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1.		What we actually know about software development, and why we believe it’s true (slideshare.net)
		133 points by ZeroGravitas on Oct 25, 2009 \| 54 comments
2.		Ask HN: Statistics for hackers?
		99 points by haliax on Oct 25, 2009 \| 31 comments
3.		Ask HN: Getting users
		87 points by vaksel on Oct 25, 2009 \| 64 comments
4.		Sun's ZFS lead developer on the reason behind Apple dropping ZFS (opensolaris.org)
		85 points by bensummers on Oct 25, 2009 \| 8 comments
5.		X264's abstraction layer for cross-platform x86 assembly: now free to use (multimedia.cx)
		75 points by DarkShikari on Oct 25, 2009 \| 12 comments
6.		First Rule of Programming Is Don't Program
		68 points by cyman on Oct 25, 2009 \| 87 comments
7.		Seven Languages in Seven Weeks (rapidred.com)
		62 points by fogus on Oct 25, 2009 \| 40 comments
8.		Ask HN: Your favorite Startup School moments?
		59 points by projectileboy on Oct 25, 2009 \| 60 comments
9.		Confessions of a Long-Distance sailor (arachnoid.com)
		57 points by justlearning on Oct 25, 2009 \| 16 comments
10.		Mu is a lightweight JavaScript library to use Facebook Connect on your site. (daaku.org)
		51 points by daakus on Oct 25, 2009 \| 1 comment
11.		One shot of gene therapy and children with congenital blindness can now see (esciencenews.com)
		50 points by Anon84 on Oct 25, 2009 \| 5 comments
12.		Billionaire (Sergey Brin) Aids Charity That Aided Him (nytimes.com)
		46 points by Technophilis on Oct 25, 2009 \| 29 comments
13.		How The Pursuit of Truth Led Me To Selling Viagra (icir.org)
		46 points by dedalus on Oct 25, 2009 \| 4 comments
14.		Poll: What bug tracking software do you use?
		44 points by ErrantX on Oct 25, 2009 \| 72 comments
15.		Hadoop Training Videos (cloudera.com)
		45 points by fogus on Oct 25, 2009
16.		Search vs. Recommendations, or Authoritative and Related Sources in a Graph (directededge.com)
		43 points by wheels on Oct 25, 2009 \| 1 comment
17.		Programming language choice - sometimes there is none.
		39 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Oct 25, 2009 \| 33 comments
18.		Photos of all the Speakers from YC Startup School 2009 - Thanks YC (garry.posterous.com)
		35 points by rantfoil on Oct 25, 2009 \| 7 comments
19.		The Lucid programming language (wikipedia.org)
		33 points by stefano on Oct 25, 2009 \| 8 comments
20.		The Best Quotes from Startup School (gaborcselle.posterous.com)
		31 points by gaborcselle on Oct 25, 2009 \| 2 comments
21.		Ask HN: Any designers here in for a rushjob on a fun project ?
		26 points by jacquesm on Oct 25, 2009 \| 13 comments
22.		Web Sockets specification (IETF Internet Draft) (ietf.org)
		25 points by jsrn on Oct 25, 2009 \| 4 comments
23.		Britain's Surveillance Society (nytimes.com)
		24 points by jseliger on Oct 25, 2009 \| 9 comments
24.		JL's interview with Mark Zuckerberg (~transcript, not word for word) (venturebeat.com)
		24 points by kf on Oct 25, 2009 \| 3 comments
25.		Someone who is like Data in real life (reddit.com)
		22 points by amichail on Oct 25, 2009 \| 2 comments
26.		Success Lessons From The Man Who Was Lost In the Jungle (mixergy.com)
		22 points by Jimega36 on Oct 25, 2009 \| 10 comments
27.		Poll: Universities for Aspiring Hacker?
		22 points by tokenadult on Oct 25, 2009 \| 60 comments
28.		Why do bankers make so much money? (bookstaber.com)
		21 points by cwan on Oct 25, 2009 \| 14 comments
29.		The iPhone app industry (businessweek.com)
		20 points by bd on Oct 25, 2009 \| 1 comment
30.		Ask HN: How do you rent apartments in SF when self-employed?
		20 points by akkartik on Oct 25, 2009 \| 41 comments
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