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1.		Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.
		123 points by bemmu on Jan 9, 2009 \| 251 comments
2.		How we use IRC at Last.fm (metabrew.com)
		109 points by dcancel on Jan 9, 2009 \| 35 comments
3.		'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years (wsj.com)
		105 points by epi0Bauqu on Jan 9, 2009 \| 141 comments
4.		Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction (locusmag.com)
		81 points by michael_nielsen on Jan 9, 2009 \| 16 comments
5.		Manage Amazon EC2 With New Web-Based AWS Management Console (aws.typepad.com)
		80 points by timf on Jan 9, 2009 \| 25 comments
6.		The Django book, Second Edition. (djangobook.com)
		79 points by socratees on Jan 9, 2009 \| 21 comments
7.		My first app just got published to the app store Here's what I learned. (reddit.com)
		76 points by peter123 on Jan 9, 2009 \| 19 comments
8.		Save Money By Deleting Your Cookies--A Case Study (appscout.com)
		55 points by geofffox on Jan 9, 2009 \| 21 comments
9.		Six-month long exposures made with a pinhole camera. (pinholephotography.org)
		52 points by jdnier on Jan 9, 2009 \| 3 comments
10.		Palm did it: better experience than Apple (scobleizer.com)
		50 points by MaysonL on Jan 9, 2009 \| 61 comments
11.		Delete 10 Facebook friends, get a free Whopper (cnet.com)
		47 points by jkopelman on Jan 9, 2009 \| 32 comments
12.		Ask HN: Review our webapp (Sproost); team met on HN
		49 points by rtc on Jan 9, 2009 \| 60 comments
13.		Facebook's valuation (in Whoppers) (kottke.org)
		40 points by JoelSutherland on Jan 9, 2009 \| 30 comments
14.		Web 2.0, Revenue Models and Profitability: A Web 1.0 Comparison (centernetworks.com)
		40 points by humanlever on Jan 9, 2009 \| 19 comments
15.		Ask HN: Does this idea exist and who wants it?
		39 points by andrewljohnson on Jan 9, 2009 \| 37 comments
16.		Unemployment Rate 7.2% (wsj.com)
		37 points by kp212 on Jan 9, 2009 \| 51 comments
17.		We don’t pay you to work here (venturehacks.com)
		35 points by terpua on Jan 9, 2009 \| 9 comments
18.		Ask HN: Review our startup: Mugasha - A better way to listen to electronic dance music (mugasha.com)
		30 points by lyime on Jan 9, 2009 \| 62 comments
19.		The Janitor Programmer (janitorprogrammer.com)
		28 points by sutro on Jan 9, 2009 \| 8 comments
20.		4 Types of Person (a guide to stupidity) (secretgeek.net)
		26 points by muon on Jan 9, 2009 \| 9 comments
21.		Developer who has used the Palm pré Mojo SDK speaks out on Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
		26 points by clint on Jan 9, 2009 \| 9 comments
22.		In 2009, Microsoft Still Underestimates the Web (lifehacker.com)
		23 points by nx on Jan 9, 2009 \| 15 comments
23.		Dirty Secrets of College Admissions (thedailybeast.com)
		22 points by antiform on Jan 9, 2009 \| 15 comments
24.		The Geeks Behind Obama's Web Strategy (boston.com)
		20 points by robg on Jan 9, 2009 \| 2 comments
25.		Standalone web applications using OCaml + Ocsigen, benchmarked against Rails (eigenclass.org)
		19 points by mindaugas on Jan 9, 2009 \| 6 comments
26.		Incubator RoundUp 2008 (YC, TechStars, DreamIt, LaunchBox) (scribd.com)
		19 points by morgang on Jan 9, 2009 \| 7 comments
27.		Google Chrome 2.0 Pre-Beta (googlesystem.blogspot.com)
		19 points by ajbatac on Jan 9, 2009 \| 18 comments
28.		Palm's Pre smarthpone vs. Apple's iPhone 3G (technologizer.com)
		14 points by technologizer on Jan 9, 2009 \| 23 comments
29.		Sleep under my kitchen table at Inauguration (airbedandbreakfast.com)
		14 points by brianchesky on Jan 9, 2009 \| 10 comments
30.		Holovaty working on 2nd Edition of the Django Book (updated for 1.0) (holovaty.com)
		14 points by naish on Jan 9, 2009
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