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1.		The real cause of the financial crisis -- An MIT Blackjack Team perspective (semyon.com)
		185 points by prakash on Jan 14, 2009 \| 60 comments
2.		Apple: Jobs to Take Medical Leave of Absence (wsj.com)
		159 points by bootload on Jan 14, 2009 \| 107 comments
3.		The $300 Million Button (uie.com)
		113 points by astrec on Jan 14, 2009 \| 43 comments
4.		JQuery 1.3 Released (jquery.com)
		105 points by rickharrison on Jan 14, 2009 \| 29 comments
5.		Qt 4.5 will be released under the LGPL (arstechnica.com)
		86 points by icefox on Jan 14, 2009 \| 18 comments
6.		ISteam for iPhone earns a bunch of 22-year olds $100,000 in one month (tgdaily.com)
		67 points by brk on Jan 14, 2009 \| 25 comments
7.		Why Haskell is beyond ready for Prime Time (intoverflow.wordpress.com)
		51 points by raju on Jan 14, 2009 \| 99 comments
8.		Things I Learned the Hard Way: Ignore the Content (powazek.com)
		51 points by brm on Jan 14, 2009 \| 22 comments
9.		XKCD inspired Mac Mini speech synth hack (coworkthailand.com)
		49 points by bemmu on Jan 14, 2009 \| 13 comments
10.		Is Craigslist rotting on the vine? (roundabout101.blogspot.com)
		48 points by kennyroo on Jan 14, 2009 \| 37 comments
11.		Anti-Love Drug May Be Ticket to Bliss (nytimes.com)
		39 points by makimaki on Jan 14, 2009 \| 15 comments
12.		Why Lisp? 3 answers (mattknox.com)
		38 points by prakash on Jan 14, 2009 \| 18 comments
13.		Twilio Recipes Open source PHP for common PBX features (twilio.com)
		37 points by jeffiel on Jan 14, 2009 \| 8 comments
14.		The Man Who Made Too Much (portfolio.com)
		36 points by ojbyrne on Jan 14, 2009 \| 49 comments
15.		Al Jazeera Announces Launch of Free Footage Under Creative Commons License (creativecommons.org)
		35 points by zby on Jan 14, 2009 \| 27 comments
16.		Google Closes Offices in in Austin, Texas; Trondheim, Norway; and Lulea, Sweden. (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		34 points by Anon84 on Jan 14, 2009 \| 9 comments
17.		Skype legend Morten Lund bankrupt (techcrunch.com)
		32 points by pclark on Jan 14, 2009 \| 13 comments
18.		Fuck college education, start minding your own business instead (damirhorvat.com)
		33 points by damir on Jan 14, 2009 \| 72 comments
19.		When newspapers are gone, what will you miss? (sethgodin.typepad.com)
		30 points by ph0rque on Jan 14, 2009 \| 62 comments
20.		Screenbin - like pastebin, but for screen (dustinkirkland.com)
		29 points by polvi on Jan 14, 2009 \| 10 comments
21.		Distinguishing decorative from meaningful elements in UI design (37signals.com)
		26 points by brm on Jan 14, 2009 \| 8 comments
22.		Ask HN: Would you fund this show? (johnaugust.com)
		26 points by ed on Jan 14, 2009 \| 14 comments
23.		In the gig economy, everyone is a hustler (thedailybeast.com)
		25 points by quoderat on Jan 14, 2009 \| 18 comments
24.		Google Reduces Hiring Department (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		25 points by Anon84 on Jan 14, 2009 \| 5 comments
25.		'Theocracy of Hackers' Rules Autodesk Inc., A Strangely Run Firm (wsj.com)
		24 points by prakash on Jan 14, 2009 \| 9 comments
26.		Famous Sed One-Liners Explained, Part III (catonmat.net)
		24 points by twampss on Jan 14, 2009
27.		A Kindle trick changes the reading experience (goodexperience.com)
		21 points by gabrielroth on Jan 14, 2009 \| 14 comments
28.		Steve Jobs steps down until June for health reasons (alleyinsider.com)
		21 points by larrywright on Jan 14, 2009 \| 8 comments
29.		Avid founder Bill Warner: How a dirt farmer made me an entrepreneur (masshightech.com)
		21 points by rantfoil on Jan 14, 2009
30.		Book Is Rallying Resistance to the Antivaccine Crusade (nytimes.com)
		20 points by scott_s on Jan 14, 2009 \| 20 comments
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