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1.		Joel Spolsky: Don't Leave The Industry (You Whining Emo Girl) (joelonsoftware.com)
		106 points by tptacek on Dec 28, 2008 \| 110 comments
2.		Scrapy: New Python web crawling & scraping framework (built on Twisted) (scrapy.org)
		92 points by lunchbox on Dec 28, 2008 \| 19 comments
3.		Why you should support Mac OS X and Linux (wolfire.com)
		54 points by nickb on Dec 28, 2008 \| 32 comments
4.		Every Mac I've owned has failed (37signals.com)
		38 points by zaveri on Dec 28, 2008 \| 72 comments
5.		SenCSs - CSS framework that doesn’t provide a layout system (just everything else) (kilianvalkhof.com)
		38 points by tortilla on Dec 28, 2008 \| 10 comments
6.		Haskell logo redesign (haskell.org)
		31 points by huhtenberg on Dec 28, 2008 \| 28 comments
7.		There are no mom and pop oil rigs in Norway (2002) (groups.google.com)
		28 points by bd on Dec 28, 2008 \| 17 comments
8.		How to Network: 12 Tips for Geeks (cio.com)
		27 points by qeek on Dec 28, 2008 \| 11 comments
9.		How many newspapers have an API? (nytimes.com)
		26 points by iamelgringo on Dec 28, 2008 \| 15 comments
10.		The NYTimes.com loves GeoDjango (nytimes.com)
		26 points by smysore on Dec 28, 2008 \| 2 comments
11.		Internet backbone Level 3 is offline (internethealthreport.com)
		25 points by dcurtis on Dec 28, 2008 \| 8 comments
12.		Ask HN: Do YC Startups Lack Spine?
		22 points by villageidiot on Dec 28, 2008 \| 63 comments
13.		Overview of Jekyll - a static site generator written in Ruby (oiledmachine.com)
		22 points by basil on Dec 28, 2008 \| 11 comments
14.		2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved (telegraph.co.uk)
		20 points by petercooper on Dec 28, 2008 \| 55 comments
15.		Ask HN: How do you manage work/life balance?
		19 points by zsection on Dec 28, 2008 \| 42 comments
16.		Teen with Home Chemistry Lab Arrested for Meth, Bombs (io9.com)
		19 points by anthonyrubin on Dec 28, 2008 \| 9 comments
17.		List of Chinese Inventions (wikipedia.org)
		19 points by DaniFong on Dec 28, 2008 \| 14 comments
18.		James Hamilton: The Cost of Bulk Cold Storage: $0.80/GB/year (mvdirona.com)
		19 points by wmf on Dec 28, 2008 \| 4 comments
19.		Why We’re Still Happy (nytimes.com)
		17 points by veteran on Dec 28, 2008 \| 18 comments
20.		Ask HN: What type of Biz Credit Card do you have?
		17 points by rishi on Dec 28, 2008 \| 28 comments
21.		SpaceX gets $1.6 billion ISS NASA contract (spacex.com)
		15 points by alex_c on Dec 28, 2008
22.		Amazon.com: How the Online Giant Hoodwinks the Press (slate.com)
		15 points by ojbyrne on Dec 28, 2008 \| 10 comments
23.		Accounting Standards Wilt Under Pressure (washingtonpost.com)
		12 points by mattmcknight on Dec 28, 2008 \| 3 comments
24.		Tweetree doing exactly what Twitter should be - providing more context and metadata (tweetree.com)
		13 points by jamesjyu on Dec 28, 2008 \| 4 comments
25.		Ask HN: How do mashups avoid copyright infringement lawsuits?
		13 points by villageidiot on Dec 28, 2008 \| 18 comments
26.		Tweetree: Twitter.com on Steroids (twitterrati.com)
		12 points by buckpost on Dec 28, 2008 \| 4 comments
27.		How to blog like a pro (altgate.com)
		12 points by fnazeeri on Dec 28, 2008 \| 4 comments
28.		Theory Disproven: Money as Motivation (jtame05.wordpress.com)
		11 points by jmtame on Dec 28, 2008 \| 7 comments
29.		It's about the ecology, stupid (skein.tumblr.com)
		9 points by knowtheory on Dec 28, 2008 \| 6 comments
30.		Cocoa with Love: Heterogeneous cells in a UITableViewController (cocoawithlove.com)
		8 points by twampss on Dec 28, 2008
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