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1.		The Single Most Important Career Question You Can Ask Yourself (softwarebyrob.com)
		114 points by swapspace on Jan 11, 2009 \| 23 comments
2.		Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles (oreilly.com)
		107 points by agrinshtein on Jan 11, 2009 \| 20 comments
3.		A Defense of libertarianism (and response to Zed, etc.)
		90 points by grandalf on Jan 11, 2009 \| 175 comments
4.		Ask HN: What can't you do in Excel?
		85 points by pg on Jan 11, 2009 \| 194 comments
5.		Ask YC: Do any of you find yourself reading comments before the actual link?
		71 points by shafqat on Jan 11, 2009 \| 86 comments
6.		Ask HN: 5-7 months of living expenses left; terrified. Advice?
		57 points by recession on Jan 11, 2009 \| 97 comments
7.		Google Blog Converter (Google's tool to move blog data between services) (google-opensource.blogspot.com)
		33 points by anuraggoel on Jan 11, 2009 \| 3 comments
8.		Bright - a free collection of 148 icons (iconeden.com)
		32 points by anuraggoel on Jan 11, 2009 \| 6 comments
9.		Ask HN: Any DIY/installable alternatives to Dropbox?
		31 points by adnymarc on Jan 11, 2009 \| 25 comments
10.		Using MapReduce to compute PageRank (michaelnielsen.org)
		30 points by soundsop on Jan 11, 2009 \| 1 comment
11.		Rare is the leader who can actually write well (wsj.com)
		30 points by robg on Jan 11, 2009 \| 30 comments
12.		High RAM servers - why so expensive?
		29 points by FiReaNG3L on Jan 11, 2009 \| 42 comments
13.		Objective-C, Ruby and Python for Cocoa (theocacao.com)
		29 points by swombat on Jan 11, 2009 \| 25 comments
14.		You Can Look -- But Don't Touch (sciencedaily.com)
		27 points by swapspace on Jan 11, 2009 \| 4 comments
15.		How to send a personal email (sethgodin.typepad.com)
		27 points by astrec on Jan 11, 2009 \| 15 comments
16.		Ask HN: Musicians?
		20 points by lincolnq on Jan 11, 2009 \| 65 comments
17.		Lovepixel Zoom (Lovepixel + Seadragon + AppEngine) (lovepixelzoom.appspot.com)
		18 points by bd on Jan 11, 2009 \| 15 comments
18.		Bricks, Bikes, and Code (andreyf.tumblr.com)
		18 points by andreyf on Jan 11, 2009 \| 8 comments
19.		Losing everything, and seeing it as an invitation to a better life. (nytimes.com)
		17 points by robg on Jan 11, 2009 \| 6 comments
20.		In Venting, a Computer Visionary Educates (nytimes.com)
		15 points by kalvin on Jan 11, 2009 \| 6 comments
21.		A Gaza War Full of Traps and Trickery (nytimes.com)
		14 points by echair on Jan 11, 2009 \| 19 comments
22.		TrueMotion's amazing 3D game controller makes the Wii look like a toy (technologizer.com)
		14 points by technologizer on Jan 11, 2009 \| 12 comments
23.		Programming in Python 3 Book Review (dobbscodetalk.com)
		14 points by Anon84 on Jan 11, 2009
24.		Why Writing Software Is So Hard (artisansystem.com)
		14 points by leftnode on Jan 11, 2009 \| 10 comments
25.		Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches (timesonline.co.uk)
		11 points by nickb on Jan 11, 2009 \| 14 comments
26.		Facebook Prepares To Launch FriendFeed “Like” Feature (allfacebook.com)
		12 points by peter123 on Jan 11, 2009 \| 10 comments
27.		A cutting-edge legal mind turns to an age-old problem: corruption (boston.com)
		11 points by makimaki on Jan 11, 2009 \| 6 comments
28.		Full Working MultiTouch on the T-Mobile G1 Android Phone (lukehutch.wordpress.com)
		10 points by swapspace on Jan 11, 2009
29.		Web Usability Blunders That Still Piss Me Off (snipe.net)
		10 points by pclark on Jan 11, 2009 \| 14 comments
30.		Marketwatch.com bug has Ford stock up 879.55% (marketwatch.com)
		9 points by vaksel on Jan 11, 2009 \| 8 comments
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