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1.		IE9 team responds to Reddit questions: reddit tl;dr version (reddit.com)
		267 points by dochtman on Sept 29, 2010 \| 196 comments
2.		A clever way to fight IE6 (igorpartola.com)
		260 points by IgorPartola on Sept 29, 2010 \| 109 comments
3.		Zed finishes Learn Python The Hard Way (sheddingbikes.com)
		206 points by RyanMcGreal on Sept 29, 2010 \| 111 comments
4.		Maryland Judge finds that it is legal to record police in public (hellforleathermagazine.com)
		176 points by MartinCron on Sept 29, 2010 \| 45 comments
5.		Why you should learn at least a little bit of Awk (gregable.com)
		162 points by gregable on Sept 29, 2010 \| 62 comments
6.		Linux Kernel Tuning for C500k (urbanairship.com)
		158 points by superjared on Sept 29, 2010 \| 25 comments
7.		Mathematics for computer science (Fall 2010, MIT) (csail.mit.edu)
		145 points by signa11 on Sept 29, 2010 \| 13 comments
8.		Why Germans have higher productivity and longer vacations (openforum.com)
		144 points by y2002 on Sept 29, 2010 \| 129 comments
9.		Rumpetroll - a new Websockets/HTML5/CSS3/JS experiment (rumpetroll.com)
		142 points by hugoahlberg on Sept 29, 2010 \| 56 comments
10.		Mysql "Swap Insanity" (jcole.us)
		141 points by xal on Sept 29, 2010 \| 26 comments
11.		Bitbucket Joins Atlassian (blog.bitbucket.org)
		136 points by DVassallo on Sept 29, 2010 \| 82 comments
12.		Working computer made out of Minecraft blocks (boingboing.net)
		119 points by chanux on Sept 29, 2010 \| 60 comments
13.		The BlackBerry PlayBook Doesn't Exist (singularityhacker.com)
		108 points by BinaryAcid on Sept 29, 2010 \| 36 comments
14.		Dropbox Startup Lessons Learned (slideshare.net)
		108 points by cartab on Sept 29, 2010 \| 26 comments
15.		How to hit the Hacker News front page (and what it’s worth) (ryanwaggoner.com)
		105 points by ryanwaggoner on Sept 29, 2010 \| 56 comments
16.		Dick is a bad manager (ieatpaste.com)
		94 points by ia on Sept 29, 2010 \| 66 comments
17.		I'll Tell You What is Causing Pain for Almost Everyone in the Western World (chrishugh.blogspot.com)
		95 points by twelch on Sept 29, 2010 \| 40 comments
18.		Node.js memory benchmark confirms V8's GC may not be ready for the server (hns.github.com)
		93 points by hannesw on Sept 29, 2010 \| 40 comments
19.		US scientists find potentially habitable planet near Earth (yahoo.com)
		90 points by DanielBMarkham on Sept 29, 2010 \| 92 comments
20.		Django core: Improving our decision-making and committer process (groups.google.com)
		87 points by conesus on Sept 29, 2010 \| 14 comments
21.		Kevin Rose: Digg Turned Down $80 Million Acquisition Offer (readwriteweb.com)
		83 points by thiele on Sept 29, 2010 \| 106 comments
22.		How to Start a Hedge Fund (vanityfair.com)
		80 points by cwan on Sept 29, 2010 \| 40 comments
23.		Chromium OS ported to iPad (engadget.com)
		71 points by jayeshsalvi on Sept 29, 2010 \| 27 comments
24.		Show HN: Koi - a programming language that teaches language implementation. (thingsaaronmade.com)
		70 points by aarongough on Sept 29, 2010 \| 12 comments
25.		Southwest's acquisition of AirTran: Why they're doing it and why you should care (flightcaster.com)
		68 points by jaf12duke on Sept 29, 2010 \| 54 comments
26.		Review my hackathon MVP - Amazon instant search (shelfluv.com)
		61 points by wushupork on Sept 29, 2010 \| 49 comments
27.		The technical challenges of a successful marketplace (airbnb.com)
		63 points by brianchesky on Sept 29, 2010 \| 6 comments
28.		How We Increased Conversion Actions 218% And Increased Sales 0% (georgesaines.com)
		60 points by gsaines on Sept 29, 2010 \| 18 comments
29.		Unix’s Revenge (asymco.com)
		57 points by mbateman on Sept 29, 2010 \| 16 comments
30.		Freakonomics: How to Avoid a Bad Apartment in New York City (nytimes.com)
		54 points by cwan on Sept 29, 2010 \| 40 comments
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