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1.		Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas (paulgraham.com)
		26 points by transburgh on Aug 24, 2007 \| 21 comments
2.		Dilbert: Quality at a Day Job (Keep Working on your Startup) (dilbertblog.typepad.com)
		24 points by mikesabat on Aug 24, 2007 \| 11 comments
3.		What should a striving non-programmer do?
		23 points by xzibitendo on Aug 24, 2007 \| 60 comments
4.		37signals Losing Lustre? Why I Miss The Adoring Fans (simpler is better?!) (onstartups.com)
		19 points by nickb on Aug 24, 2007 \| 17 comments
5.		PG's Rarely Asked Questions (never seen this one before) (paulgraham.com)
		18 points by vlad on Aug 24, 2007 \| 6 comments
6.		Sun's ticker symbol: SUNW -> JAVA (sun.com)
		19 points by davidw on Aug 24, 2007 \| 15 comments
7.		Rise of the wikicrats (roughtype.com)
		18 points by davidw on Aug 24, 2007 \| 4 comments
8.		Is anyone making something women want?
		17 points by aswanson on Aug 24, 2007 \| 35 comments
9.		Chain productivity tool launches. Accomplish something every day (cha1n.com)
		17 points by palish on Aug 24, 2007 \| 29 comments
10.		"I'll eat my hat if that isn't Einstein" (Einstein as seen by another scientist, Norbert Wiener) (libraries.mit.edu)
		16 points by hhm on Aug 24, 2007 \| 5 comments
11.		IBM's response to Web 2.0 start-ups: We're Safer (cio.com)
		13 points by cglynch on Aug 24, 2007 \| 15 comments
12.		When I worked at Microsoft... (google.com)
		13 points by hhm on Aug 24, 2007 \| 2 comments
13.		Subprime Fallout Could Help Venture Capitalists (nytimes.com)
		12 points by dpapathanasiou on Aug 24, 2007 \| 2 comments
14.		Scoble: Twitter etc are the next email (fastcompany.com)
		10 points by farmer on Aug 24, 2007 \| 8 comments
15.		Fuel for thought (bizjournals.com)
		8 points by kkim on Aug 24, 2007 \| 3 comments
16.		Sex, shopping and thinking pink (Men's and women's brains are different) (economist.com)
		7 points by charzom on Aug 24, 2007 \| 4 comments
17.		When I Worked at Google... (google.com)
		8 points by soundsop on Aug 24, 2007 \| 5 comments
18.		jQuery 1.1.4 Released with Impressive Speed Improvements (jquery.com)
		7 points by nickb on Aug 24, 2007 \| 3 comments
19.		World Bank study shows "what countries need to do to create wealth" (reason.com)
		7 points by charzom on Aug 24, 2007 \| 1 comment
20.		The most bizarre episode in the history of the papacy (wikipedia.org)
		6 points by kf on Aug 24, 2007 \| 4 comments
21.		Web based UI tool (layout dissector) for web designers (westciv.com)
		6 points by chaostheory on Aug 24, 2007 \| 4 comments
22.		Startup Wiki, sponsored by Y Combinator, powered by Infogami (wiki.ycombinator.com)
		5 points by kf on Aug 24, 2007 \| 2 comments
23.		Mark Cuban: The internet is 'dead and boring' (portfolio.com)
		5 points by nickb on Aug 24, 2007 \| 3 comments
24.		Startup Inspiration: The Formula, Malcolm Gladwell. (gladwell.com)
		5 points by bluishgreen on Aug 24, 2007
25.		NJ Teen Unlocks IPhone From AT&T Network (breitbart.com)
		5 points by gibsonf1 on Aug 24, 2007
26.		Steve Jobs and the Xerox Star demo (charter.net)
		4 points by nickb on Aug 24, 2007 \| 3 comments
27.		Google Transit Maps Shows the Dark Side of Platform Developement (andrewparker.net)
		4 points by joshwa on Aug 24, 2007
28.		Astronomers find gaping hole in the Universe (physorg.com)
		4 points by charzom on Aug 24, 2007 \| 1 comment
29.		Neverending Story (cha1n.com)
		4 points by palish on Aug 24, 2007 \| 3 comments
30.		You Didn't Blow the Interview, Your College Facebook Profile Kept You From Getting the Job (education-portal.com)
		4 points by nickb on Aug 24, 2007 \| 8 comments
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