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1.		Computer Science: Smart People Have Weird Hangups (jjinux.blogspot.com)
		35 points by rams on Sept 24, 2007 \| 14 comments
2.		I have a great idea for a webapp, but hardly any programming knowledge. What should i do?
		32 points by thehigherlife on Sept 24, 2007 \| 101 comments
3.		User Bases, Pricing, Revenue, and the Value of Users (xobni.com)
		30 points by reitzensteinm on Sept 24, 2007 \| 8 comments
4.		Facebook at $10 Billion Valuation, Microsoft to Invest? (wsj.com)
		22 points by bosshog on Sept 24, 2007 \| 36 comments
5.		Compilation of suggestions submitted for Arc (archub.org)
		21 points by mqt on Sept 24, 2007 \| 6 comments
6.		Mozy acquired by EMC for $76MM (techcrunch.com)
		18 points by dhouston on Sept 24, 2007 \| 8 comments
7.		Give a OLTP Laptop and Get One (businessweek.com)
		18 points by luccastera on Sept 24, 2007 \| 12 comments
8.		The New College Try (nytimes.com)
		14 points by robg on Sept 24, 2007 \| 15 comments
9.		How do you attract smart people to work at your startup?
		16 points by axiom on Sept 24, 2007 \| 22 comments
10.		Rubinius is important - "Rubinius will be the CRuby implementation of choice within 6 months" (ola-bini.blogspot.com)
		13 points by nickb on Sept 24, 2007 \| 3 comments
11.		What would telecoms be like if no license was required? (bbc.co.uk)
		12 points by lupin_sansei on Sept 24, 2007 \| 3 comments
12.		DHH's response to "7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails" (loudthinking.com)
		12 points by brett on Sept 24, 2007 \| 8 comments
13.		A regular expression to check for prime numbers (noulakaz.net)
		11 points by alex_c on Sept 24, 2007 \| 8 comments
14.		Perl 5.10 Advanced Regular Expressions (regex-engineer.org)
		9 points by jamongkad on Sept 24, 2007
15.		News.YC #1 for Startup News, #3 for Hacker News (google.com)
		10 points by vlad on Sept 24, 2007 \| 3 comments
16.		PARC opens incubator, may change plodding reputation? (venturebeat.com)
		8 points by mqt on Sept 24, 2007 \| 1 comment
17.		HackerID: name the best HackerNews contributors
		9 points by bootload on Sept 24, 2007 \| 7 comments
18.		VCs & Tech Lawyers: Innovate, Automate & Simplify (500hats.typepad.com)
		9 points by byosko on Sept 24, 2007
19.		Immature developer attitudes revealed in flames regarding CDBaby at Pervasive Code (pervasivecode.com)
		8 points by nickb on Sept 24, 2007 \| 2 comments
20.		Macrophobia (a-nickels-worth.blogspot.com)
		8 points by Goladus on Sept 24, 2007
21.		Google Prepping A Second Life Competitor? (techcrunch.com)
		6 points by gibsonf1 on Sept 24, 2007 \| 3 comments
22.		What are your startup's philosophies? (m3moore.wordpress.com)
		7 points by moorage on Sept 24, 2007 \| 5 comments
23.		Microsoft Looking to Buy 5% of Facebook (centernetworks.com)
		7 points by transburgh on Sept 24, 2007
24.		Ouch: mEgo Gets Kicked Out Of Demo (techcrunch.com)
		7 points by transburgh on Sept 24, 2007 \| 6 comments
25.		Pownce vs Digg: Who Will Kevin Rose Back? (techcrunch.com)
		6 points by nickb on Sept 24, 2007 \| 7 comments
26.		Apple Says Unlocked iPhones Will Brick After Software Update (Coming Later This Week) (gizmodo.com)
		6 points by nickb on Sept 24, 2007 \| 4 comments
27.		CodeGear (Borland) releases 3rdRail - "High Power Ruby on Rails IDE" (codegear.com)
		6 points by nickb on Sept 24, 2007 \| 2 comments
28.		The Big Rewrite - why many software rewrite projects end badly (chadfowler.com)
		6 points by nickb on Sept 24, 2007
29.		The Great Inflation Mystery, Still Unsolved (nytimes.com)
		6 points by robg on Sept 24, 2007 \| 2 comments
30.		Hot property: A spacious missile base as your new home... (breitbart.com)
		6 points by gscott on Sept 24, 2007 \| 7 comments
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