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1.Title Junk (daringfireball.net)
229 points by shawndumas on Dec 20, 2010 [ext] | 84 comments [ext]
2.You don't really want a million dollars (ryanwaggoner.com)
221 points by ryanwaggoner on Dec 20, 2010 [ext] | 169 comments [ext]
3.Kevin Smith’s Secrets To A Successful Life (connectedcomedy.com)
211 points by moge on Dec 20, 2010 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
4. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
4.Impact HTML5 Game Engine released (phoboslab.org)
204 points by helium on Dec 20, 2010 [ext] | 73 comments [ext]
5.How an Engineer Does Pizza (varasanos.com)
201 points by eavc on Dec 20, 2010 [ext] | 88 comments [ext]
6.Writing clean, testable, high quality code in Python (ibm.com)
175 points by m3mb3r on Dec 20, 2010 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
7. Metsera's bold antitrust hack: let Novo Nordisk buy us twice (archive.ph)
377 points by psx3247 84 days ago | hide | 153 comments
7.Conceding Defeat - The Internet is Stronger Than I Am (sebastianmarshall.com)
169 points by lionhearted on Dec 20, 2010 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
8.Android Developers Blog: It’s not “rooting”, it’s openness (android-developers.blogspot.com)
156 points by twapi on Dec 20, 2010 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
9.Pandora, Angry Birds, other apps selling private info to advertisers (lifehacker.com)
148 points by dshankar on Dec 20, 2010 [ext] | 72 comments [ext]
10. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 84 days ago | hide | 14 comments
10.Realtime encoding - over 150x faster (transloadit.com)
128 points by felixge on Dec 20, 2010 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
11.Flirting Social Network Likealittle Hits 20M Pageviews In 6 Weeks (techcrunch.com)
120 points by webwright on Dec 20, 2010 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
12.iAd Producer from Apple (developer.apple.com)
113 points by joao on Dec 20, 2010 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
13. How Rich Barton Turns Gossip Into Billion-Dollar Search Monopolies (kwokchain.com)
234 points by gak1654 431 days ago | hide | 59 comments
13.The puzzle that started complexity theory. (nyu.edu)
113 points by gnosis on Dec 20, 2010 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
14.AOL Acquires Personal Profile Startup About.Me (techcrunch.com)
111 points by MichaelApproved on Dec 20, 2010 [ext] | 85 comments [ext]
15.A 'Thank You' from Google (google.com)
101 points by dkokelley on Dec 20, 2010 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
16. The Three Ingredients Behind Jitse Groen's Takeaway.com Conquest Of Europe (linkedin.com)
154 points by krz3514 373 days ago | hide | 13 comments
16.Ask HN: Fastest route to $2000/mo. cashflow, worry free and conscience clear [ext]
90 points by jharrison on Dec 20, 2010 [ext] | 84 comments [ext]
17.Why Facebook never happened in the UK. The case of FitFinder. (oonwoye.com)
91 points by OoTheNigerian on Dec 20, 2010 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
18.An Open Letter to JavaScript Leaders Regarding Semicolons (izs.me)
84 points by tswicegood on Dec 20, 2010 [ext] | 77 comments [ext]
19. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments
19.Vertical farming: Does it really stack up? (economist.com)
76 points by ph0rque on Dec 20, 2010 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
20.Microsoft quietly shuts down Office Genuine Advantage program (zdnet.com)
78 points by ilamont on Dec 20, 2010 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
21.XSS vulnerability found in Github (github.com/stuk)
69 points by Stuk on Dec 20, 2010 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
22. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 592 days ago | hide | 193 comments
22.Kevin Connolly's guide to American culture (bbc.co.uk)
68 points by shrikant on Dec 20, 2010 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
23.Who Can Name the Bigger Number? (scottaaronson.com)
68 points by shawndumas on Dec 20, 2010 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
24.A Graph Processing Stack (attinteractive.com)
62 points by rohitarondekar on Dec 20, 2010 [ext] | 1 comment [ext]
25. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 104 days ago | hide | 48 comments
25.Avoiding Burnout in a Software Startup (tophatmonocle.com)
63 points by amackera on Dec 20, 2010 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
26.Forrst v3 Launched Today (forrst.com)
60 points by philtoronto on Dec 20, 2010 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
27.A collection of apps the 37signals team started using in the past year (37signals.com)
58 points by duck on Dec 20, 2010 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
28. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
28.The Internet is made out of meat (antipope.org)
57 points by keyist on Dec 20, 2010 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
29.Free calling in Gmail extended through 2011 (gmailblog.blogspot.com)
56 points by Uncle_Sam on Dec 20, 2010 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
30.Why Google's Chrome notebook will succeed (msn.com)
53 points by duck on Dec 20, 2010 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
31. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 90 days ago | hide | 148 comments

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