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1.		A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) (moserware.com)
		178 points by moserware on Sept 22, 2009 \| 8 comments
2.		Persuade xor Discover (paulgraham.com)
		148 points by fallentimes on Sept 22, 2009 \| 107 comments
3.		Linus says Linux has become 'bloated and huge' (theregister.co.uk)
		125 points by nreece on Sept 22, 2009 \| 85 comments
4.		30 years of C (dadhacker.com)
		101 points by pragmatic on Sept 22, 2009 \| 55 comments
5.		The New Science of Causation (aaronsw.com)
		96 points by wglb on Sept 22, 2009 \| 28 comments
6.		Why Pair Programming Is Not For the Masses (obiefernandez.com)
		93 points by fogus on Sept 22, 2009 \| 103 comments
7.		Talk with Rich Hickey: Time is the New Memory (artima.com)
		83 points by alrex021 on Sept 22, 2009 \| 34 comments
8.		Clever ideas that failed (sites.google.com)
		78 points by clawrencewenham on Sept 22, 2009 \| 16 comments
9.		Google Sync: Now with push Gmail support (googlemobile.blogspot.com)
		76 points by amitry on Sept 22, 2009 \| 25 comments
10.		What I Learned From My Startup Failing (snapsummit.com)
		72 points by ChristianPerry on Sept 22, 2009 \| 27 comments
11.		Are you counted as one of the Unemployed? (mint.com)
		59 points by blueschlue on Sept 22, 2009 \| 19 comments
12.		Tim Ferris: Beginner's Guide to Lucid Dreaming (fourhourworkweek.com)
		55 points by DarrenMills on Sept 22, 2009 \| 37 comments
13.		Ask HN: Javascript best practices?
		51 points by mattiss on Sept 22, 2009 \| 47 comments
14.		Enough women in Coders at Work? (gigamonkeys.com)
		49 points by mqt on Sept 22, 2009 \| 50 comments
15.		Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine (It actually exists) (wired.com)
		48 points by tsestrich on Sept 22, 2009 \| 38 comments
16.		Why Google AppEngine sucks (14.by)
		48 points by gasull on Sept 22, 2009 \| 46 comments
17.		Are sales people different from you and me? (businessofsoftware.org)
		48 points by neilgd on Sept 22, 2009 \| 23 comments
18.		Most Common Passwords (jimmyr.com)
		47 points by superberliner on Sept 22, 2009 \| 53 comments
19.		Joe the Developer doesn’t need a certificate (gojko.net)
		46 points by edw519 on Sept 22, 2009 \| 67 comments
20.		Google’s Plan to Kill Internet Explorer? Google Wave (mashable.com)
		44 points by baran on Sept 22, 2009 \| 23 comments
21.		YouTube Comes To A 5-Star Realization: Its Ratings Are Useless (techcrunch.com)
		43 points by vaksel on Sept 22, 2009 \| 31 comments
22.		Learn You Some Erlang: Three new chapters available (learnyousomeerlang.com)
		44 points by bandris on Sept 22, 2009 \| 21 comments
23.		Our app got rejected again. We're trying to figure out why. (graffitigeo.posterous.com)
		43 points by jmtame on Sept 22, 2009 \| 24 comments
24.		How to properly load test Google App Engine (code.google.com)
		40 points by wmf on Sept 22, 2009 \| 4 comments
25.		Learning Clojure with Project Euler (grok-code.com)
		38 points by grokcode on Sept 22, 2009 \| 10 comments
26.		The Suggested Users List as a tool to control news? (scripting.com)
		36 points by swombat on Sept 22, 2009 \| 25 comments
27.		How Facebook Copes with 300 Million Users (technologyreview.com)
		36 points by mgcreed on Sept 22, 2009 \| 5 comments
28.		Ask HN: When to get customers' billing info?
		35 points by charliepark on Sept 22, 2009 \| 15 comments
29.		If only I had ____ I would succeed (garry.posterous.com)
		34 points by nreece on Sept 22, 2009 \| 21 comments
30.		Courier - Microsoft's Secret Tablet? (gizmodo.com)
		33 points by Readmore on Sept 22, 2009 \| 26 comments
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