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1.		10 Downing Street: Treatment of Alan Turing was "appalling" (number10.gov.uk)
		237 points by handelaar on Sept 10, 2009 \| 81 comments
2.		Google's Javascript PDF Viewer is Embeddable (googlesystem.blogspot.com)
		115 points by blasdel on Sept 10, 2009 \| 54 comments
3.		Gordon Brown apologises to Alan Turing (telegraph.co.uk)
		109 points by sharpn on Sept 10, 2009 \| 26 comments
4.		ICFP '09: "Get rid of cons!" Guy Steele on parallel algorithms & data structures (sun.com)
		99 points by mquander on Sept 10, 2009 \| 30 comments
5.		Facebook releases Tornado (Python web server that powers FriendFeed) (facebook.com)
		86 points by mtrichardson on Sept 10, 2009 \| 7 comments
6.		Blu-Ray Still Blows (textfiles.com)
		71 points by blasdel on Sept 10, 2009 \| 82 comments
7.		Tornado Web Server (tornadoweb.org)
		71 points by ajbatac on Sept 10, 2009 \| 5 comments
8.		Somebody Has To Say It: It’s Time For iTunes Lite (techcrunch.com)
		71 points by jasonlbaptiste on Sept 10, 2009 \| 95 comments
9.		Oracle's Declaration to Sun Customers ... and IBM (oracle.com)
		70 points by fogus on Sept 10, 2009 \| 48 comments
10.		Scientists Levitate Mice (msn.com)
		66 points by brandnewly on Sept 10, 2009 \| 33 comments
11.		ITunes + CSS3 (judsoncollier.com)
		62 points by jasonlbaptiste on Sept 10, 2009 \| 31 comments
12.		JsMath: Including Mathematics in Web Pages (union.edu)
		59 points by gus_massa on Sept 10, 2009 \| 20 comments
13.		Critical: Vulnerabilities in Windows TCP/IP Could Allow Remote Code Execution (microsoft.com)
		58 points by tvon on Sept 10, 2009 \| 29 comments
14.		What Happens When Apple Features Your iPhone App (return7.com)
		60 points by PStamatiou on Sept 10, 2009 \| 18 comments
15.		Should Apache replace its current httpd.conf with Lua? (gmane.org)
		58 points by compay on Sept 10, 2009 \| 47 comments
16.		Dark Stalking on Facebook (pjf.id.au)
		57 points by zkz on Sept 10, 2009 \| 23 comments
17.		Early Risers Crash Faster Than People Who Stay Up Late (scientificamerican.com)
		53 points by alex_c on Sept 10, 2009 \| 34 comments
18.		Facebook adds @mentions to status updates. (thenextweb.com)
		52 points by mgcreed on Sept 10, 2009 \| 28 comments
19.		"On communicating better" --- 37signals revises security pages. (37signals.com)
		50 points by tptacek on Sept 10, 2009 \| 17 comments
20.		Majority of US Healthcare Costs Are Caused by Bad Eating Habits (nytimes.com)
		48 points by jyu on Sept 10, 2009 \| 59 comments
21.		The Founders Visa Movement (feld.com)
		47 points by GVRV on Sept 10, 2009 \| 54 comments
22.		Did highways cause suburbanization? (marginalrevolution.com)
		46 points by noheartanthony on Sept 10, 2009 \| 51 comments
23.		Why ERP is still so hard (computerworlduk.com)
		44 points by monkeygrinder on Sept 10, 2009 \| 30 comments
24.		MP3 Blogs and wget (veen.com)
		44 points by ivankirigin on Sept 10, 2009 \| 9 comments
25.		Inner-platform effect (wikipedia.org)
		42 points by Hexstream on Sept 10, 2009 \| 24 comments
26.		Job description written in Ruby (37signals.com)
		42 points by subbu on Sept 10, 2009 \| 35 comments
27.		Y Combinator Blog (ycombinator.posterous.com)
		41 points by robg on Sept 10, 2009 \| 3 comments
28.		Entrepreneurs, does it help to be desperate? (sivers.org)
		39 points by sivers on Sept 10, 2009 \| 24 comments
29.		Schneier on Security: File Deletion (schneier.com)
		39 points by billpg on Sept 10, 2009 \| 5 comments
30.		Don't MAWK AWK - the fastest and most elegant big data munging language (anyall.org)
		37 points by blasdel on Sept 10, 2009 \| 22 comments
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