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1.		Zed Shaw - The ACL is Dead - CUSEC 2008 (cusec.net)
		123 points by edwardog on Jan 5, 2009 \| 51 comments
2.		English-Prime - English without "is" (wikipedia.org)
		108 points by silentbicycle on Jan 5, 2009 \| 76 comments
3.		The best paper airplane in the world (zurqui.com)
		104 points by wallflower on Jan 5, 2009 \| 30 comments
4.		Xobni Closes $7 Million Series B Financing (xobni.com)
		63 points by auston on Jan 5, 2009 \| 31 comments
5.		Ask YC: $1000 to advertise my startup
		60 points by pclark on Jan 5, 2009 \| 64 comments
6.		Twitter Security Collapses; Obama, Fox and Britney Accounts Hacked (readwriteweb.com)
		50 points by qhoxie on Jan 5, 2009 \| 23 comments
7.		Amazon's Best-Selling Album Download of 2008 Was Available for Free (readwriteweb.com)
		44 points by peter123 on Jan 5, 2009 \| 24 comments
8.		Ask HN: Free accounts for students?
		41 points by defunkt on Jan 5, 2009 \| 88 comments
9.		Social Security: The Biggest Ponzi Scheme on Earth (By Milton Friedman) (hoover.org)
		38 points by chaostheory on Jan 5, 2009 \| 121 comments
10.		I'm using Git because it makes me feel cool (unethicalblogger.com)
		37 points by gourneau on Jan 5, 2009 \| 12 comments
11.		The Year 2038 Problem (netcom.com)
		35 points by makimaki on Jan 5, 2009 \| 26 comments
12.		Entrepreneur Hotels, Y Combinator, and Dead VCs (change.org)
		30 points by nlwhittemore on Jan 5, 2009 \| 42 comments
13.		Do you set goals?
		29 points by bkj123 on Jan 5, 2009 \| 38 comments
14.		Music Startups to Watch in 2009 (sachinrekhi.com)
		27 points by sachin on Jan 5, 2009 \| 6 comments
15.		Is It Time to Let FeedBurner Burn? (chrisbaskind.com)
		26 points by technofication on Jan 5, 2009 \| 10 comments
16.		Picasa Arrives on the Mac (picasa.google.com)
		25 points by rscott on Jan 5, 2009 \| 16 comments
17.		MemcacheDB: A distributed key-value storage system designed for persistence (memcachedb.org)
		24 points by chaostheory on Jan 5, 2009 \| 17 comments
18.		Famous Awk One-Liners Explained, Part III (catonmat.net)
		24 points by Anon84 on Jan 5, 2009 \| 2 comments
19.		Alternative Memcache Usage: A Highly Scalable, Highly Available, In-Memory Shard Index (maxindelicato.com)
		22 points by herewego on Jan 5, 2009 \| 8 comments
20.		Running a microISV (successfulsoftware.net)
		20 points by hermitcrab on Jan 5, 2009 \| 6 comments
21.		Disgruntled employee kills JournalSpace with data wipe (geek.com)
		20 points by thomas on Jan 5, 2009 \| 22 comments
22.		How an explorer of the South Pole did his employee recruiting (mathoda.com)
		19 points by mathoda on Jan 5, 2009 \| 15 comments
23.		Integrating Yahoo BOSS Search in a Django site in 5 easy steps - Peter Krantz (peterkrantz.com)
		19 points by iamelgringo on Jan 5, 2009 \| 5 comments
24.		How should I market this game?
		19 points by mdonahoe on Jan 5, 2009 \| 12 comments
25.		FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE Announcement (DTrace & ULE scheduler by default) (freebsd.org)
		19 points by epi0Bauqu on Jan 5, 2009 \| 4 comments
26.		Ask YC/HN: How do you help your job-hunting friends out?
		18 points by Mystalic on Jan 5, 2009 \| 13 comments
27.		Ask HN: Do you guys use speed reading techniques?
		16 points by elviejo on Jan 5, 2009 \| 44 comments
28.		DTrace gets guernsey in new FreeBSD (zdnet.com.au)
		17 points by astrec on Jan 5, 2009 \| 6 comments
29.		HN meet-up in Bangalore on Saturday 10th Jan at the Headstart conference?
		17 points by prakash on Jan 5, 2009 \| 17 comments
30.		New ESPN.com homepage (espn.com)
		17 points by brandnewlow on Jan 5, 2009 \| 19 comments
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