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1.		Working hard is overrated (caterina.net)
		160 points by prakash on Sept 27, 2009 \| 98 comments
2.		Nate Silver Finds Unusual Patterns in a Polling Firm's Data. Was it fabricated? (fivethirtyeight.com)
		98 points by gluejar on Sept 27, 2009 \| 25 comments
3.		PyPy Status Blog: First results of the JIT (morepypy.blogspot.com)
		79 points by iamelgringo on Sept 27, 2009 \| 7 comments
4.		Apple behind Intel's new 10Gbps Optical Connector Standard (engadget.com)
		74 points by mikedouglas on Sept 27, 2009 \| 26 comments
5.		Meet the man who sells $89 million of diapers each year online (inc.com)
		66 points by cwan on Sept 27, 2009 \| 19 comments
6.		Ask HN: Orange dot?
		63 points by colbyolson on Sept 27, 2009 \| 58 comments
7.		Why the Evidence of Water on the Moon is Bad News (ieee.org)
		57 points by pieceofpeace on Sept 27, 2009 \| 61 comments
8.		GCD libdispatch w/Blocks support working on FreeBSD (macosforge.org)
		54 points by pohl on Sept 27, 2009 \| 5 comments
9.		Review of a Linux laptop: Thinkpad T400. Do not buy it. (kontsevoy.blogspot.com)
		46 points by old-gregg on Sept 27, 2009 \| 74 comments
10.		Who need XSS when you can simply ask? (reddit.com)
		43 points by judofyr on Sept 27, 2009 \| 25 comments
11.		Charming Python: Decorators make magic easy (ibm.com)
		42 points by mace on Sept 27, 2009 \| 5 comments
12.		Gyroscopic wheel as a replacement for training wheels (bikecommuters.com)
		41 points by e1ven on Sept 27, 2009 \| 16 comments
13.		Google's first press release (google.com)
		41 points by rokhayakebe on Sept 27, 2009 \| 38 comments
14.		On Elitism (stanford.edu)
		39 points by unignorant on Sept 27, 2009 \| 113 comments
15.		An Introduction to JavaScript's "this" (harmonize.fm)
		39 points by jmtulloss on Sept 27, 2009 \| 36 comments
16.		This Is Your Brain on Kafka (miller-mccune.com)
		35 points by Sapient on Sept 27, 2009 \| 8 comments
17.		How to Respond to Criticism – Learning from Dr. King (fourhourworkweek.com)
		35 points by jsmoov on Sept 27, 2009 \| 16 comments
18.		Good bank account for a startup?
		32 points by forgotmypasswd on Sept 27, 2009 \| 26 comments
19.		Logicomix - A Comic Book About Logic, Math and Madness - Review (nytimes.com)
		32 points by yagibear on Sept 27, 2009 \| 8 comments
20.		Software patents should be abolished (cdixon.org)
		30 points by dwynings on Sept 27, 2009 \| 29 comments
21.		Very fast, scalable mutable maps and hashes for Haskell (donsbot.wordpress.com)
		31 points by dons on Sept 27, 2009 \| 27 comments
22.		Duct Tape Programmers and the Culture of Complexity in Software Projects (25hoursaday.com)
		28 points by Anon84 on Sept 27, 2009 \| 12 comments
23.		Ask HN: The ideal company for programmers, or giving freedom to your programmers
		28 points by hackoder on Sept 27, 2009 \| 21 comments
24.		Hazelcast - In-Memory Data Grid for Java (code.google.com)
		25 points by vinutheraj on Sept 27, 2009 \| 7 comments
25.		Analysis of Nate Silver's Analysis of Oklahoma Student Poll Pollster Fraud (smellthedata.com)
		24 points by danger on Sept 27, 2009 \| 1 comment
26.		Free software is dead. Long live open source (cnet.com)
		23 points by e1ven on Sept 27, 2009 \| 14 comments
27.		Lions: a photo essay by Nathan Myhrvold (2007) (edge.org)
		21 points by Rod on Sept 27, 2009 \| 1 comment
28.		Scheme: Developing a Memcached Client (weblambda.blogspot.com)
		21 points by fogus on Sept 27, 2009 \| 2 comments
29.		Ranking and Mapping scientific Knowledge (eigenfactor.org)
		22 points by prabodh on Sept 27, 2009 \| 7 comments
30.		Anyone want to help test my Ajax chat (Erlang)? (tech9computers.com)
		20 points by chrismoos on Sept 27, 2009 \| 10 comments
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