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1.		The Fall of Hacking
		176 points by noname123 on Aug 14, 2009 \| 112 comments
2.		An employee at Ubisoft quits in style. (newgrounds.com)
		109 points by tri on Aug 14, 2009 \| 16 comments
3.		Coding Horror: All Programming is Web Programming (codinghorror.com)
		85 points by Anon84 on Aug 14, 2009 \| 98 comments
4.		When less is more (economist.com)
		69 points by yan on Aug 14, 2009 \| 27 comments
5.		YC-Funded GraffitiGeo: Foursquare Meets Yelp, With A Dash Of Augmented Reality (techcrunch.com)
		67 points by siong1987 on Aug 14, 2009 \| 11 comments
6.		How I Built Mixtape.me from Scratch with No Experience (lifehacker.com)
		62 points by bearwithclaws on Aug 14, 2009 \| 6 comments
7.		What Movies Get Wrong About Time Travel (slate.com)
		60 points by edw519 on Aug 14, 2009 \| 65 comments
8.		Hacker Dojo - community center for hackers (Mountain View, CA) (pbworks.com)
		58 points by tortilla on Aug 14, 2009 \| 6 comments
9.		Douglas Crockford: The JSON Saga [video] (yuiblog.com)
		56 points by vladocar on Aug 14, 2009 \| 3 comments
10.		The Nine Eyes of Google Street View (artfagcity.com)
		54 points by DaniFong on Aug 14, 2009 \| 12 comments
11.		Firefox extension liberates US court docs from paywall (arstechnica.com)
		52 points by malte on Aug 14, 2009 \| 6 comments
12.		Why Portland is a great place for startups (centernetworks.com)
		51 points by moses1400 on Aug 14, 2009 \| 43 comments
13.		The problem with taking seed money from big VCs (cdixon.org)
		46 points by pclark on Aug 14, 2009 \| 10 comments
14.		I did what any sensible Lisp hacker does: I wrote my own object system (mikelevins.livejournal.com)
		45 points by fogus on Aug 14, 2009 \| 16 comments
15.		The United States is not the nation of small businesses (guardian.co.uk)
		42 points by gasull on Aug 14, 2009 \| 52 comments
16.		1960s Braun Products Hold the Secrets to Apple's Future (2008) (gizmodo.com)
		42 points by kirubakaran on Aug 14, 2009 \| 6 comments
17.		Cave Complex Found Under Giza Pyramids (discovery.com)
		38 points by pg on Aug 14, 2009 \| 10 comments
18.		Lisp and Smalltalk are dead: It’s C all the way down (computinged.wordpress.com)
		35 points by seiji on Aug 14, 2009 \| 59 comments
19.		Apple’s Cash Hoard (wsj.com)
		32 points by fogus on Aug 14, 2009 \| 44 comments
20.		The Movie Studios Have A Great Idea To Ramp Up Piracy. (techcrunch.com)
		32 points by edw519 on Aug 14, 2009 \| 9 comments
21.		Science and Pseudoscience in Adult Nutrition Research and Practice (csicop.org)
		32 points by michael_dorfman on Aug 14, 2009 \| 13 comments
22.		Linux Kernel NULL Pointer Vulnerability (securityfocus.com)
		30 points by ErrantX on Aug 14, 2009 \| 15 comments
23.		Hacker Dojo, finally a hangout where coders can go 24/7 (venturebeat.com)
		29 points by transburgh on Aug 14, 2009 \| 13 comments
24.		Netscape Founder Backs New Browser (nytimes.com)
		28 points by mjfern on Aug 14, 2009 \| 13 comments
25.		Bespin 0.4: Stop, Collaborate and Code (labs.mozilla.com)
		27 points by chanux on Aug 14, 2009 \| 2 comments
26.		Recap: A Firefox Plugin That Liberates Paywalled Court Records (recapthelaw.org)
		27 points by dc2k08 on Aug 14, 2009 \| 10 comments
27.		Google Chrome 4.0: Fastest OS X browser by 34 per cent (cnet.co.uk)
		27 points by davecardwell on Aug 14, 2009 \| 25 comments
28.		Cloning Vi Using Haskell (objectmentor.com)
		26 points by fogus on Aug 14, 2009 \| 14 comments
29.		Tell HN: Rochester, NY Hackers - Unite! (meetup.com)
		26 points by wooby on Aug 14, 2009 \| 10 comments
30.		Economics Is Not A Natural Science (edge.org)
		24 points by csbartus on Aug 14, 2009 \| 24 comments
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