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1.		Sun engineer responds to the Backblaze "Petabytes on a budget" design (c0t0d0s0.org)
		169 points by bensummers on Sept 3, 2009 \| 103 comments
2.		Saving is Obsolete: Etherpad adds time slider (etherpad.com)
		139 points by PStamatiou on Sept 3, 2009 \| 68 comments
3.		Things Every Programmer Should Know - Edited Contributions (oreilly.com)
		139 points by edw519 on Sept 3, 2009 \| 11 comments
4.		College, all you can learn, $99/month (washingtonmonthly.com)
		117 points by sethg on Sept 3, 2009 \| 85 comments
5.		Ravelry - a very successful deployment of Ruby and Rails (tbray.org)
		96 points by colinprince on Sept 3, 2009 \| 28 comments
6.		Is your product an Ice Cream Glove or a Snuggie? (oreilly.com)
		83 points by wyday on Sept 3, 2009 \| 52 comments
7.		How To Get People To Reply To Your Messages In Online Dating, Part I (okcupid.com)
		81 points by smokinn on Sept 3, 2009 \| 54 comments
8.		Ask HN: Is version control worth learning early on?
		70 points by colbyolson on Sept 3, 2009 \| 80 comments
9.		For Hackers Who Don't Sleep (nytimes.com)
		63 points by bearwithclaws on Sept 3, 2009 \| 36 comments
10.		Infinite Recursion (paulbarry.com)
		59 points by luccastera on Sept 3, 2009 \| 6 comments
11.		Bithacks.h - bit hack macros (catonmat.net)
		57 points by pkrumins on Sept 3, 2009 \| 18 comments
12.		JPEGrescan: unique way to losslessly shrink any JPEG file (pastebin.com)
		54 points by DarkShikari on Sept 3, 2009 \| 11 comments
13.		The hidden cycle-eating demon: L1 cache misses (multimedia.cx)
		55 points by DarkShikari on Sept 3, 2009 \| 12 comments
14.		Why I (Still) Code (continuations.com)
		54 points by ivankirigin on Sept 3, 2009 \| 8 comments
15.		CKEditor 3.0, formerly known as FCKEditor, released (WYSIWYG editor) (ckeditor.com)
		44 points by slater on Sept 3, 2009 \| 29 comments
16.		School kids measure distance to the Moon (technologyreview.com)
		42 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Sept 3, 2009 \| 15 comments
17.		“So...what do you do?" (liveandcode.com)
		42 points by edw519 on Sept 3, 2009 \| 45 comments
18.		Google user comment in 2000 (groups.google.com)
		41 points by vijaydev on Sept 3, 2009 \| 32 comments
19.		Apple Heist Empties Store in Just 31 Seconds (wired.com)
		40 points by Readmore on Sept 3, 2009 \| 19 comments
20.		Ask HN: how do people solve the 3 Google Code Jam problems in 25 minutes?
		40 points by Tichy on Sept 3, 2009 \| 27 comments
21.		Ask HN: Why not Flex?
		37 points by mrshoe on Sept 3, 2009 \| 74 comments
22.		Stanford group release Open Source Camera - Frankencamera (stanford.edu)
		36 points by CodeChutney on Sept 3, 2009 \| 5 comments
23.		That's Not a Memory Leak, It's Bloat (engineyard.com)
		36 points by wifelette on Sept 3, 2009 \| 3 comments
24.		Did Texas execute an innocent man? (newyorker.com)
		33 points by justinchen on Sept 3, 2009 \| 45 comments
25.		New Math for Artificial Neurons (ieee.org)
		34 points by dhimes on Sept 3, 2009 \| 5 comments
26.		Python and the power of 'first class' everything (itworld.com)
		33 points by abennett on Sept 3, 2009 \| 24 comments
27.		Speed Kills (oreilly.com)
		33 points by stefano on Sept 3, 2009 \| 24 comments
28.		Ubuntu running on a Kindle 2 (boingboing.net)
		32 points by yan on Sept 3, 2009 \| 11 comments
29.		If it Looks Corporate, Change It (codinghorror.com)
		32 points by Mintz on Sept 3, 2009 \| 10 comments
30.		Tweetvite: An Events Site Dedicated To Tweetups (From Anyvite YC S08) (techcrunch.com)
		29 points by jmorin007 on Sept 3, 2009 \| 6 comments
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