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31.		Google To Acquire DocVerse; Office War Heats Up (techcrunch.com)
		27 points by raghus on Dec 20, 2009 \| 8 comments
32.		Ask HN: anyone interested in forming a group to review each others' copy?
		27 points by nonrecursive on Dec 20, 2009 \| 22 comments
33.		Ask HN: anyone here moved from academia to corporate?
		26 points by crocowhile on Dec 20, 2009 \| 14 comments
34.		The Arc Challenge in Ruby (directededge.com)
		25 points by wheels on Dec 20, 2009 \| 7 comments
35.		Accidentally the first commercial lunar satellite. (wikipedia.org)
		21 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Dec 20, 2009 \| 10 comments
36.		Are Hot U.S. Startups The New Bling For Rich Russians? (techcrunch.com)
		20 points by transburgh on Dec 20, 2009 \| 4 comments
37.		Brittany Murphy Death & Google’s Real Time Search Results (searchengineland.com)
		20 points by matth on Dec 20, 2009 \| 6 comments
38.		Crystallographer faked data (the-scientist.com)
		20 points by yread on Dec 20, 2009 \| 4 comments
39.		Ask HN: How do you pitch a skunk-works project once the proof of concept works?
		19 points by ineedcaffeine on Dec 20, 2009 \| 4 comments
40.		Facebook (PHP) is not very Copenhagen (Change to C++ to save planet) (webtoolkit.eu)
		17 points by waterlesscloud on Dec 20, 2009 \| 27 comments
41.		Top Internet Startup Scalability Killers (gigaom.com)
		15 points by hshah on Dec 20, 2009 \| 6 comments
42.		Latest Chromium builds for Mac OS X support Chrome Extensions (chromium.org)
		15 points by tlrobinson on Dec 20, 2009 \| 17 comments
43.		Google's approach to privacy (googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com)
		14 points by abraham on Dec 20, 2009 \| 1 comment
44.		Text Laundering - Confuse Duplicate Text Detectors (cdixon.tumblr.com)
		15 points by ed on Dec 20, 2009 \| 5 comments
45.		Congestion-Priced Rapid Traffic Lane - Operator to Guarantee Minimum Speed (jpost.com)
		13 points by mhb on Dec 20, 2009 \| 3 comments
46.		Trading Deals, A Lost Art? (avc.com)
		12 points by prakash on Dec 20, 2009 \| 1 comment
47.		The Physics of Energy Devices (F09 Compton Lecture) (uchicago.edu)
		12 points by terra_incognita on Dec 20, 2009
48.		Appengine-jruby: Google App Engine API Wrappers and Tools for JRuby (code.google.com)
		12 points by r11t on Dec 20, 2009 \| 2 comments
49.		Go Language Patterns (sites.google.com)
		11 points by goplexian on Dec 20, 2009 \| 2 comments
50.		Ask HN: Books for writing a data-intensive Python webapp using CouchDB?
		10 points by tdoggette on Dec 20, 2009 \| 1 comment
51.		Is there a Silicon Valley advantage? (tparang.blogspot.com)
		9 points by vas_popovski on Dec 20, 2009 \| 3 comments
52.		US Air Force says decision-making attack drones will be here by 2047 (engadget.com)
		9 points by mcantelon on Dec 20, 2009 \| 24 comments
53.		Beware humans bearing gifts. (newscientist.com)
		9 points by eastlinkage on Dec 20, 2009 \| 10 comments
54.		A pragmatic look at the Copenhagen summit (zdnet.com)
		9 points by anigbrowl on Dec 20, 2009 \| 5 comments
55.		The iPhone 4G Predictions (drashkov.com)
		8 points by martythemaniak on Dec 20, 2009 \| 9 comments
56.		Computing the maximum salary (mathoverflow.net)
		7 points by J3L2404 on Dec 20, 2009 \| 2 comments
57.		Ask HN: Favorite encrypted VPN provider?
		7 points by MikeCapone on Dec 20, 2009 \| 3 comments
58.		Are Hot U.S. Startups The New Bling For Rich Russians? (techcrunch.com)
		7 points by moses1400 on Dec 20, 2009 \| 1 comment
59.		Ask HN: Lesser known blogging apps?
		7 points by gnosis on Dec 20, 2009 \| 10 comments
60.		Tenacity Versus Failing Early (and Often) (continuations.com)
		7 points by wheels on Dec 20, 2009 \| 1 comment
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