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1.		How to roll your own Mac for under $240 (uselessninjas.com)
		50 points by makimaki on Dec 31, 2008 \| 35 comments
2.		Are all the MS Zunes dying? (gizmodo.com)
		47 points by bdfh42 on Dec 31, 2008 \| 58 comments
3.		Living on the edge of academia (drmaciver.com)
		45 points by hhm on Dec 31, 2008 \| 34 comments
4.		Microsoft getting ready to lay off 17% of staff (fudzilla.com)
		44 points by noor420 on Dec 31, 2008 \| 27 comments
5.		Self Awareness, the Last Frontier. By V. S. Ramachandran (edge.org)
		41 points by DaniFong on Dec 31, 2008 \| 35 comments
6.		Scribd Had A Blowout Year, And So Did the Web Document (techcrunch.com)
		38 points by trip on Dec 31, 2008 \| 50 comments
7.		John Carmack's Tesla Review at End of Latest Armadillo Update (armadilloaerospace.com)
		37 points by JabavuAdams on Dec 31, 2008 \| 26 comments
8.		Tell HN: Happy New Year
		37 points by cubicle67 on Dec 31, 2008 \| 21 comments
9.		Are mutts like me welcome on HN?
		35 points by fnazeeri on Dec 31, 2008 \| 37 comments
10.		Faster sites mean users do more stuff (drunkenfist.com)
		34 points by herdrick on Dec 31, 2008 \| 7 comments
11.		Clear cookies/reset browser doesn't delete your Flash cookies (nytimes.com)
		23 points by wayne on Dec 31, 2008 \| 11 comments
12.		Massive Aircraft Carrier made of Lego, 200,000 bricks, 350LB (brickshelf.com)
		21 points by epi0Bauqu on Dec 31, 2008 \| 3 comments
13.		Ask HN: Notice a jump in Page Rank today?
		21 points by newmediaclay on Dec 31, 2008 \| 27 comments
14.		Small surprises while grading programming languages exams (uni.edu)
		21 points by lincolnq on Dec 31, 2008 \| 7 comments
15.		Remember the guy who built a game while working, and then got sued? He won (techcrunch.com)
		20 points by vaksel on Dec 31, 2008 \| 16 comments
16.		Venture Capital's Coming Collapse (forbes.com)
		17 points by jaydub on Dec 31, 2008 \| 10 comments
17.		Researchers say mankind is to blame for The Little Ice Age, too (investors.com)
		17 points by gibsonf1 on Dec 31, 2008 \| 11 comments
18.		Google Reader API (niallkennedy.com)
		17 points by peter123 on Dec 31, 2008 \| 4 comments
19.		Communication and Collaboration -- The Big Upgrade (paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
		16 points by DaniFong on Dec 31, 2008 \| 11 comments
20.		Billionaire Blowups of 2008 (yahoo.com)
		16 points by noor420 on Dec 31, 2008 \| 9 comments
21.		The Ultimate Bubble? (vanityfair.com)
		15 points by navanit on Dec 31, 2008 \| 5 comments
22.		Simple Python code for Amazon EC2 (techguyinmidtown.com)
		14 points by chaostheory on Dec 31, 2008
23.		It's Baaaack. Oregon, Once Again, Pursuing GPS Driving Tax (techdirt.com)
		14 points by mattmcknight on Dec 31, 2008 \| 17 comments
24.		Poker, Business, and Life: It's Never Too Late to Change Tables (zappos.com)
		14 points by peter123 on Dec 31, 2008 \| 3 comments
25.		UniversalComet: Make any web page a Comet end point (ajaxian.com)
		13 points by bdfh42 on Dec 31, 2008 \| 2 comments
26.		Ask YC: With startups starting to implode what happens to the user data?
		13 points by zitterbewegung on Dec 31, 2008 \| 18 comments
27.		Coding Horror: The Problem of the Unfinished Game (codinghorror.com)
		12 points by twampss on Dec 31, 2008 \| 31 comments
28.		Now you can choose which SATs you want colleges to see and which you don't (nytimes.com)
		11 points by robg on Dec 31, 2008 \| 7 comments
29.		Books That Have Shaped How I Think (oreilly.com)
		8 points by antiform on Dec 31, 2008
30.		Google’s Top Ten Products (More Or Less) (techcrunch.com)
		8 points by prakash on Dec 31, 2008 \| 2 comments
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