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1.		New Comment Features (ycombinator.com)
		107 points by pg on Feb 5, 2009 \| 225 comments
2.		Ask HN: Would you pay $5/yr for HN?
		101 points by alexandros on Feb 5, 2009 \| 166 comments
3.		The Great College Hoax (forbes.com)
		95 points by robg on Feb 5, 2009 \| 136 comments
4.		Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast (swtch.com)
		95 points by ambition on Feb 5, 2009 \| 17 comments
5.		25 Things I Didn't Want to Know About You (time.com)
		65 points by mitchm on Feb 5, 2009 \| 40 comments
6.		Gaming HN for an Orange Name - A Warning
		64 points by GavinB on Feb 5, 2009 \| 45 comments
7.		Ask HN: Is HN slow for you lately? Or even not responding?
		62 points by kmt on Feb 5, 2009 \| 56 comments
8.		26 Years, 85 Notebooks (designobserver.com)
		53 points by danw on Feb 5, 2009 \| 16 comments
9.		Ask HN: Rate my webapp: commandlinefu.com
		51 points by codeinthehole on Feb 5, 2009 \| 43 comments
10.		Wozniak Accepts Post at a Storage Systems Start-Up (nytimes.com)
		50 points by twampss on Feb 5, 2009 \| 17 comments
11.		Faster Copilot with faster Internet traffic (joelonsoftware.com)
		48 points by gus_massa on Feb 5, 2009 \| 38 comments
12.		Ask HN: Light grey text is killing my eyes.
		47 points by zepolen on Feb 5, 2009 \| 39 comments
13.		The orange/not orange experiment
		44 points by mechanical_fish on Feb 5, 2009 \| 28 comments
14.		Lockheed Martin Skunk Works 14 Rules of Operation (1943) (lockheedmartin.com)
		44 points by pbrown on Feb 5, 2009 \| 7 comments
15.		It feels kind of weird when.. you get rejected and than 5 months later read about.. your idea (news.ycombinator.com)
		42 points by segnor on Feb 5, 2009 \| 20 comments
16.		Haskell vs Java job applicants (haskell.org)
		40 points by nickb on Feb 5, 2009 \| 23 comments
17.		Opera releases new JavaScript engine named Carakan (opera.com)
		37 points by mqt on Feb 5, 2009 \| 10 comments
18.		Startup Climate (patriciahandschiegel.tumblr.com)
		35 points by marketer on Feb 5, 2009 \| 15 comments
19.		Microsoft Kills Flight Simulator, Fires Entire Dev Team (gamasutra.com)
		31 points by joshwa on Feb 5, 2009 \| 14 comments
20.		Sabbaticals (joelonsoftware.com)
		29 points by soundsop on Feb 5, 2009 \| 8 comments
21.		Christians Bailing on GoDaddy Due to 'Immoral' Advertising (wired.com)
		29 points by tortilla on Feb 5, 2009 \| 71 comments
22.		Working from Home Part 2: Now about how it doesn't suck (geeksinboston.com)
		28 points by shimon on Feb 5, 2009 \| 9 comments
23.		Apple's design process - BusinessWeek (businessweek.com)
		27 points by muon on Feb 5, 2009 \| 5 comments
24.		Brains, Brains, Brains, Brains: different flavors of genius (scienceblogs.com)
		26 points by hhm on Feb 5, 2009 \| 8 comments
25.		JavaScript makes relative times compatible with caching (37signals.com)
		26 points by sant0sk1 on Feb 5, 2009 \| 19 comments
26.		The perfect mouseless FreeBSD desktop (bluepink.ro)
		24 points by mapleoin on Feb 5, 2009 \| 13 comments
27.		Ask HN: Recommend science experiments and videos for unfortunate school students
		24 points by fzkl on Feb 5, 2009 \| 24 comments
28.		Amazon FPS out of beta - adds limited-time free payment processing (90 days) (aws.typepad.com)
		23 points by mattjaynes on Feb 5, 2009 \| 11 comments
29.		Hulu - Online video's new model (economist.com)
		22 points by amrithk on Feb 5, 2009 \| 11 comments
30.		Unit testing is not (generally) useful (prehacked.com)
		21 points by axod on Feb 5, 2009 \| 53 comments
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