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1.		The IE CSS Bug Which Cost Me A Month’s Salary (kalzumeus.com)
		152 points by patio11 on Oct 23, 2009 \| 85 comments
2.		Linux: Linus Says, Linux Not Designed; It Never Was (kerneltrap.org)
		110 points by messel on Oct 23, 2009 \| 66 comments
3.		Herd Mentality (daringfireball.net)
		108 points by atestu on Oct 23, 2009 \| 80 comments
4.		Apple Pulls the Plug Completely on ZFS (macosforge.org)
		103 points by durin42 on Oct 23, 2009 \| 47 comments
5.		How to Read Other People's Code -- And Why (designbygravity.wordpress.com)
		85 points by cschanck on Oct 23, 2009 \| 57 comments
6.		Michael Vanier: LFM and LFSP (paulgraham.com)
		60 points by jaydub on Oct 23, 2009 \| 25 comments
7.		SparkFun Gets a Cease and Desist Letter (sparkfun.com)
		60 points by bisceglie on Oct 23, 2009 \| 25 comments
8.		Scheme hits the App Store (ventonegro.org)
		52 points by prakash on Oct 23, 2009 \| 30 comments
9.		Facebook’s news feed: The beginning of a recommendations dominated web (directededge.com)
		49 points by wheels on Oct 23, 2009 \| 20 comments
10.		AJAX PHPMyAdmin Alternative (sqlbuddy.com)
		44 points by vaporstun on Oct 23, 2009 \| 21 comments
11.		Scalable computer programming languages (caltech.edu)
		42 points by prakash on Oct 23, 2009 \| 13 comments
12.		Merlin Mann on Becoming an Expert (video) (43folders.com)
		41 points by functional-tree on Oct 23, 2009 \| 3 comments
13.		Coding Horror: Treating User Myopia (codinghorror.com)
		36 points by billpg on Oct 23, 2009 \| 23 comments
14.		Facebook: Simplifying the Stream (facebook.com)
		34 points by ivankirigin on Oct 23, 2009 \| 16 comments
15.		The End of California? Dream On (time.com)
		33 points by fjabre on Oct 23, 2009 \| 23 comments
16.		Psystar Steals Open Source Bootloader and Sells it for $50 (geektechnica.com)
		33 points by chanux on Oct 23, 2009 \| 12 comments
17.		Make Yourself Presentable (jasonsantamaria.com)
		32 points by boundlessdreamz on Oct 23, 2009 \| 13 comments
18.		Ruling Expected on Twittering Anarchist Raided Under ‘Rioting’ Laws (wired.com)
		32 points by phsr on Oct 23, 2009 \| 7 comments
19.		"Evil Maid" Attacks on Encrypted Hard Drives (schneier.com)
		31 points by mbrubeck on Oct 23, 2009 \| 6 comments
20.		Clojure Datatypes (assembla.com)
		28 points by silkodyssey on Oct 23, 2009 \| 1 comment
21.		Ask HN: Are you going to Startup School? (heroku.com)
		26 points by aditya on Oct 23, 2009 \| 8 comments
22.		Gimli Glider: When systems go wrong. (wikipedia.org)
		26 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Oct 23, 2009 \| 9 comments
23.		The Ultimate Failure of Moneyball (tnr.com)
		26 points by jakarta on Oct 23, 2009 \| 24 comments
24.		Cheating for $20: Why collusion and price fixing is difficult to do (nytimes.com)
		24 points by cwan on Oct 23, 2009 \| 22 comments
25.		How Google Maps deals with border disputes: Two Countries, Three Maps (wsj.com)
		23 points by cwan on Oct 23, 2009 \| 19 comments
26.		Tell HN: Use this to talk to others at StartupSchool & coordinate related events (eventgel.com)
		23 points by kirubakaran on Oct 23, 2009 \| 11 comments
27.		Tim Berners-Lee joins Twitter, complains of "confusing" UI (xconomy.com)
		23 points by waderoush on Oct 23, 2009 \| 11 comments
28.		Startup School Final Speaker List (ycombinator.posterous.com)
		23 points by dwynings on Oct 23, 2009 \| 14 comments
29.		Poll: HNer types
		21 points by alexandros on Oct 23, 2009 \| 14 comments
30.		Concurrency Patterns: Java, Scala, and Clojure (fupeg.blogspot.com)
		22 points by silkodyssey on Oct 23, 2009 \| 15 comments
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