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1.		What I.Q. doesn't tell you about race (newyorker.com)
		47 points by papersmith on Dec 10, 2007 \| 73 comments
2.		Article about redesigning Half-Life nearly from scratch, with tremendous results (gamasutra.com)
		28 points by henning on Dec 10, 2007 \| 2 comments
3.		Meet Alex: New York's Youngest Hustler (nymag.com)
		27 points by pdsull on Dec 10, 2007 \| 22 comments
4.		Why I regret getting straight A's in college (penelopetrunk.com)
		25 points by hhm on Dec 10, 2007 \| 25 comments
5.		How active is Hacker News? (xach.com)
		18 points by zachbeane on Dec 10, 2007 \| 7 comments
6.		Nobel Laureate Says The Internet Makes Us Dumb (techcrunch.com)
		16 points by nickb on Dec 10, 2007 \| 14 comments
7.		Homosexuality Turned On and Off in Fruit Flies (livescience.com)
		14 points by gibsonf1 on Dec 10, 2007 \| 4 comments
8.		Jaw-Dropping Compensation: College Professors vs. College Football Coaches (mjperry.blogspot.com)
		14 points by nickb on Dec 10, 2007 \| 32 comments
9.		Ask YC: Why aren't job posts open for comments?
		14 points by ivankirigin on Dec 10, 2007 \| 8 comments
10.		ErlyWeb vs. Ruby on Rails EC2 Performance Showdown (yarivsblog.com)
		13 points by BitGeek on Dec 10, 2007 \| 11 comments
11.		Why I moved from Ruby on Rails to Python/Django and back (carlmercier.com)
		12 points by iamelgringo on Dec 10, 2007 \| 9 comments
12.		DIY Multi-touch Displays using the Wiimote (cmu.edu)
		11 points by Readmore on Dec 10, 2007 \| 1 comment
13.		1, 2, n - How Coding Is About Design Iteration (plpatterns.blogspot.com)
		11 points by jonnytran on Dec 10, 2007 \| 1 comment
14.		The Evolution of a Programmer (ariel.com.au)
		10 points by iamelgringo on Dec 10, 2007
15.		Complaints I'm Seeing About Java (dlweinreb.wordpress.com)
		10 points by mqt on Dec 10, 2007 \| 20 comments
16.		Doris Lessing: A hunger for books (guardian.co.uk)
		8 points by almost on Dec 10, 2007 \| 1 comment
17.		Postgres for the win (enfranchisedmind.com)
		9 points by nickb on Dec 10, 2007 \| 3 comments
18.		Gifts for Geeks (codinghorror.com)
		8 points by streblo on Dec 10, 2007 \| 1 comment
19.		The Year in Ideas (2007) (nytimes.com)
		8 points by neilc on Dec 10, 2007 \| 3 comments
20.		German battery could jump-start electric car production - Yahoo! News (yahoo.com)
		8 points by nickb on Dec 10, 2007
21.		Is being a niche language developer good for your career? (jayfields.com)
		8 points by nickb on Dec 10, 2007 \| 8 comments
22.		Emacs hidden gems: Version Control (credmp.org)
		7 points by nickb on Dec 10, 2007 \| 4 comments
23.		Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban the incandescent lightbulb (independent.ie)
		6 points by kf on Dec 10, 2007 \| 38 comments
24.		Comet-enabled web applications with lift and Scala (scala-blogs.org)
		6 points by jorgeortiz85 on Dec 10, 2007
25.		Zooomr - Conquering The World (From Japan) (blognation.com)
		6 points by raghus on Dec 10, 2007 \| 1 comment
26.		My Facebook App: iGot, what Beacon should have been. (Let me know what you think) (facebook.com)
		6 points by Readmore on Dec 10, 2007 \| 8 comments
27.		One way to monetize facebook apps (yahoo.com)
		5 points by johnrob on Dec 10, 2007
28.		A Brief Introduction to REST (infoq.com)
		5 points by iamelgringo on Dec 10, 2007
29.		Web browsers are limiting the benefits of multi-core CPUs (blogsavy.com)
		5 points by nickb on Dec 10, 2007
30.		The Crysis of Integrating Next-Gen Animation and AI (aigamedev.com)
		5 points by hhm on Dec 10, 2007
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