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1.		The calculus of caffeine consumption (arvindn.livejournal.com)
		80 points by randomwalker on Nov 17, 2008 \| 16 comments
2.		Optimizing HTTP headers for ‘ajax’ webapps (mibbit.com)
		58 points by ivanstojic on Nov 17, 2008 \| 20 comments
3.		Victory in Vomit: The Sickening Secret of Mirror's Edge (wired.com)
		57 points by Shamiq on Nov 17, 2008 \| 31 comments
4.		Blogging Like a Hacker (preston-werner.com)
		55 points by mojombo on Nov 17, 2008 \| 33 comments
5.		Engineers Rule: Honda and its culture of engineering (forbes.com)
		49 points by tc on Nov 17, 2008 \| 37 comments
6.		Understanding Debt, Risk and Leverage (betterexplained.com)
		49 points by nickb on Nov 17, 2008 \| 19 comments
7.		Xkcd - A Bunch of Rocks (xkcd.com)
		49 points by nickb on Nov 17, 2008 \| 10 comments
8.		Are You An Entrepreneur or a Wantrepreneur? (infochachkie.com)
		52 points by mollylynn on Nov 17, 2008 \| 42 comments
9.		Things Caches Do (tomayko.com)
		48 points by bdotdub on Nov 17, 2008 \| 3 comments
10.		Hulu already making more money than YouTube (allthingsd.com)
		43 points by pakafka on Nov 17, 2008 \| 44 comments
11.		The best economic indicator you've never heard of (slate.com)
		41 points by alex_c on Nov 17, 2008 \| 10 comments
12.		Strange Maps: Did you realize Africa is this big? (strangemaps.wordpress.com)
		39 points by mattjaynes on Nov 17, 2008 \| 51 comments
13.		Dumb people don't know they are dumb. Is there a simple explanation for this? (overcomingbias.com)
		39 points by yummyfajitas on Nov 17, 2008 \| 32 comments
14.		Ejacs: a JavaScript interpreter for Emacs (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
		38 points by mqt on Nov 17, 2008 \| 9 comments
15.		Ask HN: Community software for Overcoming Bias?
		38 points by Eliezer on Nov 17, 2008 \| 16 comments
16.		Ask HN: Anyone know how to publish code samples to Posterous?
		34 points by swombat on Nov 17, 2008 \| 16 comments
17.		MIT OpenCourseWare + VideoLectures.net (videolectures.net)
		33 points by sebastjanm on Nov 17, 2008 \| 19 comments
18.		Malo - CSS Library (code.google.com)
		31 points by vladocar on Nov 17, 2008 \| 12 comments
19.		Cuban responds to the SEC Insider Trading complaint (blogmaverick.com)
		30 points by vaksel on Nov 17, 2008 \| 56 comments
20.		Ask HN: can you summarize OO for me in 64 words or less?
		29 points by mlLK on Nov 17, 2008 \| 75 comments
21.		Startup Lessons (mattmaroon.com)
		28 points by mqt on Nov 17, 2008 \| 29 comments
22.		A Computing Pioneer Has a New Idea (nytimes.com)
		27 points by jaydub on Nov 17, 2008 \| 13 comments
23.		Why developers prefer Macs (infoworld.com)
		26 points by snydeq on Nov 17, 2008 \| 42 comments
24.		JQuery Selectors (codylindley.com)
		24 points by jwilliams on Nov 17, 2008 \| 4 comments
25.		An Electric Car Loses Its Juice (newsweek.com)
		23 points by bdfh42 on Nov 17, 2008 \| 11 comments
26.		Google, 10 years ago (mrmarkets.com)
		21 points by naish on Nov 17, 2008 \| 5 comments
27.		Rule #1 for Surviving Paradigm Shifts: Don’t S**t Where You Eat (betaversion.org)
		20 points by Oompa on Nov 17, 2008 \| 7 comments
28.		Hungry (sethgodin.typepad.com)
		17 points by bdfh42 on Nov 17, 2008 \| 4 comments
29.		The economics of restaurant reservations (thestar.com)
		17 points by soundsop on Nov 17, 2008 \| 10 comments
30.		Converting from Prototype to jQuery (perplexedlabs.com)
		17 points by matticakes on Nov 17, 2008
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