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1.		The Anatomy of Determination (paulgraham.com)
		164 points by revorad on Sept 5, 2009 \| 97 comments
2.		Burn Baby Burn (cringely.com)
		76 points by queensnake on Sept 5, 2009 \| 38 comments
3.		Quotes From PG’s FBFund Talk From Today (jasonlbaptiste.com)
		61 points by jasonlbaptiste on Sept 5, 2009 \| 17 comments
4.		Interesting Bash Prompts (maketecheasier.com)
		59 points by fogus on Sept 5, 2009 \| 30 comments
5.		Lactic Acid Is Not Muscles' Foe, It's Fuel (nytimes.com)
		56 points by ph0rque on Sept 5, 2009 \| 37 comments
6.		History of the Super Soaker (isoaker.com)
		54 points by blogimus on Sept 5, 2009 \| 11 comments
7.		Implementation of yesterday's xkcd comic (vkcouplestesting.com)
		47 points by araneae on Sept 5, 2009 \| 28 comments
8.		Want an Unpaid Internship So You Can Get Valuable Experience ? – Screw You (blogmaverick.com)
		45 points by jasonlbaptiste on Sept 5, 2009 \| 183 comments
9.		Should programmers learn machine code?
		45 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Sept 5, 2009 \| 62 comments
10.		Unlearning (sivers.org)
		39 points by kareemm on Sept 5, 2009 \| 11 comments
11.		RepRap, a (potentially) self-replicating 3D printer (ligress.wordpress.com)
		32 points by jonmc12 on Sept 5, 2009 \| 18 comments
12.		Cappuccinocasts: free screencasts on the Cappuccino framework (cappuccinocasts.com)
		32 points by henning on Sept 5, 2009 \| 12 comments
13.		How UK Government spun 136 people into 7m illegal file sharers (pcpro.co.uk)
		31 points by edw519 on Sept 5, 2009 \| 15 comments
14.		Security Threat: WordPress Under Attack (techcrunch.com)
		28 points by GVRV on Sept 5, 2009 \| 25 comments
15.		Paranoid survivor (economist.com)
		27 points by edw519 on Sept 5, 2009 \| 6 comments
16.		Perils of C++ debugging: Petrifying functions (yosefk.com)
		26 points by mbrubeck on Sept 5, 2009 \| 19 comments
17.		MIT Media labs' quickies (pranavmistry.com)
		26 points by scharan on Sept 5, 2009
18.		Are there any startups applying to YC that are a man short?
		25 points by ivanstojic on Sept 5, 2009 \| 10 comments
19.		Java on 1000 cores (in one box) (youtube.com)
		25 points by jbellis on Sept 5, 2009 \| 7 comments
20.		A Survey of Concurrency Constructs (slideshare.net)
		25 points by iamelgringo on Sept 5, 2009 \| 8 comments
21.		I don’t feel safe with Wordpress, hackers broke in and took things (scobleizer.com)
		24 points by mjfern on Sept 5, 2009 \| 28 comments
22.		Poll: Which webmail provider do you use?
		24 points by ca98am79 on Sept 5, 2009 \| 25 comments
23.		Hacker News and Information Overload
		24 points by WarTheatre on Sept 5, 2009 \| 38 comments
24.		Ask HN: What is Y Combinator's 'anti-portfolio' like
		23 points by FreeRadical on Sept 5, 2009 \| 33 comments
25.		Writing GTK apps for the Nokia N900 (gnome.org)
		22 points by mbrubeck on Sept 5, 2009 \| 1 comment
26.		Please give us all your money (badscience.net)
		20 points by baha_man on Sept 5, 2009 \| 40 comments
27.		Call with Current Continuation Patterns (readscheme.org)
		20 points by fogus on Sept 5, 2009 \| 1 comment
28.		Charge your iPod with your bike (bikehugger.com)
		17 points by oshadi on Sept 5, 2009 \| 2 comments
29.		Code-breaking quantum algorithm run on a silicon chip (newscientist.com)
		17 points by edw519 on Sept 5, 2009 \| 3 comments
30.		Information Retrieval, Intelligence, Integrated Optimization and Marketing (miislita.com)
		17 points by fogus on Sept 5, 2009 \| 2 comments
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