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1.		Looking Back on Selling Gravatar to Automattic (preston-werner.com)
		143 points by mojombo on Oct 27, 2008 \| 23 comments
2.		Pixlr - the online image editor (pixlr.com)
		105 points by baltoo on Oct 27, 2008 \| 48 comments
3.		Stanford is offering some of its most popular engineering classes for free (stanford.edu)
		99 points by tortilla on Oct 27, 2008 \| 30 comments
4.		The Young Man's Business Model (paultyma.blogspot.com)
		65 points by ntoshev on Oct 27, 2008 \| 14 comments
5.		Career Advice For Young Developers (davybrion.com)
		62 points by nreece on Oct 27, 2008 \| 29 comments
6.		How We Made Our Face Recognizer 25x Faster (lbrandy.com)
		57 points by nickb on Oct 27, 2008 \| 13 comments
7.		6 reasons why my VC funded startup failed (reposita.org)
		43 points by Tachikoma on Oct 27, 2008 \| 17 comments
8.		Introducing Amazon's Windowshop.com (windowshop.com)
		41 points by wave on Oct 27, 2008 \| 28 comments
9.		Ask HN: I am delivering mediocre work and feel awful about it. Should I commit seppuku?
		41 points by wynand on Oct 27, 2008 \| 49 comments
10.		SEO is bullshit (contrast.ie)
		40 points by danw on Oct 27, 2008 \| 43 comments
11.		Microsoft launches Windows Azure, its "cloud OS" (roughtype.com)
		39 points by bdfh42 on Oct 27, 2008 \| 62 comments
12.		Kevin Rose: Start Up During A Recession (sproutly.com)
		38 points by Anon84 on Oct 27, 2008 \| 12 comments
13.		How This Bear Market Compares - Interactive Graphic (nytimes.com)
		36 points by bradn on Oct 27, 2008 \| 4 comments
14.		Brain peaks at 39 years of age and declines thereafter (newsroom.ucla.edu)
		33 points by nreece on Oct 27, 2008 \| 25 comments
15.		A Gazillion-user Comet Server With libevent, Part 0 (aleccolocco.blogspot.com)
		32 points by alecco on Oct 27, 2008 \| 8 comments
16.		John Carmack's team wins XPrize's $350,000 Lunar Lander Challenge (msn.com)
		27 points by bandris on Oct 27, 2008 \| 3 comments
17.		Steve Jobs: We Still Haven't Figured Out The Living Room (alleyinsider.com)
		27 points by echair on Oct 27, 2008 \| 19 comments
18.		Google Earth Comes To The iPhone, And It’s Awesome (techcrunch.com)
		25 points by ciscoriordan on Oct 27, 2008 \| 2 comments
19.		ASH HN: How do I turn my Beta into Pay-ta
		25 points by pwoods on Oct 27, 2008 \| 19 comments
20.		Senator "series of tubes" Stevens convicted on 7 felony counts (politico.com)
		24 points by tptacek on Oct 27, 2008 \| 23 comments
21.		Cher Wang, the most powerful female tech executive you've never heard of (nytimes.com)
		21 points by echair on Oct 27, 2008 \| 17 comments
22.		Linux applications gain new developers on Windows and OS X (arstechnica.com)
		20 points by habs on Oct 27, 2008 \| 1 comment
23.		Fred Wilson's Survival Matrix (avc.com)
		18 points by lanceweatherby on Oct 27, 2008 \| 12 comments
24.		OCaml kicks ass on Tim Bray's Wide Finder 2 benchmark challenge. Again. (eigenclass.org)
		18 points by shadytrees on Oct 27, 2008 \| 9 comments
25.		Obesity and (the loss of) Pleasure (scienceblogs.com)
		17 points by robg on Oct 27, 2008 \| 2 comments
26.		Net startups slow their metabolism (nytimes.com)
		17 points by amrithk on Oct 27, 2008 \| 4 comments
27.		Cocoa with Love: Debugging tips for Objective-C programming (cocoawithlove.com)
		17 points by jcwentz on Oct 27, 2008 \| 1 comment
28.		Review my side project: www.recreationparks.net (recreationparks.net)
		18 points by tectonic on Oct 27, 2008 \| 23 comments
29.		Schneier on Obama Discussing Security Trade-Offs (schneier.com)
		15 points by saikat on Oct 27, 2008 \| 8 comments
30.		How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Crash (iphonegames.typepad.com)
		14 points by Ztrain on Oct 27, 2008 \| 9 comments
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