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31.		Yahoo’s $3.65 Billion Mistake: Yahoo Closes GeoCities (crenk.com)
		32 points by insomniamedia on Oct 9, 2009 \| 31 comments
32.		Sun Labs Lively Kernel, Smalltalk like programming using JavaScript (sun.com)
		31 points by jacquesm on Oct 9, 2009 \| 14 comments
33.		Microsoft adds free root certificate authority to Windows (istartedsomething.com)
		30 points by johns on Oct 9, 2009 \| 10 comments
34.		Simpler long polling with Django and gevent (prg10001.blogspot.com)
		30 points by denik on Oct 9, 2009 \| 4 comments
35.		Spotify Co-Founder: Notion of Overnight Success "Misleading and Harmful" (readwriteweb.com)
		29 points by terpua on Oct 9, 2009 \| 2 comments
36.		Why "ls *.c" is at least dumb, and possibly dangerous (groups.google.com)
		28 points by r11t on Oct 9, 2009 \| 41 comments
37.		IPhone App Design Trends (smashingmagazine.com)
		27 points by sant0sk1 on Oct 9, 2009 \| 5 comments
38.		Ask HN: Thoughts and a suggestion concerning off-topic items.
		26 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Oct 9, 2009 \| 33 comments
39.		Please review KartMe (kartme.com)
		26 points by phil_KartMe on Oct 9, 2009 \| 28 comments
40.		Mystery Google: You get what the person before you searched for. (mysterygoogle.com)
		25 points by puredemo on Oct 9, 2009 \| 23 comments
41.		Yahoo's Site Explorer is pretty amazing (yahoo.com)
		24 points by matt1 on Oct 9, 2009 \| 7 comments
42.		Google Code Now Supports User Clones for Mercurial (googlecode.blogspot.com)
		24 points by durin42 on Oct 9, 2009 \| 5 comments
43.		Activity is not Progress (muckandbrass.com)
		26 points by edw519 on Oct 9, 2009 \| 16 comments
44.		Empirical Studies on Software Quality Mythology (infoq.com)
		22 points by tabo on Oct 9, 2009 \| 5 comments
45.		Functional Programming Fundamentals Lectures (codebetter.com)
		22 points by Anon84 on Oct 9, 2009 \| 3 comments
46.		Look into my eyes: The power of hypnosis (newscientist.com)
		22 points by dimas on Oct 9, 2009 \| 13 comments
47.		Android gaining momentum in smart phone race (sfgate.com)
		21 points by gibsonf1 on Oct 9, 2009 \| 35 comments
48.		Ask HN: Voting on comments broken ?
		21 points by jacquesm on Oct 9, 2009 \| 25 comments
49.		VideoPress: Automattic's HD video sharing service (videopress.com)
		21 points by adamhowell on Oct 9, 2009 \| 6 comments
50.		Hulu Has A Desktop Client For Linux (hulu.com)
		20 points by tsally on Oct 9, 2009 \| 13 comments
51.		Follow-up to my "Hell of Apple Video Adapters" blog post (jgc.org)
		19 points by jgrahamc on Oct 9, 2009 \| 19 comments
52.		Ask HN: OSX Package Management (ethanjfast.com)
		19 points by unignorant on Oct 9, 2009 \| 20 comments
53.		A tale of 10,000,000 books (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		19 points by fogus on Oct 9, 2009 \| 4 comments
54.		YouTube: We’re Bigger Than You Thought (nytimes.com)
		19 points by newacc on Oct 9, 2009 \| 6 comments
55.		0 to $170m in 2.5 years: Mint.com's Aaron Patzer's keynote from Juicepitcher (ethanbloch.com)
		18 points by swombat on Oct 9, 2009 \| 5 comments
56.		Ask HN: Where's NM?
		18 points by rjett on Oct 9, 2009 \| 5 comments
57.		CSScaffold – Using PHP to Extend the Abilities of CSS (github.com/anthonyshort)
		19 points by sandaru1 on Oct 9, 2009 \| 3 comments
58.		Niche Site Builders
		18 points by spiretop on Oct 9, 2009 \| 14 comments
59.		Hacker refused extradition appeal (bbc.co.uk)
		17 points by inovica on Oct 9, 2009 \| 10 comments
60.		Anyone else on Google Wave?
		16 points by jgrahamc on Oct 9, 2009 \| 37 comments
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