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1.		Understanding Quake's Fast Inverse Square Root (betterexplained.com)
		88 points by ed on Jan 4, 2009 \| 23 comments
2.		How to fight & argue in a relationship, how to fight fair (crichton-official.com)
		84 points by bootload on Jan 4, 2009 \| 38 comments
3.		How cities hurt your brain (boston.com)
		80 points by iamelgringo on Jan 4, 2009 \| 32 comments
4.		A Better Way to Load a Plane (abcnews.go.com)
		78 points by 11ren on Jan 4, 2009 \| 58 comments
5.		Ask HN: AWS or dedicated server?
		78 points by bkrausz on Jan 4, 2009 \| 40 comments
6.		The End of the Financial World as We Know It (nytimes.com)
		75 points by tortilla on Jan 4, 2009 \| 78 comments
7.		Ask HN: How Can I Make Better Submissions to HN?
		56 points by tokenadult on Jan 4, 2009 \| 42 comments
8.		2008: My year of living smaller (oreilly.com)
		51 points by dimm on Jan 4, 2009 \| 57 comments
9.		It's official: Match.com Abandons Paid Dating… (plentyoffish.wordpress.com)
		48 points by peter123 on Jan 4, 2009 \| 31 comments
10.		GitCred: PageRank applied to the GitHub users/followers graph, implemented in Clojure. (github.com/mmcgrana)
		43 points by tlrobinson on Jan 4, 2009 \| 14 comments
11.		Ask HN: What is your startup's backup policy?
		42 points by vaksel on Jan 4, 2009 \| 35 comments
12.		Entrepreneur's Guide to Email Delivery (zohrob.com)
		35 points by rantfoil on Jan 4, 2009 \| 5 comments
13.		Ask HN: New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install?
		33 points by ericb on Jan 4, 2009 \| 61 comments
14.		Growing Up is Hard (overcomingbias.com)
		28 points by kf on Jan 4, 2009 \| 10 comments
15.		British police to routinely hack into PCs without a warrant. (timesonline.co.uk)
		25 points by raganwald on Jan 4, 2009 \| 18 comments
16.		The Facebook vs. Breast Feeders War Continues (fredstechblog.blogspot.com)
		22 points by charlierosefan on Jan 4, 2009 \| 21 comments
17.		How to fail big at your dream (avclub.com)
		20 points by jbrun on Jan 4, 2009 \| 5 comments
18.		EU Police learning hacking tricks. They are about to “Remote search” your PCs. (hackedinfo.com)
		18 points by justifyleo on Jan 4, 2009 \| 21 comments
19.		Nginx vs Yaws vs MochiWeb : Web Server Performance Deathmatch, Part 2 (joeandmotorboat.com)
		18 points by qhoxie on Jan 4, 2009 \| 8 comments
20.		Diverting talent out of Finance will revive Britain (timesonline.co.uk)
		15 points by danw on Jan 4, 2009 \| 23 comments
21.		Upcoming Linux TortoiseSVN equivalent (code.google.com)
		15 points by nailer on Jan 4, 2009 \| 12 comments
22.		Uxpython: cross-platform GUI - modern, stylish and enjoyable cross-platform UI toolkit (uxpython.com)
		14 points by chaostheory on Jan 4, 2009 \| 11 comments
23.		95% Dreamhost Hosting Discount: Last Day Today (quickonlinetips.com)
		12 points by timy2 on Jan 4, 2009 \| 23 comments
24.		Brainscans support the case for long-term love (timesonline.co.uk)
		12 points by time_management on Jan 4, 2009 \| 1 comment
25.		Windows 7 will ship as Version 6.1 (windowsteamblog.com)
		12 points by jwilliams on Jan 4, 2009 \| 10 comments
26.		2009 May Smile on Disruptive Startups (gigaom.com)
		11 points by babyshake on Jan 4, 2009 \| 4 comments
27.		TechCrunch gets a new design.. again (techcrunch.com)
		10 points by mdolon on Jan 4, 2009 \| 3 comments
28.		Why products fail (computerworld.com)
		10 points by nreece on Jan 4, 2009 \| 1 comment
29.		Google's Microsoft-esque landgrab for IE's market share (cnet.com)
		10 points by mixmax on Jan 4, 2009 \| 13 comments
30.		Richard Stallman on the state of GNU, 25 years on (techradar.com)
		10 points by rogercosseboom on Jan 4, 2009 \| 5 comments
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