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1.		I don't care why you won't write for iPhone/Android/PHP/Rails/Mac (github.com/raganwald)
		103 points by _pius on Aug 30, 2009 \| 23 comments
2.		The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (ft.com)
		103 points by blasdel on Aug 30, 2009 \| 27 comments
3.		Free the H-1Bs, Free the Economy (techcrunch.com)
		82 points by jrbedard on Aug 30, 2009 \| 76 comments
4.		Apple kicks ZFS in the butt (zdnet.com)
		72 points by joao on Aug 30, 2009 \| 44 comments
5.		Some “Developers” Just Can’t Develop (richardsbraindump.blogspot.com)
		61 points by baha_man on Aug 30, 2009 \| 45 comments
6.		How Indian Immigrants Have Changed the face of Silicon Valley (sanfranmag.com)
		55 points by kareemm on Aug 30, 2009 \| 21 comments
7.		Generation B - Middle Aged, Laid Off and Losing Hope (nytimes.com)
		55 points by boggles on Aug 30, 2009 \| 59 comments
8.		The long lost formula for start-up success. (techcrunch.com)
		54 points by jasonlbaptiste on Aug 30, 2009 \| 9 comments
9.		Comprehensive Clojure STM Article (ociweb.com)
		52 points by fogus on Aug 30, 2009 \| 4 comments
10.		So Dan Lyons Called (daringfireball.net)
		52 points by blasdel on Aug 30, 2009 \| 16 comments
11.		Knuth's opinion on Knuth's opinion was reverted from Wikipedia as uncited (no-gritzko-here.livejournal.com)
		49 points by gritzko on Aug 30, 2009 \| 48 comments
12.		Ask HN: Rate my Product : QueryCell
		45 points by samh on Aug 30, 2009 \| 35 comments
13.		How not to render 3D graphics: 40 ways to get a blank black screen (dmalcolm.livejournal.com)
		41 points by AjJi on Aug 30, 2009 \| 6 comments
14.		The first web framework and ORM for C++ (touchideas.com)
		41 points by TouchIdeas on Aug 30, 2009 \| 38 comments
15.		Quick R (statmethods.net)
		41 points by chromophore on Aug 30, 2009
16.		Slackware 13.0 is released (slackware.com)
		38 points by dimm on Aug 30, 2009 \| 20 comments
17.		Upload image to S3 via right click on Snow Leopard (lilleaas.net)
		33 points by augustl on Aug 30, 2009 \| 5 comments
18.		Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use ?
		33 points by code_devil on Aug 30, 2009 \| 83 comments
19.		Why NPR.org Scrapped The Fees And Made Transcripts Free (npr.org)
		32 points by mhb on Aug 30, 2009 \| 7 comments
20.		Making physical music worth buying: CD case includes theremin-like instrument (gizmodo.com)
		31 points by endtime on Aug 30, 2009 \| 15 comments
21.		Scheme Cookbook: Common idioms and recipes in Scheme (schemecookbook.org)
		31 points by alaricsp on Aug 30, 2009 \| 2 comments
22.		HNScore - another look at post quality on Hacker News (alexc.me)
		31 points by alex_c on Aug 30, 2009 \| 7 comments
23.		Why Scheme Rocks (xivilization.net)
		29 points by fogus on Aug 30, 2009 \| 8 comments
24.		Why Don’t Teens Tweet? We Asked 10,000+ of Them. (techcrunch.com)
		28 points by cwan on Aug 30, 2009 \| 19 comments
25.		Ask HN: Startups in DC?
		27 points by djb_hackernews on Aug 30, 2009 \| 17 comments
26.		Tokyo Cabinet API for Clojure (brool.com)
		25 points by angerman on Aug 30, 2009
27.		The Story of a Simple and Dangerous Kernel Bug (butnotyet.tumblr.com)
		25 points by mindplunge on Aug 30, 2009 \| 2 comments
28.		Using ‘Free’ to Turn a Profit (nytimes.com)
		23 points by peter123 on Aug 30, 2009 \| 13 comments
29.		ELPA - a package manager for emacs (tromey.com)
		22 points by j_baker on Aug 30, 2009 \| 6 comments
30.		To make smarter systems, it’s all about the data (cdixon.org)
		21 points by prakash on Aug 30, 2009 \| 6 comments
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