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1.		Ask HN: Help me make HN work well on the iPhone
		80 points by pg on Feb 7, 2009 \| 63 comments
2.		When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission (2006) (csail.mit.edu)
		80 points by vaksel on Feb 7, 2009 \| 37 comments
3.		The amazing intelligence of crows [video] (ted.com)
		59 points by critic on Feb 7, 2009 \| 12 comments
4.		Mozilla Ubiquity: a ridiculously useful Firefox extension (vimeo.com)
		52 points by acangiano on Feb 7, 2009 \| 28 comments
5.		TED 2009: How to Grow Your Own Fresh Air (greenspaces.in)
		50 points by meattle on Feb 7, 2009 \| 13 comments
6.		How We Kill Geniuses (wired.com)
		45 points by antiform on Feb 7, 2009 \| 58 comments
7.		Ask HN: How do you find work?
		44 points by Zarathu on Feb 7, 2009 \| 49 comments
8.		Aaronson Reviews Princeton Companion to Mathematics (scottaaronson.com)
		40 points by kurtosis on Feb 7, 2009 \| 3 comments
9.		Play-by-play on the phpbb.com hack (erratasec.blogspot.com)
		40 points by slackerIII on Feb 7, 2009 \| 23 comments
10.		Facebook Opens Status API, Say Goodbye to Twitter (allfacebook.com)
		40 points by jmorin007 on Feb 7, 2009 \| 22 comments
11.		Book review: Introduction to Information Retrieval (glinden.blogspot.com)
		34 points by Maro on Feb 7, 2009 \| 4 comments
12.		Ask HN: When was the last really transformational idea in programming languages?
		30 points by gruseom on Feb 7, 2009 \| 50 comments
13.		XMPP and offline processing coming to Google App Engine (morethanseven.net)
		30 points by danw on Feb 7, 2009 \| 4 comments
14.		An Open Letter to my Two Mortgage Companies (stealthmode.com)
		28 points by rstan251 on Feb 7, 2009 \| 29 comments
15.		The scientist and engineer's guide to dsp (dspguide.com)
		24 points by karim on Feb 7, 2009 \| 3 comments
16.		Here comes the e-book revolution (computerworld.com)
		23 points by cubix on Feb 7, 2009 \| 40 comments
17.		Ask HN: How could FeedBurner be better?
		21 points by jaxn on Feb 7, 2009 \| 16 comments
18.		The Superior Civilization: E.O. Wilson's latest book on ants (nybooks.com)
		19 points by kurtosis on Feb 7, 2009 \| 9 comments
19.		RAF Intelligence Analyst Decoder Test (raf.mod.uk)
		19 points by pg on Feb 7, 2009 \| 4 comments
20.		Why I left my iPhone for a Blackberry. (benackerman.com)
		18 points by beingfamous on Feb 7, 2009 \| 10 comments
21.		Ask HN: Review my Craigslist killer
		14 points by colemaniac on Feb 7, 2009 \| 49 comments
22.		Bacolicio.us (bacolicio.us)
		11 points by unalone on Feb 7, 2009 \| 11 comments
23.		Ask HN: Is it essential to have personal websites?
		11 points by SingAlong on Feb 7, 2009 \| 5 comments
24.		How to develop a Firefox extension (blog.mozilla.com)
		11 points by soundsop on Feb 7, 2009 \| 1 comment
25.		Hasn't It Always Been About Status? (avc.com)
		9 points by jmorin007 on Feb 7, 2009
26.		Lysp: 21kb self-contained Lisp interpreter w/ macros etc. (piumarta.com)
		10 points by shaunxcode on Feb 7, 2009
27.		Haskell for Basic (circa 1978) fans (augustss.blogspot.com)
		10 points by bdfh42 on Feb 7, 2009
28.		Persistent PHP processes in Erlang/OTP (andy.wordpress.com)
		10 points by pierrefar on Feb 7, 2009
29.		Classic WTF: The Cool Cam (thedailywtf.com)
		9 points by andrewljohnson on Feb 7, 2009
30.		Aviary releases Raven, The First Vector Graphics Editor For The Web (techcrunch.com)
		9 points by vaksel on Feb 7, 2009 \| 2 comments
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