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1.		Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic (glinden.blogspot.com)
		106 points by quoderat on Feb 4, 2009 \| 41 comments
2.		Dear HN, I'm worried about us
		91 points by andreyf on Feb 4, 2009 \| 113 comments
3.		"Joel Spolksy is wrong about my work" - Kent Beck (threeriversinstitute.org)
		85 points by bjclark on Feb 4, 2009 \| 98 comments
4.		Ask HN: Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup?
		73 points by shutter on Feb 4, 2009 \| 65 comments
5.		Damian Katz - Why he decided to create couchDB (infoq.com)
		73 points by dantheman on Feb 4, 2009 \| 7 comments
6.		Mathematica home edition, finally. $300. (wolfram.com)
		65 points by herdrick on Feb 4, 2009 \| 35 comments
7.		Posterous (YC S08) launches universal bookmarklet (venturebeat.com)
		57 points by rantfoil on Feb 4, 2009 \| 16 comments
8.		Bill Gates unleashes mosquitoes on TED conference (alleyinsider.com)
		55 points by fromedome on Feb 4, 2009 \| 23 comments
9.		How Depressions Work (aaronsw.com)
		54 points by ph0rque on Feb 4, 2009 \| 95 comments
10.		Singularly Stupid (law.harvard.edu)
		54 points by bdfh42 on Feb 4, 2009 \| 41 comments
11.		Heyzap (YC W09) launches: The forming of Heyzap and some lessons learnt (immadsnewworld.com)
		53 points by aston on Feb 4, 2009 \| 67 comments
12.		How Amazon's EC2 Service Was Born (layer8.net)
		49 points by brentb on Feb 4, 2009 \| 24 comments
13.		Why Doing Things Half Right Gives You the Best Results (harvardbusiness.org)
		49 points by peter123 on Feb 4, 2009 \| 13 comments
14.		Ruby 1.9 Internals: Ordered Hash (igvita.com)
		48 points by igrigorik on Feb 4, 2009 \| 11 comments
15.		My startup makes jellyfish aquariums
		43 points by andon11 on Feb 4, 2009 \| 29 comments
16.		Google introduces Loopt competitor (google.com)
		41 points by emmett on Feb 4, 2009 \| 14 comments
17.		See where your friends are with Google Latitude (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		37 points by mqt on Feb 4, 2009 \| 36 comments
18.		My path to Clojure (n01se.net)
		36 points by mindaugas on Feb 4, 2009 \| 18 comments
19.		Goodbye Facebook (newsweek.com)
		35 points by newsit on Feb 4, 2009 \| 28 comments
20.		Models vs. Modules (37signals.com)
		35 points by brm on Feb 4, 2009 \| 8 comments
21.		I'minlikewithyou (YC S06) hires new CEO, changing names. Next: Revenue (alleyinsider.com)
		33 points by fromedome on Feb 4, 2009 \| 10 comments
22.		$10 Laptop is Huge Disappointment ($30 and not a laptop) (tomshardware.com)
		28 points by Retric on Feb 4, 2009 \| 13 comments
23.		VMware has open sourced their client for virtual desktop (eweek.com)
		28 points by nishantmodak on Feb 4, 2009 \| 11 comments
24.		NYTimes releases Article Search API (nytimes.com)
		25 points by bdotdub on Feb 4, 2009 \| 3 comments
25.		Why We Need a War on Aging (fightaging.org)
		24 points by MikeCapone on Feb 4, 2009 \| 100 comments
26.		Precious photos disappear (sfgate.com)
		22 points by sarvesh on Feb 4, 2009 \| 17 comments
27.		Poll: What proportion of start-ups/non-start-ups use automated unit tests/TDD?
		22 points by swombat on Feb 4, 2009 \| 40 comments
28.		How Harvard Law threw down the gauntlet to the RIAA (arstechnica.com)
		21 points by jasonlbaptiste on Feb 4, 2009 \| 3 comments
29.		Working from Home Part 2: Why It’s Great (geeksinboston.com)
		19 points by shimon on Feb 4, 2009 \| 9 comments
30.		Taking Traffic Control Lessons - From Ants (wired.com)
		18 points by robg on Feb 4, 2009 \| 7 comments
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