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31.		Hipmunk comes to Android with a surprisingly slick app (gigaom.com)
		70 points by wallflower on Sept 29, 2011 \| 19 comments
32.		GNOME 3.2 Released (gnome.org)
		68 points by Garbage on Sept 29, 2011 \| 50 comments
33.		Asynchronous Programming with Async and Await (C# and Visual Basic) (msdn.microsoft.com)
		67 points by fosk on Sept 29, 2011 \| 18 comments
34.		RIM reportedly bails on PlayBook, considers exiting tablet market (bgr.com)
		66 points by sunir on Sept 29, 2011 \| 59 comments
35.		Ask HN: We dreamed, we shipped, we are stuck
		59 points by kingsidharth on Sept 29, 2011 \| 44 comments
36.		Staying Productive When Working From Home (productivitybits.com)
		57 points by MarlonPro on Sept 29, 2011 \| 28 comments
37.		Oh, Nokia. Another 3,500 People Laid Off, Manufacturing Operations Trimmed Down (techcrunch.com)
		57 points by ga0bi on Sept 29, 2011 \| 33 comments
38.		Turn an ATX Power Supply into a Bench Power Supply (jaygoel.com)
		54 points by coderdude on Sept 29, 2011 \| 20 comments
39.		Want to know your users better? Run your own analytics (theicebreak.com)
		52 points by d2ncal on Sept 29, 2011 \| 12 comments
40.		Silk, Fire and Another Loss For Privacy (jnorthrop.tumblr.com)
		51 points by jnorthrop on Sept 29, 2011 \| 31 comments
41.		Finding rectangles in images using Haskell (twanvl.nl)
		48 points by dclaysmith on Sept 29, 2011 \| 6 comments
42.		Quora iPhone app released - with new Nearby feature (itunes.apple.com)
		48 points by kahseng on Sept 29, 2011 \| 11 comments
43.		How NYC startup Tapad uses Scala and NoSQL to process 25k requests/sec (for now) (g33ktalk.com)
		51 points by petesoder on Sept 29, 2011 \| 19 comments
44.		Implementing MapReduce as a monad (haskell.org)
		46 points by badri on Sept 29, 2011 \| 1 comment
45.		Another Whopper from Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch (oracle.com)
		45 points by lladnar on Sept 29, 2011 \| 11 comments
46.		Steve Jobs contacted Samsung in 2010 to resolve Apple patent dispute (bloomberg.com)
		43 points by ashishgandhi on Sept 29, 2011 \| 40 comments
47.		Ex-NASA Man Squeezes Cloud Onto USB Stick (wired.com)
		41 points by ukdm on Sept 29, 2011 \| 7 comments
48.		The fuel of Interstate: One year later (interstateapp.com)
		40 points by sim0n on Sept 29, 2011 \| 14 comments
49.		When the elephants dance, the chickens must be careful (raganwald.posterous.com)
		40 points by raganwald on Sept 29, 2011 \| 25 comments
50.		Why class societies are the rule, not the exception (futurity.org)
		39 points by marchustvedt on Sept 29, 2011 \| 30 comments
51.		Inside Google Plus (wired.com)
		40 points by joelhaus on Sept 29, 2011 \| 8 comments
52.		How fresh are your gems? (jonathannen.com)
		41 points by jwilliams on Sept 29, 2011 \| 17 comments
53.		What planes are flying over you right now? (wolframalpha.tumblr.com)
		37 points by creativityhurts on Sept 29, 2011 \| 10 comments
54.		Spotify not out to completely embarrass you via Facebook anymore (networkworld.com)
		35 points by alphadoggs on Sept 29, 2011 \| 19 comments
55.		Hacking Instagram filters in real life (1000memories.com)
		32 points by rudyadler on Sept 29, 2011 \| 2 comments
56.		Stanford & Cornell Fight to Win Bid for Engineering Campus in Manhattan (betabeat.com)
		31 points by nitashatiku on Sept 29, 2011 \| 12 comments
57.		Check out this hacker sting - poetry in motion (wpmu.org)
		29 points by farms on Sept 29, 2011 \| 5 comments
58.		Microsoft Responds To Google’s Extortion Claim (techcrunch.com)
		28 points by tilt on Sept 29, 2011 \| 19 comments
59.		China set to launch own space station within days (wired.com)
		28 points by anigbrowl on Sept 29, 2011 \| 17 comments
60.		Quick Amazon Silk thoughts (quirksmode.org)
		24 points by wspruijt on Sept 29, 2011 \| 8 comments
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