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1.Glibc's strlen implementation: Probably not what you'd guess (redhat.com)
127 points by aston on March 10, 2009 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
2.Core competencies of great hackers (giraffesoft.ca)
90 points by possiblemat on March 10, 2009 [ext] | 111 comments [ext]
3.Doug Lenat – I was positively impressed with Wolfram Alpha (semanticuniverse.com)
80 points by programnature on March 10, 2009 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
4. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 263 days ago | hide | 11 comments
4.Ask HN: How many of you (coders) use marijuana? [ext]
70 points by jgalvez on March 10, 2009 [ext] | 105 comments [ext]
5.There's always time to launch your dream (37signals.com)
61 points by screwperman on March 10, 2009 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
6.An open letter to Steve Jobs about approving the amber alert application (zdziarski.com)
55 points by jgrahamc on March 10, 2009 [ext] | 77 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.What is PIFTS.exe? (freebase.org)
54 points by njrc on March 10, 2009 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
8.Paul Graham on Why Boston Should Worry About Its Future as a Tech Hub (xconomy.com)
53 points by bobbud on March 10, 2009 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
9.Girl wants to work for Twitter. Creates site. (twittershouldhireme.com)
52 points by omnivore on March 10, 2009 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
10. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 60 days ago | hide | 65 comments
10.Are short methods actually worse? (dubroy.com)
51 points by pdubroy on March 10, 2009 [ext] | 75 comments [ext]
11.Show HN: Our new online face recognition demo (pittpatt.com)
50 points by lbrandy on March 10, 2009 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
12.Barbara Liskov wins Turing Award (web.mit.edu)
48 points by bdr on March 10, 2009 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
13. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
13.Wundrbar (YC W08) launches new iPhone app (whatsoniphone.com)
44 points by garbowza on March 10, 2009 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
14.Ask HN: CTO vs. VP of Engineering [ext]
40 points by safetywerd on March 10, 2009 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
15.Programmers and Customer Service (userscape.com)
38 points by _bbks on March 10, 2009 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
16. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 85 days ago | hide | 177 comments
16.Sell Your By-products (37signals.com)
37 points by twampss on March 10, 2009 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
17.Ask HN: Please review my app: RightSignature.com - Easy Online Document Signing (rightsignature.com)
37 points by dylanz on March 10, 2009 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
18.Sharpening the Saw (codinghorror.com)
30 points by twampss on March 10, 2009 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
19. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 251 days ago | hide | 170 comments
19.Hackers crack Apple's iTunes gift card algorithm (appleinsider.com)
28 points by sahaj on March 10, 2009 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
20.Should children have the right to vote? (scottaaronson.com)
27 points by rw on March 10, 2009 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
21.Rubber Duck Debugging (ethernal.org)
26 points by teej on March 10, 2009 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
22. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 115 days ago | hide | 193 comments
22.The Free Ride Is Over (mattmaroon.com)
24 points by twampss on March 10, 2009 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
23.Some notes on the Guardian Open Platform (simonwillison.net)
24 points by simonw on March 10, 2009 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
24.List Of Acquisitions By Google (wikipedia.org)
24 points by rams on March 10, 2009 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
25. Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 432 days ago | hide | 93 comments
25.[Book] Algorithmic Game Theory (cambridge.org)
22 points by Anon84 on March 10, 2009 [ext] | 1 comment [ext]
26.There's always time to launch your dream (37signals.com)
17 points by zaveri on March 10, 2009 [ext] | 1 comment [ext]
27.How to Get A Job at a Top Ruby Shop (rubyinside.com)
17 points by lpgauth on March 10, 2009 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
28. Why you care for your dog better than yourself — and the fix (web.archive.org)
420 points by guz3550 602 days ago | hide | 25 comments
28.Ask HN: hacker ways of fighting anxiety? [ext]
17 points by maxawaytoolong on March 10, 2009 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
29.A Lisp interpreter written in Awk. (github.com/darius)
16 points by pmarin on March 10, 2009 [ext]
30.Ask HN: Anyone use brain drugs such as piracetam here? [ext]
15 points by visdo on March 10, 2009 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
31. From Shortlist to Shipped: A Tournament Method for Picking Life's Work (guzey.com)
110 points by coz850 602 days ago | hide | 97 comments

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