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31.		Sikorsky counterrotating helicopter takes flight (law.harvard.edu)
		9 points by bdfh42 on Aug 29, 2008 \| 2 comments
32.		Remote control a crane robot (dnsalias.com)
		9 points by bartman on Aug 29, 2008 \| 2 comments
33.		A Simple Memory Trick Shows Brain Organization (brainmysteries.com)
		9 points by nickb on Aug 29, 2008
34.		Caterpillar Inc. Funds Viterbi 'Print-a-House' Contour Crafting Technology (nextbigfuture.com)
		7 points by chaostheory on Aug 29, 2008 \| 1 comment
35.		Product: ScaleOut StateServer is Memcached on Steroids (highscalability.com)
		7 points by ajbatac on Aug 29, 2008 \| 4 comments
36.		But who will play Mark Zuckerberg? (sfgate.com)
		7 points by gibsonf1 on Aug 29, 2008 \| 9 comments
37.		SSD Won't Make Sense in Laptops for Two Years (computerworld.com)
		7 points by naish on Aug 29, 2008 \| 3 comments
38.		How many people have sound enabled on their computers?
		6 points by iamyoohoo on Aug 29, 2008 \| 4 comments
39.		Google may let users comment on, rearrange search results (thestandard.com)
		6 points by nickb on Aug 29, 2008 \| 1 comment
40.		Bloomberg mistakenly publishes obit for Apple CEO Steve Jobs - Atlanta Business Chronicle: (bizjournals.com)
		5 points by pbnaidu on Aug 29, 2008 \| 6 comments
41.		Google reverses "absurd" Mozilla code ban (pcpro.co.uk)
		5 points by soundsop on Aug 29, 2008
42.		Google's App Engine--is it too good to be true? (technologyreview.com)
		5 points by nickb on Aug 29, 2008
43.		"Blocks" in Clang (aka closures in C) (uiuc.edu)
		5 points by jonhohle on Aug 29, 2008
44.		Ask Yc: What is your Favorite Keyboard?
		5 points by mannylee1 on Aug 29, 2008 \| 10 comments
45.		Novelist Neal Stephenson Once Again Proves He's the King of the Worlds (wired.com)
		5 points by rgrieselhuber on Aug 29, 2008 \| 3 comments
46.		Behind the doors of the Free Software Foundation (linux.com)
		5 points by soundsop on Aug 29, 2008
47.		jQuery Site Redesign - The Community Speaks (jquery.com)
		5 points by riklomas on Aug 29, 2008 \| 1 comment
48.		Album-loving artists blame iTunes for changed music tastes (arstechnica.com)
		5 points by nickb on Aug 29, 2008 \| 1 comment
49.		Target Settles Accessibility Lawsuit for $6 Million (sitepoint.com)
		4 points by astrec on Aug 29, 2008 \| 2 comments
50.		"Considered Harmful" Essays Considered Harmful (meyerweb.com)
		4 points by parenthesis on Aug 29, 2008 \| 4 comments
51.		Android Developer Challenge Gallery (code.google.com)
		4 points by davidw on Aug 29, 2008 \| 1 comment
52.		Ask HN: Please Review My Mobile Webapp (Drupal-powered)
		4 points by mstefff on Aug 29, 2008 \| 5 comments
53.		Unit testing is doomed when it’s an elephant (thediscoblog.com)
		4 points by dnene on Aug 29, 2008
54.		Syntax Across Programming Languages (sourceforge.net)
		4 points by sah on Aug 29, 2008
55.		Why something as poorly designed as the Web became The Next Big Thing (shirky.com)
		4 points by ericwaller on Aug 29, 2008
56.		Ask YC: Examples of great startup pitch videos?
		4 points by shadowonthesun on Aug 29, 2008
57.		Hardware of the casual gamer (unity3d.com)
		4 points by hhm on Aug 29, 2008
58.		SkypeIn - Your Personal Online Number (skype.com)
		3 points by known on Aug 29, 2008 \| 1 comment
59.		Internationalization made easy (99translations.com)
		3 points by nreece on Aug 29, 2008 \| 2 comments
60.		Mathematically Interesting Games (toronto.edu)
		3 points by hhm on Aug 29, 2008
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