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1.		On Applying to Y Combinator (directededge.com)
		161 points by wheels on Sept 30, 2009 \| 71 comments
2.		Abusing Amazon Images (aaugh.com)
		159 points by chaosmachine on Sept 30, 2009 \| 34 comments
3.		You're the Smartest Guy In The Room ... but please, try to restrain yourself. (plope.com)
		137 points by fogus on Sept 30, 2009 \| 139 comments
4.		Head-On Crash Test of 2009 and 1959 Cars (video) (consumerreports.org)
		88 points by mhb on Sept 30, 2009 \| 73 comments
5.		Tips for recruiting great developers (improvingsoftware.com)
		80 points by ArturSoler on Sept 30, 2009 \| 27 comments
6.		Ask HN: advice for my site, happyjobsearch.com (happyjobsearch.com)
		80 points by nonrecursive on Sept 30, 2009 \| 60 comments
7.		Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms (free ebook edition) (cam.ac.uk)
		72 points by mbrubeck on Sept 30, 2009 \| 21 comments
8.		How Prolog was used to develop Erlang (psu.edu)
		68 points by MaysonL on Sept 30, 2009 \| 3 comments
9.		The dark side of NoSQL (codemonkeyism.com)
		67 points by tjogin on Sept 30, 2009 \| 57 comments
10.		Check out my side project: I rewrote rxvt in javascript (terminalcast.com)
		64 points by paddy_m on Sept 30, 2009 \| 48 comments
11.		HN: share your unneeded Google Wave invites
		57 points by falsestprophet on Sept 30, 2009 \| 291 comments
12.		Ask HN: Review our app, Boomtango (boomtango.com)
		57 points by willwagner on Sept 30, 2009 \| 34 comments
13.		IT Concepts That Non-IT People Don’t Get (hackification.com)
		55 points by edw519 on Sept 30, 2009 \| 86 comments
14.		Office space in NYC
		47 points by chris_dickson on Sept 30, 2009 \| 21 comments
15.		25 years of GNU - support software freedom (fsf.org)
		46 points by tjr on Sept 30, 2009 \| 40 comments
16.		Move to NYC. Hack on cool stuff. Enjoy startup life
		42 points by old-gregg on Sept 30, 2009 \| 20 comments
17.		Is 37 Signals Selling Behavioral Targeting Data? (ghostery.com)
		42 points by dcancel on Sept 30, 2009 \| 38 comments
18.		Will the Manhattan Project Always Exist? (3quarksdaily.com)
		40 points by luchak on Sept 30, 2009 \| 20 comments
19.		Ma.gnolia back for a week already being forced to change name (gnolia.com)
		38 points by abraham on Sept 30, 2009 \| 23 comments
20.		Tell HN: How to find karma thresholds in the HN source code
		35 points by idm on Sept 30, 2009 \| 14 comments
21.		Ask HN: how to buy a domain name from a squatter?
		34 points by old-gregg on Sept 30, 2009 \| 36 comments
22.		Org-mode 6.31 released, now programmable with multiple languages (gmane.org)
		31 points by keyist on Sept 30, 2009 \| 4 comments
23.		GeoDjango and the UK postcode database (chris-lamb.co.uk)
		30 points by gthank on Sept 30, 2009 \| 10 comments
24.		Weebly (YC 07) Launches New Managed Product For Educators And Students (techcrunch.com)
		31 points by rokhayakebe on Sept 30, 2009 \| 5 comments
25.		Yahoo updates YUI tool for slick Web interfaces (cnet.com)
		27 points by edw519 on Sept 30, 2009 \| 7 comments
26.		A Theory on Hacker News (cubbyscott.com)
		26 points by screeley on Sept 30, 2009 \| 26 comments
27.		Long URL Please: URL "unshortener" extension for Firefox (addons.mozilla.org)
		26 points by idm on Sept 30, 2009 \| 15 comments
28.		Akamai launches HD Network that delivers TV-like, HD-quality video online. (akamai.com)
		26 points by sdave on Sept 30, 2009 \| 18 comments
29.		Comments: Size Does Matter (ignorethecode.net)
		26 points by mbrubeck on Sept 30, 2009 \| 29 comments
30.		Structure and randomness in the prime numbers (terrytao.wordpress.com)
		25 points by wallflower on Sept 30, 2009 \| 9 comments
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