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1.		Amazing chat bot developed by a startup claiming to have made a significant AI breakthrough (vid) (technologyreview.com)
		23 points by nickb on Oct 27, 2007 \| 18 comments
2.		Ask News.YC: Is anyone building a desktop application?
		20 points by rokhayakebe on Oct 27, 2007 \| 51 comments
3.		Ask YC: Best way to learn CSS/UI design?
		18 points by ochiba on Oct 27, 2007 \| 24 comments
4.		... because Ruby isn't terse enough yet (raganwald.com)
		17 points by mdemare on Oct 27, 2007 \| 27 comments
5.		Facebook employees know what profiles you look at (valleywag.com)
		15 points by nickb on Oct 27, 2007 \| 7 comments
6.		A Vision of Students Today (youtube.com)
		12 points by alaskamiller on Oct 27, 2007 \| 6 comments
7.		TED: Ideas worth spreading (ted.com)
		11 points by yters on Oct 27, 2007
8.		Aaron Swartz on Jottit (youtube.com)
		10 points by eusman on Oct 27, 2007 \| 9 comments
9.		Summarizes what it's like working for most big companies (as a developer/engineer) (dilbert.com)
		9 points by chaostheory on Oct 27, 2007 \| 1 comment
10.		BlueprintCSS 101 (blueflavor.com)
		9 points by danw on Oct 27, 2007 \| 2 comments
11.		Dell: Windows Vista on 512Mb: "Booting the OS, without running applications or games" (dell.com)
		8 points by nickb on Oct 27, 2007 \| 1 comment
12.		Letter to hackers frm a non-hacker: Quit your "wow" app and build us something useful.
		7 points by rokhayakebe on Oct 27, 2007 \| 20 comments
13.		Google Video - GIT (video.google.com)
		7 points by mcxx on Oct 27, 2007
14.		Microsoft hard at work getting Windows to run on OLPC computers (reuters.com)
		7 points by nickb on Oct 27, 2007 \| 1 comment
15.		Born to Build, Not to Play: an Entrepreneur's 'Curse' (nytimes.com)
		6 points by garbowza on Oct 27, 2007 \| 2 comments
16.		Scaling early stage startups (novcrequired.com)
		6 points by mudge on Oct 27, 2007
17.		Django Users: i18n Security Fix Released (djangoproject.com)
		6 points by jasonyan on Oct 27, 2007 \| 1 comment
18.		What's your favorite Javascript framework?
		6 points by andrewfong on Oct 27, 2007 \| 19 comments
19.		A New Prediction Market for the Masses (nytimes.com)
		5 points by amichail on Oct 27, 2007 \| 2 comments
20.		Anyone have experience getting software patents?
		5 points by ratsbane on Oct 27, 2007 \| 15 comments
21.		Is F Sharp Enough? (whattofix.com)
		5 points by DanielBMarkham on Oct 27, 2007 \| 2 comments
22.		Godel's Thoughts on AI: Godel, Nagel, minds and machines (lambda-the-ultimate.org)
		5 points by Jd on Oct 27, 2007 \| 1 comment
23.		Objective-C 2.0 Overview (brush up before iPhone SDK comes out) (developer.apple.com)
		4 points by nickb on Oct 27, 2007
24.		WebShots purchased for 70 million dollars, sold for 45 (wired.com)
		4 points by vlad on Oct 27, 2007
25.		Human race will 'split into two different species' (dailymail.co.uk)
		4 points by gibsonf1 on Oct 27, 2007 \| 12 comments
26.		Meetro Working to Make Forum Creation Dead Simple (techcrunch.com)
		3 points by brett on Oct 27, 2007 \| 1 comment
27.		DabbleDB: transitioning from database tool to data-driven app development platform (dabbledb.com)
		3 points by henning on Oct 27, 2007
28.		OmniGraffle Wireframe Palette: Speed up your wireframing (urlgreyhot.com)
		3 points by danw on Oct 27, 2007
29.		Don't Keep Your Startup Idea a Secret (shelfmade.wordpress.com)
		3 points by mikesabat on Oct 27, 2007 \| 15 comments
30.		BusinessWeek: Slideshow of Tech Buyouts (businessweek.com)
		3 points by sharpshoot on Oct 27, 2007
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