		37 points by peter123 on Feb 27, 2009 \| 14 comments
14.		Why your tiered password scheme is flawed, and what to do about it. (masukomi.org)
		33 points by raganwald on Feb 27, 2009 \| 31 comments
15.		Stop Catching Exceptions (gen5.info)
		32 points by paul_houle on Feb 27, 2009 \| 25 comments
16.		Instead of 'branding,' how about startup-friendly policies for Mass.? (xconomy.com)
		26 points by waderoush on Feb 27, 2009 \| 14 comments
17.		New Yahoo CEO's Open Letter to Fans, Analysts, and Employees (ycorpblog.com)
		26 points by newmediaclay on Feb 27, 2009 \| 17 comments
18.		Memcached based message queues (rdrail.net)
		24 points by tjake on Feb 27, 2009 \| 8 comments
19.		An experiment in combining Clojure and Terracotta (stadig.name)
		22 points by mattrepl on Feb 27, 2009 \| 1 comment
20.		From Mark Cuban Open Source Funding: Grow Traffic Using "the Elevator, not the Stairs" (fairsoftware.net)
		21 points by alain94040 on Feb 27, 2009 \| 9 comments
21.		Beyond hot desk communism (woobius.com)
		22 points by swombat on Feb 27, 2009 \| 18 comments
22.		Sunlight Labs Looking For Volunteers To Scrape Legislation For All 50 States (sunlightlabs.com)
		20 points by paul_houle on Feb 27, 2009 \| 2 comments
23.		Inkling's using Tipjoy (inklingmarkets.com)
		18 points by nate on Feb 27, 2009 \| 4 comments
24.		Primates on Facebook (economist.com)
		17 points by pj on Feb 27, 2009 \| 3 comments
25.		Ask HN: Books That Gratify One's Intellectual Curiosity?
		15 points by tokenadult on Feb 27, 2009 \| 10 comments
26.		Startup Launch: Buzzable Creates Twitter Groups Around RSS Feeds (500 Invites) (techcrunch.com)
		16 points by transburgh on Feb 27, 2009 \| 2 comments
27.		The New York Times Expected To Launch Local Blog Network On Monday (techcrunch.com)
		15 points by transburgh on Feb 27, 2009 \| 5 comments
28.		Karplus-Strong Guitar Synthesizer (andre-michelle.com)
		14 points by ajkirwin on Feb 27, 2009 \| 3 comments
29.		Mapping CraigsList Housing Ads (trailbehind.com)
		15 points by andrewljohnson on Feb 27, 2009 \| 21 comments
30.		Impossible is a step (danieltenner.com)
		14 points by swombat on Feb 27, 2009 \| 3 comments
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