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31.		$250 AWS Credit & a Netbook? Build a Twilio App by Midnight on Sunday (twilio.com)
		29 points by Derferman on Aug 24, 2009 \| 34 comments
32.		Why developers should build single-purpose websites (briancray.com)
		29 points by briancray on Aug 24, 2009 \| 27 comments
33.		Flatbed scanner camera hack (sentex.net)
		27 points by theblackbox on Aug 24, 2009 \| 3 comments
34.		The Hosting Provider Time Machine: Paying 2006 prices in 2009 (statsheet.com)
		29 points by RobbieStats on Aug 24, 2009 \| 26 comments
35.		The curse of knowledge: Mistaking your beliefs for those of others (scienceblogs.com)
		27 points by muon on Aug 24, 2009 \| 10 comments
36.		Y Combinators in C# (msdn.com)
		26 points by profquail on Aug 24, 2009 \| 18 comments
37.		Logos of the candidate cities for the 2016 Olympics (designer-daily.com)
		26 points by jasonlbaptiste on Aug 24, 2009 \| 22 comments
38.		Arrest Over Software Illuminates Wall St. Secret (nytimes.com)
		26 points by siculars on Aug 24, 2009 \| 6 comments
39.		Fuck the Fortune 500, It’s All About the Fortune 5,000,000 (quicksprout.com)
		25 points by webtickle on Aug 24, 2009 \| 15 comments
40.		OpenCL Rocks: Why You Care (chadaustin.me)
		25 points by eries on Aug 24, 2009 \| 8 comments
41.		Facebook Plans to Boost Staff 50% This Year, Zuckerberg Says (bloomberg.com)
		23 points by trader on Aug 24, 2009 \| 7 comments
42.		Scheme iPhone Example (jlongster.com)
		24 points by falava on Aug 24, 2009
43.		Seven Myths About Alternative Energy (foreignpolicy.com)
		22 points by cwan on Aug 24, 2009 \| 12 comments
44.		Acoustic Monitor Turns Any Surface into An Input Device (singularityhub.com)
		22 points by kkleiner on Aug 24, 2009 \| 2 comments
45.		How an engineer went from failure to success by learning to sell (mixergy.com)
		22 points by pallian on Aug 24, 2009
46.		The Cost of Not Understanding Probability Theory (math-blog.com)
		22 points by acangiano on Aug 24, 2009 \| 25 comments
47.		What We Know About Evan Ratliff, So Far (wired.com)
		22 points by edw519 on Aug 24, 2009 \| 9 comments
48.		Web.py, a python micro framework (webpy.org)
		21 points by jacquesm on Aug 24, 2009 \| 37 comments
49.		David Foster Wallace on Life and Work (unabridged) (archive.org)
		20 points by kf on Aug 24, 2009 \| 15 comments
50.		Poll: Are you a Hacker ? Really ?
		19 points by jacquesm on Aug 24, 2009 \| 20 comments
51.		Xkcd: Tech Support Cheat Sheet for Not Computer People (xkcd.com)
		19 points by tfincannon on Aug 24, 2009 \| 3 comments
52.		Ask HN: Is it "dirty" to have an "Import from [competitor]" feature?
		18 points by callmeed on Aug 24, 2009 \| 18 comments
53.		Nokia Plans to Start Making Netbooks (nytimes.com)
		18 points by newacc on Aug 24, 2009 \| 12 comments
54.		Does programming lead to paralyzing perfectionism in other aspects of life?
		18 points by amichail on Aug 24, 2009 \| 15 comments
55.		Sentiment Analysis Takes the Pulse of the Internet (nytimes.com)
		18 points by peter123 on Aug 24, 2009 \| 4 comments
56.		Econophysicist Predicts Date of Chinese Stock Market Collapse--Part II (technologyreview.com)
		17 points by ca98am79 on Aug 24, 2009 \| 8 comments
57.		The Factor programming language (factorcode.org)
		17 points by jacquesm on Aug 24, 2009 \| 5 comments
58.		How Google Manages Apps Across Data Centers (datacenterknowledge.com)
		16 points by 1SockChuck on Aug 24, 2009 \| 1 comment
59.		Ask HN: Could a Lisp be Blub?
		16 points by uninverted on Aug 24, 2009 \| 28 comments
60.		Is high IQ a curse?
		15 points by amichail on Aug 24, 2009 \| 25 comments
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