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1.		Guido's Proposal: Moratorium on Python language changes (python.org)
		210 points by sammcd on Oct 21, 2009 \| 64 comments
2.		37signals Launches Haystack for Web Designers and Clients To Find Each Other (37signals.com)
		134 points by tptacek on Oct 21, 2009 \| 66 comments
3.		Unladen Swallow 2009Q3 Released with LLVM optimized Python (code.google.com)
		127 points by yarapavan on Oct 21, 2009 \| 35 comments
4.		Starting a business isn't as crazy and risky as they say (asmartbear.com)
		92 points by swombat on Oct 21, 2009 \| 34 comments
5.		Turn Your Entire Office Into a Whiteboard (fastcompany.com)
		88 points by dan_sim on Oct 21, 2009 \| 29 comments
6.		100,000 Users And So Can You (A history of Carbonmade) (spencerfry.com)
		68 points by maxstoller on Oct 21, 2009 \| 13 comments
7.		A CS Research Topic Generator or How To pick A Worthy Topic In 10 Seconds (purdue.edu)
		62 points by _bfhp on Oct 21, 2009 \| 12 comments
8.		Papers in Computer Science: summary and discussion of important papers (papersincomputerscience.org)
		60 points by jey on Oct 21, 2009 \| 6 comments
9.		RT @google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		59 points by vulpes on Oct 21, 2009 \| 33 comments
10.		Pimping out git log (jukie.net)
		59 points by juvenn on Oct 21, 2009 \| 4 comments
11.		Introducing BERT and BERT-RPC: GitHub's new serialization and RPC protocol (github.com/blog)
		57 points by mojombo on Oct 21, 2009 \| 17 comments
12.		Apple.com now uses the HTML5 video tag (ajaxian.com)
		56 points by edd on Oct 21, 2009 \| 15 comments
13.		Ask HN: What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it?
		52 points by huyegn on Oct 21, 2009 \| 77 comments
14.		Loopt acquires GraffitiGeo (techcrunch.com)
		52 points by arfrank on Oct 21, 2009 \| 12 comments
15.		Reliable, fast UDP-based data transfer protocol that outperforms TCP (sourceforge.net)
		48 points by aux-k on Oct 21, 2009 \| 14 comments
16.		The Zimbu programming language (zimbu.org)
		47 points by mbrubeck on Oct 21, 2009 \| 51 comments
17.		What’s Wrong with Probability Notation? (lingpipe-blog.com)
		49 points by yarapavan on Oct 21, 2009 \| 21 comments
18.		HeyZap Helps Flash Games Go Viral With New API (techcrunch.com)
		43 points by foobar2k on Oct 21, 2009 \| 4 comments
19.		Apple Stock Hits An All-Time High (businessweek.com)
		45 points by pmjordan on Oct 21, 2009 \| 15 comments
20.		Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone (arxiv.org)
		44 points by chromophore on Oct 21, 2009 \| 4 comments
21.		Regular Expression Tool for Live Editing/Testing of RegExps made with jQuery (gethifi.com)
		43 points by KrisJordan on Oct 21, 2009 \| 15 comments
22.		Rewriting Playdar: C++ to Erlang, with code statistics (metabrew.com)
		42 points by mbrubeck on Oct 21, 2009 \| 12 comments
23.		Introducing Nook, the most advanced ebook reader (barnesandnoble.com)
		41 points by scapegraced on Oct 21, 2009 \| 41 comments
24.		Why The Founders of PayPal And HotorNot Helped This Dropout (mixergy.com)
		39 points by blaisco on Oct 21, 2009 \| 14 comments
25.		Google Releases API for Website Optimizer: A/B & Multivariate Testing for All (readwriteweb.com)
		36 points by wgj on Oct 21, 2009 \| 9 comments
26.		Pay for your own dog food (inklingmarkets.com)
		36 points by nate on Oct 21, 2009 \| 15 comments
27.		Router man (networkworld.com)
		36 points by muriithi on Oct 21, 2009 \| 2 comments
28.		Encrypting Your Dropbox Seamlessly and Automatically (pragmattica.wordpress.com)
		33 points by r11t on Oct 21, 2009 \| 15 comments
29.		Reddit implements "best" comment sorting based on score confidence intervals. (reddit.com)
		31 points by zck on Oct 21, 2009 \| 19 comments
30.		The risk psychology of the anti-vaccine movement (nytimes.com)
		30 points by cwan on Oct 21, 2009 \| 56 comments
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