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1.		I never realized how useful netcat is (wikipedia.org)
		190 points by tzury on Sept 16, 2009 \| 32 comments
2.		Google acquires reCAPTCHA (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		181 points by smikhanov on Sept 16, 2009 \| 93 comments
3.		Haiku (arstechnica.com)
		145 points by asdlfj2sd33 on Sept 16, 2009 \| 29 comments
4.		Mythbusters RFID episode banned (bit-tech.net)
		123 points by bootload on Sept 16, 2009 \| 17 comments
5.		Open Source Is Really About Documentation – Twisted vs. Tornado (littlehart.net)
		95 points by fogus on Sept 16, 2009 \| 28 comments
6.		Programming: Choosing the right name is everything (sites.google.com)
		84 points by clawrencewenham on Sept 16, 2009 \| 58 comments
7.		Drinking is a Public Relations Vehicle (pjhyett.com)
		76 points by tortilla on Sept 16, 2009 \| 27 comments
8.		Steve Yegge: Lisp is not an acceptable Lisp. (2006) (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
		72 points by steiger on Sept 16, 2009 \| 92 comments
9.		Fungus-treated Violin Outdoes Stradivarius (sciencedaily.com)
		67 points by dimas on Sept 16, 2009 \| 22 comments
10.		What Sort of Exercise Can Make You Smarter? (nytimes.com)
		66 points by robg on Sept 16, 2009 \| 58 comments
11.		Google opens up more of their core Java libraries (code.google.com)
		60 points by strlen on Sept 16, 2009 \| 5 comments
12.		Properly Molding the Gamer Child (jeff-vogel.blogspot.com)
		56 points by lucumo on Sept 16, 2009 \| 34 comments
13.		UK Postcode coordinates on WikiLeaks (wikileaks.org)
		55 points by aubergene on Sept 16, 2009 \| 29 comments
14.		Twitter Closing New Venture Round At $1 Billion Valuation (techcrunch.com)
		51 points by rokhayakebe on Sept 16, 2009 \| 38 comments
15.		Scalable distributed b-tree (highscalability.com)
		50 points by tim_sw on Sept 16, 2009 \| 11 comments
16.		Google Chrome 3.0 (googlesystem.blogspot.com)
		49 points by nreece on Sept 16, 2009 \| 52 comments
17.		Parallel Programming: I Told You So (linux-mag.com)
		47 points by linuxmag on Sept 16, 2009 \| 12 comments
18.		Why You Should Switch from Subversion to Git (carsonified.com)
		44 points by fogus on Sept 16, 2009 \| 75 comments
19.		ARM Cortex-A9 SMP Announced: High-Performance ARM (mvdirona.com)
		43 points by neilc on Sept 16, 2009 \| 13 comments
20.		John Resig's Talks at the 2009 jQuery Conference (ejohn.org)
		43 points by rickharrison on Sept 16, 2009 \| 6 comments
21.		TwitTornado: Real-time Twitter using Tornado (twittornado.com)
		42 points by garbowza on Sept 16, 2009 \| 19 comments
22.		Google Rumored to Buy Brightcove For $500-$700 Million (businessinsider.com)
		40 points by radley on Sept 16, 2009 \| 6 comments
23.		The Man Who Defused the ‘Population Bomb’ (wsj.com)
		37 points by ivankirigin on Sept 16, 2009 \| 44 comments
24.		The Most Expensive Place To Put A Computer (larrycheng.com)
		37 points by lwc123 on Sept 16, 2009 \| 34 comments
25.		TechCrunch50 founders’ feud: “It’s over” for the startup conference (venturebeat.com)
		36 points by rokhayakebe on Sept 16, 2009 \| 30 comments
26.		Mint.com: Nurtured by Super-Angel VCs (businessweek.com)
		36 points by ckinnan on Sept 16, 2009 \| 3 comments
27.		1024 by 2012 (enfranchisedmind.com)
		34 points by silentbicycle on Sept 16, 2009 \| 4 comments
28.		Ask HN: About all this Lisp fuzz
		30 points by Novash on Sept 16, 2009 \| 38 comments
29.		Teacher certification a painful farce (knoxnews.com)
		30 points by cwan on Sept 16, 2009 \| 51 comments
30.		A Brief History of Lisp Machines (andromeda.com)
		30 points by steiger on Sept 16, 2009 \| 2 comments
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