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1.		Competent Elites are More Alive (overcomingbias.com)
		45 points by gaika on Sept 27, 2008 \| 31 comments
2.		The "Outside the Box" Box (overcomingbias.com)
		44 points by prakash on Sept 27, 2008 \| 18 comments
3.		Richard Stallman looks back at 25 years of the GNU project (linux.com)
		42 points by qhoxie on Sept 27, 2008 \| 10 comments
4.		Ask YC: Review my app (Panoye) (panoye.com)
		38 points by puzz on Sept 27, 2008 \| 32 comments
5.		Companies Who Make Money: Datapresser (thenextweb.org)
		38 points by agentbleu on Sept 27, 2008 \| 25 comments
6.		Pandora Issues a "Call to Arms" to its Listeners (readwriteweb.com)
		27 points by qhoxie on Sept 27, 2008 \| 7 comments
7.		Tired? The importance of letting ideas marinate and percolate through sleep (nytimes.com)
		27 points by robg on Sept 27, 2008 \| 15 comments
8.		Proebsting's Law: Compiler Advances Double Computing Power Every 18 Years (research.microsoft.com)
		23 points by soundsop on Sept 27, 2008 \| 15 comments
9.		Status Update: Merb 1.0 (yehudakatz.com)
		17 points by qhoxie on Sept 27, 2008 \| 15 comments
10.		Mini Portable Arduino Laptop (liquidware.com)
		17 points by bootload on Sept 27, 2008 \| 8 comments
11.		Ask HN: Best, Simple, Free Web-based Bookkeeping/Accounting
		17 points by mstefff on Sept 27, 2008 \| 19 comments
12.		Stop Complaining about Apple and the App Store (techcrunch.com)
		16 points by ajbatac on Sept 27, 2008 \| 17 comments
13.		HTML 5: Ian Hickson showing you features in browsers today (ajaxian.com)
		16 points by qhoxie on Sept 27, 2008 \| 1 comment
14.		Norvig's Law (norvig.com)
		14 points by parenthesis on Sept 27, 2008 \| 14 comments
15.		Walmart Shutting Down MP3 Store DRM Servers,Reminder to Not Buy DRM Content (gizmodo.com)
		13 points by jasonlbaptiste on Sept 27, 2008 \| 1 comment
16.		Manifesto of the Programmer Liberation Front (alarmingdevelopment.org)
		11 points by maxwell on Sept 27, 2008 \| 7 comments
17.		Tom Perkins's (of KP) Giant Yacht Sails to San Francisco (nytimes.com)
		11 points by echair on Sept 27, 2008 \| 22 comments
18.		Ask YC: Surprised Twitter Made it Through the Debate?
		10 points by iamdave on Sept 27, 2008 \| 10 comments
19.		Flash 10 and the bad news for JavaScript interaction (ajaxian.com)
		10 points by qhoxie on Sept 27, 2008
20.		Facebook bans those with funny names (theinquirer.net)
		9 points by alexk on Sept 27, 2008 \| 7 comments
21.		AutoTagger--making tagging on Facebook easier (facebook.com)
		9 points by kelkabany on Sept 27, 2008 \| 4 comments
22.		An Automat is a fast food restaurant where foods and drink are served by vending machines. (wikipedia.org)
		7 points by pius on Sept 27, 2008 \| 14 comments
23.		Poll YC: Mandatory Replies.
		6 points by jlopez on Sept 27, 2008 \| 23 comments
24.		Track House And Senate Votes On Twitter (alternateidea.com)
		6 points by pius on Sept 27, 2008
25.		UCLA group discovers 13-million-digit prime number (sfgate.com)
		5 points by gibsonf1 on Sept 27, 2008 \| 3 comments
26.		Ask PG: How do you tell a VC you're not ready for them yet?
		5 points by wheels on Sept 27, 2008 \| 7 comments
27.		Dealing with the problem of moon dust (sciencecodex.com)
		5 points by soundsop on Sept 27, 2008 \| 2 comments
28.		Study suggests learning from mistakes only kicks in at Age 12 (sciencedaily.com)
		5 points by jwilliams on Sept 27, 2008 \| 4 comments
29.		Ask YC: API/source for movie showtimes & cinema locations
		5 points by namcos on Sept 27, 2008 \| 1 comment
30.		Understanding Moore's Law (arstechnica.com)
		5 points by habs on Sept 27, 2008 \| 1 comment
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