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1.		What's Going on at the Bay Bridge (sci-experiments.com)
		114 points by soundsop on Oct 31, 2009 \| 18 comments
2.		Dustin Curtis's new web app (dustincurtis.com)
		111 points by dougp on Oct 31, 2009 \| 100 comments
3.		Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model (abovethecrowd.com)
		111 points by ypavan on Oct 31, 2009 \| 49 comments
4.		Google's Robots.txt Updated for Halloween (scroll to the end) (google.com)
		95 points by byrneseyeview on Oct 31, 2009 \| 18 comments
5.		The Shocking State of Contemporary "Mathematics" (rutgers.edu)
		55 points by andreyf on Oct 31, 2009 \| 40 comments
6.		You Aren't Average (seobook.com)
		55 points by byrneseyeview on Oct 31, 2009 \| 32 comments
7.		Comfort Noise (wikipedia.org)
		54 points by chaosmachine on Oct 31, 2009 \| 10 comments
8.		Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font (sensi.org)
		54 points by spudlyo on Oct 31, 2009 \| 11 comments
9.		French Ideal of Bicycle-Sharing Meets Reality (nytimes.com)
		51 points by robg on Oct 31, 2009 \| 47 comments
10.		Hivelogic - Top Programming Fonts (hivelogic.com)
		48 points by adambyrtek on Oct 31, 2009 \| 44 comments
11.		Hadoop, Pig, and Twitter (NoSQL East 2009) (slideshare.net)
		48 points by r11t on Oct 31, 2009 \| 7 comments
12.		Engadget reviews the Motorola Droid (engadget.com)
		47 points by unalone on Oct 31, 2009 \| 33 comments
13.		"Turn a recycling bottle bank into an arcade game and guess what happens...." (dothegreenthing.com)
		45 points by amichail on Oct 31, 2009 \| 8 comments
14.		Ask HN: Why downvote? I honestly do not get it.
		41 points by rokhayakebe on Oct 31, 2009 \| 123 comments
15.		How habitable is the Earth? (antipope.org)
		37 points by cwan on Oct 31, 2009 \| 10 comments
16.		"Only 25% of the cell phone users had noticed the clown" (theness.com)
		35 points by MikeCapone on Oct 31, 2009 \| 18 comments
17.		Ask HN: What artists do you like?
		34 points by jamesbritt on Oct 31, 2009 \| 84 comments
18.		NoSQL East 2009 day 2: Pig/Twitter, Cascading, Neo4j, Redis, Sherpa/Yahoo (uggedal.com)
		30 points by uggedal on Oct 31, 2009 \| 6 comments
19.		Startup Visa (nat.org)
		30 points by tspiteri on Oct 31, 2009 \| 9 comments
20.		Ask HN: Alternatives to New Mogul?
		29 points by jeremyw on Oct 31, 2009 \| 12 comments
21.		Circular loom weaves carbon fibre pillars for Toyota Lexus (jalopnik.com)
		22 points by suprgeek on Oct 31, 2009 \| 10 comments
22.		"Ayn Rand's Revenge" - NYTimes Book Review of new Rand biography (nytimes.com)
		20 points by andrewpbrett on Oct 31, 2009 \| 38 comments
23.		Ask HN: Can you make a voting/rating system without logins?
		19 points by barmstrong on Oct 31, 2009 \| 38 comments
24.		Why virtual economies defy the rules of your old college textbooks (venturebeat.com)
		18 points by gursikh on Oct 31, 2009 \| 9 comments
25.		Wandering the web stacks, or, fighting intellectual atrophy on the internet (jsomers.net)
		17 points by jsomers on Oct 31, 2009 \| 2 comments
26.		Do Professors Matter? (insidehighered.com)
		15 points by cwan on Oct 31, 2009 \| 12 comments
27.		Desertec (wsj.com)
		14 points by envitar on Oct 31, 2009 \| 4 comments
28.		Game Design: Using numbers and stats to tune the play experience (markskaggs.com)
		14 points by mark_skaggs on Oct 31, 2009
29.		DrScheme's Halloween "Easter Egg" (billthelizard.com)
		14 points by cruise02 on Oct 31, 2009 \| 1 comment
30.		High-definition audio cell phone system deployed in Moldova (forbes.com)
		13 points by kf on Oct 31, 2009 \| 7 comments
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