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1.		Facebook is not worth $33 billion (37signals.com)
		315 points by malbiniak on Sept 23, 2010 \| 245 comments
2.		The Genius and Tragedy of Patrick McKenzie (patio11) (sebastianmarshall.com)
		252 points by lionhearted on Sept 23, 2010 \| 167 comments
3.		Security Lessons Learned From The Diaspora Launch (kalzumeus.com)
		250 points by pw on Sept 23, 2010 \| 139 comments
4.		Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes (techcrunch.com)
		162 points by aresant on Sept 23, 2010 \| 105 comments
5.		A blackhat social engineered me by posing as an early adopter of my startup (blog.codeboff.in)
		137 points by kranner on Sept 23, 2010 \| 58 comments
6.		Instapaper Goes From Hobby To Startup (nytimes.com)
		132 points by pathik on Sept 23, 2010 \| 40 comments
7.		Google Translate might not be as good as people thought (groups.google.com)
		109 points by robin_reala on Sept 23, 2010 \| 55 comments
8.		Challenge: Make a game, sell 1 copy by Oct 31st (ludumdare.com)
		101 points by allenp on Sept 23, 2010 \| 56 comments
9.		Can we trust Michael Arrington? (AngelGate) (derekandersen.me)
		101 points by BenSchaechter on Sept 23, 2010 \| 40 comments
10.		Rob Pike discovers sendfile(2) (groups.google.com)
		98 points by self on Sept 23, 2010 \| 63 comments
11.		Study: Traffic lights should respond to cars, not the other way around (sciencenews.org)
		97 points by JangoSteve on Sept 23, 2010 \| 72 comments
12.		Ask HN: Many quality articles don't go to the front page. What is the problem?
		88 points by vladocar on Sept 23, 2010 \| 44 comments
13.		Did Little Bobby Tables migrate to Sweden? (alicebobandmallory.com)
		83 points by Kafka on Sept 23, 2010 \| 32 comments
14.		Blockbuster files for bankruptcy (reuters.com)
		81 points by cryptoz on Sept 23, 2010 \| 72 comments
15.		FCC votes unanimously in favor of using whitespace for 'super WiFi' (engadget.com)
		77 points by lotusleaf1987 on Sept 23, 2010 \| 24 comments
16.		Ask PG: Polite ways to scrape HN?
		71 points by siculars on Sept 23, 2010 \| 29 comments
17.		Amazing Community-driven Mobile Phone Concept by Mozilla [video] (mozillalabs.com)
		71 points by patrickaljord on Sept 23, 2010 \| 18 comments
18.		Get email notifications of HN replies with Notifo (YC W10) (notifo.com)
		69 points by jazzychad on Sept 23, 2010 \| 33 comments
19.		Native ZFS for Linux (zfsonlinux.org)
		64 points by spahl on Sept 23, 2010 \| 54 comments
20.		Entrepreneurship in Italy from a non-Italian’s perspective (thestartup.eu)
		61 points by davidw on Sept 23, 2010 \| 46 comments
21.		Gmail Creator: Facebook Has The Potential To Be Worth More Than Google (techcrunch.com)
		60 points by stevederico on Sept 23, 2010 \| 81 comments
22.		Newark Public Schools To Get 100mm Donation.. Courtesy of Zuckerberg (nytimes.com)
		60 points by zackattack on Sept 23, 2010 \| 62 comments
23.		Ask HN: how to get "real" contracting gigs
		54 points by justfortoday on Sept 23, 2010 \| 17 comments
24.		Self-inlining anonymous closures in C++ (might.net)
		52 points by adg001 on Sept 23, 2010 \| 8 comments
25.		The High Cost of College - Megan McArdle (theatlantic.com)
		52 points by billswift on Sept 23, 2010 \| 36 comments
26.		Tell HN: I got sick of people procrastinating. Now I tell them to Finish Shit.
		52 points by g0atbutt on Sept 23, 2010 \| 25 comments
27.		Facebook Sells Your Friends (businessweek.com)
		49 points by pathik on Sept 23, 2010 \| 20 comments
28.		A Digg for Facebook Likes: My Experiment (thelikestream.com)
		49 points by ed on Sept 23, 2010 \| 14 comments
29.		Tiny IP stack, small enough to fit in a "tweet" (sics.se)
		46 points by r11t on Sept 23, 2010 \| 16 comments
30.		Steve Blank: The Peter Pan Syndrome–The Startup to Company Transition (steveblank.com)
		45 points by stakent on Sept 23, 2010 \| 3 comments
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