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1.		Why Programmers Don't Like Relational Databases (typicalprogrammer.com)
		43 points by mqt on Sept 26, 2007 \| 80 comments
2.		Is he right? ( Confessions of a Terrible Programmer ) (kickin-the-darkness.blogspot.com)
		32 points by vlad on Sept 26, 2007 \| 20 comments
3.		The Case Against Adolescence (kottke.org)
		22 points by ivankirigin on Sept 26, 2007 \| 15 comments
4.		Arithmetic is Hard--To Get Right: Wolfram Research on Excel bug (wolfram.com)
		20 points by hhm on Sept 26, 2007 \| 11 comments
5.		YC startup Clickpass looking to hire a designer in San Francisco (webkitchen.co.uk)
		20 points by petenixey on Sept 26, 2007 \| 5 comments
6.		You Can Learn a Great Deal from a 17-Year-Old (techipedia.com)
		18 points by alaskamiller on Sept 26, 2007
7.		5 things that make your social network monetize like crap (andrewchen.typepad.com)
		17 points by andrew_null on Sept 26, 2007 \| 4 comments
8.		How Hard Could It Be?: Unfocused and Unabashed (inc.com)
		16 points by lackbeard on Sept 26, 2007 \| 1 comment
9.		A low-bandwidth, high-latency, high-cost, and unreliable data channel (hixie.ch)
		15 points by mqt on Sept 26, 2007
10.		Bertrand Russell: The Value of Philosophy (paulgraham.com)
		15 points by byrneseyeview on Sept 26, 2007 \| 11 comments
11.		Auctomatic in open beta now (auctomatic.com)
		15 points by kf on Sept 26, 2007 \| 10 comments
12.		Instructables -- step-by-step instructions for everything (instructables.com)
		13 points by karzeem on Sept 26, 2007 \| 4 comments
13.		7-Year Updated Ajax Timeline of Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Amazon Acquisitions (shmula.com)
		12 points by vlad on Sept 26, 2007 \| 7 comments
14.		The Journeyman Programmer - C#, Lisp, Python, Erlang & More (softwareisart.wordpress.com)
		12 points by tomh on Sept 26, 2007 \| 2 comments
15.		Kara Swisher Deconstructs Facebook (allthingsd.com)
		11 points by transburgh on Sept 26, 2007 \| 4 comments
16.		Idea: Competitive Microblogging
		9 points by imperator on Sept 26, 2007 \| 6 comments
17.		Angel Networks
		8 points by jsjenkins168 on Sept 26, 2007 \| 25 comments
18.		blog.pmarca.com: I think I can, I think I can (pmarca.com)
		7 points by luccastera on Sept 26, 2007 \| 6 comments
19.		For more than two decades, the Fed has been the prime enabler of dangerously speculative economy (prospect.org)
		7 points by nickb on Sept 26, 2007 \| 1 comment
20.		Slides from RailsConf Europe '07 on Scaling Rails and Joyent Architecture (bingodisk.com)
		6 points by DocSavage on Sept 26, 2007 \| 7 comments
21.		How To Lose All Your Friends Immediately, In Real Time (techcrunch.com)
		6 points by nickb on Sept 26, 2007
22.		Web apps: e-mail and games remain hot, office apps cool (arstechnica.com)
		5 points by karzeem on Sept 26, 2007
23.		Like Amazon's DRM-free Music Downloads? Thank Apple. (wired.com)
		5 points by karzeem on Sept 26, 2007 \| 2 comments
24.		Sometimes you are truly better off starting from scratch (arc90.com)
		5 points by bootload on Sept 26, 2007 \| 1 comment
25.		Shipping a 1.0 product isn't going to kill you, but it will try (randsinrepose.com)
		4 points by danw on Sept 26, 2007 \| 1 comment
26.		Another Fun House Language Called Context-Free (hackety.org)
		4 points by luccastera on Sept 26, 2007 \| 2 comments
27.		How to Sell an Idea (bnet.com)
		4 points by donna on Sept 26, 2007 \| 2 comments
28.		Karatsuba Multiplication (mathworld.wolfram.com)
		4 points by nickb on Sept 26, 2007
29.		You Be The VC: Reality Programming Comes To Venture Capital (techcrunch.com)
		4 points by transburgh on Sept 26, 2007 \| 5 comments
30.		Outsourcing Works, So India Is Exporting Jobs (nytimes.com)
		4 points by nickb on Sept 26, 2007
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