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1.		The Status of the P Versus NP Problem (acm.org)
		118 points by yarapavan on Aug 26, 2009 \| 45 comments
2.		Ted Kennedy has died (nytimes.com)
		110 points by dzlobin on Aug 26, 2009 \| 143 comments
3.		Review my Webapp: How to make ______? (food) (recipepuppy.com)
		102 points by kbrower on Aug 26, 2009 \| 57 comments
4.		Zoho: Thriving Amid the Giants (nytimes.com)
		94 points by terpua on Aug 26, 2009 \| 56 comments
5.		Google Opens Up Its EPUB Archive: Download 1 Million Books for Free (booksearch.blogspot.com)
		93 points by naish on Aug 26, 2009 \| 22 comments
6.		Introducing Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (aws.typepad.com)
		92 points by jeffbarr on Aug 26, 2009 \| 19 comments
7.		An Arc REPL online (dabuttonfactory.com)
		77 points by palsecam on Aug 26, 2009 \| 9 comments
8.		Mozilla Test Swarm Alpha Open (ejohn.org)
		76 points by fogus on Aug 26, 2009 \| 15 comments
9.		User Interface Myths (carsonified.com)
		73 points by edw519 on Aug 26, 2009 \| 13 comments
10.		Twitter Exploit Still Works (davidnaylor.co.uk)
		63 points by dredge on Aug 26, 2009 \| 21 comments
11.		SQLite: A Lesson In Low-Defect Software (review/summary w/ working source) (aleccolocco.blogspot.com)
		61 points by alecco on Aug 26, 2009 \| 13 comments
12.		The Longest Poem in the World (longestpoemintheworld.com)
		59 points by andreyf on Aug 26, 2009 \| 19 comments
13.		It's your first programming assignment, now what? (sites.google.com)
		55 points by clawrencewenham on Aug 26, 2009 \| 13 comments
14.		Introducing Surinx (Ruby syntax w/ Java typing) (headius.com)
		51 points by fogus on Aug 26, 2009 \| 32 comments
15.		LEGO Logic Gates (ikaruga.co.uk)
		50 points by gcopenhaver on Aug 26, 2009 \| 6 comments
16.		Jenga Pistol (woodgears.ca)
		49 points by mhb on Aug 26, 2009 \| 8 comments
17.		Diff Match and Patch: Google's open source text synchronization library (code.google.com)
		50 points by mbrubeck on Aug 26, 2009 \| 3 comments
18.		Why is HTML Suddenly Interesting? (oreilly.com)
		49 points by michaelfairley on Aug 26, 2009 \| 19 comments
19.		Ask HN: Steal my Ideas (or help me)
		49 points by Cantdog on Aug 26, 2009 \| 44 comments
20.		Sd - a peer to peer bugtracker I actually like (bestpractical.com)
		48 points by mst on Aug 26, 2009 \| 8 comments
21.		Pharo: a Smalltalk VM that doesn't look like a toy out of the box (pharo-project.org)
		48 points by henning on Aug 26, 2009 \| 17 comments
22.		Tetris Code Challenge (tetrisapp.appspot.com)
		44 points by paulbaumgart on Aug 26, 2009 \| 6 comments
23.		My hobby: Troll hugging. (pugs.blogs.com)
		43 points by lupin_sansei on Aug 26, 2009 \| 26 comments
24.		The Fourier Transform and its Applications (free ebook) [pdf] (stanford.edu)
		43 points by TriinT on Aug 26, 2009 \| 2 comments
25.		Programming Collective Intelligence author has 2 new books out (kiwitobes.com)
		42 points by apgwoz on Aug 26, 2009 \| 3 comments
26.		Fixing high bounce / low conversion web pages (kaushik.net)
		42 points by ankeshk on Aug 26, 2009 \| 3 comments
27.		Netboot.me - Turning netboot into internetboot (notdot.net)
		37 points by gdp on Aug 26, 2009 \| 7 comments
28.		A possible approach to learning Common Lisp (deepaksurti.com)
		36 points by icey on Aug 26, 2009 \| 31 comments
29.		How do you keep yourself disciplined when you are freelancing at home? (paralyzed.se)
		34 points by ancide on Aug 26, 2009 \| 25 comments
30.		When a Good Idea Works: the origins of Processing (technologyreview.com)
		33 points by mbrubeck on Aug 26, 2009 \| 3 comments
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