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1.		Work Less, Get More Done: Analytics For Maximizing Productivity (kalzumeus.com)
		109 points by patio11 on Oct 4, 2009 \| 39 comments
2.		Why dumb toys make kids smarter (thedailybeast.com)
		91 points by bootload on Oct 4, 2009 \| 33 comments
3.		You Can't Do What You Want By Doing Something Else (artima.com)
		86 points by saurabh on Oct 4, 2009 \| 31 comments
4.		There Are More Slaves Today Than at Any Time in Human History (alternet.org)
		87 points by kf on Oct 4, 2009 \| 46 comments
5.		Bitbucket: On our extended downtime with Amazon (blog.bitbucket.org)
		86 points by aiiie on Oct 4, 2009 \| 36 comments
6.		The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (an oldie but a goodie) (lambdassociates.org)
		82 points by acangiano on Oct 4, 2009 \| 22 comments
7.		Drupal Sucks (robozen.com)
		81 points by edw519 on Oct 4, 2009 \| 94 comments
8.		SQL Databases Don't Scale (heroku.com)
		78 points by DavidSJ on Oct 4, 2009 \| 41 comments
9.		Will California become America's first failed state? (guardian.co.uk)
		53 points by sdave on Oct 4, 2009 \| 86 comments
10.		The Burger That Shattered Her Life (nytimes.com)
		51 points by peter123 on Oct 4, 2009 \| 40 comments
11.		The original IBM Thinkpad (acontinuouslean.com)
		50 points by ritubpant on Oct 4, 2009 \| 5 comments
12.		Entire Cities Recreated Using Thousands of Flickr Photos (thenextweb.com)
		49 points by mgcreed on Oct 4, 2009 \| 10 comments
13.		Matt Cutts 30 day challenge for October: No Microsoft Software (mattcutts.com)
		46 points by tshtf on Oct 4, 2009 \| 38 comments
14.		Google Ajax API Code Playground (code.google.com)
		44 points by tzury on Oct 4, 2009 \| 3 comments
15.		Xkcd blog: Physics for Entertainment book (xkcd.com)
		43 points by falava on Oct 4, 2009 \| 2 comments
16.		HN top-100 sorted by karma per day (spreadsheets.google.com)
		40 points by matthodan on Oct 4, 2009 \| 50 comments
17.		PyBrain -- the Python Machine Learning Library (github.com/pybrain)
		39 points by jnaut on Oct 4, 2009 \| 11 comments
18.		Cheat sheets for front end web developers (sixrevisions.com)
		38 points by Zenbach on Oct 4, 2009 \| 1 comment
19.		Rupert to Internet: It's War (vanityfair.com)
		38 points by kevinheisler on Oct 4, 2009 \| 31 comments
20.		Version control of really huge files (alumnit.ca)
		35 points by soundsop on Oct 4, 2009 \| 8 comments
21.		A graphical breakdown of the death of newspapers (mint.com)
		34 points by JCThoughtscream on Oct 4, 2009 \| 12 comments
22.		US Navy awards funds for Polywell Fusion reactor experiment (classicalvalues.com)
		31 points by cwan on Oct 4, 2009 \| 9 comments
23.		C−−: a portable assembly language designed by Simon Peyton Jones et al. (cminusminus.org)
		30 points by tillulen on Oct 4, 2009 \| 9 comments
24.		Startup Bootcamp: October 12th at MIT with many YC speakers (startupbootcamp.mit.edu)
		29 points by kf on Oct 4, 2009 \| 14 comments
25.		Confessions of an IT pro: My biggest professional blunders (techrepublic.com.com)
		29 points by edw519 on Oct 4, 2009 \| 17 comments
26.		John Cleese divorce tour: the first review (telegraph.co.uk)
		28 points by rglovejoy on Oct 4, 2009 \| 7 comments
27.		How to access iPhone/iPod Touch from Ubuntu (ubuntugeek.com)
		25 points by falava on Oct 4, 2009 \| 3 comments
28.		Video: Paul Graham at Startup School 08 (omnisio.com)
		25 points by matthodan on Oct 4, 2009 \| 11 comments
29.		Software Patents: A Personal Story (thenoisychannel.com)
		24 points by zjj on Oct 4, 2009 \| 16 comments
30.		Series E Terms for Twitter (pedatacenter.com)
		23 points by vcexperts on Oct 4, 2009 \| 14 comments
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