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1.		Looking into the future with Cassandra (digg.com)
		126 points by bnmrrs on Sept 9, 2009 \| 40 comments
2.		The Y Combinator Experience (defmacro.org)
		120 points by coffeemug on Sept 9, 2009 \| 50 comments
3.		OpenBSD needs your help - call for donations (undeadly.org)
		84 points by igorhvr on Sept 9, 2009 \| 45 comments
4.		Teenager invents solar panel made from human hair (dailymail.co.uk)
		78 points by sophacles on Sept 9, 2009 \| 58 comments
5.		Ask HN: Do you think machine consciousness is possible?
		71 points by zoba on Sept 9, 2009 \| 185 comments
6.		Why Python Pickle is Inscecure (nadiana.com)
		71 points by mnemonik on Sept 9, 2009 \| 31 comments
7.		You're Killing Me, Zappos (metalabdesign.com)
		67 points by metalab on Sept 9, 2009 \| 95 comments
8.		Create Your Own Programming Language (Book) (createyourproglang.com)
		64 points by laktek on Sept 9, 2009 \| 64 comments
9.		Nathan Myhrvold’s Evil Genius (timothyblee.com)
		53 points by edw519 on Sept 9, 2009 \| 32 comments
10.		WTF is a SuperColumn? An Intro to the Cassandra Data Model (arin.me)
		53 points by ropiku on Sept 9, 2009 \| 22 comments
11.		Giant rats, tiny parrots found in 'lost world' (cbc.ca)
		51 points by restruct on Sept 9, 2009 \| 10 comments
12.		Microsoft Patent Checkmate (groklaw.net)
		48 points by wglb on Sept 9, 2009 \| 13 comments
13.		Mixpanel: A/B testing to increase your conversions the Eric Ries way (mixpanel.com)
		46 points by suhail on Sept 9, 2009 \| 13 comments
14.		Understanding Clojure’s PersistentHashMap (higher-order.net)
		42 points by fogus on Sept 9, 2009
15.		Failure (avc.com)
		41 points by prakash on Sept 9, 2009 \| 7 comments
16.		The Nutritional Impossibility of Australia (ediblegeography.com)
		40 points by blasdel on Sept 9, 2009 \| 5 comments
17.		Who Put the IPv6 in my Internet? (arbornetworks.com)
		40 points by there on Sept 9, 2009 \| 5 comments
18.		The Design and Implementation of XMonad (xmonad.wordpress.com)
		39 points by fogus on Sept 9, 2009 \| 6 comments
19.		Steve @ Apple keynote--iTunes 9, new iPods (w/vid camera!), 50M iPhone + iPods (crunchgear.com)
		37 points by sama on Sept 9, 2009 \| 49 comments
20.		The Web will dismember universities, just like newspapers (thebigmoney.com)
		35 points by smanek on Sept 9, 2009 \| 59 comments
21.		Apple rocks with iTunes 9, iTunes Store improvements (arstechnica.com)
		34 points by profquail on Sept 9, 2009 \| 39 comments
22.		DC App Store (dc.gov)
		33 points by mshafrir on Sept 9, 2009 \| 13 comments
23.		Machine Learning in R, in a nutshell (revolution-computing.com)
		32 points by Anon84 on Sept 9, 2009 \| 7 comments
24.		It's Time For Google To Take A Stand On Paid Links (businessinsider.com)
		31 points by fallentimes on Sept 9, 2009 \| 42 comments
25.		There's a Reason RSSCloud Failed to Catch On (cadenhead.org)
		31 points by TomOfTTB on Sept 9, 2009 \| 19 comments
26.		Ars Technica Announces A Subscription Based Service (arstechnica.com)
		30 points by Brentley_11 on Sept 9, 2009 \| 24 comments
27.		Coding Emacs's M-x in Lisp (aaronhawley.livejournal.com)
		29 points by keyist on Sept 9, 2009 \| 6 comments
28.		How Wired's Evan Ratliff (the Vanish contest) Was Caught (wired.com)
		29 points by jknupp on Sept 9, 2009 \| 9 comments
29.		Fire the "web designer" (briancray.com)
		29 points by briancray on Sept 9, 2009 \| 23 comments
30.		Twitter revenue dilemma (techcrunch.com)
		28 points by kasunh on Sept 9, 2009 \| 12 comments
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