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1.		Simpson's paradox: why mistrust seemingly simple statistics (wikipedia.org)
		152 points by waldrews on Aug 28, 2009 \| 17 comments
2.		America's unjust sex laws (economist.com)
		118 points by MikeCapone on Aug 28, 2009 \| 106 comments
3.		Buy somebody lunch (whattofix.com)
		102 points by DanielBMarkham on Aug 28, 2009 \| 52 comments
4.		A design pattern is an artifact of a missing feature in your chosen language (snell-pym.org.uk)
		85 points by bensummers on Aug 28, 2009 \| 55 comments
5.		Scratch.py -- hyper-fast mini-webapp production, in Python (speakeasy.org)
		65 points by jmonegro on Aug 28, 2009 \| 10 comments
6.		Wireless Electricity Demo (ted.com)
		64 points by keltecp11 on Aug 28, 2009 \| 27 comments
7.		Mark Bao's startup Atomplan acquired. Congratulations! (avecora.com)
		64 points by kirubakaran on Aug 28, 2009 \| 27 comments
8.		Does money buy happiness? Yes, if it's used to buy memories (scienceblogs.com)
		64 points by cwan on Aug 28, 2009 \| 25 comments
9.		Clamato: A Smalltalk Dialect for Javascript (clamato.net)
		58 points by BigZaphod on Aug 28, 2009 \| 38 comments
10.		How to run a Linux based home web server (stevehanov.ca)
		54 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Aug 28, 2009 \| 25 comments
11.		My project: CSVGet -- Get structured data from sites as CSV (github.com/fizx)
		52 points by fizx on Aug 28, 2009 \| 11 comments
12.		Snow Leopard: It's Built for the Future. (delicious-monster.com)
		52 points by gthank on Aug 28, 2009 \| 40 comments
13.		More Charts from HN Survey (Income, Age, Work Hours, Work Exp.) (vonsharp.net)
		49 points by viggity on Aug 28, 2009 \| 34 comments
14.		The Facebook Exodus (nytimes.com)
		47 points by smharris65 on Aug 28, 2009 \| 24 comments
15.		US Senate bill allows White House to disconnect private computers from Internet (cnet.com)
		46 points by drewr on Aug 28, 2009 \| 44 comments
16.		API changes in Snow Leopard (developer.apple.com)
		45 points by pieter on Aug 28, 2009 \| 18 comments
17.		Baseline - a designer framework (baselinecss.com)
		43 points by adnymarc on Aug 28, 2009 \| 11 comments
18.		Nokia's first Linux phone rocks (nokia.com)
		44 points by scharan on Aug 28, 2009 \| 32 comments
19.		Who else feels like sharing their adsense stats ?
		42 points by jacquesm on Aug 28, 2009 \| 20 comments
20.		Who Causes Cyclists’ Deaths? (nytimes.com)
		40 points by cwan on Aug 28, 2009 \| 71 comments
21.		FlightCaster (YC S09) on AWS Blog (aws.typepad.com)
		38 points by delano on Aug 28, 2009 \| 18 comments
22.		Hulu Has More Viewers Than Time Warner Cable (businessinsider.com)
		35 points by fromedome on Aug 28, 2009 \| 18 comments
23.		New planet hints we're very lucky—or our models are wrong (arstechnica.com)
		33 points by soundsop on Aug 28, 2009 \| 5 comments
24.		Caml trading (janestreet.com)
		33 points by apr on Aug 28, 2009 \| 12 comments
25.		OpenCL "Hello World" (developer.apple.com)
		32 points by pieter on Aug 28, 2009 \| 19 comments
26.		Vidly: Twitvid.io (YC S08) Changes Names, Direction, And Gets Funding (techcrunch.com)
		32 points by drm237 on Aug 28, 2009 \| 11 comments
27.		Rails Rumble finalists announced - Vote for the best 48-hour micro-app (railsrumble.com)
		31 points by zapnap on Aug 28, 2009 \| 12 comments
28.		Is My Electric Bicycle Lame? (treehugger.com)
		30 points by monkeygrinder on Aug 28, 2009 \| 56 comments
29.		*.apache.org is currently offline. (apache.org)
		29 points by edu on Aug 28, 2009 \| 12 comments
30.		O'Reilly's "The Ruby Language" for $9.99 (limited time) (oreilly.com)
		28 points by pjonesdotca on Aug 28, 2009 \| 24 comments
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