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1.		IBM takes first 3D image of atomic bonds (gizmodo.com)
		149 points by jedliu on Aug 27, 2009 \| 49 comments
2.		Results of The Hacker Survey (davelyon.net)
		107 points by tialys on Aug 27, 2009 \| 57 comments
3.		Why I Won't Use Rimuhosting (aaronsw.com)
		105 points by joao on Aug 27, 2009 \| 123 comments
4.		Snaptalent Lesson One: Know Your Market (jamiequint.posterous.com)
		105 points by bdr on Aug 27, 2009 \| 19 comments
5.		Teaching Ruby to High School Girls (railsbridge.org)
		93 points by whalesalad on Aug 27, 2009 \| 47 comments
6.		Hall of Shame: companies violating the ffmpeg license (GPL/LGPL) (ffmpeg.org)
		85 points by mbrubeck on Aug 27, 2009 \| 41 comments
7.		Create and share diagrams by writing sentences (diagrammr.com)
		79 points by ssn on Aug 27, 2009 \| 35 comments
8.		MongoDB 1.0 released (mongodb.org)
		75 points by paulsmith on Aug 27, 2009 \| 10 comments
9.		Porn collection put people off upgrading to Firefox 3 (pcpro.co.uk)
		67 points by jedliu on Aug 27, 2009 \| 32 comments
10.		Cat Parasite Affects Everything We Feel and Do (abcnews.go.com)
		67 points by mattmaroon on Aug 27, 2009 \| 46 comments
11.		Fog detected on Titan (mikebrownsplanets.com)
		61 points by spudlyo on Aug 27, 2009 \| 6 comments
12.		Sales figures for the #2 iPhone app (taptaptap.com)
		61 points by EtienneJohnred on Aug 27, 2009 \| 22 comments
13.		The Todo.txt Command Line Interface (CLI) (ginatrapani.github.com)
		61 points by mlLK on Aug 27, 2009 \| 18 comments
14.		Caml trading – experiences with functional programming on Wall Street [pdf] or (janestreetcapital.com)
		60 points by mbrubeck on Aug 27, 2009 \| 10 comments
15.		Chicago's top crime blogger is a 16-year-old with autism living with his mom (timeout.com)
		55 points by brandnewlow on Aug 27, 2009 \| 24 comments
16.		Ask HN: Where do you find clients?
		54 points by bendtheblock on Aug 27, 2009 \| 31 comments
17.		Air-powered LEGO V8 engine running at 1440 rpm (vid) (nicjasno.com)
		53 points by TriinT on Aug 27, 2009 \| 9 comments
18.		Django-SocialAuth - Login via twitter, facebook, google, etc. from single app (uswaretech.com)
		53 points by naish on Aug 27, 2009 \| 20 comments
19.		Self-Discipline Outdoes IQ in Predicting Academic Performance of Adolescents (upenn.edu)
		52 points by tokenadult on Aug 27, 2009 \| 47 comments
20.		A Prolog Introduction for Hackers (kuro5hin.org)
		52 points by marshallp on Aug 27, 2009 \| 13 comments
21.		Maemo 5 and Nokia n900 press release (nokia.com)
		51 points by kasunh on Aug 27, 2009 \| 27 comments
22.		A chess engine in 1326 bytes (110mb.com)
		50 points by fizx on Aug 27, 2009 \| 16 comments
23.		Inside the Cafe at Facebook Headquarters (foodgal.com)
		50 points by jakarta on Aug 27, 2009 \| 41 comments
24.		World faces hi-tech crunch as China eyes ban on rare metal exports (telegraph.co.uk)
		47 points by bd on Aug 27, 2009 \| 37 comments
25.		Whoa, this is heavy: brain equates weight with importance (trueslant.com)
		47 points by neuroworld on Aug 27, 2009 \| 39 comments
26.		Couple getting married, creates registry for funding for their startup (aboomba.com)
		43 points by khangtoh on Aug 27, 2009 \| 24 comments
27.		How to Build Sinatra on Rails 3 (yehudakatz.com)
		41 points by mbrubeck on Aug 27, 2009 \| 6 comments
28.		Apple's sleek upgrade (nytimes.com)
		41 points by dzlobin on Aug 27, 2009 \| 47 comments
29.		25 Years Later, First Registered Domain Name Changes Hands (techcrunch.com)
		37 points by vaksel on Aug 27, 2009 \| 10 comments
30.		Ask HN: Asking for a raise
		37 points by timmaah on Aug 27, 2009 \| 24 comments
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