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1.		Zed Shaw: Librelist to take on Google, Yahoo mailing lists (zedshaw.com)
		173 points by mattculbreth on Dec 3, 2009 \| 70 comments
2.		http://to/ World's Shortest URL Shortener
		164 points by Raphael on Dec 3, 2009 \| 145 comments
3.		Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering (computer.org)
		112 points by andrewbadera on Dec 3, 2009 \| 32 comments
4.		Spirit Gets Stuck, Makes a Big Discovery (nasa.gov)
		111 points by mshafrir on Dec 3, 2009 \| 27 comments
5.		Matt Brezina: No One Cares About Your Stupid Little Startup (slideshare.net)
		86 points by prakash on Dec 3, 2009 \| 16 comments
6.		Google Public DNS (code.google.com)
		83 points by dfreidin on Dec 3, 2009 \| 45 comments
7.		Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 1: Are Those My Initials? (steveblank.com)
		79 points by nathanh on Dec 3, 2009 \| 20 comments
8.		David Ulevitch: Some thoughts on Google DNS (opendns.com)
		77 points by drallison on Dec 3, 2009 \| 65 comments
9.		FlightCaster merges its statistical-learning code into Incanter (incanter-blog.org)
		77 points by fogus on Dec 3, 2009 \| 9 comments
10.		Start Your Startup: "Don't Save Sex for your Old Age" (Warren Buffett) (fool.com)
		75 points by alanthonyc on Dec 3, 2009 \| 24 comments
11.		Geeks trump alpha males on Wall Street (reuters.com)
		74 points by cwan on Dec 3, 2009 \| 83 comments
12.		Ask HN: As an employer, what do you wish applicants did more often?
		74 points by retroflexzy on Dec 3, 2009 \| 50 comments
13.		What the "Black screen of death" story says about tech journalism (zdnet.com)
		73 points by malte on Dec 3, 2009 \| 15 comments
14.		4.3.2.1 -- Another google DNS ip
		69 points by davidu on Dec 3, 2009 \| 21 comments
15.		1/500th of humanity's time is spent on Facebook
		60 points by RoboTeddy on Dec 3, 2009 \| 55 comments
16.		Tools for Lifelong Learners (openculture.com)
		59 points by ypk on Dec 3, 2009 \| 5 comments
17.		Technically speaking, what makes Google Chrome fast? (chromium.org)
		56 points by mbrubeck on Dec 3, 2009 \| 43 comments
18.		Helsinki server room heats 500 houses (helen.fi)
		52 points by cromulent on Dec 3, 2009 \| 10 comments
19.		Chargify vs. Spreedly vs. Cheddargetter: Subscription-Billing Service Prices (glendenin.com)
		50 points by ccg on Dec 3, 2009 \| 20 comments
20.		FlightCaster (YC S09) open-sources Crane: Hadoop Clusters on EC2 (measuringmeasures.blogspot.com)
		50 points by jaf12duke on Dec 3, 2009 \| 9 comments
21.		How To Identify A Lame Programming Job (codypowell.com)
		47 points by fogus on Dec 3, 2009 \| 36 comments
22.		New Amazon EC2 Feature: Boot from Elastic Block Store (aws.typepad.com)
		44 points by jeffbarr on Dec 3, 2009 \| 13 comments
23.		John Carmack on hacking Doom and Quake (.plan file from 1998) (team5150.com)
		42 points by mace on Dec 3, 2009 \| 9 comments
24.		Foursquare.com now all on Lift, in Scala (groups.google.com)
		42 points by iamdanw on Dec 3, 2009 \| 4 comments
25.		Why Object-Oriented Languages Need Tail Calls (lambda-the-ultimate.org)
		39 points by fogus on Dec 3, 2009 \| 16 comments
26.		ZumoDrive (YC S07) Is a Silver Lining In 'Cloud' Storage (wsj.com)
		40 points by keevon on Dec 3, 2009 \| 12 comments
27.		Eric Schmidt: How Google Can Help Newspapers (wsj.com)
		38 points by ilamont on Dec 3, 2009 \| 13 comments
28.		Facebook: FarmVille is bigger than Twitter (techradar.com)
		37 points by mun411 on Dec 3, 2009 \| 24 comments
29.		The Generic Dilemma in Go (swtch.com)
		36 points by fogus on Dec 3, 2009 \| 24 comments
30.		A 20-Something Makes a Mint (and Sells It to Intuit) (nytimes.com)
		33 points by andrewpbrett on Dec 3, 2009 \| 10 comments
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