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1.		I Became a Savant For a Day (nytimes.com)
		130 points by jackchristopher on Feb 14, 2009 \| 52 comments
2.		Experimental New York Times Interface (nytimes.com)
		95 points by wheels on Feb 14, 2009 \| 38 comments
3.		A4 vs US Letter (betweenborders.com)
		69 points by parenthesis on Feb 14, 2009 \| 59 comments
4.		What Do People Want? (groups.google.com)
		58 points by pogos on Feb 14, 2009 \| 17 comments
5.		Entrepreneurship is not about changing the world (smartbabesaresexy.blogspot.com)
		47 points by urlwolf on Feb 14, 2009 \| 40 comments
6.		Google Software Construction Toolkit Released (google-opensource.blogspot.com)
		45 points by chaostheory on Feb 14, 2009 \| 5 comments
7.		Los Angeles - Home of the cheap 11AM quickie (webchicanery.com)
		38 points by ericsessions on Feb 14, 2009 \| 17 comments
8.		GitHub: More Disk Space for All (github.com/blog)
		33 points by arthurk on Feb 14, 2009 \| 18 comments
9.		Obscure HTML tags that you should know and even use (instantfundas.com)
		32 points by kqr2 on Feb 14, 2009 \| 23 comments
10.		Why China Needs U.S. Debt (realclearworld.com)
		32 points by DanielBMarkham on Feb 14, 2009 \| 35 comments
11.		Tinyrb: small Ruby VM inspired by Lua that's easy to understand and learn from (macournoyer.com)
		30 points by nickb on Feb 14, 2009 \| 4 comments
12.		Remind YC: It's Valentine's Day. Don't forget the flowers and card for your s.o.
		27 points by iamelgringo on Feb 14, 2009 \| 32 comments
13.		Browser benchmarks: even Wine beats Linux Firefox (tuxradar.com)
		25 points by kqr2 on Feb 14, 2009 \| 14 comments
14.		Just Jump: Start using Clouds and CDNs (rockstarapps.com)
		22 points by wave on Feb 14, 2009 \| 2 comments
15.		See 2 YC startups hard at work (justin.tv)
		22 points by omarish on Feb 14, 2009 \| 14 comments
16.		The Hangover Theory (slate.com)
		20 points by tyn on Feb 14, 2009 \| 19 comments
17.		Fail Whale: How an image went from e-card to Twitter icon. (nytimes.com)
		20 points by robg on Feb 14, 2009 \| 3 comments
18.		Apple Wants To Make Jailbreaking Worthy Of Jail Time, $2500 Fine (consumerist.com)
		20 points by vaksel on Feb 14, 2009 \| 29 comments
19.		Autojump: easily navigate directories from the command line (wiki.github.com)
		18 points by soundsop on Feb 14, 2009 \| 8 comments
20.		Algorithmic art in Java and Flash (complexification.net)
		18 points by jjguy on Feb 14, 2009 \| 1 comment
21.		Cloud Elasticity (timothyfitz.wordpress.com)
		17 points by TimothyFitz on Feb 14, 2009 \| 7 comments
22.		Example using Google App Engine's new Remote API (billkatz.com)
		14 points by DocSavage on Feb 14, 2009 \| 7 comments
23.		If Pirate Bay Shut Down, Could Take BitTorrent With It (gizmodo.com)
		14 points by ojbyrne on Feb 14, 2009 \| 17 comments
24.		Twitter Could 'Go for Years' Without Earning a Dime, Investor Says (wired.com)
		13 points by dshah on Feb 14, 2009 \| 4 comments
25.		Thousands of unconscious eye movements stop us from going blind (telegraph.co.uk)
		11 points by vaksel on Feb 14, 2009 \| 3 comments
26.		Real Ultimate Programming Power (codinghorror.com)
		11 points by timf on Feb 14, 2009 \| 2 comments
27.		Ask YC: What to do when someone copies your text?
		10 points by inovica on Feb 14, 2009 \| 6 comments
28.		CS Student Hacks Chrono Trigger to Propose (youtube.com)
		10 points by daleharvey on Feb 14, 2009 \| 1 comment
29.		Ask HN: How to Catch Bad Bots?
		10 points by comforteagle on Feb 14, 2009 \| 1 comment
30.		Iridium Already Replaced Destroyed Satellite (universetoday.com)
		9 points by ivey on Feb 14, 2009 \| 2 comments
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