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1.		The Incompetence of American Airlines and the Fate of Mr. X (dustincurtis.com)
		323 points by arjunlall on Nov 4, 2009 \| 98 comments
2.		How to get automatically rejected by an angel investor (venturebeat.com)
		214 points by transburgh on Nov 4, 2009 \| 21 comments
3.		Mockingbird: New tool for building mockups, written in Cappuccino (gomockingbird.com)
		166 points by boucher on Nov 4, 2009 \| 52 comments
4.		Microsoft calls Zoho the "Fake Office" - Zoho responds with a zinger (zoho.com)
		161 points by suprgeek on Nov 4, 2009 \| 55 comments
5.		40 years ago today...
		150 points by pg on Nov 4, 2009 \| 37 comments
6.		Spolsky: Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death? (inc.com)
		140 points by johns on Nov 4, 2009 \| 82 comments
7.		It's OK Not to Write Unit Tests (msdn.com)
		103 points by bensummers on Nov 4, 2009 \| 69 comments
8.		Bill Gates sums up Microsoft's abusive history (opera.com)
		100 points by fogus on Nov 4, 2009 \| 66 comments
9.		NodeBox - beautiful visuals with Python (nodebox.net)
		83 points by timf on Nov 4, 2009 \| 15 comments
10.		Don Dodge is Leaving Microsoft (dondodge.typepad.com)
		82 points by steveplace on Nov 4, 2009 \| 25 comments
11.		Ask HN: Review my app: tweetrad.io (tweetrad.io)
		77 points by wsbail29 on Nov 4, 2009 \| 47 comments
12.		Mockingbird, Cappuccino, and what really matters (alertdebugging.com)
		75 points by boucher on Nov 4, 2009 \| 21 comments
13.		A great physicist, and how he worked (lbl.gov)
		65 points by herdrick on Nov 4, 2009 \| 7 comments
14.		Ask HN: the road to learning useful math
		59 points by Torn on Nov 4, 2009 \| 32 comments
15.		Escher's "Ascending and Descending" in Lego (andrewlipson.com)
		59 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Nov 4, 2009 \| 9 comments
16.		FatELF is no more. Linux developer community owned Ryan Gordon. (icculus.org)
		59 points by jeff18 on Nov 4, 2009 \| 60 comments
17.		Claude Lévi-Strauss Dies at 100 (nytimes.com)
		57 points by robg on Nov 4, 2009 \| 13 comments
18.		Firefox finally passes IE6 (arstechnica.com)
		56 points by newsit on Nov 4, 2009 \| 45 comments
19.		Str0ke (the guy who ran milw0rm) is dead? (bl4cksecurity.blogspot.com)
		53 points by nrr on Nov 4, 2009 \| 22 comments
20.		Micro-documentary on "A cool tiny home tour: living in 96 square feet" (faircompanies.com)
		51 points by sleepingbot on Nov 4, 2009 \| 35 comments
21.		Tarsnap - Why is 1 GB 10^9 bytes instead of 2^30? (tarsnap.com)
		48 points by billpg on Nov 4, 2009 \| 25 comments
22.		Plumber vs. programmer: a face-off over an online directory (techflash.com)
		47 points by chuck_taylor on Nov 4, 2009 \| 42 comments
23.		Linux: still better for coding (antirez.com)
		44 points by r11t on Nov 4, 2009 \| 32 comments
24.		Why does Microsoft say Zoho is the Fake Office? (fakeoffice.org)
		41 points by ashishk on Nov 4, 2009 \| 22 comments
25.		The 7 Survival Habits of Byzantium (foreignpolicy.com)
		39 points by robg on Nov 4, 2009 \| 24 comments
26.		Musician makes 26.3% of his net income from just 40 hard- core fans (musicthinktank.com)
		38 points by dan_sim on Nov 4, 2009 \| 12 comments
27.		Str0ke isn't dead yet. He's just being trolled. (twitter.com/str0ke)
		37 points by ax0n on Nov 4, 2009 \| 5 comments
28.		Webkit Web Inspector Updates (webkit.org)
		35 points by blasdel on Nov 4, 2009 \| 6 comments
29.		Ask HN: So I quit my job to focus on my startup...
		35 points by xefyr on Nov 4, 2009 \| 49 comments
30.		Using Amazon EC2 to Thwart Crappy Internal IT Services (cerebralmastication.com)
		31 points by snewe on Nov 4, 2009 \| 19 comments
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