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1.		A story of "launch" disaster: fast-food style (andyswan.com)
		164 points by icodemyownshit on Oct 13, 2009 \| 26 comments
2.		How I knew I was done with my company (sivers.org)
		144 points by sivers on Oct 13, 2009 \| 17 comments
3.		Introducing Google Building Maker (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		134 points by fogus on Oct 13, 2009 \| 46 comments
4.		Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?
		125 points by idlewords on Oct 13, 2009 \| 114 comments
5.		Damn the torpedoes (jgc.org)
		115 points by jgrahamc on Oct 13, 2009 \| 21 comments
6.		British Press Banned from Reporting Parliament. Seriously. (spectator.co.uk)
		93 points by Zarkonnen on Oct 13, 2009 \| 37 comments
7.		James Dyson's newest creation: the Dyson Air Multiplier (without Fan Blades) (unplggd.com)
		88 points by cwan on Oct 13, 2009 \| 48 comments
8.		What non-geeks hear when you speak techie (newyorker.com)
		86 points by petewarden on Oct 13, 2009 \| 27 comments
9.		Ask HN: Tell me why a room-and-board-and-bandwidth incubator is a stupid idea
		83 points by Vivtek on Oct 13, 2009 \| 81 comments
10.		Why are Facebook, Digg and Twitter So Hard To Scale? (highscalability.com)
		84 points by yarapavan on Oct 13, 2009 \| 49 comments
11.		Octopart releases free API for developers (octopart.com)
		73 points by andres on Oct 13, 2009 \| 15 comments
12.		App Engine can finally receive mail. [bonus: delete your app as well] (googleappengine.blogspot.com)
		65 points by skant on Oct 13, 2009 \| 26 comments
13.		Plan to write big software - and you have already lost (olabini.com)
		63 points by bensummers on Oct 13, 2009 \| 49 comments
14.		Geocities - "Under Construction" gif archive (textfiles.com)
		58 points by dlnovell on Oct 13, 2009 \| 26 comments
15.		Release Late, Release Rarely (2006) (aaronsw.com)
		55 points by alexandros on Oct 13, 2009 \| 32 comments
16.		And now, some smoking guns (or “part two of angels that charge”) (calacanis.com)
		54 points by malvosenior on Oct 13, 2009 \| 32 comments
17.		A Simple Survival Guide for your Inner Child (dotgnu.info)
		53 points by spo0nman on Oct 13, 2009 \| 16 comments
18.		Final Startup School Speaker List (Evan and Biz now coming) (startupschool.org)
		48 points by pg on Oct 13, 2009 \| 18 comments
19.		There’s nowhere to hide if your name trends on Twitter. Is there, Trafigura? (techcrunch.com)
		45 points by alexandros on Oct 13, 2009 \| 29 comments
20.		Experimenting with a Neural Network-based Poker Bot (mattmazur.com)
		39 points by matt1 on Oct 13, 2009 \| 25 comments
21.		James Randi: The King of Debunking (sfweekly.com)
		38 points by adamhowell on Oct 13, 2009 \| 5 comments
22.		Dreamhost is down. All of it. (dreamhoststatus.com)
		33 points by tlrobinson on Oct 13, 2009 \| 33 comments
23.		Gmail Labs: Got the wrong Bob? (gmailblog.blogspot.com)
		32 points by raghus on Oct 13, 2009 \| 14 comments
24.		Tell HN: Atlassian now offers $10 licenses for most products. (for small teams) (atlassian.com)
		31 points by Timothee on Oct 13, 2009 \| 19 comments
25.		Wikipedia In Your Pocket for $99 (thewikireader.com)
		29 points by edw519 on Oct 13, 2009 \| 29 comments
26.		Grand Central Dispatch internals and FreeBSD port [pdf] (freebsd.org)
		28 points by wmf on Oct 13, 2009 \| 2 comments
27.		Nuclear Plants Cautiously Phase Out Dial-Up Modems (wired.com)
		28 points by jwb119 on Oct 13, 2009 \| 13 comments
28.		Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists (powazek.com)
		28 points by blasdel on Oct 13, 2009 \| 16 comments
29.		Chicago HN'ers: I made an iPhone/Android version of Metra's train schedules (jcs.org)
		28 points by there on Oct 13, 2009 \| 43 comments
30.		Asians may face tougher college admission process, study finds (dailyprincetonian.com)
		27 points by tokenadult on Oct 13, 2009 \| 60 comments
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