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1.		xkcd - Python (xkcd.com)
		39 points by nickb on Dec 5, 2007 \| 8 comments
2.		Project Euler - Fun Math and Programming Problems (projecteuler.net)
		34 points by Bluem00 on Dec 5, 2007 \| 10 comments
3.		Joel Spolsky's Talk at Yale, Part 3 (joelonsoftware.com)
		30 points by jkush on Dec 5, 2007 \| 12 comments
4.		Simon Willison: Comet works, and it's easier than you think (server push, instead of Ajax polling) (simonwillison.net)
		24 points by toffer on Dec 5, 2007 \| 2 comments
5.		Bruce Schneier Answers Freakonomics' Questions (nytimes.com)
		21 points by nickb on Dec 5, 2007 \| 1 comment
6.		Edsger Dijkstra - Discipline in Thought [video] (youtube.com)
		19 points by dood on Dec 5, 2007 \| 7 comments
7.		Loic Le Meur's Ten Rules For Startup Success (techcrunch.com)
		19 points by nickb on Dec 5, 2007 \| 5 comments
8.		Zuckerberg apologizes for Beacon -- announces a full opt-out (facebook.com)
		18 points by mqt on Dec 5, 2007 \| 22 comments
9.		Bit Twiddling Hacks (stanford.edu)
		18 points by hhm on Dec 5, 2007 \| 3 comments
10.		Thinkpad Accelerometer (nikolajbaer.us)
		16 points by superjared on Dec 5, 2007
11.		Ask YC: what laptop to buy?
		15 points by shayan on Dec 5, 2007 \| 55 comments
12.		New hypothesis for origin of life proposed (physorg.com)
		15 points by nickb on Dec 5, 2007 \| 4 comments
13.		Antidiscrimination Law (or, the Dropout Anti-Employment Act) (chicagoboyz.net)
		15 points by amichail on Dec 5, 2007 \| 1 comment
14.		Fortune: RIP Facebook? "...watching it now is like watching an unattended child play with a pack of matches in a wooden house." (cnn.com)
		14 points by nickb on Dec 5, 2007 \| 4 comments
15.		A Future So Bright You'll Need to Wear Sunglasses (greenspun.com)
		8 points by vikram on Dec 5, 2007
16.		Israel's Silicon Valley (washingtonpost.com)
		8 points by chwolfe on Dec 5, 2007 \| 2 comments
17.		An Everywhere Continuous Nowhere Differentiable Function, interesting proof by John McCarthy (stanford.edu)
		7 points by hhm on Dec 5, 2007 \| 2 comments
18.		Microsoft is proud of IE7's first year (and many commenters are outraged) (msdn.com)
		7 points by nickb on Dec 5, 2007 \| 3 comments
19.		iPhone on Rails - Creating an iPhone optimised version of your Rails site using iUI and Rails 2 (slashdotdash.net)
		6 points by luccastera on Dec 5, 2007
20.		Xobni's goal is to "become the Google of personal information" (justinburdett.com)
		6 points by kf on Dec 5, 2007 \| 4 comments
21.		"An Invitation to Algorithmic Information Theory" (using Lisp), by Greg Chaitin (auckland.ac.nz)
		6 points by hhm on Dec 5, 2007
22.		The Seven Point Scale (jgc.org)
		5 points by jgrahamc on Dec 5, 2007 \| 2 comments
23.		When cruft creeps in (37signals.com)
		5 points by terpua on Dec 5, 2007
24.		Startups Tell VCs: Don't Show Me the Money (Yet) (wired.com)
		5 points by mqt on Dec 5, 2007
25.		A copy of news.yc RSS that works with Google Reader (ath.cx)
		5 points by marketer on Dec 5, 2007 \| 2 comments
26.		PDF Is Now ISO 32000 (adobe.com)
		5 points by mqt on Dec 5, 2007 \| 2 comments
27.		Avast from the Pirate Lab (xobni.com)
		5 points by solfox on Dec 5, 2007
28.		Continental Airlines Turns Mobile Phones Into Boarding Passes for Houston Travelers (cio.com)
		4 points by AZA43 on Dec 5, 2007
29.		Google Pre-Launches New iPhone Interface (techcrunch.com)
		4 points by nickb on Dec 5, 2007
30.		Ask YC: What's your startup going to change?
		4 points by robmnl on Dec 5, 2007 \| 1 comment
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