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1.		'Second Earth' found, 20 light years away (guardian.co.uk)
		54 points by pg on Oct 16, 2007 \| 78 comments
2.		Some things to do (and not do) if you aren't invited to interview with YC
		49 points by jkush on Oct 16, 2007 \| 43 comments
3.		You Can't Predict Who Will Change The World (forbes.com)
		28 points by keaneu on Oct 16, 2007 \| 20 comments
4.		Failing Fast - 'finding the fun' in a design (lostgarden.com)
		23 points by comatose_kid on Oct 16, 2007
5.		EC2 now out of limited beta; four-core and eight-core instances now available (amazonwebservices.com)
		19 points by dfranke on Oct 16, 2007 \| 11 comments
6.		Paul Graham Gets Vague when Boston needs analysis (buzzboston.wordpress.com)
		16 points by dshah on Oct 16, 2007 \| 23 comments
7.		Rising Tide: Email startups are hot (venturebeat.com)
		14 points by brezina on Oct 16, 2007 \| 5 comments
8.		When life becomes good for a programmer (koutuk.blogspot.com)
		16 points by nickb on Oct 16, 2007
9.		"Un-sexy is good business" and other rules from Scott Rafer (foundread.com)
		15 points by transburgh on Oct 16, 2007 \| 3 comments
10.		Build a $2,500 supercomputer, or about $50 per gigaflop. (zdnet.com)
		13 points by nickb on Oct 16, 2007 \| 6 comments
11.		Forward 40: Where is LOGO? (wired.com)
		13 points by nickb on Oct 16, 2007 \| 14 comments
12.		Algorithms (free book draft) (cs.berkeley.edu)
		13 points by nickb on Oct 16, 2007 \| 1 comment
13.		In Portal, Violating Physics Proves Weirdly Satisfying (wired.com)
		13 points by amichail on Oct 16, 2007 \| 5 comments
14.		Using the Six Laws of Persuasion (thinkingserious.com)
		13 points by thinkingserious on Oct 16, 2007
15.		Coworkers Considered Harmful (internetducttape.com)
		12 points by nickb on Oct 16, 2007
16.		Leopard release: October 26th! (engadget.com)
		12 points by nickb on Oct 16, 2007 \| 10 comments
17.		When To Dump That Great Idea (forbes.com)
		11 points by ideas101 on Oct 16, 2007 \| 1 comment
18.		Ask YC: Does everyone get notified?
		11 points by terrymhung on Oct 16, 2007 \| 5 comments
19.		YC App - no news so far - is it good?
		11 points by Jaggu on Oct 16, 2007 \| 14 comments
20.		50x Faster Than BitTorrent: I Want (techcrunch.com)
		10 points by transburgh on Oct 16, 2007 \| 7 comments
21.		Ten things I love && hate about C (micropledge.com)
		10 points by benhoyt on Oct 16, 2007 \| 8 comments
22.		Unenterprising Ireland (fintanp.wordpress.com)
		9 points by theoneill on Oct 16, 2007 \| 1 comment
23.		AnnCoulter.com hacked? (anncoulter.com)
		8 points by jkush on Oct 16, 2007 \| 9 comments
24.		Will Apple Open the iPhone? (businessweek.com)
		7 points by terpua on Oct 16, 2007 \| 4 comments
25.		Ask VentureHacks: Is the VC Industry Doomed? (venturehacks.com)
		6 points by nickb on Oct 16, 2007 \| 2 comments
26.		Paul McKellar of Social Moth at Community Next (allfacebook.com)
		6 points by kkim on Oct 16, 2007 \| 1 comment
27.		Take a break from coding and learn how to solve the Rubik's Cube (sciencehack.com)
		6 points by rami on Oct 16, 2007
28.		Crowdsourcing The Crystal Ball (forbes.com)
		6 points by keaneu on Oct 16, 2007 \| 4 comments
29.		Mint, online money manager, raises $4.7M (venturebeat.com)
		6 points by terpua on Oct 16, 2007 \| 14 comments
30.		Facebook, Quant Fund Meltdown & the Techmeme Leaderboard (oreilly.com)
		6 points by bootload on Oct 16, 2007 \| 2 comments
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