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1.		Secrets of success from Google co-founder Larry Page (ycombinator.com)
		129 points by popat on Jan 6, 2009 \| 32 comments
2.		Apple kills off DRM for whole iTunes music catalog (crunchgear.com)
		122 points by tptacek on Jan 6, 2009 \| 88 comments
3.		Some Protect the Ego by Working on Their Excuses Early (nytimes.com)
		71 points by robg on Jan 6, 2009 \| 44 comments
4.		Does Amazon S3 really save money?
		71 points by psaccounts on Jan 6, 2009 \| 45 comments
5.		Tim O'Reilly: The Biggest Ponzi Scheme of Them All (oreilly.com)
		68 points by toffer on Jan 6, 2009 \| 44 comments
6.		Encouraged Commentary (cool use of jQuery to enhance blog commenting) (donttrustthisguy.com)
		53 points by mojombo on Jan 6, 2009 \| 22 comments
7.		Google is Working on its own router (sdtimes.com)
		52 points by VonGuard on Jan 6, 2009 \| 27 comments
8.		Why the secret to speedier highways might be closing some roads: the Braess paradox (mindyourdecisions.com)
		50 points by paulgb on Jan 6, 2009 \| 21 comments
9.		GRE Scores By Discipline (arisbe.com)
		50 points by Jebdm on Jan 6, 2009 \| 72 comments
10.		MacRumors live feed hacked during keynote (macrumorslive.com)
		48 points by Alex3917 on Jan 6, 2009 \| 28 comments
11.		How NASA writes 'perfect' software (1996) (fastcompany.com)
		43 points by nreece on Jan 6, 2009 \| 29 comments
12.		A list of 200 Free & Open Textbooks (cccoer.wordpress.com)
		42 points by ph0rque on Jan 6, 2009 \| 9 comments
13.		Rather crazy online logic test (drunkmenworkhere.org)
		38 points by brl on Jan 6, 2009 \| 23 comments
14.		Foiled: Hacker's Audacious Plan to Rule the Stolen-Data Black Market (wired.com)
		37 points by kwamenum86 on Jan 6, 2009 \| 15 comments
15.		New Git Homepage (github.com/blog)
		32 points by mojombo on Jan 6, 2009 \| 5 comments
16.		The Day I Got Git (with some help from github) (lbrandy.com)
		30 points by mojombo on Jan 6, 2009
17.		Ask YC: Hacker Groups (please help me fill out) (gabrielweinberg.com)
		29 points by epi0Bauqu on Jan 6, 2009 \| 15 comments
18.		Pymc: implements Bayesian statistical models and ﬁtting algorithms (python.org)
		25 points by chaostheory on Jan 6, 2009 \| 6 comments
19.		Directed Edge: a new take on social-filtering technologies [interview, video] (intruders.tv)
		25 points by wheels on Jan 6, 2009 \| 6 comments
20.		Dalvik vs Mono (koushikdutta.com)
		24 points by felixmar on Jan 6, 2009 \| 9 comments
21.		Discovering the Link Between Effort and Reward: What I've Learned Freelancing (geeksinboston.com)
		23 points by shimon on Jan 6, 2009 \| 10 comments
22.		The Cost of Net Negative Producing Programmers (jayfields.com)
		21 points by bdfh42 on Jan 6, 2009 \| 7 comments
23.		Invite HN: TeamPostgreSQL beta
		21 points by johnyzee on Jan 6, 2009 \| 15 comments
24.		Paul Krugman: Fighting off depression (iht.com)
		20 points by ardit33 on Jan 6, 2009 \| 12 comments
25.		DebGem (beta), Ruby packages for Debian (debgem.com)
		19 points by tortilla on Jan 6, 2009 \| 10 comments
26.		LiveJournal Lays Off San Francisco Staff, Will Operate From Moscow (paidcontent.org)
		19 points by allenbrunson on Jan 6, 2009 \| 20 comments
27.		A conversation with an iPhone pirate (jrtb.com)
		19 points by signa11 on Jan 6, 2009 \| 11 comments
28.		How the newspaper industry tried to invent the Web but failed. (slate.com)
		18 points by makimaki on Jan 6, 2009 \| 2 comments
29.		Hard-Hit Families Finally Start Saving, Aggravating Nation's Economic Woes (wsj.com)
		17 points by theoneill on Jan 6, 2009 \| 26 comments
30.		Datapocalypso (RE: Eviction, or the Coming Datapocalypse) (textfiles.com)
		17 points by sjs382 on Jan 6, 2009 \| 13 comments
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