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1.Papers Every Programmer Should Read (objectmentor.com)
189 points by soundsop on Feb 27, 2009 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
2.On Building A Stupidly Fast Graph Database (directededge.com)
159 points by wheels on Feb 27, 2009 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
3.One Thing You Don't Need To Be An Entrepreneur: A College Degree (avc.com)
79 points by ciscoriordan on Feb 27, 2009 [ext] | 86 comments [ext]
4. Asymmetric leverage how Iran holds twenty percent of global oil supply hostage (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 23 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
4.Jason Calacanis: What to do if your startup is about fail (ramamia.com)
78 points by jasonlbaptiste on Feb 27, 2009 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
5.Pirate Bay Witness’ Wife Overwhelmed With Flowers (torrentfreak.com)
62 points by brk on Feb 27, 2009 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
6.Middle Men, Aggregators, And Apologies (zedshaw.com)
60 points by twampss on Feb 27, 2009 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
7. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
7.The Hacker's Diet: Losing weight the hacker way (fourmilab.ch)
50 points by jjguy on Feb 27, 2009 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
8.Install a DNS resolver on your laptop (bueno.org)
49 points by aristus on Feb 27, 2009 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
9.The Size of Social Networks: Primates on Facebook (economist.com)
46 points by sanj on Feb 27, 2009 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
10. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 602 days ago | hide | 193 comments
10.Kestrel: Twitter's new message queue, written in 1500 lines of Scala (lag.net)
46 points by nreece on Feb 27, 2009 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
11.jQuery Chart Plugins For Your App (reynoldsftw.com)
44 points by mootymoots on Feb 27, 2009 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
12.Bruce Schneier: Privacy in the Age of Persistence (schneier.com)
42 points by anuraggoel on Feb 27, 2009 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
13. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 115 days ago | hide | 193 comments
13.Why the Japanese Hate the iPhone (wired.com)
37 points by peter123 on Feb 27, 2009 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
14.Why your tiered password scheme is flawed, and what to do about it. (masukomi.org)
33 points by raganwald on Feb 27, 2009 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
15.Stop Catching Exceptions (gen5.info)
32 points by paul_houle on Feb 27, 2009 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
16. The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 333 days ago | hide | 88 comments
16.Instead of 'branding,' how about startup-friendly policies for Mass.? (xconomy.com)
26 points by waderoush on Feb 27, 2009 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
17.New Yahoo CEO's Open Letter to Fans, Analysts, and Employees (ycorpblog.com)
26 points by newmediaclay on Feb 27, 2009 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
18.Memcached based message queues (rdrail.net)
24 points by tjake on Feb 27, 2009 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
19. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
19.An experiment in combining Clojure and Terracotta (stadig.name)
22 points by mattrepl on Feb 27, 2009 [ext] | 1 comment [ext]
20.From Mark Cuban Open Source Funding: Grow Traffic Using "the Elevator, not the Stairs" (fairsoftware.net)
21 points by alain94040 on Feb 27, 2009 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
21.Beyond hot desk communism (woobius.com)
22 points by swombat on Feb 27, 2009 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
22. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
22.Sunlight Labs Looking For Volunteers To Scrape Legislation For All 50 States (sunlightlabs.com)
20 points by paul_houle on Feb 27, 2009 [ext] | 2 comments [ext]
23.Inkling's using Tipjoy (inklingmarkets.com)
18 points by nate on Feb 27, 2009 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
24.Primates on Facebook (economist.com)
17 points by pj on Feb 27, 2009 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
25. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 368 days ago | hide | 168 comments
25.Ask HN: Books That Gratify One's Intellectual Curiosity? [ext]
15 points by tokenadult on Feb 27, 2009 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
26.Startup Launch: Buzzable Creates Twitter Groups Around RSS Feeds (500 Invites) (techcrunch.com)
16 points by transburgh on Feb 27, 2009 [ext] | 2 comments [ext]
27.The New York Times Expected To Launch Local Blog Network On Monday (techcrunch.com)
15 points by transburgh on Feb 27, 2009 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
28. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 1 day ago | hide | 47 comments
28.Karplus-Strong Guitar Synthesizer (andre-michelle.com)
14 points by ajkirwin on Feb 27, 2009 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
29.Mapping CraigsList Housing Ads (trailbehind.com)
15 points by andrewljohnson on Feb 27, 2009 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
30.Impossible is a step (danieltenner.com)
14 points by swombat on Feb 27, 2009 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
31. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments

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