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1. WaMu Fails. First major comercial bank to go. (wsj.com)
62 points by newt0311 on Sept 26, 2008 | 72 comments
2. Larry Page blasts white space FUD on capitol hill (arstechnica.com)
58 points by jmcannon on Sept 26, 2008 | 11 comments
3. Nickb's very own New Mogul: business, leadership, management and financial news.arc (newmogul.com)
57 points by kf on Sept 26, 2008 | 26 comments
4. Chuck: An Audio programming language - it's like a dream come true. (princeton.edu)
54 points by khangtoh on Sept 26, 2008 | 18 comments
5. HttpFox: The FireFox add-on you can't live without (f5.com)
47 points by lmacvittie on Sept 26, 2008 | 13 comments
6. A Legend Never To Be Solved (hackety.org)
46 points by luckystrike on Sept 26, 2008 | 3 comments
7. Bankaholic sells to Bankrate for 15 million and no one noticed (okdork.com)
39 points by jasonlbaptiste on Sept 26, 2008 | 17 comments
8. Eric S. Raymond: Why Alternative Energy Isn’t (ibiblio.org)
39 points by ntoshev on Sept 26, 2008 | 103 comments
9. Ask HN: What would you do with your life if you solved the money problem?
39 points by bokonist on Sept 26, 2008 | 89 comments
10. Look Ma No OS (On Squeak and no OS) (artima.com)
37 points by soundsop on Sept 26, 2008 | 16 comments
11. Full Pass of Acid3 (webkit.org)
35 points by ajbatac on Sept 26, 2008 | 4 comments
12. Introducing NonHackerNews.com (mattmaroon.com)
35 points by inglorian on Sept 26, 2008 | 17 comments
13. Crowdsourcing a Pixel-Art City (gooncity.com)
28 points by palish on Sept 26, 2008 | 10 comments
14. Announcing the Disqus API (disqus.net)
25 points by brlewis on Sept 26, 2008
15. Larry Ellison's Brilliant Anti-Cloud Computing Rant (wsj.com)
24 points by raghus on Sept 26, 2008 | 8 comments
16. Y Combinator Challenge - Mission Accomplished (astartupaday.wordpress.com)
20 points by kleneway on Sept 26, 2008 | 13 comments
17. Amazon Web Services: New Release of DevPay - Lower Fees and Reduced Risk (aws.typepad.com)
21 points by soundsop on Sept 26, 2008 | 2 comments
18. Essential Maths for Games Programmers (essentialmath.com)
17 points by jwilliams on Sept 26, 2008 | 2 comments
19. At Amherst college, 1% of first-year students have landlines, 99% have Facebook accounts (collisiondetection.net)
17 points by byrneseyeview on Sept 26, 2008 | 10 comments
20. The Anti-Mac User Interface (Don Gentner and Jakob Nielsen from 1996) (useit.com)
17 points by soundsop on Sept 26, 2008 | 5 comments
21. C++ Considered Harmful (ibiblio.org)
17 points by st3fan on Sept 26, 2008 | 30 comments
22. What do investors look for in a startup? (venturehacks.com)
16 points by wheels on Sept 26, 2008 | 1 comment
23. MIT solves 100-year-old engineering problem (esciencenews.com)
16 points by Anon84 on Sept 26, 2008 | 3 comments
24. Ask YC: How bad is the economy?
16 points by sown on Sept 26, 2008 | 71 comments
25. Forget Being First, Just Be Different (bradmaier.com)
15 points by brandnewlow on Sept 26, 2008 | 7 comments
26. Apple Has Learned The Importance of Play. We Should Too (whydoeseverythingsuck.com)
15 points by pius on Sept 26, 2008 | 3 comments
27. Ask YC: Feedback on a side-project -- Sportsify (sportsify.com)
14 points by adamhowell on Sept 26, 2008 | 13 comments
28. New clickjacking affects all browsers; cause remains unknown (arstechnica.com)
14 points by makimaki on Sept 26, 2008 | 5 comments
29. Scott McNealy: To have a successful start-up, be careful who you marry (cnet.com)
14 points by psogle on Sept 26, 2008 | 8 comments
30. 10 Books that will Substitute A Computer Science Degree (debate?) (techoozie.com)
13 points by bdfh42 on Sept 26, 2008 | 13 comments

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