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1.		I bought a CD, not a licensing agreement (gcn1.posterous.com)
		132 points by onreact-com on Sept 2, 2009 \| 58 comments
2.		How to take down an F-117 (strategypage.com)
		125 points by TriinT on Sept 2, 2009 \| 98 comments
3.		More on today's Gmail issue (gmailblog.blogspot.com)
		112 points by mgcreed on Sept 2, 2009 \| 34 comments
4.		List of Inventors Killed By Their Own Inventions (wikipedia.org)
		109 points by Freebytes on Sept 2, 2009 \| 59 comments
5.		Olark (YC S09) Brings Chat to Any Website - Whether You Own the Site or Not (readwriteweb.com)
		103 points by bcx on Sept 2, 2009 \| 22 comments
6.		Why You Should Quit Your Job and Travel around the World (chrisguillebeau.com)
		94 points by onreact-com on Sept 2, 2009 \| 75 comments
7.		Ask HN: Am I crazy?
		89 points by amohr on Sept 2, 2009 \| 92 comments
8.		Kurt Vonnegut explains drama (sivers.org)
		78 points by lucumo on Sept 2, 2009 \| 24 comments
9.		Tiny Code (kmkeen.com)
		75 points by edw519 on Sept 2, 2009 \| 11 comments
10.		Japan building 1GW, $21bn solar power station in space (bloomberg.com)
		68 points by gjm11 on Sept 2, 2009 \| 96 comments
11.		Scott Hanselman's 2009 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows (hanselman.com)
		65 points by bdfh42 on Sept 2, 2009 \| 28 comments
12.		Death To The Div (russellheimlich.com)
		60 points by kingkool68 on Sept 2, 2009 \| 37 comments
13.		Why’s “Try Ruby” Back Online (rubyinside.com)
		59 points by Hagelin on Sept 2, 2009 \| 12 comments
14.		Best Optical Illusion of the Year (scientificamerican.com)
		58 points by Freebytes on Sept 2, 2009 \| 10 comments
15.		HighlightCam (YC S09) Releases Video Summarization API (code.google.com)
		60 points by mjtokelly on Sept 2, 2009 \| 18 comments
16.		Naming characters with Google AdWords (kickstarter.com)
		53 points by erikwiffin on Sept 2, 2009 \| 20 comments
17.		Diagrams Through Ascii Art (sourceforge.net)
		52 points by fogus on Sept 2, 2009 \| 12 comments
18.		How we hash our Javascript for better caching and less breakage on updates (greenfelt.net)
		52 points by __david__ on Sept 2, 2009 \| 26 comments
19.		What the Internet knows about you (whattheinternetknowsaboutyou.com)
		44 points by kqr2 on Sept 2, 2009 \| 30 comments
20.		The N900 [hands-on] from a Community Perspective (maemo.org)
		44 points by tuukkah on Sept 2, 2009 \| 13 comments
21.		Sudoku solver in SQL (celko.com)
		43 points by makmanalp on Sept 2, 2009 \| 7 comments
22.		Farewell America (zerohedge.com)
		41 points by Flemlord on Sept 2, 2009 \| 62 comments
23.		Why "require 'rubygems'" Is Wrong (tomayko.com)
		41 points by blasdel on Sept 2, 2009 \| 52 comments
24.		Getting a Fair Toss From a Biased Coin (billthelizard.com)
		40 points by spydez on Sept 2, 2009 \| 8 comments
25.		Free browser-based PHP IDE (smashingapps.com)
		36 points by tsestrich on Sept 2, 2009 \| 12 comments
26.		Team Apart (YC S08) hosts group meetings online for free (nytimes.com)
		35 points by rantfoil on Sept 2, 2009 \| 5 comments
27.		I didn't know Google had a store (googlestore.com)
		36 points by vaksel on Sept 2, 2009 \| 21 comments
28.		Book Review: Coders at Work (slashdot.org)
		35 points by edw519 on Sept 2, 2009 \| 4 comments
29.		Ask HN: When are you most alert? (bbc.co.uk)
		33 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Sept 2, 2009 \| 25 comments
30.		London’s Surveillance Fails - Only 1 Crime Solved per 1000 Cameras (singularityhub.com)
		32 points by kkleiner on Sept 2, 2009 \| 22 comments
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