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1.You've been Yelped (inc.com)
157 points by azsromej on Jan 19, 2010 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
2.Fast. Easy. Clean. Shoelace Knot. (fieggen.com)
154 points by sahaj on Jan 19, 2010 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
3.Yelp Extortion Allegations Stack Up (March 2009) (eastbayexpress.com)
147 points by TrevorBramble on Jan 19, 2010 [ext] | 78 comments [ext]
4. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 59 days ago | hide | 65 comments
4.Why Poor Countries Are Poor (reason.com)
129 points by eru on Jan 19, 2010 [ext] | 139 comments [ext]
5.The stray dog ecosystem of Moscow (ft.com)
119 points by dood on Jan 19, 2010 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
6.Offline Book "Lending" Costs U.S. Publishers Nearly $1 Trillion (go-to-hellman.blogspot.com)
114 points by gluejar on Jan 19, 2010 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
7. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
7.Why Sass And Languages Like It Will Triumph (wiseheartdesign.com)
100 points by jlong on Jan 19, 2010 [ext] | 91 comments [ext]
8.When work doesn't pay for the middle class (forbes.com)
100 points by viggity on Jan 19, 2010 [ext] | 109 comments [ext]
9.Believing You Can Get Smarter Makes You Smarter (apa.org)
93 points by catchingsignals on Jan 19, 2010 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
10. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
10.Misa: a digital guitar (misadigital.com)
93 points by chaostheory on Jan 19, 2010 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
11.Don’t invert that matrix (johndcook.com)
90 points by KonaB on Jan 19, 2010 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
12.The Guantánamo "Suicides": A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle (harpers.org)
82 points by dantheman on Jan 19, 2010 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
13. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 199 days ago | hide | 18 comments
13.Jacob Kaplan-Moss: What The Enterprise wants from Django (groups.google.com)
79 points by alrex021 on Jan 19, 2010 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
14.Check out the background CSS trick on this blog's posts (jarredbishop.tumblr.com)
77 points by AndrewWarner on Jan 19, 2010 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
15.US Patent #7,650,331: System & method for efficient large-scale data processing (uspto.gov)
73 points by mattyb on Jan 19, 2010 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
16. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 367 days ago | hide | 7 comments
16.Why Tumblr is kicking Posterous's ass (pegontech.wordpress.com)
71 points by pegobry on Jan 19, 2010 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
17.Solving Project Euler problems (bentilly.blogspot.com)
66 points by btilly on Jan 19, 2010 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
18.Reddit Clone in 20 Minutes and 100 Lines of Lisp (mac.com)
64 points by Sapient on Jan 19, 2010 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
19. The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 333 days ago | hide | 88 comments
19.Six months of using Scala and Lift (jeppenejsum.wordpress.com)
60 points by TrevorBurnham on Jan 19, 2010 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
20.Solid color desktop causes 30-second delay in Windows 7 Startup Time (support.microsoft.com)
58 points by functional-tree on Jan 19, 2010 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
21.A review of several JavaScript grid editors : I want to be Excel (open-lab.com)
54 points by robicch on Jan 19, 2010 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
22. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 84 days ago | hide | 122 comments
22.MakerBot ($750 3D Printer) is a million dollar plus startup (replicatorinc.com)
49 points by replicatorblog on Jan 19, 2010 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
23.'Avatar' pulled from 2-D screens by Chinese government (latimes.com)
49 points by fiaz on Jan 19, 2010 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
24.Anonymity system for Google called GoogleSharing (googlesharing.net)
49 points by ddbb on Jan 19, 2010 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
25. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
25."What Is the Chinese Economic Model?" author reports server attacked (tapsns.com)
47 points by ilamont on Jan 19, 2010 [ext] | 69 comments [ext]
26.VCs that use checklists are more effective (ft.com)
48 points by nandemo on Jan 19, 2010 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
27.MeetingMix (YC S08) Gets Your Co-Workers To Cut To The Chase (techcrunch.com)
43 points by sgupta on Jan 19, 2010 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
28. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments
28.Ask HN: Is a .net domain good enough? [ext]
43 points by klon on Jan 19, 2010 [ext] | 73 comments [ext]
29.Blipr: The Story of an iPhone App (return7.com)
37 points by ivey on Jan 19, 2010 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
30.Chess Intuition and Computer AI (scienceblogs.com)
36 points by cwan on Jan 19, 2010 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
31. When Peak AI Capability Arrives at Impractical Prices, Deployment Lags (tobyord.com)
290 points by oox1230 2 days ago | hide | 120 comments

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