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1.		IPhone Developers: We use our iPhones in bed, allow us to disable landscape
		164 points by cwilson on Sept 24, 2009 \| 54 comments
2.		Internet Explorer 8 runs ten times faster with Google Chrome plug-in (techworld.com)
		162 points by monkeygrinder on Sept 24, 2009 \| 71 comments
3.		How far can you get from a McDonald's in the continental US? (weathersealed.com)
		140 points by timf on Sept 24, 2009 \| 26 comments
4.		Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time (amazon.com)
		139 points by dpapathanasiou on Sept 24, 2009 \| 59 comments
5.		DropBox grows like weed. Reaches 2 million users. (techcrunch.com)
		129 points by rokhayakebe on Sept 24, 2009 \| 87 comments
6.		Seth Godin Tries Out Brandjacking (outspokenmedia.com)
		122 points by onreact-com on Sept 24, 2009 \| 61 comments
7.		The Duct Tape Programmer (Response from Uncle Bob Martin) (objectmentor.com)
		118 points by johns on Sept 24, 2009 \| 77 comments
8.		It's Official: Water Found on the Moon (space.com)
		97 points by mgcreed on Sept 24, 2009 \| 17 comments
9.		Twitter finds Ruby faster with gcc optimizing for size than speed (evanweaver.com)
		63 points by jim-greer on Sept 24, 2009 \| 15 comments
10.		Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines (smashingmagazine.com)
		62 points by cwan on Sept 24, 2009 \| 4 comments
11.		AggData: Datasets created from scraping the web (aggdata.com)
		62 points by adamhowell on Sept 24, 2009 \| 26 comments
12.		Keynes, Explained Briefly (aaronsw.com)
		58 points by aaronsw on Sept 24, 2009 \| 64 comments
13.		Injecting Arbitrary Python Into EVE Online (daeken.com)
		57 points by daeken on Sept 24, 2009 \| 18 comments
14.		Indian version of Y Combinator... (iaccelerator.org)
		52 points by prabodh on Sept 24, 2009 \| 51 comments
15.		Bit.ly/robots.txt and the Dangers of Custom Shortened URLs (davidnaylor.co.uk)
		49 points by byrneseyeview on Sept 24, 2009 \| 15 comments
16.		Barack Obama Loves Startups: New Federal Office for Early-Stage Entrepreneurs (readwriteweb.com)
		48 points by Anon84 on Sept 24, 2009 \| 69 comments
17.		You Don’t Get to Define ‘Quality’ (cindyalvarez.com)
		44 points by jasonlbaptiste on Sept 24, 2009 \| 15 comments
18.		Why MIT now uses python instead of scheme for its undergraduate CS program (muckandbrass.com)
		43 points by bootload on Sept 24, 2009 \| 38 comments
19.		India's Chandrayaan-1 helped discover water on moon's surface (thehindu.com)
		41 points by prads on Sept 24, 2009 \| 14 comments
20.		Vote on Google's Project 10 to the 100 (project10tothe100.com)
		39 points by vijayr on Sept 24, 2009 \| 34 comments
21.		Bank Sends Email to Wrong Gmail User, Sues Google For His Identity (mashable.com)
		34 points by dnewcome on Sept 24, 2009 \| 44 comments
22.		1 Million Spiders Make Golden Silk for Rare Cloth (wired.com)
		34 points by alex_c on Sept 24, 2009 \| 7 comments
23.		The Physics of Sumos (A Flirtation with iPhone Game Development) (macresearch.org)
		34 points by rtrunck on Sept 24, 2009 \| 1 comment
24.		Yahoo Brands Flickr; Users Retaliate (techcrunch.com)
		34 points by vaksel on Sept 24, 2009 \| 30 comments
25.		Tokyo Cabinet, MySQL and Ruby HTTP Performance (infoq.com)
		33 points by nreece on Sept 24, 2009
26.		How LinkedIn's Site Design Helps Them Rank Well on Searches for Names (byrnehobart.com)
		33 points by byrneseyeview on Sept 24, 2009 \| 4 comments
27.		Indie Software Security: A ~12-Step Program (matasano.com)
		31 points by tptacek on Sept 24, 2009 \| 13 comments
28.		Watch Out Apple... Courier - Details of Microsft's Secret Tablet (gizmodo.com)
		29 points by keltecp11 on Sept 24, 2009 \| 14 comments
29.		Microsoft: Google Chrome Frame makes IE less secure (arstechnica.com)
		30 points by fjabre on Sept 24, 2009 \| 28 comments
30.		Functional Programming at Facebook. (30 min video, CUFP talk.) (vimeo.com)
		28 points by eelco on Sept 24, 2009 \| 6 comments
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