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1.		Hacker News is 2 (ycombinator.com)
		165 points by pg on Feb 19, 2009 \| 67 comments
2.		Yelp and the Business of Extortion 2.0 (eastbayexpress.com)
		150 points by brianmckenzie on Feb 19, 2009 \| 59 comments
3.		Ask HN: Just cashed out for 2M. What now?
		148 points by newseller on Feb 19, 2009 \| 216 comments
4.		A Trivial LLVM Lisp (lisp.org)
		86 points by jonasb on Feb 19, 2009 \| 3 comments
5.		Chris Wanstrath's Startup Riot keynote text (gist.github.com)
		83 points by azsromej on Feb 19, 2009 \| 24 comments
6.		My Web is Text Based (marksonland.com)
		83 points by trs90 on Feb 19, 2009 \| 54 comments
7.		AppStore Secrets (pinchmedia.com)
		65 points by epi0Bauqu on Feb 19, 2009 \| 17 comments
8.		jQuery plugins for your development (reynoldsftw.com)
		63 points by mootymoots on Feb 19, 2009 \| 8 comments
9.		Common Usability Mistakes In Web Design (includes Hacker News & Posterous) (smashingmagazine.com)
		60 points by jmorin007 on Feb 19, 2009 \| 24 comments
10.		Law firm sues to force startup to make anchor text contain the full url (slate.com)
		50 points by chris11 on Feb 19, 2009 \| 19 comments
11.		Automatic Differentiation: The most underused tool in the machine learning toolbox? (justindomke.wordpress.com)
		50 points by gaika on Feb 19, 2009 \| 6 comments
12.		Ma.gnolia Data is Gone For Good (datacenterknowledge.com)
		43 points by Anon84 on Feb 19, 2009 \| 34 comments
13.		Day 4 - Pirate Bay Defense Calls Foul Over Evidence (torrentfreak.com)
		42 points by adnymarc on Feb 19, 2009 \| 6 comments
14.		Washington Times releases open source projects (Django apps) (washingtontimes.com)
		42 points by yaj on Feb 19, 2009 \| 1 comment
15.		On writing well (wayne.edu)
		40 points by streblo on Feb 19, 2009 \| 26 comments
16.		Multitasking is the fastest way to mediocrity (37signals.com)
		40 points by twampss on Feb 19, 2009 \| 14 comments
17.		Sale pricing on Steam games: 50% off = 3000% increase in sales (arstechnica.com)
		37 points by tkiley on Feb 19, 2009 \| 12 comments
18.		The Paradox of Self-Education (adambossy.com)
		37 points by abossy on Feb 19, 2009 \| 26 comments
19.		Sprockets: JavaScript dependency management and concatenation (SvN) (37signals.com)
		36 points by jakestein on Feb 19, 2009 \| 21 comments
20.		KK on Unabomber: pounce on [technology] when it is down and kill it before it rises again (kk.org)
		34 points by jjguy on Feb 19, 2009 \| 33 comments
21.		Ask HN: My 13 year-old cousin hacked into his school's system. What advice would you give?
		28 points by jsmoov on Feb 19, 2009 \| 70 comments
22.		Heyzap growing fast (YC 09) (venturebeat.com)
		25 points by savrajsingh on Feb 19, 2009 \| 10 comments
23.		Why Hulu Should Embrace Boxee (avc.com)
		26 points by jasonlbaptiste on Feb 19, 2009 \| 7 comments
24.		Wifi Cat (weatherby.net)
		26 points by Oompa on Feb 19, 2009 \| 20 comments
25.		YUI 2.7.0 Released (yuiblog.com)
		25 points by ajbatac on Feb 19, 2009 \| 6 comments
26.		Liquid Water Recently Seen on Mars (nationalgeographic.com)
		23 points by rogercosseboom on Feb 19, 2009 \| 7 comments
27.		Humorous software development quotes (paultiseo.wordpress.com)
		22 points by swombat on Feb 19, 2009 \| 7 comments
28.		Coding Horror: Are You An Expert? (codinghorror.com)
		21 points by Anon84 on Feb 19, 2009 \| 14 comments
29.		Ask HN: How do I get through to startups for a summer position?
		20 points by windsurfer on Feb 19, 2009 \| 27 comments
30.		YouNoodle Scores: What Startups Can Learn from Wars (techcrunch.com)
		20 points by sdpurtill on Feb 19, 2009 \| 3 comments
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