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1.		Major bug in Snow Leopard deletes all user data (neowin.net)
		141 points by lupin_sansei on Oct 12, 2009 \| 75 comments
2.		Sell your product with fake screenshots (groups.google.com)
		141 points by jmorin007 on Oct 12, 2009 \| 57 comments
3.		You should feel pain when unclear (sivers.org)
		123 points by sivers on Oct 12, 2009 \| 25 comments
4.		Ask HN: Please name two of your most favorite books.
		105 points by vips on Oct 12, 2009 \| 227 comments
5.		How to Become an Independent Programmer in Just 1068 Days (2005) (gusmueller.com)
		100 points by thinkzig on Oct 12, 2009 \| 5 comments
6.		Spreadsheet of all TED talks (spreadsheets.google.com)
		82 points by kirubakaran on Oct 12, 2009 \| 5 comments
7.		Poll: Is self-posting ok?
		79 points by j_baker on Oct 12, 2009 \| 32 comments
8.		OSX Apps To Help You Focus & Be Productive (makeuseof.com)
		75 points by abraham on Oct 12, 2009 \| 26 comments
9.		I am a former executive of a large famous company in the computer industry. AMA (reddit.com)
		74 points by kyro on Oct 12, 2009 \| 19 comments
10.		Changing the game with μTP (bittorrent.com)
		73 points by moriarty on Oct 12, 2009 \| 19 comments
11.		Objective-C's niche: why it survives in a world of alternatives (cocoawithlove.com)
		70 points by twampss on Oct 12, 2009 \| 60 comments
12.		Seattle doctors try flat-rate no-limit primary care (reuters.com)
		69 points by azanar on Oct 12, 2009 \| 26 comments
13.		The Complete History of Lemmings (dmadesign.org)
		69 points by gus_massa on Oct 12, 2009 \| 19 comments
14.		IPhone auto-rotation: out of control (bens.me.uk)
		65 points by bensummers on Oct 12, 2009 \| 33 comments
15.		EMemcached: an Erlang implementation of Memcached (dustin.github.com)
		59 points by epall on Oct 12, 2009 \| 4 comments
16.		Supercomputer Porn - Letting your competitors do your market research for you (steveblank.com)
		57 points by bhousel on Oct 12, 2009 \| 16 comments
17.		Zuckerberg: Why I stayed CEO even though many people thought I should quit (businessinsider.com)
		55 points by Adrock on Oct 12, 2009 \| 29 comments
18.		MIT Startup Bootcamp (live @ justin.tv) (justin.tv)
		49 points by huangm on Oct 12, 2009 \| 10 comments
19.		Ask HN: Your biggest non-technical hack/discovery
		48 points by kyro on Oct 12, 2009 \| 68 comments
20.		Ask HN: How do you motivate yourself to do un-motivating work?
		44 points by moosecake on Oct 12, 2009 \| 56 comments
21.		Lambda Calculus (safalra.com)
		45 points by jacquesm on Oct 12, 2009 \| 23 comments
22.		Finding Your Co-Founders (techcrunch.com)
		44 points by terpua on Oct 12, 2009 \| 46 comments
23.		The Xanadu Dream (codinghorror.com)
		42 points by bdfh42 on Oct 12, 2009 \| 15 comments
24.		A Canvas Experiment (tomtheisen.com)
		38 points by edw519 on Oct 12, 2009 \| 8 comments
25.		Music Created by Learning Computer Is Impressive (singularityhub.com)
		37 points by kkleiner on Oct 12, 2009 \| 16 comments
26.		A C++ Challenge (matasano.com)
		33 points by wheels on Oct 12, 2009 \| 24 comments
27.		Teaching Students to Sift Mountains of Data (nytimes.com)
		34 points by tokenadult on Oct 12, 2009 \| 8 comments
28.		What Poker Can Teach Us (chronicle.com)
		32 points by riffer on Oct 12, 2009 \| 13 comments
29.		Reservella: The shadowy company behind The Pirate Bay (arstechnica.com)
		31 points by baxter on Oct 12, 2009 \| 4 comments
30.		Using Erlang to Build Reliable, Fault Tolerant, Scalable Systems (ddj.com)
		31 points by fogus on Oct 12, 2009 \| 7 comments
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