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1.		How The World Almost Came To An End At 2PM On September 18 (zerohedge.blogspot.com)
		153 points by robg on Feb 10, 2009 \| 100 comments
2.		The Mark Cuban Stimulus Plan - Open Source Funding (blogmaverick.com)
		108 points by reitzensteinm on Feb 10, 2009 \| 91 comments
3.		Why OO Sucks (sics.se)
		85 points by ananthrk on Feb 10, 2009 \| 114 comments
4.		Ask HN: Industries Ripe For Disruption?
		83 points by jasonlbaptiste on Feb 10, 2009 \| 100 comments
5.		What webhooks are and why you should care (timothyfitz.wordpress.com)
		71 points by ambition on Feb 10, 2009 \| 47 comments
6.		You Can’t Sell News by the Slice (nytimes.com)
		68 points by tokenadult on Feb 10, 2009 \| 57 comments
7.		Rails versus Django (superjared.com)
		67 points by twampss on Feb 10, 2009 \| 37 comments
8.		Google PowerMeter Measures Your Electricity Usage (google.org)
		65 points by jasonlbaptiste on Feb 10, 2009 \| 28 comments
9.		Ask HN: moving beyond screen to persist SSH sessions?
		49 points by sounddust on Feb 10, 2009 \| 35 comments
10.		Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags (shirky.com)
		45 points by silentbicycle on Feb 10, 2009 \| 15 comments
11.		Images of flies on a urinal = 80% less 'spillage' on the airport bathroom floor (nytimes.com)
		41 points by tlrobinson on Feb 10, 2009 \| 25 comments
12.		BeOS Lives: Haiku Impresses (osnews.com)
		39 points by whughes on Feb 10, 2009 \| 19 comments
13.		Daring Fireball: Apple, Google, and Palm. (daringfireball.net)
		38 points by e1ven on Feb 10, 2009 \| 24 comments
14.		The Canadian Solution (newsweek.com)
		38 points by jganetsk on Feb 10, 2009 \| 34 comments
15.		ConnectU Spills Value of Facebook Deal: $65M (law.com)
		35 points by rogercosseboom on Feb 10, 2009 \| 26 comments
16.		Ask HN: New links queue almost at 24 hours, what now?
		31 points by timf on Feb 10, 2009 \| 45 comments
17.		Twitter to begin charging brands for commercial use (brandrepublic.com)
		30 points by gibsonf1 on Feb 10, 2009 \| 30 comments
18.		The State of MySQL: The Elephant in the Room (zetetic.net)
		30 points by billymeltdown on Feb 10, 2009 \| 32 comments
19.		How to become an iPhone developer in eight easy steps (guardian.co.uk)
		27 points by twampss on Feb 10, 2009 \| 28 comments
20.		Zoomable User Interfaces (usabilitypost.com)
		27 points by kqr2 on Feb 10, 2009 \| 5 comments
21.		The Secret to Start-Up Success: Save Customers Money (nytimes.com)
		26 points by dreamz on Feb 10, 2009 \| 13 comments
22.		Google’s Trojan Horse (or Why Location Based Services are not a Business) (mobileindustryreview.com)
		25 points by spif on Feb 10, 2009 \| 25 comments
23.		Study on Test-Driven Dev.: 15-35% longer, but 40-90% less bugs [pdf] (research.microsoft.com)
		25 points by fizx on Feb 10, 2009 \| 15 comments
24.		Power harvesting shock absorbers increase mpg by 10% (web.mit.edu)
		23 points by vaksel on Feb 10, 2009 \| 15 comments
25.		All I ever needed to know in business, I learned in a strip club. (learntoduck.com)
		22 points by luccastera on Feb 10, 2009 \| 7 comments
26.		America’s Diet, Too Sweet by the Spoonful (nytimes.com)
		20 points by robg on Feb 10, 2009 \| 9 comments
27.		Picturesurf launches: Dead-Simple Photo Galleries For Bloggers (techcrunch.com)
		20 points by judegomila on Feb 10, 2009 \| 3 comments
28.		TED Talks 2009: Elizabeth Gilbert on a different way to think about creative genius (ted.com)
		20 points by darragjm on Feb 10, 2009 \| 8 comments
29.		Darwinism Must Die So That Evolution May Live (nytimes.com)
		16 points by nickb on Feb 10, 2009 \| 21 comments
30.		Top 9 Lies of Venture Capitalists (entrepreneur.com)
		16 points by DanielBMarkham on Feb 10, 2009 \| 8 comments
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