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1.		Fundable comes to an ugly end (fundable.com)
		115 points by daremon on Oct 2, 2009 \| 82 comments
2.		Ben Huh of "I Can Has Cheezburger" is quietly building a humor empire (mixergy.com)
		107 points by kf on Oct 2, 2009 \| 17 comments
3.		One Small Leap for Open Source, One Giant Leap for Mankind (redhat.com)
		91 points by mickeyben on Oct 2, 2009 \| 56 comments
4.		Red Hat Asks Supreme Court to Review Software Patents (redhat.com)
		90 points by sutro on Oct 2, 2009 \| 21 comments
5.		Rands: Hurry (randsinrepose.com)
		81 points by naish on Oct 2, 2009 \| 12 comments
6.		Don't Forget: You Can Use Amazon SimpleDB For Free (aws.typepad.com)
		76 points by jeffbarr on Oct 2, 2009 \| 21 comments
7.		What Google Can't Copy (Easily) (duckduckgo.com)
		74 points by epi0Bauqu on Oct 2, 2009 \| 43 comments
8.		I don't like you very much (whattofix.com)
		63 points by DanielBMarkham on Oct 2, 2009 \| 45 comments
9.		Variable Cost Living Sadly Doesn't Work (drop.io)
		62 points by ivankirigin on Oct 2, 2009 \| 39 comments
10.		Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (oreilly.com)
		59 points by jmonegro on Oct 2, 2009 \| 20 comments
11.		Are the smart getting richer? (dilbert.com)
		59 points by cwan on Oct 2, 2009 \| 58 comments
12.		Chicago Loses, Nerds Win: The real story behind Chicago's 2016 Olympic bid (slate.com)
		54 points by brandnewlow on Oct 2, 2009 \| 48 comments
13.		Vim is a great text editor - try it (joelhughes.co.uk)
		50 points by rudenoise on Oct 2, 2009 \| 76 comments
14.		Python 2.6.3 Released (python.org)
		48 points by nice1 on Oct 2, 2009 \| 1 comment
15.		Ask HN - What's your best startup idea?
		47 points by steveeq1 on Oct 2, 2009 \| 181 comments
16.		Understanding python args and *kwargs (dpeepul.com)
		42 points by rama_vadakattu on Oct 2, 2009 \| 13 comments
17.		The real reason that capitalism is so crash-prone. (newyorker.com)
		42 points by prat on Oct 2, 2009 \| 57 comments
18.		Yext Scores a $25M Round from IVP (techcrunch.com)
		41 points by riffer on Oct 2, 2009 \| 18 comments
19.		Scientists Develop Nasal Spray That Improves Memory (sciencedaily.com)
		39 points by fogus on Oct 2, 2009 \| 26 comments
20.		"Loading..." Animated GIF Generator (ajaxload.info)
		36 points by nir on Oct 2, 2009 \| 15 comments
21.		Google Wave crashes on beach of overhype (scobleizer.com)
		36 points by Flemlord on Oct 2, 2009 \| 18 comments
22.		XS: Lisp on Lego MindStorms (kyoto-u.ac.jp)
		35 points by jacquesm on Oct 2, 2009 \| 4 comments
23.		An interview question you had better know how to answer (hypecycles.wordpress.com)
		34 points by amrith on Oct 2, 2009 \| 30 comments
24.		Google Removes Pirate Bay Frontpage From Search Results (torrentfreak.com)
		32 points by mindplunge on Oct 2, 2009 \| 20 comments
25.		Google forces employee to disavow MVP status (theregister.co.uk)
		32 points by madair on Oct 2, 2009 \| 34 comments
26.		Assessing Competition Risk for Digital Media Startups (techvibes.com)
		32 points by rlan on Oct 2, 2009
27.		Image Approximation with Genetically Selected Cosines (nklein.com)
		30 points by edw519 on Oct 2, 2009 \| 8 comments
28.		MIT OCW:The Society of Mind (Graduate Course by Minsky) (ocw.mit.edu)
		30 points by yarapavan on Oct 2, 2009 \| 2 comments
29.		The hell of Apple video connectors (jgc.org)
		29 points by jgrahamc on Oct 2, 2009 \| 35 comments
30.		Introducing Cloudera Desktop » Cloudera Hadoop & Big Data Blog (cloudera.com)
		30 points by jhammerb on Oct 2, 2009 \| 6 comments
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