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1.		The curious pricing of the 27" iMac (marco.org)
		167 points by AndrewWarner on Oct 26, 2009 \| 142 comments
2.		XKCD commemerates GeoCities (xkcd.com)
		161 points by rglovejoy on Oct 26, 2009 \| 31 comments
3.		Ninite: How we got 18,000 beta users in 4 weeks (runitback.tumblr.com)
		140 points by swies on Oct 26, 2009 \| 23 comments
4.		Ask HN: do you feel Google search result quality has gone down?
		112 points by coffeemug on Oct 26, 2009 \| 109 comments
5.		Going Back to PHP (pathdependent.com)
		83 points by chasingsparks on Oct 26, 2009 \| 112 comments
6.		YCRFS 3: Things Built on Twitter (ycombinator.com)
		81 points by pg on Oct 26, 2009 \| 68 comments
7.		Mac Mini Pays for Itself After 2 Years (cjgill.wordpress.com)
		78 points by sahaj on Oct 26, 2009 \| 72 comments
8.		Arbitrary code execution via ldd utility (catonmat.net)
		83 points by pkrumins on Oct 26, 2009 \| 18 comments
9.		New Twitter, JTV RFSes; Winter 2010 deadline pushed back 2 days (ycombinator.com)
		65 points by pg on Oct 26, 2009 \| 35 comments
10.		After the Deadline now Open Source (afterthedeadline.com)
		66 points by raffi on Oct 26, 2009 \| 8 comments
11.		Are pointers and arrays equivalent in C? (thegreenplace.net)
		65 points by r11t on Oct 26, 2009 \| 23 comments
12.		Startup School 2009 Notes & Summary (markbao.com)
		63 points by markbao on Oct 26, 2009 \| 18 comments
13.		Gemcutter to become default gem host (gemcutter.org)
		59 points by rufo on Oct 26, 2009 \| 14 comments
14.		Zynga’s Mark Pincus: I got kicked out of some of the best companies in America (venturebeat.com)
		58 points by dawie on Oct 26, 2009 \| 12 comments
15.		Google Docs Liberated (tekunik.blogspot.com)
		56 points by tekunik on Oct 26, 2009 \| 11 comments
16.		Hasta la Vista, baby: Ars reviews Windows (arstechnica.com)
		54 points by soundsop on Oct 26, 2009 \| 33 comments
17.		Ask HN: What have you changed your mind about recently?
		54 points by amichail on Oct 26, 2009 \| 106 comments
18.		CS researchers find way to derive laws of nature from stacks of data (acm.org)
		51 points by jkopelman on Oct 26, 2009 \| 12 comments
19.		The Left Fold, a weekly programming article digest (foldl.org)
		48 points by fogus on Oct 26, 2009 \| 4 comments
20.		Ask HN: What are your best resume tips?
		46 points by tocomment on Oct 26, 2009 \| 58 comments
21.		YCRFS 4: New Ways to Use Live Video (ycombinator.com)
		45 points by pg on Oct 26, 2009 \| 20 comments
22.		Xmonad 0.9 released The light, reliable, extensible tiling window manager (xmonad.wordpress.com)
		44 points by dons on Oct 26, 2009 \| 47 comments
23.		The SSD Improv (anandtech.com)
		40 points by pieter on Oct 26, 2009 \| 17 comments
24.		Microsoft, Google and the Bear (nytimes.com)
		36 points by Flemlord on Oct 26, 2009 \| 16 comments
25.		What are financial derivatives? (bentilly.blogspot.com)
		36 points by btilly on Oct 26, 2009 \| 15 comments
26.		Lessons for Software Developers from Robert Heinlein (javaworld.com)
		35 points by fogus on Oct 26, 2009
27.		Ask HN: Who changed your life?
		34 points by fretlessjazz on Oct 26, 2009 \| 33 comments
28.		Big Cellphone Makers Shifting to Android (nytimes.com)
		33 points by kcy on Oct 26, 2009 \| 7 comments
29.		Facebook's Memcached Multiget Hole: More machines = More Capacity (highscalability.com)
		33 points by vijaydev on Oct 26, 2009 \| 16 comments
30.		Video: Army’s Robot-Man Walks Like the Real Thing (wired.com)
		34 points by brandnewly on Oct 26, 2009 \| 18 comments
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