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1.		I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life. (slate.com)
		186 points by peter123 on Feb 2, 2009 \| 96 comments
2.		The most effective debt collecting email I ever wrote (forabeautifulweb.com)
		164 points by mixmax on Feb 2, 2009 \| 30 comments
3.		Life at Wal-Mart (boingboing.net)
		125 points by lackbeard on Feb 2, 2009 \| 55 comments
4.		Tables vs CSS: CSS Trolls begone (iamelgringo.blogspot.com)
		100 points by iamelgringo on Feb 2, 2009 \| 68 comments
5.		If English was Written Like Chinese (zompist.com)
		73 points by mnemonicsloth on Feb 2, 2009 \| 32 comments
6.		What I don’t like about Python (lukepalmer.wordpress.com)
		48 points by kirubakaran on Feb 2, 2009 \| 17 comments
7.		Still Doing the Math, But for 100K A Year (nytimes.com)
		43 points by ojbyrne on Feb 2, 2009 \| 87 comments
8.		The Lecture System in Teaching Science, and My Discovery of the "Gutenberg Method" (1986) (entropysite.com)
		41 points by niels_olson on Feb 2, 2009 \| 13 comments
9.		Google Executives Face Jail Time for Italian Video (nytimes.com)
		38 points by brentb on Feb 2, 2009 \| 38 comments
10.		Remember the strop (37signals.com)
		37 points by twampss on Feb 2, 2009 \| 21 comments
11.		Big Websites Start Small (rosshill.com.au)
		34 points by rosshill on Feb 2, 2009 \| 13 comments
12.		PhpBB's site hacked
		27 points by geuis on Feb 2, 2009 \| 8 comments
13.		IBM has developed a computerised voice that is almost indistinguishable from a human. (telegraph.co.uk)
		27 points by vaksel on Feb 2, 2009 \| 25 comments
14.		How I DOS'd My Cell Phone Using EC2 (memestreams.net)
		27 points by ardell on Feb 2, 2009 \| 9 comments
15.		Google: "We're Not Doing a Good Job with Structured Data" (readwriteweb.com)
		27 points by Anon84 on Feb 2, 2009 \| 14 comments
16.		Ask HN: How do you get tech bloggers to review a startup?
		27 points by flexterra on Feb 2, 2009 \| 42 comments
17.		Introduction to Statistical Learning Theory (cmu.edu)
		25 points by dangoldin on Feb 2, 2009 \| 7 comments
18.		Tips for writing efficient Bash scripts (hacktux.com)
		26 points by quoderat on Feb 2, 2009 \| 4 comments
19.		Response to Alex Payne: In Defense of "Everything Buckets" (wonderwarp.com)
		25 points by dangrover on Feb 2, 2009 \| 2 comments
20.		The next frontier: 'Seasteading' the oceans (cnet.com)
		23 points by peter123 on Feb 2, 2009 \| 26 comments
21.		Soon, Majority of Web Users Will No Longer Use IE (readwriteweb.com)
		23 points by peter123 on Feb 2, 2009 \| 18 comments
22.		Two years after Vista launch, 71% of business PCs still running XP (zdnet.com)
		22 points by crocus on Feb 2, 2009 \| 29 comments
23.		Passport RFIDs cloned wholesale by $250 eBay auction spree (theregister.co.uk)
		20 points by atestu on Feb 2, 2009 \| 14 comments
24.		Ask HN: Framing other sites has always seemed scummy to me. Am I off-base?
		20 points by brandnewlow on Feb 2, 2009 \| 24 comments
25.		Ask HN: Stats on freemium services
		20 points by nikhils on Feb 2, 2009 \| 12 comments
26.		The Case For Web Applications (intridea.com)
		19 points by mbleigh on Feb 2, 2009 \| 2 comments
27.		Remus: possible high availability of apps through replicating virtual machines (usenix.org)
		17 points by ktom on Feb 2, 2009 \| 4 comments
28.		Google Earth To Show Ocean Floor (guardian.co.uk)
		17 points by peter123 on Feb 2, 2009 \| 1 comment
29.		Ask HN: Why don't you use email encryption?
		17 points by RK on Feb 2, 2009 \| 20 comments
30.		jwacs: Javascript With Advanced Continuation Support (chumsley.org)
		16 points by andreyf on Feb 2, 2009 \| 6 comments
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