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1.		Forget Starbucks, work at the library instead (davecaolo.com)
		160 points by henning on Aug 12, 2009 \| 113 comments
2.		Is US Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra a Phony? (dvorak.org)
		157 points by chanux on Aug 12, 2009 \| 89 comments
3.		Be a roaming hacker this fall: JetBlue offers all-you-can-fly pass for $599 (jetblue.com)
		146 points by rufo on Aug 12, 2009 \| 79 comments
4.		Verified: Kundra Did Receive an M.S. in Information Systems Management (nextgov.com)
		109 points by luigi on Aug 12, 2009 \| 69 comments
5.		Getting up earlier by not eating late: anecdotal bodyhacking (trendpreneur.com)
		104 points by jlees on Aug 12, 2009 \| 37 comments
6.		Rate my startup: PagerDuty.com
		83 points by alexsolo on Aug 12, 2009 \| 80 comments
7.		White House calls Dvorak's report "a lie" (gigaom.com)
		76 points by jgrahamc on Aug 12, 2009 \| 29 comments
8.		Women Prefer Poaching (overcomingbias.com)
		67 points by rams on Aug 12, 2009 \| 39 comments
9.		GFS: Evolution on Fast-forward (acm.org)
		65 points by joeshaw on Aug 12, 2009 \| 12 comments
10.		Managing UI Complexity (brandonwalkin.com)
		63 points by callahad on Aug 12, 2009 \| 7 comments
11.		Judge: Microsoft can't sell Word anymore (seattlepi.com)
		63 points by aj on Aug 12, 2009 \| 66 comments
12.		Palm Pre Privacy Invasion (kitenet.net)
		62 points by jawngee on Aug 12, 2009 \| 25 comments
13.		The shy connector: How to get strangers to talk to you (sachachua.com)
		57 points by dhotson on Aug 12, 2009 \| 30 comments
14.		Google Website Optimizer Case Study: Daily Burn, 20%+ Improvement (fourhourworkweek.com)
		51 points by divia on Aug 12, 2009 \| 22 comments
15.		Cheapest MBA Program for CS Students Costs $99: It's Called the App Store (fairsoftware.net)
		52 points by alain94040 on Aug 12, 2009 \| 43 comments
16.		Microsoft to ditch support for IE6 in Office Web Apps (msdn.com)
		47 points by trezor on Aug 12, 2009 \| 20 comments
17.		RethinkDB performance data (rethinkdb.com)
		44 points by coffeemug on Aug 12, 2009 \| 29 comments
18.		Five Netbooks Microsoft Has Crushed (networkworld.com)
		42 points by tc on Aug 12, 2009 \| 30 comments
19.		Rate HN: Our site - Looklookbuy
		39 points by kyro on Aug 12, 2009 \| 44 comments
20.		Ask HN: My site's popular. How would YOU monetise it? (favstar.fm)
		39 points by TimH on Aug 12, 2009 \| 47 comments
21.		Someday, A Tiny Subway Will Deliver Your Groceries (wired.com)
		38 points by edw519 on Aug 12, 2009 \| 43 comments
22.		Coding Horror: Are You a Digital Sharecropper? (codinghorror.com)
		38 points by blazzerbg on Aug 12, 2009 \| 31 comments
23.		The Netflix Zen Master (joedoliner.com)
		37 points by jdoliner on Aug 12, 2009 \| 29 comments
24.		Basic income (wikipedia.org)
		37 points by parenthesis on Aug 12, 2009 \| 56 comments
25.		If you hate all of the unoriginal design blogs, this post is for you (briancray.com)
		37 points by briancray on Aug 12, 2009 \| 21 comments
26.		Justin.tv Signs Deal With Fox, Gets Serious About Copyright Problems (businessinsider.com)
		35 points by NathanielMc1 on Aug 12, 2009 \| 19 comments
27.		What Facebook Lite Actually Is. Hint: It’s Not Twitter Or FriendFeed. (techcrunch.com)
		31 points by blazamos on Aug 12, 2009 \| 9 comments
28.		How Verbal Self-Defense Works (howstuffworks.com)
		31 points by screwperman on Aug 12, 2009 \| 6 comments
29.		Y Combinator / Seed Accelerator Dissertation Survey (spreadsheets.google.com)
		31 points by jedc on Aug 12, 2009 \| 8 comments
30.		Taking more math in school will raise your income (economist.com)
		31 points by cwan on Aug 12, 2009 \| 29 comments
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