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1. Example of a good YC application video: Directed Edge (scott-oviwe.posterous.com)
218 points by pg on Oct 1, 2009 | 29 comments
2. Working for startups sucks, you'll be happier working for The Man (substitute.livejournal.com)
148 points by idlewords on Oct 1, 2009 | 111 comments
3. Rails Idioms + Django Templates + Erlang Power = Chicago Boss (chicagoboss.org)
143 points by paulsmith on Oct 1, 2009 | 79 comments
4. Ask HN: What's in your .emacs file?
121 points by procrastinatus on Oct 1, 2009 | 52 comments
5. Ask HN: What's in your .vimrc file?
123 points by Xichekolas on Oct 1, 2009 | 67 comments
6. An Engineer's Guide to Bandwidth (yahoo.net)
112 points by aristus on Oct 1, 2009 | 17 comments
7. Ask YC: Any network gurus want a paid holiday?
108 points by gsiener on Oct 1, 2009 | 34 comments
8. LYSP (a really tiny lisp) (piumarta.com)
98 points by jacquesm on Oct 1, 2009 | 17 comments
9. The end of AI winter? (machineslikeus.com)
83 points by jacquesm on Oct 1, 2009 | 66 comments
10. Kashiwa Mystery Cafe (cabel.name)
74 points by adamhowell on Oct 1, 2009 | 14 comments
11. MacRuby dev gets eaten by raptors (github.com/masterkain)
62 points by clofresh on Oct 1, 2009 | 2 comments
12. Free Computer Science Courses (freescienceonline.blogspot.com)
58 points by pkrumins on Oct 1, 2009 | 11 comments
13. This is a pipe. (Something dear to me.) (200nipples.com)
55 points by wmeredith on Oct 1, 2009 | 30 comments
14. Log-structured file systems: There's one in every SSD (lwn.net)
48 points by lordgilman on Oct 1, 2009 | 6 comments
15. Ancient Genetic Defenses Against AIDS Virus Reactivated (dailygalaxy.com)
48 points by rizzn on Oct 1, 2009 | 19 comments
16. Java is dead, but you'll learn to love it (muckandbrass.com)
46 points by fogus on Oct 1, 2009 | 53 comments
17. Justin.tv founders named as top 30 under 30 by Inc. (inc.com)
42 points by polvi on Oct 1, 2009 | 13 comments
18. Stackoverflow, Advertising and the Ethics of a Free Lunch (cforcoding.com)
44 points by panic on Oct 1, 2009 | 28 comments
19. Clojure Cheat Sheet [pdf] (cloud.github.com)
45 points by swannodette on Oct 1, 2009 | 8 comments
20. The Angry Evolutionist (newsweek.com)
43 points by amichail on Oct 1, 2009 | 79 comments
21. Larry Ellison Still Hates "Cloud Computing Nonsense" (Video) (techcrunchit.com)
40 points by edw519 on Oct 1, 2009 | 35 comments
22. Our Pirate Game is Getting Owned By App Store Pirates (silverskullgame.blogspot.com)
38 points by theappfarm on Oct 1, 2009 | 28 comments
23. Next year's computers same speed but more cores/cpus: developer challenge (tbray.org)
37 points by wglb on Oct 1, 2009 | 27 comments
24. PCalc Prevents iPhone Calculator Profanity (dragthing.com)
37 points by mbrubeck on Oct 1, 2009 | 14 comments
25. The startup culture at Posterous (vator.tv)
36 points by joez on Oct 1, 2009 | 7 comments
26. Oldest "Human" Skeleton Found--Disproves "Missing Link" (nationalgeographic.com)
36 points by muriithi on Oct 1, 2009 | 7 comments
27. Python Worlds (sigusr2.net)
35 points by andreyf on Oct 1, 2009 | 17 comments
28. Native UIKit iPhone Apps Written In Lua (mobileorchard.com)
34 points by mobileorchard on Oct 1, 2009 | 30 comments
29. Tig, the ncurses front-end to Git (gitready.com)
33 points by nice1 on Oct 1, 2009 | 13 comments
30. Tiled backgrounds designer (bgpatterns.com)
32 points by yangyang on Oct 1, 2009 | 2 comments

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