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1.		Why PHP won (startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com)
		100 points by eries on Jan 16, 2009 \| 59 comments
2.		Doug Comer: How to Insult a Computer Scientist (purdue.edu)
		81 points by dedalus on Jan 16, 2009 \| 18 comments
3.		3 Rules of Database App Aging (push.cx)
		79 points by pushcx on Jan 16, 2009 \| 52 comments
4.		Why PHP really won (dipert.org)
		77 points by wooby on Jan 16, 2009 \| 45 comments
5.		Surgeons in England to adopt checklists - expect to halve death rate (independent.co.uk)
		75 points by mhb on Jan 16, 2009 \| 67 comments
6.		Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07) (techcrunch.com)
		63 points by drm237 on Jan 16, 2009 \| 51 comments
7.		Ask HN: How do you produce product demo videos?
		50 points by Edinburger on Jan 16, 2009 \| 39 comments
8.		Hulu CEO: "We screwed up royally" (37signals.com)
		50 points by peter123 on Jan 16, 2009 \| 44 comments
9.		More startups fail from a lack of customers than from a failure of product development (stanford.edu)
		49 points by phil_KartMe on Jan 16, 2009 \| 23 comments
10.		New jQuery Techniques For Good User Experience (smashingmagazine.com)
		43 points by qhoxie on Jan 16, 2009 \| 7 comments
11.		Noteflight: start-up that lets you compose music within your browser (noteflight.com)
		41 points by unalone on Jan 16, 2009 \| 18 comments
12.		Clever bike lane hack (dustbowl.wordpress.com)
		36 points by pingswept on Jan 16, 2009 \| 30 comments
13.		Y Combinator IRC channel?
		35 points by informer on Jan 16, 2009 \| 16 comments
14.		Beautiful visualisations of everyday statistics (chrisjordan.com)
		35 points by jgamman on Jan 16, 2009 \| 11 comments
15.		Tumblr v5 Released (staff.tumblr.com)
		34 points by beaudeal on Jan 16, 2009 \| 28 comments
16.		Tracking Flight Path of US Airways 1549 (nytimes.com)
		30 points by boundlessdreamz on Jan 16, 2009 \| 17 comments
17.		Why I hate software patents: IBM patents trim() (uspto.gov)
		30 points by mdasen on Jan 16, 2009 \| 28 comments
18.		Work Smarter and Harder (callmejeffrey.com)
		29 points by brm on Jan 16, 2009 \| 9 comments
19.		An Illustrated Guide to Git on Windows (nathanj.github.com)
		28 points by zvikara on Jan 16, 2009 \| 6 comments
20.		Choices Narrowed for First U.S. CTO (businessweek.com)
		27 points by nikils on Jan 16, 2009 \| 29 comments
21.		Web Design Job for the Eager
		27 points by andrewljohnson on Jan 16, 2009 \| 17 comments
22.		In Software: Simplify, Simplify (codeclimber.blogspot.com)
		26 points by eVizitei on Jan 16, 2009 \| 7 comments
23.		Sphinx Search at Craigslist (zawodny.com)
		25 points by tortilla on Jan 16, 2009 \| 6 comments
24.		Why we can't stop birds downing aircraft (newscientist.com)
		24 points by alexandros on Jan 16, 2009 \| 53 comments
25.		Morten Lund provides an update on life (lundxy.com)
		23 points by numair on Jan 16, 2009 \| 6 comments
26.		Twitter May Have Found Its Business Model (readwriteweb.com)
		24 points by lnguyen on Jan 16, 2009 \| 18 comments
27.		Building Scalable Databases: Pros and Cons of Various Database Sharding Schemes (25hoursaday.com)
		21 points by Anon84 on Jan 16, 2009
28.		Circuit City to liquidate all US stores (google.com)
		21 points by larrywright on Jan 16, 2009 \| 19 comments
29.		Ask HN:Finding a Break
		20 points by de_la_espada on Jan 16, 2009 \| 27 comments
30.		Zimbabwe unveils 100 trillion dollar banknote (yahoo.com)
		19 points by azharcs on Jan 16, 2009 \| 25 comments
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