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1.		19 year old from Florida commits suicide on Justin.tv (newteevee.com)
		99 points by jasonbentley on Nov 21, 2008 \| 179 comments
2.		UserTesting.com - 15 minute video of a user testing your site for $19 (usertesting.com)
		90 points by pchristensen on Nov 21, 2008 \| 27 comments
3.		A Costly Parade, by Why the Lucky Stiff, and that NodeBox pong game -- in Shoes (hackety.org)
		86 points by sc on Nov 21, 2008 \| 14 comments
4.		Ruby and the Opposite of Momentum (kirindave.tumblr.com)
		73 points by KirinDave on Nov 21, 2008 \| 65 comments
5.		If You Liked This, Sure to Love That (nytimes.com)
		59 points by kurtosis on Nov 21, 2008 \| 26 comments
6.		GCC hacks in the Linux kernel (ibm.com)
		58 points by soundsop on Nov 21, 2008 \| 15 comments
7.		CouchDB is now officially Apache CouchDB (damienkatz.net)
		56 points by mqt on Nov 21, 2008 \| 14 comments
8.		Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective (qntm.org)
		55 points by janpio on Nov 21, 2008 \| 55 comments
9.		A VC: Getting a piece of my action (avc.com)
		49 points by ph0rque on Nov 21, 2008 \| 19 comments
10.		How car dealers tie Detroit's hands (newyorker.com)
		45 points by sethg on Nov 21, 2008 \| 18 comments
11.		It's confirmed: Matter is merely vacuum fluctuations (newscientist.com)
		42 points by bd on Nov 21, 2008 \| 27 comments
12.		Ask YC: Any Adwords Success Stories out there (especially selling SaaS)?
		41 points by webwright on Nov 21, 2008 \| 14 comments
13.		What to do about Detroit. (sethgodin.typepad.com)
		40 points by ph0rque on Nov 21, 2008 \| 43 comments
14.		Stop pretending (37signals.com)
		36 points by qhoxie on Nov 21, 2008 \| 5 comments
15.		Rails 2.2: i18n, HTTP validators, thread safety, JRuby/1.9 compatibility, docs (rubyonrails.org)
		30 points by sant0sk1 on Nov 21, 2008 \| 1 comment
16.		Ask YC: Apple sent me a takedown notice - what should I do?
		30 points by Sam_Odio on Nov 21, 2008 \| 35 comments
17.		Sounds Like Bach (unc.edu)
		28 points by marcus on Nov 21, 2008 \| 23 comments
18.		I Am A Better Programmer Than You (thecodist.com)
		27 points by ks on Nov 21, 2008 \| 12 comments
19.		Much better footage of Alberta meteor (youtube.com)
		24 points by r7000 on Nov 21, 2008 \| 5 comments
20.		Amazon Beats Out Google as Best Cloud Provider (eweek.com)
		24 points by drm237 on Nov 21, 2008 \| 7 comments
21.		IPhone 2.2 Update Now Available
		24 points by comatose_kid on Nov 21, 2008 \| 18 comments
22.		Poker's Life Lessons For Entrepreneurs (infochachkie.com)
		26 points by mollylynn on Nov 21, 2008 \| 6 comments
23.		Facebook gets exemption from SEC rule that forced Google to go public (businessweek.com)
		20 points by theoneill on Nov 21, 2008 \| 9 comments
24.		College Stops Giving Students New Email Accounts (readwriteweb.com)
		19 points by beaudeal on Nov 21, 2008 \| 19 comments
25.		Official Google Blog: SearchWiki: make search your own (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		18 points by epi0Bauqu on Nov 21, 2008 \| 11 comments
26.		Programmer scans doodle drawings made during his morning meeting (scottrocher.com)
		17 points by rochers on Nov 21, 2008 \| 4 comments
27.		Google to Put Wiki on Top of Search (readwriteweb.com)
		16 points by babyshake on Nov 21, 2008 \| 2 comments
28.		Weebly launches re-designed site (blog.weebly.com)
		15 points by drusenko on Nov 21, 2008 \| 2 comments
29.		Google Chrome May Be Pre-installed On New PCs (readwriteweb.com)
		14 points by mattjung on Nov 21, 2008 \| 3 comments
30.		New strain of deadly Ebola virus discovered (afp.com)
		13 points by bootload on Nov 21, 2008 \| 2 comments
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