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1.		"Must have advanced knowledge of Web 3.0" (craigslist.org)
		60 points by zain on Jan 25, 2009 \| 47 comments
2.		Why Your Startup Will Fail (gilesbowkett.blogspot.com)
		58 points by tortilla on Jan 25, 2009 \| 53 comments
3.		Ask HN: Good Hacker Cities
		46 points by quellhorst on Jan 25, 2009 \| 154 comments
4.		Ask HN: Is it worth a back-end developer's time to get into web-design and HTML/CSS
		38 points by orange5912 on Jan 25, 2009 \| 40 comments
5.		Ask HN: Afraid I've dug myself into a hole
		34 points by hitokiri82 on Jan 25, 2009 \| 59 comments
6.		An Interview with Alan Kay: "The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas." (scholastic.com)
		34 points by andreyf on Jan 25, 2009 \| 9 comments
7.		Text Messaging and a $130 billion profit pool waiting to be disrupted (titocosta.tumblr.com)
		34 points by titocosta on Jan 25, 2009 \| 59 comments
8.		Open source Mono framework brings C# to iPhone and Wii (arstechnica.com)
		34 points by jawngee on Jan 25, 2009 \| 26 comments
9.		Twitter is raising new cash at 250 million valuation (techcrunch.com)
		33 points by vaksel on Jan 25, 2009 \| 34 comments
10.		The Year That Made Me: Kulveer Taggar (davidlanger.co.uk)
		30 points by langer on Jan 25, 2009 \| 23 comments
11.		Motivating Minds (The Economist on why TDD makes you work harder) (economist.com)
		29 points by friism on Jan 25, 2009 \| 14 comments
12.		Python: New patch may give speedups of up to 20% (python.org)
		28 points by ks on Jan 25, 2009 \| 13 comments
13.		Facebook screws iFart author (scobleizer.com)
		24 points by bdfh42 on Jan 25, 2009 \| 24 comments
14.		Rewriting PHP (pooteeweet.org)
		24 points by qhoxie on Jan 25, 2009 \| 35 comments
15.		Problems with Lisp (jrock.us)
		23 points by jawngee on Jan 25, 2009 \| 37 comments
16.		Ask YC: Do what you love and the money will follow?
		21 points by bprater on Jan 25, 2009 \| 87 comments
17.		Ask HN: Who wants an intern?
		21 points by speek on Jan 25, 2009 \| 24 comments
18.		Listable: create and share lists with JSON, SQL, and plaintext output (listable.org)
		20 points by bd on Jan 25, 2009 \| 7 comments
19.		Internet Population Passes 1 Billion, India still only at 2.8% (sproutly.com)
		19 points by rockstar9 on Jan 25, 2009 \| 5 comments
20.		How I reliably enter the Zone: TDD (heavyelectrons.com)
		19 points by akkartik on Jan 25, 2009 \| 19 comments
21.		Bankers' excessive salaries as predictors of Depression (broadstuff.com)
		18 points by soundsop on Jan 25, 2009 \| 14 comments
22.		My Startup Manifesto (bytepawn.com)
		18 points by Maro on Jan 25, 2009 \| 9 comments
23.		What an Inauguration does to your traffic (Last.FM) (flickr.com)
		17 points by pclark on Jan 25, 2009 \| 7 comments
24.		Ask HN: Bottom Up Programming Question
		16 points by awt on Jan 25, 2009 \| 25 comments
25.		Censorship By Glut (slashdot.org)
		15 points by amichail on Jan 25, 2009 \| 7 comments
26.		A Conversation With Bill Gates (nytimes.com)
		15 points by azharcs on Jan 25, 2009 \| 12 comments
27.		Stripping Illegal Characters from XML in Python (lethain.com)
		14 points by twampss on Jan 25, 2009 \| 2 comments
28.		The ATS programming language (ats-lang.org)
		12 points by huhtenberg on Jan 25, 2009 \| 1 comment
29.		Google's Detailed Response to FeedBurner Criticism (mashable.com)
		11 points by peter123 on Jan 25, 2009 \| 1 comment
30.		The Talented Mr. Madoff (nytimes.com)
		11 points by peter123 on Jan 25, 2009 \| 3 comments
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