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1.		They Killed My Lawyer (foreignpolicy.com)
		252 points by nice1 on Dec 27, 2009 \| 65 comments
2.		The Master, The Expert, The Programmer (zedshaw.com)
		195 points by azharcs on Dec 27, 2009 \| 104 comments
3.		I'm not an enterpreneur, I'm a dirty hack (maxklein.posterous.com)
		158 points by maxklein on Dec 27, 2009 \| 73 comments
4.		Google open-source projects that you probably don't know (0x1fff.com)
		82 points by edw519 on Dec 27, 2009 \| 12 comments
5.		Lisp OS: what has been lost: Kent Pitman (groups.google.com)
		75 points by wglb on Dec 27, 2009 \| 45 comments
6.		Has Hackers News Become Less About Hacking?
		63 points by brennannovak on Dec 27, 2009 \| 80 comments
7.		Ira Glass on storytelling (catharsis.tumblr.com)
		59 points by araneae on Dec 27, 2009 \| 20 comments
8.		Where Lisp Fails: at Turning People into Fungible Cogs (loper-os.org)
		56 points by fogus on Dec 27, 2009 \| 90 comments
9.		If You’re Nervous About Quitting Your Boring Job, You’re Sane (alfajango.com)
		56 points by JangoSteve on Dec 27, 2009 \| 11 comments
10.		Query DNS via a RESTful HTTP interface (jsondns.org)
		49 points by jf on Dec 27, 2009 \| 35 comments
11.		Why Does Facebook Want to Suck the Fun Out of Unfriending? (fastcompany.com)
		43 points by MicahWedemeyer on Dec 27, 2009 \| 19 comments
12.		Ask HN: How do you organize your code on your machine?
		41 points by wfarr on Dec 27, 2009 \| 51 comments
13.		Palindromes (Clojure vs. Common Lisp) (imagine27.com)
		40 points by jgrant27 on Dec 27, 2009 \| 24 comments
14.		MIT Open Courseware - Free Lectures (ocw.mit.edu)
		39 points by macco on Dec 27, 2009 \| 18 comments
15.		Stephen Fry on the Blackberry (stephenfry.com)
		38 points by grellas on Dec 27, 2009 \| 15 comments
16.		New wheel for your bicycle: The Copenhagen wheel (senseable.mit.edu)
		38 points by boskom on Dec 27, 2009 \| 22 comments
17.		Weather the Star Wars way... (tomscott.com)
		37 points by d4ft on Dec 27, 2009 \| 8 comments
18.		Schneier on Security: Separating Explosives from the Detonator (schneier.com)
		37 points by stakent on Dec 27, 2009 \| 18 comments
19.		Ask HN: How to become a better programmer?
		29 points by Paton on Dec 27, 2009 \| 62 comments
20.		Watch the 26th Chaos Communication Congress (ccc.de)
		28 points by ugh on Dec 27, 2009 \| 2 comments
21.		JMatch: Iterable Pattern Matching (cornell.edu)
		26 points by jules on Dec 27, 2009 \| 3 comments
22.		I Don’t Git GitHub Yet, But I Hope I Will (developerblogs.com)
		26 points by edw519 on Dec 27, 2009 \| 12 comments
23.		Ask HN: How can I move to USA?
		25 points by oscardelben on Dec 27, 2009 \| 41 comments
24.		Magic Tricks based on deep Mathematics (mathoverflow.net)
		25 points by _giu on Dec 27, 2009 \| 4 comments
25.		jQuery Plugins (woorkup.com)
		23 points by woork on Dec 27, 2009
26.		Ask HN: How to setup scaled-down Craigslist for my struggling rural area?
		23 points by JayNeely on Dec 27, 2009 \| 35 comments
27.		Why the web economy will continue growing rapidly (cdixon.org)
		22 points by prakash on Dec 27, 2009 \| 4 comments
28.		Scientists want planes to fly in formation like geese, to save on jet fuel (guardian.co.uk)
		22 points by vaksel on Dec 27, 2009 \| 15 comments
29.		Ample SDK - Open Source GUI Framework (amplesdk.com)
		23 points by meddah on Dec 27, 2009 \| 4 comments
30.		Redis can now batch operations and execute them atomically (groups.google.com)
		22 points by xal on Dec 27, 2009 \| 3 comments
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