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31.		What was the role of MS-DOS in Windows 95? (msdn.com)
		15 points by gaika on July 30, 2008 \| 6 comments
32.		Project Orion is one of the stupidest, most wonderful ideas ever conceived in America. (lupoleboucher.livejournal.com)
		14 points by byrneseyeview on July 30, 2008 \| 6 comments
33.		Saving The Music Business (whydoeseverythingsuck.com)
		14 points by whalliburton on July 30, 2008 \| 9 comments
34.		Comparing Google, Yahoo, Live, Ask & Cuil with Actual Queries & Data (seomoz.org)
		12 points by randfish on July 30, 2008 \| 4 comments
35.		What You Expect from Clients is What You Will Get (37signals.com)
		12 points by superchink on July 30, 2008 \| 3 comments
36.		Y2K 2.0: Banking software is not ready to handle Zimbabwe's inflation. (huffingtonpost.com)
		12 points by gaika on July 30, 2008 \| 11 comments
37.		UFO hacker loses appeal (thesun.co.uk)
		12 points by gibsonf1 on July 30, 2008 \| 7 comments
38.		I'm doing it wrong? (amemototheinternet.com)
		11 points by sdpurtill on July 30, 2008 \| 6 comments
39.		KDE 4.1 delivers the next-gen desktop experience (arstechnica.com)
		8 points by azharcs on July 30, 2008 \| 25 comments
40.		Study: Women Outnumber Men on Most Social Networks (readwriteweb.com)
		10 points by Anon84 on July 30, 2008 \| 6 comments
41.		Ask YC: Critique my side-project (whatshallidonow.net)
		10 points by nostrademons on July 30, 2008 \| 12 comments
42.		Examples of large-scale functional language projects (lambda-the-ultimate.org)
		10 points by byrneseyeview on July 30, 2008
43.		Ask HN: Your hobbies?
		10 points by froo on July 30, 2008 \| 39 comments
44.		Are you finding the root cause? (37signals.com)
		10 points by sant0sk1 on July 30, 2008 \| 1 comment
45.		Password: You're doing it wrong (codebetter.com)
		10 points by soundsop on July 30, 2008 \| 2 comments
46.		Balsamiq, a Mockup Creator in AIR, is on Fire (readwriteweb.com)
		9 points by markbao on July 30, 2008 \| 3 comments
47.		The end of IT as we know it (bcs.org)
		9 points by madmotive on July 30, 2008 \| 2 comments
48.		Google will aquire GitHub.com (prediction)
		9 points by pibefision on July 30, 2008 \| 11 comments
49.		Google's information gathering techniques (slashdot.org)
		9 points by gaika on July 30, 2008 \| 2 comments
50.		Amazon Offers Other Sites Use of Its Payment Service (nytimes.com)
		9 points by jsteele on July 30, 2008 \| 6 comments
51.		Ask YC: Just launched my startup (an ad exchange network), what do you guys think?
		7 points by rksprst on July 30, 2008 \| 6 comments
52.		XML's co-author Tim Bray argues that it's no longer good enough to be a one-language shop. (internetnews.com)
		6 points by edw519 on July 30, 2008 \| 1 comment
53.		Teen Social Network myYearbook Gets $13 Million (techcrunch.com)
		5 points by jasonlbaptiste on July 30, 2008
54.		Bootstraps vs. VC Funded — Who’s most likely to make the most money? (jacksonfish.com)
		5 points by hillel on July 30, 2008 \| 3 comments
55.		How many computers should a programmer have? (soton.ac.uk)
		5 points by spydez on July 30, 2008 \| 12 comments
56.		The Solar Billionaires: Who’s Made Mad Money off of Solar Power? (geeksaresexy.net)
		5 points by greev on July 30, 2008
57.		Ask YC: How to debug javascript in IE??
		5 points by ca98am79 on July 30, 2008 \| 6 comments
58.		How Insight and Epiphanies Work (New Yorker) (209.85.173.104)
		5 points by jimgreer on July 30, 2008 \| 1 comment
59.		YC Alum: Help Me Get a YC Interview for winter 09
		5 points by voidfiles on July 30, 2008 \| 9 comments
60.		Entangled - A DHT Based on Kademlia (sourceforge.net)
		5 points by dhotson on July 30, 2008 \| 2 comments
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