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1.I Quit My Day Job. Thanks. (joelonsoftware.com)
203 points by vijayr on Jan 13, 2010 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
2.State Department Makes Statement on Google Operations in China (state.gov)
181 points by dfield on Jan 13, 2010 [ext] | 116 comments [ext]
3.Using Fibonacci Numbers to Convert from Miles to Kilometers and Vice Versa (catonmat.net)
144 points by pkrumins on Jan 13, 2010 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
4. Asymmetric leverage how Iran holds twenty percent of global oil supply hostage (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 21 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
4.Default HTTPS access for Gmail (gmailblog.blogspot.com)
119 points by __ on Jan 13, 2010 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
5.Avatar: The Holocaust We Will Not See (monbiot.com)
120 points by swombat on Jan 13, 2010 [ext] | 173 comments [ext]
6.Sold, For Just Me (al3x.net)
109 points by dchest on Jan 13, 2010 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
7. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 368 days ago | hide | 168 comments
7.Top 20 Programming Lessons I've Learned in 20 Years (dcs-media.com)
102 points by niyazpk on Jan 13, 2010 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
8.Smallpt: Global Illumination in 99 lines of C++ (with no external deps) (kevinbeason.com)
94 points by benhoyt on Jan 13, 2010 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
9.Researcher Sam Roweis took his own life last night. Here's one of his lectures. (videolectures.net)
82 points by raganwald on Jan 13, 2010 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
10. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 91 days ago | hide | 148 comments
10.Google's half-truths, and a plea for perspective (andreyf.tumblr.com)
78 points by andreyf on Jan 13, 2010 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
11.The secret of making money online: David Heinemeier Hansson (youtube.com)
69 points by niyazpk on Jan 13, 2010 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
12.7 Major Sites that Send Passwords Unprotected, & China's Deep Packet Inspection (adamsmith.cc)
64 points by adamsmith on Jan 13, 2010 [ext] | 79 comments [ext]
13. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
13.Search for Google's "New Approach" post, get locked out of baidu.com (slashdot.org)
60 points by angelbob on Jan 13, 2010 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
14.Why nobody knows what they're doing (sites.google.com)
59 points by clawrencewenham on Jan 13, 2010 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
15.On California, Don't Believe the Hype (wsj.com)
57 points by grellas on Jan 13, 2010 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
16. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
16.Why my Dad went through 24 TVs in 2 years (krmmalik.posterous.com)
56 points by krmmalik on Jan 13, 2010 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
17.Measuring the speed of light with chocolate and a microwave oven (morningcoffeephysics.wordpress.com)
53 points by jank on Jan 13, 2010 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
18.On Google and China: Am I Missing Something? Why all the high fives? (dbreunig.tumblr.com)
52 points by dbreunig on Jan 13, 2010 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
19. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 252 days ago | hide | 170 comments
19.Cappuccino on Rails (jerodsanto.net)
48 points by sant0sk1 on Jan 13, 2010 [ext] | 2 comments [ext]
20.Tell HN: Guess what Baidu and Yahoo China have already censored? [ext]
45 points by profquail on Jan 13, 2010 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
21.Ask HN: How can I start my own bank? (Let's redesign banks) [ext]
45 points by whalesalad on Jan 13, 2010 [ext] | 69 comments [ext]
22. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
22.Google and China: the attacks and their aftermath (arstechnica.com)
43 points by icey on Jan 13, 2010 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
23.Why I Won’t Sign Your NDA (mixergy.com)
44 points by ctingom on Jan 13, 2010 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
24.IRS commissioner doesn't file own taxes - says it's too complex (thehill.com)
44 points by anderzole on Jan 13, 2010 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
25. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 211 days ago | hide | 32 comments
25.Ommwriter, a pleasant writeroom (ommwriter.com)
41 points by jrnkntl on Jan 13, 2010 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
26.I'm Working 12 Hours a Day. How I'm Getting Through It. (startupceo.co.za)
41 points by bluebit on Jan 13, 2010 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
27.Analysts say attack on Google is part of widespread spying effort (macworld.co.uk)
39 points by araneae on Jan 13, 2010 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
28. Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com)
292 points by ksk4362 203 days ago | hide | 110 comments
28.Google Faces The Slickest Click Fraud Yet (forbes.com)
40 points by aresant on Jan 13, 2010 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
29.Ask HN: "So... What happened to the last guy?" [ext]
36 points by furyg3 on Jan 13, 2010 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
30.WildlifeNearYou.com - built by 12 hackers on a fort in a week (sort of) (simonwillison.net)
35 points by simonw on Jan 13, 2010 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
31. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 263 days ago | hide | 183 comments

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