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1.		Eulogy to _why (ejohn.org)
		318 points by jcsalterego on Aug 19, 2009 \| 92 comments
2.		-= sequoia capital =- (tlrobinson.net)
		150 points by jasonlbaptiste on Aug 19, 2009 \| 45 comments
3.		Why AT&T Killed Google Voice (wsj.com)
		144 points by mjfern on Aug 19, 2009 \| 50 comments
4.		How FlightCaster (YC S09) was built (RoR + JVM + Clojure + Hadoop) (groups.google.com)
		137 points by zemariamm on Aug 19, 2009 \| 29 comments
5.		Mirror of _why's projects (github.com/whymirror)
		116 points by jcl on Aug 19, 2009 \| 14 comments
6.		YC-Funded Flightcaster Tells You When Your Flight Is Delayed (techcrunch.com)
		107 points by mgcreed on Aug 19, 2009 \| 27 comments
7.		Dropping Django (brandonbloom.name)
		108 points by snprbob86 on Aug 19, 2009 \| 59 comments
8.		Why Should Engineers and Scientists Be Worried About Color? (ibm.com)
		95 points by edw519 on Aug 19, 2009 \| 19 comments
9.		My Obsession With Chess (scottmccloud.com)
		88 points by gnosis on Aug 19, 2009 \| 42 comments
10.		Hardware Hackers Create a Modular Motherboard (wired.com)
		68 points by naish on Aug 19, 2009 \| 12 comments
11.		A Flowchart for “Total Eclipse of the Heart” (jeannr.tumblr.com)
		66 points by Nervetattoo on Aug 19, 2009 \| 38 comments
12.		PayPal Doubles Fees, Forgets to Tell Customers (sitepoint.com)
		65 points by javery on Aug 19, 2009 \| 25 comments
13.		Visual Map of Your Name's Online Presence (media.mit.edu)
		61 points by kingkawn on Aug 19, 2009 \| 49 comments
14.		Sequoia Capital's redesigned website: a search bar (sequoiacap.com)
		59 points by tlrobinson on Aug 19, 2009 \| 57 comments
15.		YC Top List (searchyc.com)
		56 points by stijnm on Aug 19, 2009 \| 10 comments
16.		Why The Lucky Stiff's old blog (Aug. 2000 - May 2005) (advogato.org)
		54 points by byrneseyeview on Aug 19, 2009 \| 7 comments
17.		Daring Fireball: Android Opportunity Addenda (daringfireball.net)
		52 points by amethyst on Aug 19, 2009 \| 15 comments
18.		Olark (YC S09) Is A Dead Simple Chat Widget For Site Owners (techcrunch.com)
		52 points by dannyr on Aug 19, 2009 \| 17 comments
19.		PySide: LGPL Python bindings for the Qt Framework (pyside.org)
		47 points by mace on Aug 19, 2009 \| 8 comments
20.		Myths About Sleep (webmd.com)
		45 points by ssn on Aug 19, 2009 \| 8 comments
21.		Don't just howl with rage. Try an idea that does away with banks altogether. (guardian.co.uk)
		44 points by SwellJoe on Aug 19, 2009 \| 26 comments
22.		Lisp in Prolog in zero lines (tuwien.ac.at)
		40 points by marshallp on Aug 19, 2009 \| 31 comments
23.		Silicon Valley Elite Flock To Y Combinator Demo Day (techcrunch.com)
		40 points by zaveri on Aug 19, 2009 \| 33 comments
24.		Arrow of time no longer double-ended (arstechnica.com)
		39 points by vaksel on Aug 19, 2009 \| 10 comments
25.		How to find un-indexed queries in MySQL, using tcpdump (xaprb.com)
		38 points by akirk on Aug 19, 2009 \| 10 comments
26.		CouchDBKit: A full-featured Python library to access and manage CouchDB (couchdbkit.org)
		38 points by mace on Aug 19, 2009 \| 3 comments
27.		Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom (nytimes.com)
		34 points by physcab on Aug 19, 2009 \| 14 comments
28.		Calculated Risk: U.S. Population Distribution by Age, 1950 through 2050 (calculatedriskblog.com)
		34 points by noheartanthony on Aug 19, 2009 \| 22 comments
29.		DeadSwap, a clandestine offline file sharing system (deadswap.net)
		32 points by tricknik on Aug 19, 2009 \| 22 comments
30.		Yahoo BOSS Might Be Bigger Than Bing (techcrunch.com)
		31 points by cwan on Aug 19, 2009 \| 7 comments
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