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1.		I'm OK, the bull is dead: Communication skills for engineers (computerworld.com)
		96 points by rubentopo on Aug 22, 2009 \| 25 comments
2.		Facebook, TipJoy, the Deal that Didn’t Happen and the Hire that Did (allthingsd.com)
		97 points by pakafka on Aug 22, 2009 \| 74 comments
3.		A Django website that took (a lot) more than 20 minutes. (lukeplant.me.uk)
		91 points by jacquesm on Aug 22, 2009 \| 18 comments
4.		4Chan launches embarrassing attack on devout Christians on Facebook (thenextweb.com)
		68 points by mgcreed on Aug 22, 2009 \| 117 comments
5.		What’s Really Going On With Apple, Google, AT&T And The FCC (techcrunch.com)
		66 points by cwan on Aug 22, 2009 \| 24 comments
6.		Why I'm Not a Writer (1996) (greenspun.com)
		58 points by jseliger on Aug 22, 2009 \| 20 comments
7.		Thanks to the HN community
		54 points by grellas on Aug 22, 2009 \| 15 comments
8.		Cheating the App Store: PR firm has interns post positive reviews for clients (mobilecrunch.com)
		54 points by vaksel on Aug 22, 2009 \| 23 comments
9.		The Notes What Spawned JQuery (2005) (ejohn.org)
		48 points by fogus on Aug 22, 2009 \| 7 comments
10.		New Free Online Book (by me): Essentials of Metaheuristics (gmu.edu)
		47 points by SeanLuke on Aug 22, 2009 \| 7 comments
11.		RestMS (restms.org)
		41 points by setori88 on Aug 22, 2009 \| 19 comments
12.		Think twice before naming your new programming language (guillaume-nargeot.blogspot.com)
		38 points by gnargeot on Aug 22, 2009 \| 16 comments
13.		A video of a laser doing crazy weird things (yourdailymedia.com)
		36 points by ujjwalg on Aug 22, 2009 \| 7 comments
14.		Share your ideas
		35 points by evancaine on Aug 22, 2009 \| 61 comments
15.		Svgweb - Scalable Vector Graphics for Web Browsers using Flash (code.google.com)
		33 points by mkuhn on Aug 22, 2009 \| 9 comments
16.		Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret (cdixon.org)
		33 points by prakash on Aug 22, 2009 \| 24 comments
17.		FB Hires TipJoy Co-Founder Ivan Kirigin After Backing Away From Acquisition (techcrunch.com)
		32 points by vaksel on Aug 22, 2009 \| 6 comments
18.		Interactive Unicode Table (ftrain.com)
		28 points by nudded on Aug 22, 2009 \| 6 comments
19.		Ancient Man Didn't Exactly Live in Harmony With the Land (nytimes.com)
		25 points by scapegraced on Aug 22, 2009 \| 15 comments
20.		Nice Proof of a Geometric Progression Sum (sputsoft.com)
		20 points by nreece on Aug 22, 2009 \| 8 comments
21.		Ask HN: What would you do with a Class C IP block? (boingboing.net)
		20 points by kf on Aug 22, 2009 \| 22 comments
22.		Researchers crack network latency nut with new algorithm (arstechnica.com)
		20 points by lyime on Aug 22, 2009 \| 2 comments
23.		Protein folding as a game to help science (fold.it)
		19 points by Todd on Aug 22, 2009 \| 2 comments
24.		James Dyson’s ‘Wrong Garden’ Fountain Inspired By MC Escher (ohgizmo.com)
		18 points by cwan on Aug 22, 2009 \| 4 comments
25.		The Secret Life of Machines (exploratorium.edu)
		18 points by GHFigs on Aug 22, 2009 \| 5 comments
26.		How Tim O'Reilly Aims to Change Government (nytimes.com)
		17 points by vibhavs on Aug 22, 2009 \| 8 comments
27.		Ask PG: Do you ever fund startups outside of normal Y Comb. funding cycles?
		17 points by jlgosse on Aug 22, 2009 \| 12 comments
28.		The Real Truth about Apple and Google and Arrington (techcrunchit.com)
		16 points by eelco on Aug 22, 2009 \| 4 comments
29.		Intel acquires two multicore software firms, Cilk & RapidMind (cnet.com)
		16 points by prakash on Aug 22, 2009 \| 9 comments
30.		Interview with Paul Buchheit on the FriendFeed acquisition (techcrunch.com)
		15 points by niels on Aug 22, 2009
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