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1.		I’m Attending MIT, Stanford & Harvard (mattiasgeniar.be)
		118 points by Anon84 on Jan 29, 2009 \| 45 comments
2.		Autonomous Robots Invade Retail Warehouses (wired.com)
		80 points by prakash on Jan 29, 2009 \| 55 comments
3.		LÖVE - a 2D game engine for rapid game development in Lua (love2d.org)
		78 points by teej on Jan 29, 2009 \| 12 comments
4.		Ask HN: good books about military strategy?
		70 points by Tichy on Jan 29, 2009 \| 65 comments
5.		A single line assignment filled with epic fail (jgc.org)
		74 points by jgrahamc on Jan 29, 2009 \| 14 comments
6.		Let's all grow up (antoniocangiano.com)
		60 points by acangiano on Jan 29, 2009 \| 26 comments
7.		Phone Rubik Cube Solver Is Pure Genius (gizmodo.com)
		52 points by zain on Jan 29, 2009 \| 24 comments
8.		White House Unbuttons Formal Dress Code (nytimes.com)
		51 points by peter123 on Jan 29, 2009 \| 62 comments
9.		Services Worth Paying For as a Startup (emadibrahim.com)
		51 points by eibrahim on Jan 29, 2009 \| 74 comments
10.		Want Git Preinstalled On The Next OS X? (github.com/blog)
		45 points by thedob on Jan 29, 2009 \| 40 comments
11.		Ask HN: Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game (taxi-mogul.com)
		39 points by villiros on Jan 29, 2009 \| 44 comments
12.		Ask HN: What do these startups need so much money for?
		36 points by zepolen on Jan 29, 2009 \| 43 comments
13.		How Palm Designed Around Apple's iPhone Patents for the Pre (palmaddict.typepad.com)
		35 points by dominik on Jan 29, 2009 \| 12 comments
14.		'Immortal' jellyfish swarming across the world (telegraph.co.uk)
		34 points by chaostheory on Jan 29, 2009 \| 17 comments
15.		Topical treatment wipes out herpes with RNAi (harvardscience.harvard.edu)
		34 points by kf on Jan 29, 2009 \| 28 comments
16.		350-page Internet market research report from JP Morgan (scribd.com)
		33 points by fnazeeri on Jan 29, 2009 \| 9 comments
17.		Rate My Startup: DomainPigeon.com (domainpigeon.com)
		31 points by matt1 on Jan 29, 2009 \| 74 comments
18.		Patterns: Great self promotion (37signals.com)
		30 points by bdotdub on Jan 29, 2009 \| 2 comments
19.		Fannie Mae Logic Bomb Would Have Caused Weeklong Shutdown (wired.com)
		28 points by albertni on Jan 29, 2009 \| 22 comments
20.		Full-disk encryption for all computer drives, coming soon (computerworld.com)
		27 points by nreece on Jan 29, 2009 \| 37 comments
21.		The technical story of Muxtape (tlvx.net)
		28 points by atestu on Jan 29, 2009 \| 17 comments
22.		OLPC 2.0: One Laptop Foundation Reboots With New Focus and Big Plans (xconomy.com)
		26 points by bobbud on Jan 29, 2009 \| 8 comments
23.		Refactoring yourself out of business (startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com)
		23 points by liangzan on Jan 29, 2009 \| 2 comments
24.		Ask HN: Has anyone ever gotten funding from this website? (angelsoft.net)
		24 points by andrewljohnson on Jan 29, 2009 \| 35 comments
25.		I literally hate it (slate.com)
		22 points by 10ren on Jan 29, 2009 \| 36 comments
26.		Why Web-based development might not be the best choice (infoworld.com)
		19 points by ccraigIW on Jan 29, 2009 \| 26 comments
27.		Reflection on crisis: Daniel Kahneman and Nassim Taleb at DLD conference [video] (dld-conference.com)
		18 points by bd on Jan 29, 2009 \| 3 comments
28.		Buying internships (wsj.com)
		18 points by jmtame on Jan 29, 2009 \| 18 comments
29.		Background processing coming to Google AppEngine (zef.me)
		17 points by mdasen on Jan 29, 2009 \| 5 comments
30.		F# and Haskell, Estranged Cousins (atalasoft.com)
		17 points by Minerick on Jan 29, 2009 \| 6 comments
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