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31.		Introducing Bad Code Offsets (thedailywtf.com)
		33 points by phsr on Nov 18, 2009 \| 11 comments
32.		Anil Dash Will Head Gov't Incubator, Digitize Democracy (observer.com)
		32 points by adamhowell on Nov 18, 2009
33.		Three's Company (Why three co-founders is better than two.) (spencerfry.com)
		33 points by maxstoller on Nov 18, 2009 \| 16 comments
34.		This Place is Not a Place of Honor (2006) (damninteresting.com)
		31 points by sdfx on Nov 18, 2009 \| 21 comments
35.		Lisp-style Macros for Ruby (github.com/coatl)
		29 points by raganwald on Nov 18, 2009 \| 12 comments
36.		DNA Testing Firm Goes Bankrupt; Who Gets the Data? (wired.com)
		28 points by phsr on Nov 18, 2009 \| 6 comments
37.		Linux desktop with Enlightenment (e17) by top-tier electronics maker (enlightenment.org)
		27 points by gsbarbieri on Nov 18, 2009 \| 15 comments
38.		Mendeley, the-Last.fm-of-research (techcrunch.com)
		27 points by prakash on Nov 18, 2009 \| 6 comments
39.		Mozilla kicks rebel coders to kerb with Firefox 3.6 'lockdown' (theregister.co.uk)
		27 points by alexandros on Nov 18, 2009 \| 10 comments
40.		American Express Says It Will Buy Revolution Money (bloomberg.com)
		26 points by tcskeptic on Nov 18, 2009 \| 19 comments
41.		Reducing friction as a standard operating method (ayende.com)
		25 points by rayvega on Nov 18, 2009 \| 3 comments
42.		Refactoring vs. Rewrite (targetprocess.com)
		22 points by fogus on Nov 18, 2009 \| 15 comments
43.		Stephenson's "Spew": Social Media in 1993 coming true today? (wired.com)
		22 points by joezydeco on Nov 18, 2009 \| 7 comments
44.		Three easy ways to fix the App Store. And one really, really hard way. (seldo.com)
		21 points by seldo on Nov 18, 2009 \| 22 comments
45.		A Hacker's Introduction to Partial Evaluation (wry.me)
		21 points by mahmud on Nov 18, 2009 \| 1 comment
46.		A minimal C unit testing framework (only 3 LOC) (jera.com)
		20 points by mapleoin on Nov 18, 2009 \| 9 comments
47.		How To Hack A Brazilian Power Company (darkreading.com)
		20 points by rbanffy on Nov 18, 2009 \| 8 comments
48.		ITunes website open to HTML injection...again (lgt example). [WARNING: autoplay] (apple.com)
		16 points by blhack on Nov 18, 2009 \| 7 comments
49.		Dear HN - help me with my online dating site
		16 points by steveeq1 on Nov 18, 2009 \| 13 comments
50.		Writing a Lexer (lazypython.blogspot.com)
		16 points by kingkilr on Nov 18, 2009 \| 2 comments
51.		Ask HN: largest number you've had to store in an application?
		15 points by mellis on Nov 18, 2009 \| 25 comments
52.		Ordnance Survey maps to go free online (guardian.co.uk)
		15 points by stakent on Nov 18, 2009 \| 6 comments
53.		Modeling wine preferences by data mining from physicochemical properties [pdf] (uminho.pt)
		15 points by martian on Nov 18, 2009 \| 2 comments
54.		NSA helped with Windows 7 development (computerworld.com)
		15 points by ilamont on Nov 18, 2009 \| 13 comments
55.		Ask HN: Bank 2.0. How would you build a better bank?
		14 points by dkokelley on Nov 18, 2009 \| 40 comments
56.		New study claims Transcendental Meditation 'cuts risk of heart attack by half' (telegraph.co.uk)
		15 points by blazamos on Nov 18, 2009 \| 11 comments
57.		Spain regulates the price of Internet to implement "The Right to Broadband" (pcmag.com)
		14 points by adeelarshad82 on Nov 18, 2009 \| 6 comments
58.		Announcing Kong: A server description and deployment testing tool (Django) (ericholscher.com)
		13 points by ericholscher on Nov 18, 2009 \| 1 comment
59.		The Mouse Trap, by Reg Braithwaite (raganwald.com)
		13 points by andreyf on Nov 18, 2009 \| 5 comments
60.		4 Scenarios for Android, Minus the Phones (gigaom.com)
		12 points by MudassirAzeemi on Nov 18, 2009
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