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1.		What nine of the world's largest websites are running on (pingdom.com)
		32 points by iamyoohoo on Sept 28, 2007 \| 12 comments
2.		Two months of hard work. What do you think of my startup? ZoooV.com (zooov.com)
		31 points by waleedka on Sept 28, 2007 \| 43 comments
3.		The obscure game-theory problem that explains why rich countries are rich (slate.com)
		26 points by nickb on Sept 28, 2007 \| 4 comments
4.		XML Sucks (a.k.a. Why S-expressions Are Better) (hcsw.org)
		25 points by dpapathanasiou on Sept 28, 2007 \| 44 comments
5.		Ask YC: Have any girls applied to YC? Any get in?
		20 points by shadowplay on Sept 28, 2007 \| 30 comments
6.		At the elite colleges - dim white kids (boston.com)
		15 points by robg on Sept 28, 2007 \| 18 comments
7.		James Hong: On going (NOT) Free... (hotornot.com)
		13 points by brett on Sept 28, 2007 \| 4 comments
8.		Ask YC: Is it possible to do a startup parttime?
		14 points by yters on Sept 28, 2007 \| 18 comments
9.		James Hong: A lesson on life... (hotornot.com)
		13 points by rob on Sept 28, 2007 \| 5 comments
10.		Ask 37signals: Pressure to grow? (37signals.com)
		13 points by luccastera on Sept 28, 2007
11.		Starting a company? Your value could be pretty high... (venturebeat.com)
		13 points by byosko on Sept 28, 2007
12.		Functional Javascript (osteele.com)
		12 points by brett on Sept 28, 2007 \| 1 comment
13.		Managing Software Engineers (greenspun.com)
		11 points by rams on Sept 28, 2007 \| 3 comments
14.		Hmm... $61 for OpenOffice on eBay. Maybe I should get in on this. (ebay.com)
		11 points by kf on Sept 28, 2007 \| 8 comments
15.		JRuby Compiler Is Complete (headius.blogspot.com)
		11 points by luccastera on Sept 28, 2007
16.		Paul Graham Facts
		10 points by ptn on Sept 28, 2007 \| 7 comments
17.		Gizmodo: Latest firmware neuters the iPhone . . . upon re-review, don't buy the iPhone (gizmodo.com)
		10 points by pius on Sept 28, 2007 \| 3 comments
18.		What percentage of your users are on IE6?
		10 points by myoung8 on Sept 28, 2007 \| 11 comments
19.		Why Demo's conference beat TechCrunch40 (valleywag.com)
		9 points by transburgh on Sept 28, 2007 \| 1 comment
20.		Liquid Rescale (Content Aware Resizing) GIMP plugin (wikidot.com)
		8 points by nickb on Sept 28, 2007 \| 1 comment
21.		Another name for the "wisdom of crowds" (abstractfactory.blogspot.com)
		8 points by byrneseyeview on Sept 28, 2007 \| 4 comments
22.		Teen Finds Her Flickr Image On Bus Stop Ad (cbsnews.com)
		7 points by charzom on Sept 28, 2007 \| 3 comments
23.		Japanese Jumping Frog Robot (therawfeed.com)
		7 points by bootload on Sept 28, 2007 \| 4 comments
24.		Ten Businesses Facing Extinction Within ten Years -- is There a Contrarian Play to be Made Here? (yahoo.com)
		7 points by DanielBMarkham on Sept 28, 2007 \| 12 comments
25.		Ask YC: who gives away free money?
		7 points by yters on Sept 28, 2007 \| 22 comments
26.		The word farms of the web (guardian.co.uk)
		6 points by catalinist on Sept 28, 2007
27.		What happened to the feature requests thread? (news.ycombinator.com)
		6 points by byrneseyeview on Sept 28, 2007 \| 5 comments
28.		iRobot previews ConnectR telepresence unit (makezine.com)
		5 points by bootload on Sept 28, 2007 \| 1 comment
29.		Is This Health 2.0? (zoliblog.com)
		4 points by danw on Sept 28, 2007 \| 1 comment
30.		Former IBM CEO on why Americans are bad at math (csmonitor.com)
		4 points by byrneseyeview on Sept 28, 2007 \| 1 comment
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