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1.		The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (lambdassociates.org)
		38 points by muriithi on Nov 12, 2007 \| 32 comments
2.		Existential Depression in Gifted Individuals (giftedbooks.com)
		31 points by hhm on Nov 12, 2007 \| 32 comments
3.		Everything I Learned at MIT (edboyden.org)
		29 points by hhm on Nov 12, 2007 \| 3 comments
4.		Left-brain/right-brain -- the dancer illusion debunked
		27 points by altay on Nov 12, 2007 \| 11 comments
5.		Rebuilding Hollywood in Silicon Valley's image (pmarca.com)
		23 points by shayan on Nov 12, 2007 \| 6 comments
6.		Firefox: It's not memory leaks, but fragmentation (pavlov.net)
		22 points by nickb on Nov 12, 2007 \| 7 comments
7.		NYT graph of historical price of gas since 1920 (nytimes.com)
		15 points by charzom on Nov 12, 2007 \| 11 comments
8.		Google Android SDK now available (code.google.com)
		16 points by davidw on Nov 12, 2007 \| 4 comments
9.		"It's not that foreign students are any smarter, ... They just have relentless discipline." (businessweek.com)
		16 points by amichail on Nov 12, 2007 \| 19 comments
10.		Great cartoon on what the customer wants...and what they get (startupstudents.com)
		16 points by transburgh on Nov 12, 2007
11.		Google Options Make Masseuse a Multimillionaire (nytimes.com)
		16 points by terpua on Nov 12, 2007
12.		Ask news.YC: Good "day jobs" for hackers?
		14 points by tkiley on Nov 12, 2007 \| 18 comments
13.		7 Things No One Ever Tells You About Raising Venture Capital Financing (instigatorblog.com)
		15 points by xutopia on Nov 12, 2007 \| 3 comments
14.		Al Gore joins Kleiner Perkins as a partner "to push green investments" (venturebeat.com)
		12 points by nickb on Nov 12, 2007
15.		Games that can educate: SimCity donated to OLPC project (arstechnica.com)
		11 points by trekker7 on Nov 12, 2007 \| 9 comments
16.		Ask YC: Will YC compete with YC?
		11 points by shayan on Nov 12, 2007 \| 12 comments
17.		Norvig - new world's longest palindrome (norvig.com)
		8 points by abstractbill on Nov 12, 2007 \| 4 comments
18.		Yahoo! Launches New Program to Advance Open-Source Software for Internet Computing (shareholder.com)
		9 points by shayan on Nov 12, 2007
19.		Glorious error messages (which IBM just paid $5 billion for) (worsethanfailure.com)
		9 points by gruseom on Nov 12, 2007
20.		Installing MySQL on Ubuntu (the NSFW way) (diveintomark.org)
		6 points by nickb on Nov 12, 2007 \| 4 comments
21.		Pattern Matching in Ruby (pretheory.com)
		7 points by bhb on Nov 12, 2007 \| 2 comments
22.		Startup Weekend's Most Recent Startup: Skribit (techcrunch.com)
		7 points by transburgh on Nov 12, 2007
23.		IBM Buying Cognos (cnn.com)
		6 points by mattculbreth on Nov 12, 2007 \| 2 comments
24.		One Laptop Per Child - Give 1 Get 1 starts today (laptopgiving.org)
		6 points by Readmore on Nov 12, 2007 \| 2 comments
25.		Start-up working on organizing biological information
		6 points by mkag on Nov 12, 2007 \| 2 comments
26.		Why Are Founders and Execs Leaving Second Tier Social Networks? (techcrunch.com)
		5 points by rsa on Nov 12, 2007
27.		Reinteract - Better interactive Python (fishsoup.net)
		5 points by charzom on Nov 12, 2007
28.		Ruby: Testing Private Methods by 'publicizing' them (jayfields.com)
		4 points by luccastera on Nov 12, 2007
29.		Social Media By the Numbers: reddit (searchenginepeople.com)
		4 points by drm237 on Nov 12, 2007 \| 2 comments
30.		Coming Soon, Free Hosting for Facebook Apps (gigaom.com)
		4 points by terpua on Nov 12, 2007 \| 1 comment
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