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1.		PG On Fox Today (ycombinator.posterous.com)
		104 points by rams on Aug 15, 2009 \| 48 comments
2.		2009 Startup School, October 24 at Berkeley (startupschool.org)
		73 points by pg on Aug 15, 2009 \| 31 comments
3.		WebFinger (code.google.com)
		56 points by fogus on Aug 15, 2009 \| 32 comments
4.		Startup school application open for business (news.ycombinator.com)
		55 points by kabuks on Aug 15, 2009 \| 21 comments
5.		Is Dvorak a Professional Troll?
		54 points by flinc on Aug 15, 2009 \| 42 comments
6.		A/Bingo: OSS Ruby on Rails A/B Testing. No Javascript. Two lines of code. (bingocardcreator.com)
		52 points by patio11 on Aug 15, 2009 \| 14 comments
7.		The Billion Dollar Gram (informationisbeautiful.net)
		50 points by andreyf on Aug 15, 2009 \| 29 comments
8.		Starbucks: Stay as long as you want (cnet.com)
		47 points by edw519 on Aug 15, 2009 \| 36 comments
9.		Google Chrome OS Screenshots? (mashable.com)
		46 points by peter123 on Aug 15, 2009 \| 29 comments
10.		Malthusianisms (scottaaronson.com)
		44 points by blasdel on Aug 15, 2009 \| 16 comments
11.		Economics of suicide (slate.com)
		41 points by dc2k08 on Aug 15, 2009 \| 16 comments
12.		Django CMS - The new CMS for Django (django-cms.org)
		41 points by jacquesm on Aug 15, 2009 \| 14 comments
13.		What's Wrong With E=MC^2? (scientificblogging.com)
		41 points by jawngee on Aug 15, 2009 \| 22 comments
14.		Data Visualization Blog (informationisbeautiful.net)
		40 points by flapjack on Aug 15, 2009 \| 4 comments
15.		The brutal truth about America’s healthcare (independent.co.uk)
		37 points by blogimus on Aug 15, 2009 \| 80 comments
16.		Ask HN: I want to build/learn something this weekend - suggestions?
		33 points by commiebob on Aug 15, 2009 \| 31 comments
17.		Followup w/ HN: Mixpanel API + Ruby on Rails = Funnel Performance Up 16.9% (bingocardcreator.com)
		33 points by patio11 on Aug 15, 2009 \| 6 comments
18.		Judge Throws Out Red Light Camera Tickets As Program Declared Illegal (techdirt.com)
		33 points by ravindra1982 on Aug 15, 2009 \| 27 comments
19.		Chuck Moore (Inventor of the language FORTH)'s blog (colorforth.com)
		32 points by plinkplonk on Aug 15, 2009 \| 17 comments
20.		Pinax, rapid web-app development on top of django / python (pinaxproject.com)
		31 points by jacquesm on Aug 15, 2009 \| 25 comments
21.		Ask HN: How or Where can I get data sets?
		29 points by yalurker on Aug 15, 2009 \| 18 comments
22.		14-year-old Belarusian wins International Olympiad in Informatics (ioi2009.org)
		29 points by screwperman on Aug 15, 2009 \| 8 comments
23.		Copyright myths explained (templetons.com)
		29 points by bearwithclaws on Aug 15, 2009 \| 13 comments
24.		Fail like you mean it (bigthink.com)
		29 points by aswanson on Aug 15, 2009 \| 4 comments
25.		Get it while it's cheap: Pinboard's revenue model (cnet.com)
		27 points by jasonlbaptiste on Aug 15, 2009 \| 19 comments
26.		Ask PG: Bursts on HN (the number of users online)
		26 points by csbartus on Aug 15, 2009 \| 8 comments
27.		C# and Java Weekday Languages, Python and Ruby For Weekends? (danlorenc.blogspot.com)
		26 points by edw519 on Aug 15, 2009 \| 16 comments
28.		How the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting. (slate.com)
		27 points by vaksel on Aug 15, 2009 \| 2 comments
29.		Why Humans and Their Fur Parted Ways (nytimes.com)
		25 points by mgcreed on Aug 15, 2009 \| 9 comments
30.		What is your best programmer joke? (stackoverflow.com)
		24 points by edw519 on Aug 15, 2009 \| 3 comments
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