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1.		How to Write Stories (and lose weight, clean up the environment, and make a million dollars) (oxfordamericanmag.com)
		54 points by jdale27 on Jan 17, 2008 \| 10 comments
2.		Ask NickB: How do you do it, dude?
		52 points by iamelgringo on Jan 17, 2008 \| 38 comments
3.		Yahoo Implements OpenID; Massive Win For The Project (techcrunch.com)
		35 points by terpua on Jan 17, 2008 \| 7 comments
4.		Creating cool pictures with a few lines of code (chriscoyne.com)
		31 points by comatose_kid on Jan 17, 2008 \| 3 comments
5.		Everyone's first Vi session (bash.org)
		27 points by iamelgringo on Jan 17, 2008 \| 18 comments
6.		How Software Companies Die (zoion.com)
		26 points by nickb on Jan 17, 2008 \| 1 comment
7.		Surprise, Justin.TV Builds Own CDN To Cut Costs, Improve Performance (techcrunch.com)
		25 points by mwseibel on Jan 17, 2008 \| 16 comments
8.		YC Startup Loopt Launches Location Applications Platform (techcrunch.com)
		23 points by vlad on Jan 17, 2008 \| 9 comments
9.		Are You This Agile? Paul Graham Changes Hacker News While You Wait (pchristensen.com)
		22 points by pchristensen on Jan 17, 2008 \| 34 comments
10.		How to complete your PhD (or any large project): Hard and soft deadlines, and the Martini Method (academicproductivity.com)
		20 points by nreece on Jan 17, 2008 \| 3 comments
11.		Ruby vs PHP performance (plan99.net)
		18 points by luccastera on Jan 17, 2008 \| 14 comments
12.		Become An Xcoder - A free book for starting with Cocoa using Objective-C (get ready for iPhone SDK) (cocoalab.com)
		17 points by nickb on Jan 17, 2008 \| 2 comments
13.		Using Erlang in a web start-up [PDF] (hypernumbers.com)
		16 points by hassy on Jan 17, 2008
14.		Look like your boss (inter-sections.net)
		13 points by swombat on Jan 17, 2008 \| 10 comments
15.		One of the Best Presentations on Poverty and Development (video) (ted.com)
		13 points by papersmith on Jan 17, 2008 \| 5 comments
16.		Ask YC: What music do you listen to when programming?
		11 points by sspencer on Jan 17, 2008 \| 61 comments
17.		Video Killed the Broadband Buffet (gigaom.com)
		11 points by shayan on Jan 17, 2008 \| 4 comments
18.		Tips to become a successful entrepreneur (rediff.com)
		11 points by cosmok on Jan 17, 2008 \| 3 comments
19.		xkcd - Compiler Complaint (xkcd.com)
		10 points by nickb on Jan 17, 2008 \| 2 comments
20.		Typography: Where Engineers and Designers Meet (codinghorror.com)
		10 points by iamelgringo on Jan 17, 2008 \| 2 comments
21.		Hacker News Passes 100,000 Items (news.ycombinator.com)
		7 points by pchristensen on Jan 17, 2008 \| 3 comments
22.		Steve Jobs praises a retiring Bill Gates (news.com)
		9 points by edw519 on Jan 17, 2008 \| 1 comment
23.		Are you a PHP God? Anonymous Free-Speech Platform (VC-backed) Needs You
		9 points by jrr2015 on Jan 17, 2008 \| 9 comments
24.		Salesforce starts to charge by the login (zdnet.com)
		8 points by edw519 on Jan 17, 2008 \| 3 comments
25.		The Programmer's Food Pyramid (osteele.com)
		8 points by iamelgringo on Jan 17, 2008 \| 3 comments
26.		12 Reasons Why a Geek Will Steal Your Girlfriend (geeksaresexy.net)
		7 points by edw519 on Jan 17, 2008
27.		Amazon subsidiary to delve deeper into movies with acquisition (news.com)
		7 points by terpua on Jan 17, 2008
28.		Fire Eagle is coming... (yahoo.com)
		7 points by pius on Jan 17, 2008 \| 5 comments
29.		Agile authoring of papers (quantumnoise.wordpress.com)
		7 points by michael_nielsen on Jan 17, 2008
30.		Joyent's problems continue (robbieallen.com)
		6 points by rallen on Jan 17, 2008
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