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1.		Why I Hate Frameworks (joelonsoftware.com)
		126 points by Jebdm on Jan 13, 2009 \| 125 comments
2.		Failure (possibleprobable.com)
		93 points by comatose_kid on Jan 13, 2009 \| 31 comments
3.		Open-plan offices are making workers sick (news.com.au)
		90 points by astrec on Jan 13, 2009 \| 71 comments
4.		The History of Python (python-history.blogspot.com)
		65 points by bockris on Jan 13, 2009 \| 11 comments
5.		Posterous had an amazing growth spike in December (dustincurtis.com)
		63 points by alaskamiller on Jan 13, 2009 \| 24 comments
6.		When the Education Bubble Finally Pops (jamtoday.org)
		61 points by babyshake on Jan 13, 2009 \| 45 comments
7.		Happiness 101 (nytimes.com)
		48 points by tansengming on Jan 13, 2009 \| 25 comments
8.		Abstraction, intuition, and the “monad tutorial fallacy” (byorgey.wordpress.com)
		47 points by jlhamilton on Jan 13, 2009 \| 11 comments
9.		At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard (nytimes.com)
		46 points by tokenadult on Jan 13, 2009 \| 46 comments
10.		Clojure is running in a live system in a big veterinarian hospital (groups.google.com)
		46 points by sctb on Jan 13, 2009 \| 21 comments
11.		Ask HN: Review my startup txtful - get stuff done on the web by sending a text
		43 points by thomatas on Jan 13, 2009 \| 60 comments
12.		Ask HN: Best Micro Payment provider?
		40 points by dell9000 on Jan 13, 2009 \| 26 comments
13.		Dominos Pizza Tracking in Real-time using Python (noflashlight.com)
		38 points by frisco on Jan 13, 2009 \| 14 comments
14.		Buckminster Fuller's Universe (jackcheng.com)
		32 points by brm on Jan 13, 2009 \| 13 comments
15.		The Hackers Manifesto (spoiledtechie.com)
		32 points by spoiledtechie on Jan 13, 2009 \| 29 comments
16.		Writing Decisions: Headline tests on the Highrise signup page (37signals.com)
		32 points by brm on Jan 13, 2009 \| 11 comments
17.		The bullshit of outage language (37signals.com)
		30 points by sant0sk1 on Jan 13, 2009 \| 31 comments
18.		Tweet by Snail Mail (tweetbysnailmail.com)
		23 points by ivankirigin on Jan 13, 2009 \| 31 comments
19.		One Space or Two? When did this change? (chicagomanualofstyle.org)
		22 points by iamelgringo on Jan 13, 2009 \| 30 comments
20.		New Year's Resolution: Do Experiments, Not Projects (hbsp.com)
		21 points by mattmcknight on Jan 13, 2009 \| 6 comments
21.		Venture capitalist picked to run FCC; 10 reason Fred Wilson likes him (avc.com)
		20 points by gravitycop on Jan 13, 2009 \| 8 comments
22.		Ask YC: how to learn computer programming in 8 months?
		19 points by deltapoint on Jan 13, 2009 \| 61 comments
23.		Lack of sleep 'raises cold risk' (bbc.co.uk)
		18 points by ars on Jan 13, 2009 \| 12 comments
24.		New York court dismisses Amazon's objections to paying state taxes (techcrunch.com)
		16 points by vaksel on Jan 13, 2009 \| 16 comments
25.		Open Hacker House tomorrow in San Francisco (archivd.com)
		15 points by aristus on Jan 13, 2009 \| 6 comments
26.		Long Ring Fingers May Point to Wealth in Traders, Study Says (bloomberg.com)
		13 points by cubix on Jan 13, 2009 \| 21 comments
27.		R.I.P. Enterprise RSS (readwriteweb.com)
		14 points by qhoxie on Jan 13, 2009 \| 8 comments
28.		Carol Bartz to be named new Yahoo CEO (techcrunch.com)
		13 points by vaksel on Jan 13, 2009 \| 12 comments
29.		Test for Dwindling Retail Jobs Spawns a Culture of Cheating (wsj.com)
		13 points by epi0Bauqu on Jan 13, 2009 \| 17 comments
30.		New Prius: 50 mpg, optional solar roof, bigger engine, better drag coeff, EV Mode, etc (treehugger.com)
		11 points by MikeCapone on Jan 13, 2009 \| 14 comments
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