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1.		Have you seen the front page of Pirate Bay? (thepiratebay.org)
		154 points by Flemlord on Feb 24, 2009 \| 63 comments
2.		Leonardo da Vinci was a hopeless procrastinator. (chronicle.com)
		134 points by makimaki on Feb 24, 2009 \| 56 comments
3.		Safari 4 beta released (crunchgear.com)
		99 points by amitt on Feb 24, 2009 \| 89 comments
4.		The next generation of mirrors (newscientist.com)
		80 points by sanj on Feb 24, 2009 \| 23 comments
5.		How IMVU learned its way to $10M a year (venturehacks.com)
		58 points by sarvesh on Feb 24, 2009 \| 10 comments
6.		PyBrain: Machine Learning Toolkit for Python (pybrain.org)
		53 points by durin42 on Feb 24, 2009 \| 4 comments
7.		Startup Tips From the Father of Gmail and FriendFeed (mashable.com)
		50 points by peter123 on Feb 24, 2009 \| 29 comments
8.		You can go beyond quotas now on Google AppEngine (googleappengine.blogspot.com)
		50 points by timf on Feb 24, 2009 \| 24 comments
9.		Google Data on Rails (code.google.com)
		49 points by pibefision on Feb 24, 2009 \| 6 comments
10.		Tell HN: Your startup's blog should have a link to your homepage
		47 points by bouncingsoul on Feb 24, 2009 \| 13 comments
11.		New AWS Public Data Sets - Economics, DBpedia, Freebase, and Wikipedia (aws.typepad.com)
		40 points by crescendo on Feb 24, 2009 \| 2 comments
12.		Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street (wired.com)
		40 points by nickb on Feb 24, 2009 \| 7 comments
13.		How to scrape data from sites you can't log into (ssscripting.wordpress.com)
		37 points by geoscripting on Feb 24, 2009 \| 37 comments
14.		Sexy Lexing with Python (evanfosmark.com)
		37 points by rogercosseboom on Feb 24, 2009 \| 2 comments
15.		40% of geeks surveyed really work fewer than ... say what? (networkworld.com)
		36 points by kqr2 on Feb 24, 2009 \| 30 comments
16.		Poll: How many hours do you really work each day?
		34 points by andreyf on Feb 24, 2009 \| 46 comments
17.		Django 1.1 alpha 1 released (djangoproject.com)
		34 points by bdr on Feb 24, 2009 \| 5 comments
18.		The Netbook Effect: How Cheap Little Laptops Hit the Big Time (wired.com)
		34 points by jasonlbaptiste on Feb 24, 2009 \| 21 comments
19.		The Importance of Writing Well (particletree.com)
		31 points by teej on Feb 24, 2009 \| 12 comments
20.		Hard Out Here for a [Web 2.0] Pimp. (500hats.typepad.com)
		29 points by Mistone on Feb 24, 2009 \| 11 comments
21.		Run IE8/7/6, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and Opera from the web (xenocode.com)
		27 points by parterburn on Feb 24, 2009 \| 18 comments
22.		Fun With Sums (cornellmath.wordpress.com)
		25 points by thomaspaine on Feb 24, 2009
23.		A developer's introduction to Google Android (arstechnica.com)
		25 points by edgefield on Feb 24, 2009 \| 1 comment
24.		Why video game music is different from every other kind of soundtrack (strangehorizons.com)
		23 points by MarkN on Feb 24, 2009 \| 11 comments
25.		ZS3 - Amazon S3 from Common Lisp (xach.com)
		21 points by rogercosseboom on Feb 24, 2009 \| 6 comments
26.		How Benjamin Button got his face [TED Talk] (ted.com)
		21 points by shalmanese on Feb 24, 2009 \| 3 comments
27.		Tim Draper: Top Ten Reasons Startups Fail (theriskmaster.blogspot.com)
		20 points by shuleatt on Feb 24, 2009 \| 8 comments
28.		The Russian Collapse? (tapsns.com)
		18 points by ilamont on Feb 24, 2009 \| 25 comments
29.		A Full Web Service with HTTP caching in 7 lines (slightlynew.blogspot.com)
		19 points by lsb on Feb 24, 2009 \| 16 comments
30.		Entrepreneurs Can Lead Us Out of the Crisis (wsj.com)
		18 points by Mrinal on Feb 24, 2009 \| 21 comments
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