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1.		10 Downing Street: Treatment of Alan Turing was "appalling" (number10.gov.uk)
		237 points by handelaar on Sept 10, 2009 \| 81 comments
2.		Google's Javascript PDF Viewer is Embeddable (googlesystem.blogspot.com)
		115 points by blasdel on Sept 10, 2009 \| 54 comments
3.		Gordon Brown apologises to Alan Turing (telegraph.co.uk)
		109 points by sharpn on Sept 10, 2009 \| 26 comments
4.		ICFP '09: "Get rid of cons!" Guy Steele on parallel algorithms & data structures (sun.com)
		99 points by mquander on Sept 10, 2009 \| 30 comments
5.		Facebook releases Tornado (Python web server that powers FriendFeed) (facebook.com)
		86 points by mtrichardson on Sept 10, 2009 \| 7 comments
		tolmasky on Sept 10, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: Job description written in Ruby Am I the only one who doesn't find these things cute?
7.		Blu-Ray Still Blows (textfiles.com)
		71 points by blasdel on Sept 10, 2009 \| 82 comments
8.		Somebody Has To Say It: It’s Time For iTunes Lite (techcrunch.com)
		71 points by jasonlbaptiste on Sept 10, 2009 \| 95 comments
9.		Tornado Web Server (tornadoweb.org)
		71 points by ajbatac on Sept 10, 2009 \| 5 comments
10.		Oracle's Declaration to Sun Customers ... and IBM (oracle.com)
		70 points by fogus on Sept 10, 2009 \| 48 comments
11.		Scientists Levitate Mice (msn.com)
		66 points by brandnewly on Sept 10, 2009 \| 33 comments
12.		ITunes + CSS3 (judsoncollier.com)
		62 points by jasonlbaptiste on Sept 10, 2009 \| 31 comments
13.		JsMath: Including Mathematics in Web Pages (union.edu)
		59 points by gus_massa on Sept 10, 2009 \| 20 comments
14.		Critical: Vulnerabilities in Windows TCP/IP Could Allow Remote Code Execution (microsoft.com)
		58 points by tvon on Sept 10, 2009 \| 29 comments
15.		What Happens When Apple Features Your iPhone App (return7.com)
		60 points by PStamatiou on Sept 10, 2009 \| 18 comments
16.		Should Apache replace its current httpd.conf with Lua? (gmane.org)
		58 points by compay on Sept 10, 2009 \| 47 comments
17.		Dark Stalking on Facebook (pjf.id.au)
		57 points by zkz on Sept 10, 2009 \| 23 comments
		tdavis on Sept 10, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: Tornado: FriendFeed's non-blocking Python web serv... This is more of a combination of a web server and a web framework, which is what I find fascinating about it. Twisted has had a web server forever, but despite a significant amount of experience in Twisted Land, I'd never write a full app using it! Add to that the (apparently) standalone low-level modules and we've got some seriously awesome tech that FriendFeed/Facebook have supplied for free. Thanks a lot, fellas. Asynchronous networking programming in Python is somewhat of a bear so it's really nice to see a tool get released that improves it!
		TravisLS on Sept 10, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: 10 Downing Street: Treatment of Alan Turing was "a... Congratulations to jgrahamc on making this happen. This apology was long overdue and would not have happened without your effort.
20.		Early Risers Crash Faster Than People Who Stay Up Late (scientificamerican.com)
		53 points by alex_c on Sept 10, 2009 \| 34 comments
21.		Facebook adds @mentions to status updates. (thenextweb.com)
		52 points by mgcreed on Sept 10, 2009 \| 28 comments
22.		"On communicating better" --- 37signals revises security pages. (37signals.com)
		50 points by tptacek on Sept 10, 2009 \| 17 comments
		run4yourlives on Sept 10, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: A Fixed Income Is a Sucker Bet (I'm rich, I'm making plenty of money and you are an idiot for not listening to me) So, like a pg essay? Don't get me wrong, I think pg offers great advice after all. I do find it ironic though that there are several "defenders of the religion" here on YC that don't seem to see the similarities between the messages that pg conveys and every other self-help guru out there. (Yes, boiled down, Paul Graham is basically a self help guru.) pg speaks to hackers, Pavlina, Orman, Godin, 37signals and others speak to people of different persuasion. Each is not selling snake oil, rather the lessons learned from a particularly successful experience. You can discount them or choose to learn more at your leisure. There's nothing wrong with that, and suggesting he's somehow unethical, or otherwise insulting him because his methods are not particularly of your persuasion is like a Christian berating a Muslim for worshipping the wrong god.
24.		Majority of US Healthcare Costs Are Caused by Bad Eating Habits (nytimes.com)
		48 points by jyu on Sept 10, 2009 \| 59 comments
25.		The Founders Visa Movement (feld.com)
		47 points by GVRV on Sept 10, 2009 \| 54 comments
26.		Did highways cause suburbanization? (marginalrevolution.com)
		46 points by noheartanthony on Sept 10, 2009 \| 51 comments
27.		Why ERP is still so hard (computerworlduk.com)
		44 points by monkeygrinder on Sept 10, 2009 \| 30 comments
28.		MP3 Blogs and wget (veen.com)
		44 points by ivankirigin on Sept 10, 2009 \| 9 comments
29.		Inner-platform effect (wikipedia.org)
		42 points by Hexstream on Sept 10, 2009 \| 24 comments
30.		Job description written in Ruby (37signals.com)
		42 points by subbu on Sept 10, 2009 \| 35 comments
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