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1.		MIT Students Take Pictures from 93,000 ft on $150 Budget. (ireport.com)
		125 points by edw519 on Sept 13, 2009 \| 27 comments
2.		Paul Buchheit: Evaluating risk and opportunity (as a human) (paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
		94 points by paul on Sept 13, 2009 \| 27 comments
3.		On Saying No - The Power of Simply Answering, "No." (esquire.com)
		78 points by DarrenMills on Sept 13, 2009 \| 32 comments
4.		Netflix prize tribute: Recommendation algorithm in Python (smellthedata.com)
		71 points by fogus on Sept 13, 2009 \| 5 comments
5.		What is Erlang-Style Concurrency? (wiger.net)
		62 points by silentbicycle on Sept 13, 2009 \| 16 comments
6.		How Google Taught Me to Cache and Cash-In (highscalability.com)
		58 points by timf on Sept 13, 2009 \| 24 comments
7.		What We Can Learn About Pricing From Menu Engineers (gigaom.com)
		57 points by terpua on Sept 13, 2009 \| 37 comments
8.		Father of Green Revolution, Norman Borlaug, Dies (bbc.co.uk)
		57 points by healsdata on Sept 13, 2009 \| 22 comments
9.		Integrating Django with Tornado's web server (groups.google.com)
		56 points by apgwoz on Sept 13, 2009 \| 8 comments
10.		The end of dumb software (sethgodin.typepad.com)
		56 points by wyday on Sept 13, 2009 \| 48 comments
11.		Fish - The friendly interactive shell (lwn.net)
		55 points by gnosis on Sept 13, 2009 \| 16 comments
12.		Benchmarking Tornado vs. Twisted Web vs. Tornado on Twisted vs. Unicorn (antoniocangiano.com)
		53 points by acangiano on Sept 13, 2009 \| 23 comments
13.		Writing Linux Kernel Modules in Haskell (tommd.wordpress.com)
		53 points by dons on Sept 13, 2009 \| 2 comments
14.		Preview of WebKit’s WebGL / Canvas 3D (wolfire.com)
		50 points by jeff18 on Sept 13, 2009 \| 4 comments
15.		Pong (130 lines in Clojure) (imagine27.com)
		46 points by jayded on Sept 13, 2009 \| 9 comments
16.		Please review the new tarsnap website
		43 points by cperciva on Sept 13, 2009 \| 58 comments
17.		The 20 Dollar Millionaire (esquire.com)
		42 points by DarrenMills on Sept 13, 2009 \| 23 comments
18.		7 ways I’ve almost killed FreshBooks (venturebeat.com)
		42 points by aliasaria on Sept 13, 2009 \| 7 comments
19.		Norman Borlaug, Saved Millions from Starvation - Dies Aged 95 (nytimes.com)
		40 points by rfreytag on Sept 13, 2009 \| 11 comments
20.		Raytraced metaballs in a 512b html file. (Not for IE.) (tkk.fi)
		34 points by fadr on Sept 13, 2009 \| 9 comments
21.		Snow Leopard UI roundup (cocoia.com)
		34 points by dmytton on Sept 13, 2009 \| 5 comments
22.		Norman Borlaug on Organic Farming (reason.com)
		34 points by glymor on Sept 13, 2009 \| 64 comments
23.		Happy Programmer Day
		30 points by emilis_info on Sept 13, 2009 \| 10 comments
24.		For Sale: $20 Million Particle Accelerator, Never Used (wired.com)
		27 points by mgh2 on Sept 13, 2009 \| 10 comments
25.		Gödel, Escher, Bach OCW lectures (youtube.com)
		26 points by grinnbearit on Sept 13, 2009 \| 4 comments
26.		Advanced Floating Point Features (which most languages don't have) in Factor (factor-language.blogspot.com)
		27 points by plinkplonk on Sept 13, 2009
27.		NY Times serving up malware today (allthingsd.com)
		25 points by Tangurena on Sept 13, 2009 \| 13 comments
28.		Python based MIT 6.00 \| Intro to Computer Science and Programming (youtube.com)
		24 points by kirubakaran on Sept 13, 2009 \| 6 comments
29.		Write Your Own Regular Expression Parser (codeguru.com)
		24 points by apotheon on Sept 13, 2009 \| 7 comments
30.		Did we just turn down TechCrunch 50? (majorgrooves.co.uk)
		24 points by Major_Grooves on Sept 13, 2009 \| 10 comments
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