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1.		The End of Wall Street (Liar's Poker author) (portfolio.com)
		112 points by alecco on Nov 11, 2008 \| 34 comments
2.		How can C Programs be so Reliable? (tratt.net)
		103 points by ltratt on Nov 11, 2008 \| 104 comments
3.		Making Nested Parens with My Homeboy, Donald Knuth (ioerror.livejournal.com)
		73 points by dpapathanasiou on Nov 11, 2008 \| 20 comments
4.		Official Google Blog: Talk face-to-face right from within Gmail (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		62 points by Anon84 on Nov 11, 2008 \| 55 comments
5.		Picking Time (ejohn.org)
		53 points by bdfh42 on Nov 11, 2008 \| 19 comments
6.		When To Work For Free (nytimes.com)
		49 points by ojbyrne on Nov 11, 2008 \| 9 comments
7.		Ask YC: Anyone in SF have a spare couch this weekend for a 2-guy "startup"?
		48 points by Sam_Odio on Nov 11, 2008 \| 31 comments
8.		edw519 & rms Interview with Andrew Warner from Mixergy about Hacker News (mixergy.com)
		39 points by edw519 on Nov 11, 2008 \| 27 comments
9.		Posterous.com (YC Summer 2008) launches Autopost to Facebook (blog.posterous.com)
		40 points by rantfoil on Nov 11, 2008 \| 10 comments
10.		Lessons learned from a failed idea at Startup Weekend (blakeperdue.com)
		33 points by blakeperdue on Nov 11, 2008 \| 13 comments
11.		Indie band turns itself into company instead of signing record deal (nme.com)
		28 points by condor on Nov 11, 2008 \| 10 comments
12.		Near.ly (near.ly)
		30 points by daveambrose on Nov 11, 2008 \| 17 comments
13.		Loopt Jumps Ahead Of Facebook And MySpace On iPhone. Told You. (techcrunch.com)
		27 points by jmorin007 on Nov 11, 2008 \| 12 comments
14.		Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming in Java (free) (markwatson.com)
		26 points by sown on Nov 11, 2008 \| 6 comments
15.		How (not) to get a job at a startup... (getrealordie.com)
		26 points by auston on Nov 11, 2008 \| 88 comments
16.		Ask HN: Review my startup -- LuckyCal
		25 points by sanj on Nov 11, 2008 \| 24 comments
17.		Hiroshima: The Lost Photographs (designobserver.com)
		25 points by azharcs on Nov 11, 2008 \| 16 comments
18.		Aussie Internet censorship plan backlash (theage.com.au)
		23 points by nreece on Nov 11, 2008 \| 11 comments
19.		Book Search (very KISS) (bigbooksearch.com)
		21 points by sireat on Nov 11, 2008 \| 10 comments
20.		Ask HN: How Much Can I Scrape?
		20 points by brentr on Nov 11, 2008 \| 23 comments
21.		Ask YC: Anyone have a good implementation for multiple database support in Django?
		20 points by shafqat on Nov 11, 2008 \| 17 comments
22.		Things I’ve learned in China so far (scobleizer.com)
		20 points by edw519 on Nov 11, 2008 \| 27 comments
23.		EU looks into blocking of Internet calls (iht.com)
		20 points by gibsonf1 on Nov 11, 2008 \| 3 comments
24.		Fast Food: Just Another Name for Corn (wired.com)
		19 points by kwamenum86 on Nov 11, 2008 \| 31 comments
25.		Massive update to jMaps (jQuery Map library) released (digitalspaghetti.me.uk)
		18 points by digispaghetti on Nov 11, 2008
26.		Say What? Google Reader Translates Any Feed into Your Native Tongue (readwriteweb.com)
		17 points by qhoxie on Nov 11, 2008 \| 3 comments
27.		Apple may use Carbon Fiber in Next Macbook (appleinsider.com)
		16 points by tontoa4 on Nov 11, 2008 \| 19 comments
28.		Google Uses Web Searches to Track Flu’s Spread (nytimes.com)
		16 points by peter123 on Nov 11, 2008 \| 6 comments
29.		Three Lectures by Hans Bethe (cornell.edu)
		16 points by brewski on Nov 11, 2008
30.		Git Patch Management with GitHub Screencast (github.com/blog)
		15 points by schacon on Nov 11, 2008
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