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1.		Ask HN: Startup founders, would you walk us through a day in the life?
		76 points by zackattack on May 31, 2009 \| 38 comments
2.		Mapping Out Your Web Startup (judegomila.com)
		75 points by judegomila on May 31, 2009 \| 14 comments
3.		Ask HN: Where do I go from here?
		73 points by juliusmcfly on May 31, 2009 \| 83 comments
4.		The Difference Between An Amateur, A Scientist, And A Genius (thelastpsychiatrist.com)
		72 points by aheilbut on May 31, 2009 \| 10 comments
5.		Conferences (avc.com)
		66 points by ciscoriordan on May 31, 2009 \| 34 comments
6.		Courgette: better binary diffing by understanding x86 (neugierig.org)
		51 points by soundsop on May 31, 2009 \| 8 comments
7.		Canon Employees Are Forbidden to Sit Down, Walk Slowly (dannychoo.com)
		44 points by quoderat on May 31, 2009 \| 50 comments
8.		The Wizardry of Id: a profile of John Carmack's programming (David Kushner) (ieee.org)
		42 points by shadytrees on May 31, 2009 \| 7 comments
9.		Get Better Advice by Taking Notes (lifehacker.com)
		41 points by Flemlord on May 31, 2009 \| 14 comments
10.		Business opportunities around Google Wave (gaborcselle.com)
		39 points by prakash on May 31, 2009 \| 7 comments
11.		Scaling Twitter: Making Twitter 100x Faster (highscalability.com)
		35 points by jmonegro on May 31, 2009 \| 8 comments
12.		MIT OpenCourseWare: Godel, Escher, Bach: A Mental Space Odyssey (ocw.mit.edu)
		33 points by Anon84 on May 31, 2009 \| 9 comments
13.		The Psychology Behind Item Collecting And Achievement Hoarding (gamasutra.com)
		31 points by nickb on May 31, 2009 \| 1 comment
14.		Sinatra clone in Scala (github.com/alandipert)
		31 points by wooby on May 31, 2009 \| 12 comments
15.		What Gladwell is Missing: Institutional Memory (billmill.org)
		31 points by llimllib on May 31, 2009 \| 15 comments
16.		Open-source software has won the argument. Now a new threat to openness looms (economist.com)
		30 points by zzkt on May 31, 2009 \| 16 comments
17.		Deeper or wider (sethgodin.typepad.com)
		30 points by peter123 on May 31, 2009 \| 11 comments
18.		Prepare For The Facebook Vanity URL Landrush (techcrunch.com)
		27 points by peter123 on May 31, 2009 \| 27 comments
19.		Generating and executing x86 code at runtime (androidbutnotparanoid.blogspot.com)
		26 points by silvajoao on May 31, 2009 \| 3 comments
20.		Mother Earth Mother Board - Neal Stephenson (wired.com)
		25 points by rcrusoe on May 31, 2009 \| 9 comments
21.		The End of Our Love Affair with Cars (wsj.com)
		24 points by robg on May 31, 2009 \| 10 comments
22.		The staleness of the standard library and adding new things (sayspy.blogspot.com)
		22 points by jnoller on May 31, 2009
23.		Ask HN: How do you learn about the business aspects of running a startup?
		22 points by matt1 on May 31, 2009 \| 22 comments
24.		On the Street and On Facebook: The Homeless Stay Wired (wsj.com)
		20 points by kf on May 31, 2009 \| 3 comments
25.		How Many Scientists Fabricate and Falsify Research? (plosone.org)
		20 points by iamelgringo on May 31, 2009 \| 9 comments
26.		Business error leads owner in new direction and success (ocregister.com)
		19 points by iamelgringo on May 31, 2009 \| 5 comments
27.		A dive into Google Wave (intertwingly.net)
		18 points by mariorz on May 31, 2009 \| 2 comments
28.		What was your darkest hour like?
		18 points by bjm on May 31, 2009 \| 27 comments
29.		Poll: Is your whois contact info real?
		15 points by vaksel on May 31, 2009 \| 27 comments
30.		Bing, Wave, and Other Painful Attempts to Change Culture (pcworld.com)
		14 points by peter123 on May 31, 2009 \| 6 comments
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