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1.		Hackers' screen shots
		49 points by davidw on Oct 31, 2007 \| 101 comments
2.		Philip Greenspun's take on Women in Science (greenspun.com)
		32 points by apu on Oct 31, 2007 \| 20 comments
3.		Fonts for hackers (xobni.com)
		29 points by brezina on Oct 31, 2007 \| 29 comments
4.		My YC Startup Enters Private Beta (draftmix.com)
		27 points by mattmaroon on Oct 31, 2007 \| 49 comments
5.		5.6 Mag Earthquake knocks San Jose (usgs.gov)
		23 points by nickb on Oct 31, 2007 \| 31 comments
6.		Google to launch an open and common API for various social networks (techcrunch.com)
		21 points by alaskamiller on Oct 31, 2007 \| 8 comments
7.		PaperBack: Back up your code to paper (seriously) (ollydbg.de)
		18 points by jcwentz on Oct 31, 2007 \| 8 comments
8.		A Simple Programming Puzzle Seen Through Three Different Lenses (power of Ruby, Python) (thraxil.org)
		20 points by nickb on Oct 31, 2007 \| 3 comments
9.		Boston Hacker News Meetup. Sunday 8:30pm, Miracle of Science Bar
		16 points by ivankirigin on Oct 31, 2007 \| 7 comments
10.		What Percentage of Startups Fail? (nytimes.com)
		14 points by neilc on Oct 31, 2007 \| 10 comments
11.		Zipcar merges with Flexcar (zipcar.com)
		11 points by solfox on Oct 31, 2007
12.		Digg 'will grow by letting others copy us' (guardian.co.uk)
		8 points by brett on Oct 31, 2007 \| 3 comments
13.		Mugr -- face recognition and search startup enters private beta (mugr.com)
		9 points by mc on Oct 31, 2007 \| 9 comments
14.		Amazon Dynamo: The Next Generation Of Virtual Distributed Storage (readwriteweb.com)
		7 points by catalinist on Oct 31, 2007
15.		Programmers And Prostitutes (kirubakaran.blogspot.com)
		8 points by kirubakaran on Oct 31, 2007 \| 2 comments
16.		What's the difference between smart money and dumb money? (venturehacks.com)
		8 points by nivi on Oct 31, 2007
17.		Keyboarding vs Mousing: what's better, what's faster? Apple's Bruce Tognazzini weighs in on the $50 million dollar question. (asktog.com)
		8 points by alaskamiller on Oct 31, 2007 \| 2 comments
18.		Announcing Ikarus: A native code compiler for R6RS Scheme (groups.google.com)
		7 points by nickb on Oct 31, 2007
19.		Disqus: Awesome-izing Blog Conversations, Creating Communities (rev2.org)
		7 points by jcwentz on Oct 31, 2007
20.		Who's partying with reddit tonight? (drankkit.com)
		6 points by nmeyer on Oct 31, 2007 \| 5 comments
21.		Starting a High Tech Business: Get a Clubhouse (windley.com)
		6 points by bootload on Oct 31, 2007 \| 1 comment
22.		Google OpenSocial: Common APIs For Building Social Apps (techcrunch.com)
		6 points by gabrielleydon on Oct 31, 2007 \| 3 comments
23.		Ask YC: How do you authenticate users?
		6 points by andrewfong on Oct 31, 2007 \| 12 comments
24.		How to Design a System
		5 points by palish on Oct 31, 2007 \| 5 comments
25.		Ask YC: Provide Health Insurance at Start-Up?
		5 points by NoMoreSnow on Oct 31, 2007 \| 5 comments
26.		Alan Perlis' Epigrams on Programming (uni-tuebingen.de)
		5 points by herdrick on Oct 31, 2007
27.		TechStars Summer 2008 program announced (techstarsblog.com)
		5 points by vegashacker on Oct 31, 2007 \| 3 comments
28.		Aaron Swartz writing a novel about "...startups, the power they presume to have over the world..." (aaronsw.com)
		5 points by abstractbill on Oct 31, 2007 \| 4 comments
29.		Satisfying UI Design is Often Illogical (theocacao.com)
		4 points by nickb on Oct 31, 2007
30.		Whois May Be Retired, Says ICANN (readwriteweb.com)
		4 points by catalinist on Oct 31, 2007 \| 3 comments
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