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1.		I like Unicorn (Rack HTTP server) because it's Unix (tomayko.com)
		192 points by pjhyett on Oct 6, 2009 \| 53 comments
2.		"How do I set the User-Agent string in Java?" - L. Page (1996) (guyro.typepad.com)
		173 points by frisco on Oct 6, 2009 \| 39 comments
3.		Unit testing in Coders at Work (gigamonkeys.com)
		109 points by mqt on Oct 6, 2009 \| 85 comments
4.		Email Newsletters Are Serious Business (jasonlbaptiste.com)
		88 points by jasonlbaptiste on Oct 6, 2009 \| 27 comments
5.		How to crack a master lock (markedwardcampos.com)
		84 points by yan on Oct 6, 2009 \| 43 comments
6.		21-year-old computer geek makes £1m with online game (Torn) (telegraph.co.uk)
		80 points by tortilla on Oct 6, 2009 \| 66 comments
7.		AT&T to allow 3G Skype calls (skype.com)
		79 points by Timothee on Oct 6, 2009 \| 61 comments
8.		Judge rules against Autodesk in eBay software case (computerworlduk.com)
		71 points by dreemteem on Oct 6, 2009 \| 20 comments
9.		Criminalizing everyone - Needed: A 'clean line' to determine lawfulness (washingtontimes.com)
		70 points by cwan on Oct 6, 2009 \| 60 comments
10.		Math Every Day (googlepages.com)
		70 points by yarapavan on Oct 6, 2009 \| 17 comments
11.		Nerdkit - an electronics kit for hackers (nerdkits.com)
		69 points by sdp on Oct 6, 2009 \| 16 comments
12.		Null-prefix certificate for paypal (seclists.org)
		63 points by bensummers on Oct 6, 2009 \| 12 comments
13.		The odd one out - inspired by IQ tests (tanyakhovanova.com)
		57 points by cema on Oct 6, 2009 \| 35 comments
14.		DRAM errors vastly more frequent than previously thought (zdnet.com)
		57 points by wglb on Oct 6, 2009 \| 22 comments
15.		Google launches WhatBrowser.org, talks web browsers for Mom and Dad (whatbrowser.org)
		55 points by cscotta on Oct 6, 2009 \| 42 comments
16.		Miguel de Icaza responds to latest RMS article (tirania.org)
		54 points by michael_h on Oct 6, 2009 \| 103 comments
17.		25 years of X (lwn.net)
		51 points by robin_reala on Oct 6, 2009 \| 33 comments
18.		Good agile vs Bad agile (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
		50 points by joubee on Oct 6, 2009 \| 21 comments
19.		Jeff Bezos supposedly invested $250k in Google in '98, worth $1.6 billion today (techflash.com)
		48 points by adamhowell on Oct 6, 2009 \| 9 comments
20.		JavaScript Programming Patterns (klauskomenda.com)
		48 points by ZLOB-o-ZLOB on Oct 6, 2009 \| 28 comments
21.		Why I gave marijuana to my autistic child (doublex.com)
		48 points by tptacek on Oct 6, 2009 \| 53 comments
22.		Twitter Data: An Investor's Perspective (techcrunch.com)
		44 points by jakestein on Oct 6, 2009 \| 16 comments
23.		How copy editing is done at the New Yorker (redroom.com)
		43 points by yarapavan on Oct 6, 2009 \| 3 comments
24.		Freakonomics: Do We Need a 37-Cent Coin? (nytimes.com)
		42 points by cwan on Oct 6, 2009 \| 50 comments
25.		Eolas sues Apple, Google (arstechnica.com)
		41 points by abraham on Oct 6, 2009 \| 24 comments
26.		The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009 (nobelprize.org)
		39 points by edw519 on Oct 6, 2009 \| 15 comments
27.		Palm revises webOS app policy - much more freedom for developers (precentral.net)
		37 points by bhousel on Oct 6, 2009 \| 12 comments
28.		Parallelism /= Concurrency (ghcmutterings.wordpress.com)
		36 points by maxtilford on Oct 6, 2009 \| 15 comments
29.		What "Super Achievers" Know About Time Management (fieldguideforinvestors.com)
		35 points by cwan on Oct 6, 2009 \| 24 comments
30.		Ask HN - Why was there ever, fork() ?
		35 points by billpg on Oct 6, 2009 \| 58 comments
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