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1.		How American Health Care Killed My Father (theatlantic.com)
		166 points by mhb on Aug 13, 2009 \| 105 comments
2.		TED Talk: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success (ted.com)
		160 points by qeek on Aug 13, 2009 \| 29 comments
3.		A Lesson In Timing Attacks (or, Don't use MessageDigest.isEquals) (codahale.com)
		113 points by codahale on Aug 13, 2009 \| 30 comments
4.		How to price enterprise software (onstartups.com)
		112 points by arihelgason on Aug 13, 2009 \| 36 comments
5.		IE6 is not going away for a long time because of corporate nightmares like these (sprint.com)
		85 points by chime on Aug 13, 2009 \| 58 comments
6.		White Collars Turn Blue (1996) (mit.edu)
		85 points by juliusdavies on Aug 13, 2009 \| 40 comments
7.		GraffitiGeo shows first augmented reality app for restaurant recommendations (graffitigeo.posterous.com)
		79 points by jmtame on Aug 13, 2009 \| 37 comments
8.		Rifle-Oriented Programming with Clojure (thinkrelevance.com)
		76 points by raju on Aug 13, 2009 \| 1 comment
9.		Springboard. A new incubator (in Cambridge, UK), takes no equity. (red-gate.com)
		74 points by babul on Aug 13, 2009 \| 28 comments
10.		What are eigen values? (physlink.com)
		73 points by apr on Aug 13, 2009 \| 47 comments
11.		Google releases Neatx NX server (lwn.net)
		73 points by zby on Aug 13, 2009 \| 5 comments
12.		Perl Cannot Be Parsed: A Formal Proof (perlmonks.org)
		65 points by fogus on Aug 13, 2009 \| 52 comments
13.		New ICANN policy stops domain tasting (cnet.com)
		63 points by johns on Aug 13, 2009 \| 18 comments
14.		Radiohead Says No More Albums (wsj.com)
		60 points by jnorthrop on Aug 13, 2009 \| 27 comments
15.		World’s first formal machine-checked proof of a kernel (nicta.com.au)
		58 points by cromulent on Aug 13, 2009 \| 29 comments
16.		From one photo, we know there are at least one hundred billion galaxies (scienceblogs.com)
		58 points by Flemlord on Aug 13, 2009 \| 48 comments
17.		Under No Circumstances Believe That You Need To Hire Rock Stars (thefailingpoint.com)
		56 points by BrandonWatson on Aug 13, 2009 \| 38 comments
18.		Octopart launches Company Tools, allows part suppliers to easily upload data (octopart.com)
		52 points by sam on Aug 13, 2009 \| 9 comments
19.		Deletionists slowing Wikipedia's growth (guardian.co.uk)
		49 points by boredguy8 on Aug 13, 2009 \| 85 comments
20.		Dean Kamen Takes His Island Off-Grid (ieee.org)
		44 points by mhb on Aug 13, 2009 \| 29 comments
21.		3D Printers for $750 (wired.com)
		43 points by onreact-com on Aug 13, 2009 \| 16 comments
22.		Twitter Announces A Retweeting API (techcrunch.com)
		41 points by vaksel on Aug 13, 2009 \| 20 comments
23.		New battery could change world, one house at a time (heraldextra.com)
		40 points by ph0rque on Aug 13, 2009 \| 17 comments
24.		ReMail Brings Speedy Full Text Search & Entire Offline Mailbox To The iPhone (techcrunch.com)
		38 points by pclark on Aug 13, 2009 \| 20 comments
25.		The Daily WTF maliciously infringes Programming Praxis trademark (programmingpraxis.com)
		38 points by igorhvr on Aug 13, 2009 \| 34 comments
26.		Seeking - How the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting (slate.com)
		37 points by raju on Aug 13, 2009 \| 6 comments
27.		Ask HN: Who's Hiring... Students?
		36 points by windsurfer on Aug 13, 2009 \| 28 comments
28.		Microsoft: the bold, yet timid, giant (misplaced innovation at MS) (surkanstance.blogspot.com)
		34 points by bensummers on Aug 13, 2009 \| 12 comments
29.		Are hackers too young and too busy bettering their lives? (kineticac.posterous.com)
		32 points by kineticac on Aug 13, 2009 \| 15 comments
30.		Advanced Caching with Django and Beaker (groovie.org)
		30 points by twampss on Aug 13, 2009
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