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31.		Spyder IDE for Python has hit 1.0 (code.google.com)
		31 points by timwiseman on Oct 19, 2009 \| 9 comments
32.		Why you need a proper and fundamental education to be successful in life [2007] (raganwald.com)
		30 points by raganwald on Oct 19, 2009 \| 8 comments
33.		Academic Kakistocracy (lucatrevisan.wordpress.com)
		29 points by yarapavan on Oct 19, 2009 \| 7 comments
34.		Fat ELF binaries for multiple architectures on Linux (and possibly others) (icculus.org)
		29 points by there on Oct 19, 2009 \| 7 comments
35.		How a Liberian "newspaper" reaches thousands, with just one copy (monocle.com)
		29 points by jlangenauer on Oct 19, 2009 \| 7 comments
36.		Proposal: Hack Free CSS with the @unsupported Directive (chriseppstein.github.com)
		29 points by chriseppstein on Oct 19, 2009 \| 20 comments
37.		GoogleBot as QA tester (statsheet.com)
		28 points by johnbb on Oct 19, 2009 \| 14 comments
38.		The Most Important Language Feature No One Talks About (wrongbot.com)
		28 points by WrongBot on Oct 19, 2009 \| 30 comments
39.		Colorful data (colorful-data.net)
		28 points by th0ma5 on Oct 19, 2009 \| 3 comments
40.		Krugman: "Is This the [U.S. dollar's] Wile E. Coyote Moment?" (nytimes.com)
		26 points by chris123 on Oct 19, 2009 \| 8 comments
41.		HubSpot has now raised $33m... and is growing fast (onstartups.com)
		26 points by smartbear on Oct 19, 2009 \| 9 comments
42.		Sector/Sphere: High Performance Distributed File System and Parallel Data Engine (sourceforge.net)
		26 points by bayareaguy on Oct 19, 2009 \| 4 comments
43.		Meet future woman: shorter, plumper, more fertile (newscientist.com)
		23 points by prat on Oct 19, 2009 \| 20 comments
44.		Ask HN: Startup School Meetup, SF, Sunday 25th 6pm
		23 points by daleharvey on Oct 19, 2009 \| 20 comments
45.		Are Software Developers Naturally Weird? (earthweb.com)
		22 points by edw519 on Oct 19, 2009 \| 20 comments
46.		MapReduce Online (and some gimmes) (databeta.wordpress.com)
		22 points by jhammerb on Oct 19, 2009 \| 1 comment
47.		NoSQL: Distributed and Scalable Non-Relational Database Systems (linux-mag.com)
		21 points by linuxmag on Oct 19, 2009 \| 12 comments
48.		Why Idling Mind is Mother of Invention (wired.com)
		21 points by anupj on Oct 19, 2009 \| 9 comments
49.		Think of solid-state drives as multi-core storage (clipperhouse.com)
		21 points by mwsherman on Oct 19, 2009 \| 13 comments
50.		Three big myths about MapReduce (dbms2.com)
		20 points by timf on Oct 19, 2009 \| 5 comments
51.		Optimizing Parrot (wknight8111.blogspot.com)
		20 points by stefano on Oct 19, 2009 \| 2 comments
52.		Ask HN: Please Re-Review My Webapp
		19 points by boundlessdreamz on Oct 19, 2009 \| 12 comments
53.		John Deere and iPhones (travisswicegood.com)
		19 points by tswicegood on Oct 19, 2009 \| 5 comments
54.		What does a startup CEO actually do? (ajaimk.com)
		19 points by ajaimk on Oct 19, 2009 \| 14 comments
55.		How To Write More Readable CSS Files (woorkup.com)
		19 points by hoopitr on Oct 19, 2009 \| 9 comments
56.		The stats iPhone developers are missing: Sales Conversion and Referral Source (appsto.re)
		19 points by prbuckley on Oct 19, 2009 \| 21 comments
57.		Why College Shouldn't Take Four Years (newsweek.com)
		17 points by tokenadult on Oct 19, 2009 \| 49 comments
58.		Witness the Freest Economy: the Internet (mises.org)
		17 points by setori88 on Oct 19, 2009 \| 10 comments
59.		80legs Web-Scale Apps Competition (challengepost.com)
		21 points by jdrock on Oct 19, 2009 \| 12 comments
60.		Have we reached the end of desktop OS development? (gibsonandlily.com)
		18 points by blhack on Oct 19, 2009 \| 18 comments
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