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1.		An open letter from the founders of Scribd to those of you who didn't get into YC
		44 points by snowmaker on Oct 24, 2007 \| 43 comments
2.		Respect C Programmers (kontsevoy.blogspot.com)
		38 points by tx on Oct 24, 2007 \| 62 comments
3.		"Name me a herd animal that hunts." (Hilarious book review) (nypress.com)
		34 points by _hgt1 on Oct 24, 2007 \| 13 comments
4.		Why Enterprise Software Sucks (37signals.com)
		31 points by luccastera on Oct 24, 2007 \| 20 comments
5.		Ex-Googlers Ready to Start a VC Fund (gigaom.com)
		24 points by terpua on Oct 24, 2007
6.		Finally, IMAP for GMail (mail.google.com)
		24 points by thinkingserious on Oct 24, 2007 \| 11 comments
7.		Source: Microsoft wins Facebook bid battle (news.com)
		23 points by terpua on Oct 24, 2007 \| 18 comments
8.		Ask 37signals: Can I build a product business if I'm just a designer? (37signals.com)
		18 points by brett on Oct 24, 2007 \| 5 comments
9.		Porn Set Free: Age Record Keeping Deemed Unconstitutional (Title 18 U.S.C. 2257 Struck Down?) (techcrunch.com)
		15 points by staunch on Oct 24, 2007 \| 9 comments
10.		Why D kicks serious ass over C++, leaving it dead and broken on the sidewalk (boscoh.com)
		14 points by nickb on Oct 24, 2007 \| 17 comments
11.		Stem Cells Bring Sight to the Blind in India (cnn.com)
		14 points by jkush on Oct 24, 2007
12.		Verizon Introducing FiOS with 20Mbps Upstream and Downstream (arstechnica.com)
		11 points by karzeem on Oct 24, 2007 \| 4 comments
13.		Microsoft Inks Deal with Facebook (wsj.com)
		10 points by brett on Oct 24, 2007
14.		A Conversation with Alan Kay (ic.ac.uk)
		10 points by nickb on Oct 24, 2007 \| 1 comment
15.		Mozilla's 2006 revenue: $66.8 million (news.com)
		9 points by soundsop on Oct 24, 2007 \| 1 comment
16.		Melbourne Grad student squeezes 200 mbit/sec from copper (news.com.au)
		9 points by muriithi on Oct 24, 2007 \| 4 comments
17.		How NOT to bootstrap (foundread.com)
		9 points by transburgh on Oct 24, 2007
18.		Has use of lead-free gas decreased the crime rate? (nytimes.com)
		7 points by jcwentz on Oct 24, 2007 \| 4 comments
19.		Selling software/services to corporate clients
		10 points by mig on Oct 24, 2007 \| 9 comments
20.		Men age faster 'because of Stone Age sex' (telegraph.co.uk)
		8 points by amichail on Oct 24, 2007 \| 20 comments
21.		Why Living a Life of Gratitude Can Make You Happy (zenhabits.net)
		8 points by donna on Oct 24, 2007 \| 2 comments
22.		What does News.YC think of distributed version control? (madstop.com)
		8 points by sbraford on Oct 24, 2007 \| 11 comments
23.		Fear and Loathing on Facebook (ft.com)
		8 points by vlad on Oct 24, 2007 \| 5 comments
24.		Willow Garage - A Robotics Startup (willowgarage.com)
		6 points by mk on Oct 24, 2007 \| 1 comment
25.		Platforms Want To Be Free (roughtype.com)
		7 points by razorburn on Oct 24, 2007 \| 2 comments
26.		How to measure your site's carbon emissions (Microstartup in a Week #3) (maxtility.wordpress.com)
		7 points by prescott on Oct 24, 2007 \| 3 comments
27.		Twitter is low-expectation IRC (oreilly.com)
		7 points by terpua on Oct 24, 2007 \| 1 comment
28.		Create a blank virtual machine for VMWare's VMPlayer online (vmcreator.com)
		7 points by nickb on Oct 24, 2007 \| 3 comments
29.		Top 10 Bootstrapping Tips (readwriteweb.com)
		6 points by terpua on Oct 24, 2007 \| 1 comment
30.		The Significance Of Patents (getventure.typepad.com)
		6 points by markpeterdavis on Oct 24, 2007
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