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1.		My startups's new service for parents - A Story Before Bed (astorybeforebed.com)
		179 points by hillel on Nov 2, 2009 \| 116 comments
2.		How to Drop Out (ranprieur.com)
		125 points by gnosis on Nov 2, 2009 \| 95 comments
3.		How To Spam Facebook Like A Pro: An Insiders Confession (techcrunch.com)
		101 points by code_devil on Nov 2, 2009 \| 24 comments
4.		How I Lost 20 Pounds in 20 Weeks With My iPhone (or: Data is King) (chadaustin.me)
		89 points by bemmu on Nov 2, 2009 \| 53 comments
5.		The Ph.D. Problem (harvardmagazine.com)
		89 points by RyanMcGreal on Nov 2, 2009 \| 68 comments
6.		Why dolphins are deep thinkers (guardian.co.uk)
		86 points by chaostheory on Nov 2, 2009 \| 28 comments
7.		Eventbug Watch JavaScript events finally in Firebug (softwareishard.com)
		73 points by nym on Nov 2, 2009 \| 8 comments
8.		Cheaper, cleverer desalination (economist.com)
		62 points by 10ren on Nov 2, 2009 \| 14 comments
9.		The origin of live and let live (and a very interesting system to analyse) (heretical.com)
		60 points by etherael on Nov 2, 2009 \| 18 comments
10.		A tiny niche in collectible coins grows into a $5 million mini-empire (washingtonpost.com)
		55 points by chwolfe on Nov 2, 2009 \| 24 comments
11.		The chat room/forum problem (scobleizer.com)
		51 points by bdfh42 on Nov 2, 2009 \| 25 comments
12.		ZFS Deduplication (sun.com)
		51 points by bensummers on Nov 2, 2009 \| 41 comments
13.		Innovating Cron: Announcing Norc (perpetually.com)
		51 points by jeremymims on Nov 2, 2009 \| 30 comments
14.		FireQuery - Firebug enhancements for jQuery (binaryage.com)
		48 points by nym on Nov 2, 2009 \| 5 comments
15.		Lower fertility is changing the world for the better (economist.com)
		48 points by l0stman on Nov 2, 2009 \| 54 comments
16.		Avro: A Format for Big Data (cloudera.com)
		50 points by jhammerb on Nov 2, 2009 \| 2 comments
17.		Ask HN: What's the worst thing that could happen to Google?
		45 points by bemmu on Nov 2, 2009 \| 101 comments
18.		Low End Dedicated Servers (lowenddedi.net)
		44 points by jacquesm on Nov 2, 2009 \| 41 comments
19.		Rails Best Practices (slideshare.net)
		43 points by edw519 on Nov 2, 2009 \| 8 comments
20.		The Greatest Trade Ever: Profiting from the Crash (wsj.com)
		43 points by jakarta on Nov 2, 2009 \| 30 comments
21.		Something simple I wish I learned 17 years ago
		41 points by 3pt14159 on Nov 2, 2009 \| 64 comments
22.		Why Your Friends Have More Friends Than You Do (psychologytoday.com)
		43 points by malte on Nov 2, 2009 \| 2 comments
23.		Snow Leopard Update Blocks Intel Atom, Kills Hackintosh (wired.com)
		42 points by Freebytes on Nov 2, 2009 \| 106 comments
24.		Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups (steveblank.com)
		41 points by peter123 on Nov 2, 2009 \| 13 comments
25.		Zynga Takes Steps To Remove Scams From Games (techcrunch.com)
		40 points by transburgh on Nov 2, 2009 \| 17 comments
26.		Call To Action; You need to have me at hello. (derekperez.com)
		38 points by perezd on Nov 2, 2009 \| 18 comments
27.		Poll: What's your level of educational attainment
		36 points by daniel-cussen on Nov 2, 2009 \| 42 comments
28.		On the quiet, the US is legalising marijuana (timesonline.co.uk)
		32 points by Flemlord on Nov 2, 2009 \| 33 comments
29.		Ask HN: What is hand-coded assembly language used for these days?
		32 points by bkovitz on Nov 2, 2009 \| 58 comments
30.		New Skate-Sharpening Method Takes Hockey by Storm (nytimes.com)
		31 points by ojbyrne on Nov 2, 2009 \| 16 comments
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