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1.		'Excuse Me. May I Have Your Seat?' (nytimes.com)
		57 points by byrneseyeview on Jan 3, 2008 \| 8 comments
2.		Rails is a Ghetto (Part 2) (zedshaw.com)
		39 points by carpal on Jan 3, 2008 \| 17 comments
3.		"A significant amount of skill with a soldering iron and some custom firmware has revealed.... Kindle" (news.com)
		33 points by ereldon on Jan 3, 2008 \| 3 comments
4.		Facebook blocks Scoble for downloading his contacts, sparks revolt (techcrunch.com)
		27 points by nickb on Jan 3, 2008 \| 23 comments
5.		The Next Google Search Challenger: Blekko (techcrunch.com)
		19 points by terpua on Jan 3, 2008 \| 10 comments
6.		Textbooks in Mathematics (online) (ictp.it)
		18 points by hhm on Jan 3, 2008
7.		Get Well, Om (Om Malik suffers a heart attack) (techcrunch.com)
		16 points by nickb on Jan 3, 2008 \| 1 comment
8.		Top 10 Google Products You Forgot All About (lifehacker.com)
		15 points by transburgh on Jan 3, 2008 \| 2 comments
9.		The Easiest Hard Problem: Balanced Number Partitioning (americanscientist.org)
		12 points by cperciva on Jan 3, 2008 \| 4 comments
10.		DNA seen through the eyes of a coder (ds9a.nl)
		13 points by hhm on Jan 3, 2008 \| 3 comments
11.		5 Marketing Tools Every Startup Should Use (instigatorblog.com)
		13 points by drm237 on Jan 3, 2008 \| 2 comments
12.		Why Search? Skrenta on Blekko (skrenta.com)
		12 points by chrisconley on Jan 3, 2008 \| 3 comments
13.		Flickr reaches photo #2147483647, causing an integer overflow in a 3rd-party library (driftr.com)
		12 points by nickb on Jan 3, 2008 \| 3 comments
14.		Google Mac introduces "GrabFS", the screenshot file system (googlemac.blogspot.com)
		11 points by nickb on Jan 3, 2008 \| 1 comment
15.		Microsoft.com being redesigned to push Silverlight (neosmart.net)
		11 points by iamelgringo on Jan 3, 2008 \| 11 comments
16.		Autodesk founder John Walker Explains Relativity (Including Relativistic Renders) (fourmilab.ch)
		9 points by hhm on Jan 3, 2008
17.		Twitter's business model (scripting.com)
		8 points by bootload on Jan 3, 2008 \| 2 comments
18.		Viewing today's web in Netscape 0.9b (torgo-x.livejournal.com)
		8 points by theoneill on Jan 3, 2008 \| 1 comment
19.		The Trouble with PDFs (codinghorror.com)
		8 points by iamelgringo on Jan 3, 2008 \| 7 comments
20.		Scoble Banned From Facebook; Calacanis Happy (centernetworks.com)
		8 points by transburgh on Jan 3, 2008
21.		Ten Likely Events in 2008 (businessweek.com)
		6 points by hhm on Jan 3, 2008 \| 2 comments
22.		Need early feedback for a website that matches entrepreneurs, developers and designers (blitzmaker.com)
		6 points by mtw on Jan 3, 2008 \| 4 comments
23.		In under 12 hours, Facebook reinstates Scoble's account (scobleizer.com)
		6 points by pius on Jan 3, 2008 \| 1 comment
24.		How To Successfully Interrupt A Conversation (fiddyp.co.uk)
		5 points by transburgh on Jan 3, 2008 \| 1 comment
25.		Dinesh D'Souza debates Daniel Dennett on the existence of God (part 1 of 15) (youtube.com)
		5 points by amichail on Jan 3, 2008 \| 1 comment
26.		Hand-Drawing Style In Modern Web Design (smashingmagazine.com)
		5 points by german on Jan 3, 2008
27.		Ask YC: webapp's frontend spruce up
		5 points by mig on Jan 3, 2008 \| 9 comments
28.		Howto undo a commit in SVN. I always forget how to do this. (noehr.org)
		5 points by whalesalad on Jan 3, 2008
29.		Java: Evolutionary Dead End (artima.com)
		4 points by iamelgringo on Jan 3, 2008
30.		David Byrne's Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists - and Megastars (biz models) (wired.com)
		4 points by nickb on Jan 3, 2008
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