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1. The Mechanical Battery (damninteresting.com)
60 points by ph0rque on Sept 19, 2008 | 31 comments
2. Kiss of Death – Contract Provisions Entrepreneurs Should Avoid at All Costs (infochachkie.com)
45 points by MaysonL on Sept 19, 2008 | 5 comments
3. This Is Why iPhone Developers Put Up With All the Bullshit From Apple (daringfireball.net)
46 points by sant0sk1 on Sept 19, 2008 | 23 comments
4. Unigo: "why didn't I think of that" startup (nytimes.com)
41 points by browser411 on Sept 19, 2008 | 24 comments
5. Why Should You Use Plain Language? (hsph.harvard.edu)
40 points by reazalun on Sept 19, 2008 | 12 comments
6. Google Chrome Uses the Scrollbar to Display Search Results (usabilitypost.com)
40 points by babyshake on Sept 19, 2008 | 13 comments
7. The Problem with Every Implementation of a "Forgot Your Password?" Feature (25hoursaday.com)
39 points by Anon84 on Sept 19, 2008 | 14 comments
8. Introducing BackType Alerts (backtype.com)
33 points by omakase on Sept 19, 2008 | 37 comments
9. Cisco Buys Jabber (gigaom.com)
29 points by raghus on Sept 19, 2008 | 2 comments
10. A free/open-source library for quantitative finance (quantlib.org)
25 points by known on Sept 19, 2008 | 14 comments
11. New Microsoft Commercials Are Live (techcrunch.com)
25 points by nickb on Sept 19, 2008 | 23 comments
12. TED: David S. Rose on pitching to VCs (ted.com)
22 points by kleevr on Sept 19, 2008 | 7 comments
13. Python variable binding oddities (lackingrhoticity.blogspot.com)
22 points by andreyf on Sept 19, 2008 | 6 comments
14. Star Simpson's first interview on the Boston airport LED sweatshirt scare (boingboing.net)
22 points by polvi on Sept 19, 2008 | 19 comments
15. Zoho: The Little Engine That Could (Take on Both Microsoft and Google) (readwriteweb.com)
21 points by terpua on Sept 19, 2008 | 12 comments
16. Entrepreneurs hope to save world 1 baby at a time (usatoday.com)
20 points by sdpurtill on Sept 19, 2008 | 5 comments
17. C# vs Ruby (codeclimber.net.nz)
17 points by nickb on Sept 19, 2008 | 10 comments
18. SEC Plans to Temporarily Ban Short-Selling (wsj.com)
14 points by gaika on Sept 19, 2008 | 36 comments
19. (Long) Interview with Simon Peyton-Jones on Haskell (techworld.com.au)
13 points by michael_dorfman on Sept 19, 2008
20. Google Chrome To Support Add-Ons (informationweek.com)
13 points by nickb on Sept 19, 2008 | 12 comments
21. I’m a PC, and I Write Blog Entries (mattmaroon.com)
13 points by sant0sk1 on Sept 19, 2008 | 18 comments
22. Dirac 1.0 released (an advanced royalty-free video compression format from BBC) (diracvideo.org)
12 points by nickb on Sept 19, 2008 | 3 comments
23. Jason Fried keynote at Web2Expo (video) (blip.tv)
12 points by tbrooks on Sept 19, 2008 | 1 comment
24. Ask HN: What has been your biggest risk?
12 points by ctingom on Sept 19, 2008 | 19 comments
25. Monkey-Patch Which Prohibits Monkey-Patching (gilesbowkett.blogspot.com)
11 points by bdfh42 on Sept 19, 2008 | 1 comment
26. The Success of Kayak.com (fastcompany.com)
11 points by prakash on Sept 19, 2008 | 3 comments
27. 12-Year-Old May Hold Key to Solar Energy (yahoo.com)
10 points by pbnaidu on Sept 19, 2008 | 17 comments
28. Favtape Relaunches As Muxtape On Steroids (techcrunch.com)
8 points by qhoxie on Sept 19, 2008
29. Why Do We Believe Impossible Things? (go.com)
7 points by robg on Sept 19, 2008 | 16 comments
30. The advantages of having an embarrasingly small number of customers (startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com)
7 points by eries on Sept 19, 2008

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