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1. Bankruptcy, not bailout, is the right answer (cnn.com)
139 points by gibsonf1 on Sept 30, 2008 | 84 comments
2. How To Become An Open-Source Contractor (emiller.info)
103 points by antiform on Sept 30, 2008 | 15 comments
3. Peter Norvig's Election 2008 FAQ (norvig.com)
80 points by logjam on Sept 30, 2008 | 48 comments
4. Google brought back oldest available index for their 10th birthday (google.com)
72 points by wave on Sept 30, 2008 | 45 comments
5. PG - "The Papa Bear" - on BusinessWeek's list of most influential people on the web (businessweek.com)
69 points by alaskamiller on Sept 30, 2008 | 35 comments
6. Writing a compiler in Ruby, bottom up (hokstad.com)
62 points by qhoxie on Sept 30, 2008 | 13 comments
7. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (csail.mit.edu)
43 points by nadim on Sept 30, 2008 | 26 comments
8. GMU sued for Zotero (crookedtimber.org)
35 points by mariorz on Sept 30, 2008 | 3 comments
9. The Truth About Pricing (gobignetwork.com)
34 points by terpua on Sept 30, 2008 | 7 comments
10. Times Are Rough, So Think Smart and Profit (kevinelliott.net)
33 points by markbao on Sept 30, 2008 | 17 comments
11. RTML - The templating language created by pg (yahoo.com)
32 points by IsaacSchlueter on Sept 30, 2008 | 13 comments
12. Why Android Will Soon Kick Ass (gizmodo.com)
30 points by qhoxie on Sept 30, 2008 | 31 comments
13. Do Good Grades Predict Success? (nytimes.com)
30 points by blogimus on Sept 30, 2008 | 40 comments
14. California moves toward open-source vote counting software (truthout.org)
28 points by epall on Sept 30, 2008 | 8 comments
15. Adobe official confirms Flash for the iPhone, says Apple will decide when (iphoneatlas.com)
25 points by mariorz on Sept 30, 2008 | 32 comments
16. Backtype (YC Summer 08) launches blog widgets for your blog comments (backtype.com)
22 points by rantfoil on Sept 30, 2008
17. 'The Odyssey' and 'The Iliad' are giving up new secrets about the ancient world (boston.com)
21 points by robg on Sept 30, 2008 | 4 comments
18. Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending - 1999 (linkrap.com)
20 points by breck on Sept 30, 2008 | 14 comments
19. Stainless - A multi-process, Webkit based, browser for OS X inspired by Google Chrome (stainlessapp.com)
20 points by nickb on Sept 30, 2008 | 6 comments
20. Lighttpd 1.4.20 is out (lighttpd.net)
20 points by hs on Sept 30, 2008 | 6 comments
21. Tax the Hell Out of Wall Street; Give it to Main Street (blogmaverick.com)
19 points by Anon84 on Sept 30, 2008 | 36 comments
22. The Proposed 700 Billion Dollar Bailout Compared to Other Items in the US Budget (nytimes.com)
15 points by chaostheory on Sept 30, 2008 | 1 comment
23. The view from Silicon Valley (cnn.com)
15 points by wave on Sept 30, 2008 | 3 comments
24. Why Stallman is wrong when he calls cloud computing stupid (arstechnica.com)
15 points by makimaki on Sept 30, 2008 | 10 comments
25. The Giant Pool of Money, "This American Life" on How the Subprime Crisis Happened (thislife.org)
13 points by soundsop on Sept 30, 2008 | 8 comments
26. Invisibility cloaks could take sting out of tsunamis (newscientist.com)
13 points by alexwg on Sept 30, 2008 | 3 comments
27. Grizzly - Java NIO library to build scalable network applications (java.net)
12 points by jwilliams on Sept 30, 2008 | 4 comments
28. Apple is Finally Evil (eptiger.blogspot.com)
12 points by abossy on Sept 30, 2008 | 22 comments
29. Performance & Load testing with Log Replay (igvita.com)
12 points by igrigorik on Sept 30, 2008 | 1 comment
30. Wundrbar Just Got Way Better: Introducing Live Results and Pegging. (wundrbar.com)
12 points by adudley on Sept 30, 2008 | 9 comments

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