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1.		How I almost killed Facebook (matt-welsh.blogspot.com)
		157 points by neilc on Feb 26, 2009 \| 55 comments
2.		Introducing SelectorGadget: point and click minimal CSS selectors (selectorgadget.com)
		137 points by tectonic on Feb 26, 2009 \| 25 comments
3.		Things I Wish I’d Been Told: Tips For Students with a Bachelors in Computer Science (bbn.com)
		134 points by dedalus on Feb 26, 2009 \| 59 comments
4.		If my startup fails, this is my cover letter for my next employer (dashnine.org)
		94 points by raffi on Feb 26, 2009 \| 17 comments
5.		Can a musician sell their music online? (zedshaw.com)
		94 points by sevib on Feb 26, 2009 \| 67 comments
6.		Technical Debt (martinfowler.com)
		90 points by baha_man on Feb 26, 2009 \| 35 comments
7.		Tricks for Getting Out of Bed in the Morning (wired.com)
		87 points by peter123 on Feb 26, 2009 \| 67 comments
8.		Twiddla does Replays now. Thanks for the inspiration, Etherpad (twiddla.com)
		66 points by jasonkester on Feb 26, 2009 \| 25 comments
9.		'Oldest English words' identified (bbc.co.uk)
		64 points by ilamont on Feb 26, 2009 \| 41 comments
10.		Why is the DOS path character "\"? (msdn.com)
		58 points by vladimir on Feb 26, 2009 \| 7 comments
11.		The Value of the Y Combinator Experience (sachinrekhi.com)
		52 points by sachin on Feb 26, 2009 \| 13 comments
12.		Building Quake Live : John Carmack (gamasutra.com)
		53 points by kqr2 on Feb 26, 2009 \| 5 comments
13.		Do You Need All That Water to Boil Pasta? (nytimes.com)
		48 points by robg on Feb 26, 2009 \| 21 comments
14.		All the Texts on Financial Engineering You Could Ever Want (classiccmp.org)
		48 points by steveplace on Feb 26, 2009 \| 25 comments
15.		Rails deployment missing piece, filled in (github.com/javan)
		41 points by koops on Feb 26, 2009 \| 27 comments
16.		Flower is the only video game I've played that made me feel relaxed, peaceful, and happy (slate.com)
		41 points by pchristensen on Feb 26, 2009 \| 13 comments
17.		Heist: a Scheme interpreter written in Ruby (github.com/jcoglan)
		38 points by swombat on Feb 26, 2009 \| 14 comments
18.		John Carmack interview on bringing Quake Live to browsers
		37 points by ilamont on Feb 26, 2009 \| 20 comments
19.		Airtel, one of the biggest Indian ISPs, is intercepting HTTP requests to display ads (blog.uncool.in)
		36 points by GeneralMaximus on Feb 26, 2009 \| 14 comments
20.		Ask HN: What have you learned from Hacker News?
		32 points by adsyoung on Feb 26, 2009 \| 18 comments
21.		Computer Vision for Python (code.google.com)
		29 points by mjtokelly on Feb 26, 2009 \| 5 comments
22.		Bell Canada to charge 15 cents per Twitter SMS even with an unlimited plan (ottawacitizen.com)
		25 points by ingenium on Feb 26, 2009 \| 10 comments
23.		Use PHP to build a Twitter-like system on your site (ibm.com)
		25 points by jaspertheghost on Feb 26, 2009 \| 26 comments
24.		Pirate Bay Trial Day 9: BitTorrent Is Not Evil (torrentfreak.com)
		24 points by rogercosseboom on Feb 26, 2009 \| 3 comments
25.		New Rule: Don’t launch a storage service if you’re going to close down within a year. (box.net)
		23 points by peter123 on Feb 26, 2009 \| 17 comments
26.		Non-Disclosure Agreements are for young losers, not old winners (timmyontime.com)
		21 points by dan_sim on Feb 26, 2009 \| 25 comments
27.		E Ink's Russ Wilcox on why the Kindle 2's e-paper screen took 12 years, $150 million (xconomy.com)
		21 points by waderoush on Feb 26, 2009 \| 3 comments
28.		Rapid Thinking Makes People Happy (sciam.com)
		21 points by kqr2 on Feb 26, 2009 \| 8 comments
29.		Lift 1.0 released (lostlake.org)
		18 points by codeslinger on Feb 26, 2009 \| 7 comments
30.		Launch: Pitching Hacks, The Book (venturehacks.com)
		17 points by prakash on Feb 26, 2009 \| 8 comments
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