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1.		Magenta Ain't A Color (biotele.com)
		97 points by brm on Feb 16, 2009 \| 29 comments
2.		Facebook TOS Change: All Your Stuff is Ours, Even if You Quit (mashable.com)
		88 points by brentb on Feb 16, 2009 \| 56 comments
3.		Facebook: "We can do anything we want with your content. Forever" (consumerist.com)
		83 points by manvsmachine on Feb 16, 2009 \| 56 comments
4.		Non-Hierarchical Management (aaronsw.com)
		81 points by andreyf on Feb 16, 2009 \| 18 comments
5.		TwittyPic acquired. Launched on HN 72 days ago. (techflash.com)
		72 points by rokhayakebe on Feb 16, 2009 \| 14 comments
6.		Giving money to the founders: In 2009, is this still absurd? (paulgraham.com)
		65 points by sam_in_nyc on Feb 16, 2009 \| 41 comments
7.		"Will it rot my students' brains if they use Mathematica?" (theodoregray.com)
		55 points by asciilifeform on Feb 16, 2009 \| 12 comments
8.		What really happened at Ma.gnolia and lessons learned [with video] (factoryjoe.com)
		52 points by markup on Feb 16, 2009 \| 48 comments
9.		Why XMPP Will Be Huge Very Soon (intridea.com)
		52 points by mbleigh on Feb 16, 2009 \| 40 comments
10.		Ask HN: Tips for coming up with a new web startup name
		48 points by hamgav on Feb 16, 2009 \| 33 comments
11.		Ask HN: how do you read code?
		46 points by ktharavaad on Feb 16, 2009 \| 26 comments
12.		Étoilé Desktop Environment (etoileos.com)
		46 points by apgwoz on Feb 16, 2009 \| 21 comments
13.		Zuck's Official Comment: On Facebook, People Own and Control Their Information (facebook.com)
		45 points by jasonlbaptiste on Feb 16, 2009 \| 30 comments
14.		This is why Richard Branson is so successful (holykaw.com)
		44 points by jasonlbaptiste on Feb 16, 2009 \| 10 comments
15.		Poll: Are you an Entrepreneur? Hacker? Both?
		40 points by davidw on Feb 16, 2009 \| 34 comments
16.		Ask HN: Rate my startup: EditConf - wiki style tech events, aggregation, and search (editconf.com)
		35 points by jonnytran on Feb 16, 2009 \| 18 comments
17.		Ask HN: What do developers want from an equity-only job?
		33 points by JayNeely on Feb 16, 2009 \| 43 comments
18.		Miami banker gives $60 million of his own to employees (miamiherald.com)
		30 points by jasonlbaptiste on Feb 16, 2009 \| 2 comments
19.		Scientists stop the ageing process (abc.net.au)
		29 points by vaksel on Feb 16, 2009 \| 5 comments
20.		Don't Blame H-1B Workers for Woes (businessweek.com)
		28 points by peter123 on Feb 16, 2009 \| 33 comments
21.		Ask HN: What agreements and legal structures should you have in place for a startup?
		29 points by stuartk on Feb 16, 2009 \| 16 comments
22.		Dawdle Invites Game Resellers To Set Up Shop (techcrunch.com)
		27 points by drm237 on Feb 16, 2009 \| 8 comments
23.		Turning crack dealers into chief executives (bbc.co.uk)
		25 points by noor420 on Feb 16, 2009 \| 16 comments
24.		HN: review my (non-profit) startup: Buy It Like You Mean It (bilumi.org)
		24 points by diN0bot on Feb 16, 2009 \| 13 comments
25.		The original proposal of the WWW, HTMLized (w3.org)
		23 points by danw on Feb 16, 2009 \| 1 comment
26.		How to set up multiple monitors on a Macbook (carlmercier.com)
		22 points by cmer on Feb 16, 2009 \| 13 comments
27.		Why We're Not Socialists (forbes.com)
		21 points by mjtokelly on Feb 16, 2009 \| 27 comments
28.		News from The Pirate Bay Press Conference (torrentfreak.com)
		21 points by kf on Feb 16, 2009 \| 4 comments
29.		The Taxi Driver Taught Me An MBA Lesson (spug.sg)
		21 points by hboon on Feb 16, 2009 \| 1 comment
30.		Outsourcing graphic design at 99designs.com (successfulsoftware.net)
		20 points by hermitcrab on Feb 16, 2009 \| 30 comments
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