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1.		Why Your Startup Shouldn't Copy 37signals or Fog Creek (onstartups.com)
		106 points by bdfh42 on Feb 6, 2009 \| 49 comments
2.		Yegge, Clojure, and Arc (fogus.me)
		94 points by fogus on Feb 6, 2009 \| 39 comments
3.		How do you process credit cards? (37signals.com)
		93 points by pchristensen on Feb 6, 2009 \| 30 comments
4.		How Pixar Hires (edutopia.org)
		78 points by brm on Feb 6, 2009 \| 10 comments
5.		Unix Time = 1234567890 On Valentine’s Day (feld.com)
		72 points by peter123 on Feb 6, 2009 \| 21 comments
6.		Professor makes his mark, but it costs him his job (theglobeandmail.com)
		65 points by mad44 on Feb 6, 2009 \| 42 comments
7.		Higher Order PHP (sigusr2.net)
		64 points by mudge on Feb 6, 2009 \| 28 comments
8.		The Baby-Eating Aliens (overcomingbias.com)
		63 points by Eliezer on Feb 6, 2009 \| 23 comments
9.		John Resig Talk: Performance Improvements in Browsers (ejohn.org)
		53 points by babyshake on Feb 6, 2009 \| 24 comments
10.		Ruby’s Most Underused Keyword (rubyrailways.com)
		50 points by sant0sk1 on Feb 6, 2009 \| 12 comments
11.		How Amazon.com is thriving in a horrendous retail climate (slate.com)
		44 points by dominik on Feb 6, 2009 \| 25 comments
12.		Gmail Adds Multiple Inboxes (gmailblog.blogspot.com)
		44 points by naish on Feb 6, 2009 \| 15 comments
13.		Domain Pigeon: Your Unintelligible Five Letter Domain Name Awaits (readwriteweb.com)
		42 points by bemmu on Feb 6, 2009 \| 20 comments
14.		Why you shouldn't copy us or anyone else (37signals.com)
		41 points by adityakothadiya on Feb 6, 2009 \| 9 comments
15.		Ask HN: Review my startup, mobify.me
		41 points by ig0rskee on Feb 6, 2009 \| 15 comments
16.		TED: MIT Students Turn Internet Into a Sixth Human Sense (wired.com)
		40 points by markup on Feb 6, 2009 \| 9 comments
17.		Ask HN: How do you find a colorscheme for your project?
		38 points by mixmax on Feb 6, 2009 \| 34 comments
18.		Should developers worry about ageism? (stackoverflow.com)
		37 points by tyn on Feb 6, 2009 \| 27 comments
19.		Game of life that produces scrolling text "Golly" (sourceforge.net)
		35 points by icey on Feb 6, 2009 \| 11 comments
20.		Load Balancing in Amazon EC2 with HAProxy (agiletesting.blogspot.com)
		32 points by jawngee on Feb 6, 2009
21.		Google Earth updater now quietly updates all the Google apps (groups.google.com)
		30 points by nickb on Feb 6, 2009 \| 13 comments
22.		A crisis of confidence: the US scientific endeavour is increasingly losing its lustre as a career choice (nature.com)
		27 points by kqr2 on Feb 6, 2009 \| 13 comments
23.		Gmail Adds Support For Multiple Pane Viewing (techcrunch.com)
		27 points by vaksel on Feb 6, 2009 \| 13 comments
24.		Play the Point, Not the Score (feld.com)
		26 points by IsaacSchlueter on Feb 6, 2009 \| 17 comments
25.		Study says Seinfeld ads made MS brand image worse. (nytimes.com)
		26 points by timr on Feb 6, 2009 \| 19 comments
26.		ESPN to ISPs: Pay for Your Customers to Play Video (wired.com)
		25 points by nickb on Feb 6, 2009 \| 16 comments
27.		Ceiling Height Can Affect How A Person Thinks, Feels And Acts (sciencedaily.com)
		22 points by rams on Feb 6, 2009 \| 12 comments
28.		Sequoia: 20 Petaflops, 1.6 million cores, 1.6 Petabytes RAM (hpcinfo.wordpress.com)
		25 points by timf on Feb 6, 2009 \| 28 comments
29.		Heyzap: Online games reach the long tail (telegraph.co.uk)
		19 points by immad on Feb 6, 2009 \| 3 comments
30.		Check out this original tetris-like game I made. (numbrosia.com)
		22 points by amichail on Feb 6, 2009 \| 18 comments
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