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1.		Item 10^6 (news.ycombinator.com)
		107 points by pg on Dec 16, 2009 \| 45 comments
2.		San Francisco: The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S. (sfweekly.com)
		105 points by miked on Dec 16, 2009 \| 115 comments
3.		China bans individuals from registering domain names (telecompaper.com)
		103 points by joe_bleau on Dec 16, 2009 \| 85 comments
4.		'We are no longer as optimistic about removing the GIL completely. ' (code.google.com)
		93 points by nailer on Dec 16, 2009 \| 124 comments
5.		Uncommon - Custom design your own iPhone case (getuncommon.com)
		80 points by mattking on Dec 16, 2009 \| 35 comments
6.		Clojure Funding Progress (clojure.org)
		78 points by alrex021 on Dec 16, 2009 \| 19 comments
7.		How to destroy the earth (qntm.org)
		77 points by joss82 on Dec 16, 2009 \| 35 comments
8.		Knuth: Computer Programming as an Art (paulgraham.com)
		68 points by revorad on Dec 16, 2009 \| 26 comments
9.		Gravatars: why publishing your email's hash is not a good idea (developer.it)
		67 points by soundsop on Dec 16, 2009 \| 47 comments
10.		RedLaser iPhone App reaches 750K downloads, $1M in revenue (mobilecrunch.com)
		68 points by andrewhyde on Dec 16, 2009 \| 35 comments
11.		TechStars to launch Seattle program (Fall 2010) (techcrunch.com)
		64 points by paulgerhardt on Dec 16, 2009 \| 2 comments
12.		Realtime charts of EC2 spot prices (cloudexchange.org)
		63 points by timf on Dec 16, 2009 \| 19 comments
13.		Ongoing · Concur.next — Hard-Core Clojure (tbray.org)
		62 points by wglb on Dec 16, 2009 \| 10 comments
14.		HN Meet-up Netherlands
		58 points by beeker on Dec 16, 2009 \| 75 comments
15.		SmartGit - A better GUI for Git (syntevo.com)
		56 points by nym on Dec 16, 2009 \| 37 comments
16.		Parsing Techniques - A Practical Guide (vu.nl)
		54 points by bgray on Dec 16, 2009
17.		Google Chrome more popular than Safari (gizmodo.com)
		54 points by richardburton on Dec 16, 2009 \| 62 comments
18.		Jekyll, the blog engine of kings (chrismdp.github.com)
		52 points by samstokes on Dec 16, 2009 \| 25 comments
19.		Knuth's 15th Annual Christmas Tree Lecture [video] (stanford.edu)
		49 points by michael_dorfman on Dec 16, 2009 \| 14 comments
20.		Widefinder 2 with Clojure (meshy.org)
		49 points by icey on Dec 16, 2009 \| 9 comments
21.		Rackspace Chooses reMail (YC W09) To Bring Email Search To Its Customers (techcrunch.com)
		49 points by Sam_Odio on Dec 16, 2009 \| 9 comments
22.		Management's Dirty Little Secret (wsj.com)
		48 points by alanthonyc on Dec 16, 2009 \| 23 comments
23.		Appify: A City-by-City App Store (Aditya's startup) (readwriteweb.com)
		46 points by aditya on Dec 16, 2009 \| 5 comments
24.		Justin.tv Testifies to Congress about its Copyright Protection Systems (c-spanarchives.org)
		48 points by kvogt on Dec 16, 2009 \| 21 comments
25.		Notes from the No Lone Zone - A computer scientist looks at ICBM security. (crypto.com)
		44 points by wmorein on Dec 16, 2009 \| 13 comments
26.		Dan Bricklin's Note Taker for the Apple iPhone (danbricklin.com)
		44 points by jamesjyu on Dec 16, 2009 \| 9 comments
27.		Zynga Closes $180MM VC Round (techcrunch.com)
		43 points by ed on Dec 16, 2009 \| 52 comments
28.		Compiling to Java as a target language (might.net)
		41 points by mbrubeck on Dec 16, 2009 \| 4 comments
29.		How A Freshman Built CollegeHumor Into A Profitable Cultural Phenomenon (mixergy.com)
		40 points by MichaelApproved on Dec 16, 2009 \| 3 comments
30.		How Facebook Is Making Friending Obsolete (wsj.com)
		40 points by grellas on Dec 16, 2009 \| 28 comments
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