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1.		GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal (ibm.com)
		186 points by soundphed on Sept 28, 2009 \| 100 comments
2.		JWZ: that "duct tape" silliness (jwz.livejournal.com)
		186 points by allenbrunson on Sept 28, 2009 \| 24 comments
3.		JWZ Unable to Distribute Two Free Pre Apps (jwz.livejournal.com)
		176 points by sutro on Sept 28, 2009 \| 90 comments
4.		Ask HN: Check out my little app (huddle.im)
		108 points by jmonegro on Sept 28, 2009 \| 75 comments
5.		Why Stylesheet Abstractions Matter (chriseppstein.github.com)
		107 points by chriseppstein on Sept 28, 2009 \| 37 comments
6.		Joe Armstrong and Simon Peyton Jones discuss Erlang and Haskell (infoq.com)
		90 points by davidw on Sept 28, 2009 \| 26 comments
7.		GitHub's Architecture, before and after migration (anchor.com.au)
		80 points by quellhorst on Sept 28, 2009 \| 14 comments
8.		You Commit Three Felonies a Day (wsj.com)
		71 points by ctingom on Sept 28, 2009 \| 38 comments
9.		Duct tape context: A tale of two rewrites (gigamonkeys.com)
		70 points by gthank on Sept 28, 2009 \| 13 comments
10.		Merlin Mann on Adobe's products (kungfugrippe.com)
		67 points by qeek on Sept 28, 2009 \| 35 comments
11.		Python Library for Google Translate (catonmat.net)
		61 points by pkrumins on Sept 28, 2009 \| 9 comments
12.		Is There An Artificial God? (biota.org)
		58 points by _bfhp on Sept 28, 2009 \| 17 comments
13.		MD5 hash extension attack breaks API authentication in Flickr (and others) (netifera.com)
		58 points by brl on Sept 28, 2009 \| 22 comments
14.		Find what's blocking sales with under a day of work (asmartbear.com)
		57 points by froggy on Sept 28, 2009 \| 5 comments
15.		Why MacRuby Matters (slideshare.net)
		55 points by r11t on Sept 28, 2009 \| 9 comments
16.		Django ponies: Proposals for Django 1.2 (simonwillison.net)
		54 points by simonw on Sept 28, 2009 \| 2 comments
17.		Mono not Chasing Tail Lights (jeffreystedfast.blogspot.com)
		52 points by oomkiller on Sept 28, 2009 \| 22 comments
18.		Apple loses Hackintosh ruling, angers judge (theregister.co.uk)
		51 points by jacquesm on Sept 28, 2009 \| 22 comments
19.		Most of us have a finite supply of willpower (futurepundit.com)
		49 points by cwan on Sept 28, 2009 \| 22 comments
20.		Securing an HTTPS server (daemonology.net)
		49 points by cperciva on Sept 28, 2009 \| 17 comments
21.		Grand Central Dispatch: The Sleeping Barber Problem (madebysofa.com)
		46 points by koenbok on Sept 28, 2009 \| 9 comments
22.		MySQL vs. PostgreSQL comparison by Anchor (github's migration team) (anchor.com.au)
		44 points by adriand on Sept 28, 2009 \| 42 comments
23.		One time at D&D camp… (brouhaha.us)
		44 points by kqr2 on Sept 28, 2009 \| 3 comments
24.		Ask HN: Seeing points again?
		41 points by jacquesm on Sept 28, 2009 \| 64 comments
25.		Dumping the Gameboy Color boot ROM (w/ commented disassembly) (fpgb.org)
		40 points by makmanalp on Sept 28, 2009 \| 6 comments
26.		Impossible Bottles (impossibottle.co.uk)
		39 points by eru on Sept 28, 2009 \| 18 comments
27.		Twitter's Alex Payne: Why Scala? (viddler.com)
		39 points by fogus on Sept 28, 2009 \| 10 comments
28.		Reminder: Twitter was started in 2006 (gettingmoreawesome.blogspot.com)
		39 points by rishi on Sept 28, 2009 \| 25 comments
29.		Schneier on Security: Ass Bomber (schneier.com)
		36 points by billpg on Sept 28, 2009 \| 24 comments
30.		Teen Inventors Fight Tinnitus (scientificamerican.com)
		36 points by alexandros on Sept 28, 2009 \| 20 comments
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