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1.		Online Dating Advice: Exactly What To Say In A First Message (okcupid.com)
		155 points by smokinn on Sept 14, 2009 \| 64 comments
2.		Google introduces "Fast Flip" (googlelabs.com)
		139 points by henning on Sept 14, 2009 \| 66 comments
3.		Infinite Super Mario AI Source Code (ic.ac.uk)
		117 points by fogus on Sept 14, 2009 \| 10 comments
4.		Eye Contact - The Invisible Grip (esquire.com)
		96 points by DarrenMills on Sept 14, 2009 \| 24 comments
5.		Widely useful Python utilities by Peter Norvig (cs.berkeley.edu)
		95 points by madars on Sept 14, 2009 \| 22 comments
6.		Cloudkick’s (YC W09) simple cloud management gets $750K (venturebeat.com)
		79 points by siong1987 on Sept 14, 2009 \| 11 comments
7.		Mint founder on Silicon Valley (techcrunch.com)
		76 points by aditya on Sept 14, 2009 \| 67 comments
8.		John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace "wins" Lunar Lander Challenge [video] (xprize.org)
		74 points by JabavuAdams on Sept 14, 2009 \| 28 comments
9.		The Data Liberation Front - Getting Your data from google services (dataliberation.org)
		73 points by 3ds on Sept 14, 2009 \| 21 comments
10.		Haiku Project Announces Availability of Haiku R1/Alpha 1 (haiku-os.org)
		72 points by whughes on Sept 14, 2009 \| 20 comments
11.		The passionate developer: I do like my profession, I don't like my job (jonasbandi.net)
		69 points by jbandi on Sept 14, 2009 \| 26 comments
12.		A Square Is Not A Rectangle (elharo.com)
		67 points by raganwald on Sept 14, 2009 \| 66 comments
13.		Switching to Linux: A Windows developer’s view (anteru.net)
		57 points by edw519 on Sept 14, 2009 \| 60 comments
14.		Ask HN: review my tiny app - code to html converter (hilite.me)
		55 points by alexkay on Sept 14, 2009 \| 59 comments
15.		Paul Buchheit: Left brain, Right brain, and the other half of the story (paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
		54 points by paul on Sept 14, 2009 \| 12 comments
16.		America can't be the world's tech leader without immigration reform. (slate.com)
		52 points by jseliger on Sept 14, 2009 \| 51 comments
17.		Scheme: The Swine before Perl (brown.edu)
		50 points by steiger on Sept 14, 2009 \| 3 comments
18.		DjangoCon 2009 Presentations (pbworks.com)
		48 points by mace on Sept 14, 2009 \| 6 comments
19.		Tell HN: Paul Graham on TC50 panel, streaming live (ustream.tv)
		47 points by JayNeely on Sept 14, 2009 \| 26 comments
20.		A Rails like framework for Clojure. (github.com/macourtney)
		47 points by macmac on Sept 14, 2009 \| 24 comments
21.		What is the point of building a business? (dyske.com)
		46 points by mattm on Sept 14, 2009 \| 26 comments
22.		MonoTouch for iPhone - C# bindings for native APIs (monotouch.net)
		46 points by sandaru1 on Sept 14, 2009 \| 22 comments
23.		Python Community in Anguish, Pain, Despair Over Web Server (pwpwp.blogspot.com)
		45 points by blasdel on Sept 14, 2009 \| 27 comments
24.		Why CEOs are so stupid (markbernstein.org)
		44 points by blasdel on Sept 14, 2009 \| 14 comments
25.		A take on Tornado and "modern" web servers (audidude.com)
		43 points by pufuwozu on Sept 14, 2009 \| 15 comments
26.		The Best Way To Improve Your Creativity (thelastpsychiatrist.com)
		38 points by stanley on Sept 14, 2009 \| 24 comments
27.		Linus - I'm a bastard Speech (2000) (lwn.net)
		37 points by vinutheraj on Sept 14, 2009 \| 23 comments
28.		Why I quit playing Foursquare (creative360.com)
		37 points by adamhowell on Sept 14, 2009 \| 13 comments
29.		Palo Alto Hacker House - Now Seeking Replacements (craigslist.org)
		37 points by jmtame on Sept 14, 2009 \| 4 comments
30.		Convert first month sales (taptaptap.com)
		36 points by scarface548 on Sept 14, 2009 \| 8 comments
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