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1.		Design Lessons & Advice from Building Large Scale Distributed Systems at Google (mvdirona.com)
		83 points by paulsb on Oct 17, 2009 \| 15 comments
2.		CD Baby’s Shipment Confirmation Email (sharealike.org)
		82 points by pchristensen on Oct 17, 2009 \| 19 comments
3.		Math Overflow (A StackExchange site for Maths) (mathoverflow.net)
		60 points by swaroop on Oct 17, 2009 \| 17 comments
4.		Shady Microsoft Plugin Pokes "Critical" Hole In Firefox Security (gizmodo.com)
		56 points by tvon on Oct 17, 2009 \| 27 comments
5.		Scheme illustrated (eecs.berkeley.edu)
		56 points by yannis on Oct 17, 2009 \| 13 comments
6.		Ask HN: Please review my app: Was it up? - dead simple monitoring (wasitup.com)
		46 points by uggedal on Oct 17, 2009 \| 71 comments
7.		MIT helicopter uses lasers to navigate indoors (makezine.com)
		46 points by prat on Oct 17, 2009 \| 3 comments
8.		Poll: What is your primary *nix distro on your home machine?
		47 points by codedivine on Oct 17, 2009 \| 100 comments
9.		Why there aren't more software startups in India (onstartups.com)
		42 points by ujjwalg on Oct 17, 2009 \| 14 comments
10.		JOP: A Tiny Java Processor Core for FPGA (jopdesign.com)
		41 points by jacquesm on Oct 17, 2009 \| 16 comments
11.		Beware The Reverse Brain Drain To India And China (techcrunch.com)
		41 points by edw519 on Oct 17, 2009 \| 24 comments
12.		IMDb Turns 19. Yes, 19. Older Than The Web Browser. (techcrunch.com)
		34 points by jmonegro on Oct 17, 2009 \| 13 comments
13.		Geography of Jobs (2004-2009) (tipstrategies.com)
		33 points by brg on Oct 17, 2009 \| 5 comments
14.		PG: The hundred-year language (paulgraham.com)
		31 points by alrex021 on Oct 17, 2009 \| 24 comments
15.		Wt: A C++ web toolkit (webtoolkit.eu)
		31 points by silkodyssey on Oct 17, 2009 \| 26 comments
16.		Showcase of Web Design in Russia (smashingmagazine.com)
		30 points by yannis on Oct 17, 2009 \| 4 comments
17.		Hole for light created on Earth (newscientist.com)
		28 points by dc2k08 on Oct 17, 2009 \| 7 comments
18.		Spud, potato powered web server (d116.com)
		27 points by jacquesm on Oct 17, 2009 \| 6 comments
19.		52 percent of all money transfers in Kenya now done through Cell Phones (mobilemoneyafrica.com)
		27 points by cwan on Oct 17, 2009 \| 8 comments
20.		Commuter Railroads Build a Secret Minute Into Train Departures (nytimes.com)
		26 points by prakash on Oct 17, 2009 \| 4 comments
21.		Germany's Coming Energy Revolution (businessweek.com)
		26 points by newacc on Oct 17, 2009 \| 36 comments
22.		Ask HN: what's a good pet for the working programmer?
		25 points by seldo on Oct 17, 2009 \| 85 comments
23.		Best Programming Language for Startups (kevindewalt.com)
		25 points by marcofloriano on Oct 17, 2009 \| 31 comments
24.		Ask HN: why are domain names reversely ordered?
		25 points by riobard on Oct 17, 2009 \| 45 comments
25.		Working without distraction : my minimalist Macintosh experience (wedontneedroads.net)
		25 points by atestu on Oct 17, 2009 \| 19 comments
26.		Building Parser Combinators in Scheme (weblambda.blogspot.com)
		24 points by fogus on Oct 17, 2009
27.		Ask HN: Learning Javascript & AJAX
		22 points by bgnm2000 on Oct 17, 2009 \| 23 comments
28.		Is Functional Abstraction Too Clever? (lostechies.com)
		22 points by Confusion on Oct 17, 2009 \| 29 comments
29.		Numbers Everyone Should Know (everythingisdata.wordpress.com)
		22 points by neilc on Oct 17, 2009 \| 10 comments
30.		Education Inflation (phillipwhisenhunt.blogspot.com)
		18 points by pjw1187 on Oct 17, 2009 \| 30 comments
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