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1.		Teensy USB Development Board - 16MHz, $19 (pjrc.com)
		110 points by andreyf on Jan 30, 2009 \| 58 comments
2.		The new reality: Ticketstumbler ($15,000 in funding) vs Fansnap ($10.5 million) (compete.com)
		99 points by pg on Jan 30, 2009 \| 83 comments
3.		Ma.gnolia.com crashes hard -- no backups? (gnolia.com)
		95 points by eli on Jan 30, 2009 \| 77 comments
4.		Six Ways to Boost Brainpower: Exercise, Diet, Stimulants, Video Games, Music, & Meditation (sciam.com)
		84 points by robg on Jan 30, 2009 \| 52 comments
5.		Wikipedia list of algorithms (wikipedia.org)
		62 points by soundsop on Jan 30, 2009 \| 12 comments
6.		The Economy According To Mint (techcrunch.com)
		59 points by bd on Jan 30, 2009 \| 14 comments
7.		The Beauty of Lisp-1 (lispcast.com)
		50 points by mdasen on Jan 30, 2009 \| 17 comments
8.		I suck at math, please divulge resources
		47 points by cookiecaper on Jan 30, 2009 \| 35 comments
9.		Is College Working? (harvardbusiness.org)
		47 points by peter123 on Jan 30, 2009 \| 66 comments
10.		Ruby 1.9.1 Released: First Stable Ruby 1.9 Release (groups.google.com)
		47 points by mdasen on Jan 30, 2009 \| 14 comments
11.		Eric Raymond: The sound of empire falling (ibiblio.org)
		42 points by ii on Jan 30, 2009 \| 42 comments
12.		Capital Factory - Austin-based YC Style Incubator (capitalfactory.com)
		41 points by jonmc12 on Jan 30, 2009 \| 47 comments
13.		Ask YC: Favorite blogs?
		40 points by unalone on Jan 30, 2009 \| 40 comments
14.		The Best E-Mail Program Ever: How Gmail destroyed Outlook. (slate.com)
		40 points by robg on Jan 30, 2009 \| 53 comments
15.		Lua vs Ruby benchmarks (similarly "high-level" languages, insanely different performance) (debian.org)
		39 points by critic on Jan 30, 2009 \| 72 comments
16.		List of algorithms requested on Wikipedia - if you know one, do your share (wikipedia.org)
		34 points by andreyf on Jan 30, 2009 \| 6 comments
17.		Facebook Tech Talk: Mark Zuckerberg on Memcached (facebook.com)
		34 points by pc on Jan 30, 2009 \| 14 comments
18.		Nasa faked a shuttle image. (discovermagazine.com)
		32 points by muon on Jan 30, 2009 \| 27 comments
19.		Lego Turing Machine (legoofdoom.blogspot.com)
		33 points by kqr2 on Jan 30, 2009 \| 11 comments
20.		Remembering Martin Schaedel
		31 points by numair on Jan 30, 2009 \| 3 comments
21.		With an official description, Google Drive is more real than ever (venturebeat.com)
		31 points by froo on Jan 30, 2009 \| 21 comments
22.		Indian government explores $10 laptop (indiatimes.com)
		30 points by hsuresh on Jan 30, 2009 \| 23 comments
23.		Everyblock's Dilemma: How Do You Open Source Your Entire Site and Survive? (oreilly.com)
		30 points by Anon84 on Jan 30, 2009 \| 14 comments
24.		As a founder of PayPal, Elon Musk made $250 million. But then he got bored (style.com)
		28 points by ashwinl on Jan 30, 2009 \| 20 comments
25.		Ask HN: Transmoggit (aka "HTF is trim in Python?"); What next?
		28 points by s3graham on Jan 30, 2009 \| 25 comments
26.		Young entrepreneur Martin Schaedel (23) dies in plane crash (alleyinsider.com)
		29 points by ThomPete on Jan 30, 2009 \| 2 comments
27.		Steve Jobs a music visionary? Judge for yourself (cnet.com)
		26 points by wallflower on Jan 30, 2009 \| 13 comments
28.		Slinkset releases categories (slinksetmatch.com)
		21 points by brett on Jan 30, 2009 \| 4 comments
29.		Coding Horror: The Sad Tragedy of Micro-Optimization Theater (codinghorror.com)
		20 points by twampss on Jan 30, 2009 \| 29 comments
30.		Transmeta patents trolled, company dies (theinquirer.net)
		19 points by bdfh42 on Jan 30, 2009
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