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1.The ASF Resigns From the JCP Executive Committee (apache.org)
260 points by davidw on Dec 9, 2010 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
2.Dropbox for Teams (dropbox.com)
243 points by johns on Dec 9, 2010 [ext] | 105 comments [ext]
3.Mark Zuckerberg Agrees to Give Away Fortune (wsj.com)
239 points by jakarta on Dec 9, 2010 [ext] | 193 comments [ext]
4. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
4.How to Fly 35,000 Miles, Visit 4 Continents, 9 Countries, and 15 Cities for $418 (nerdfitness.com)
193 points by vamsee on Dec 9, 2010 [ext] | 108 comments [ext]
5.Paypal.com appears to be unavailable (paypal.com)
148 points by ivankirigin on Dec 9, 2010 [ext] | 123 comments [ext]
6.A virus could increase lithium batteries capacity by 10x (fastcompany.com)
141 points by phalien on Dec 9, 2010 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
7. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 251 days ago | hide | 170 comments
7.How to reject a job candidate without being an asshole (nathanmarz.com)
140 points by nathanmarz on Dec 9, 2010 [ext] | 77 comments [ext]
8.Engineering Is Not Science (ieee.org)
134 points by naish on Dec 9, 2010 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
9.Ask HN: How would you deal with DDoS? [ext]
129 points by samratjp on Dec 9, 2010 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
10. Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 431 days ago | hide | 93 comments
10.Evernote makes $800,000 per Month (mashable.com)
123 points by kingsidharth on Dec 9, 2010 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
11.Kinect finally fulfills its Minority Report destiny (engadget.com)
120 points by shawndumas on Dec 9, 2010 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
12.Truly decentralized bittorrent (torrentfreak.com)
114 points by Rhapso on Dec 9, 2010 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
13. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 489 days ago | hide | 26 comments
13.YouTube Lifts Time Limit for Videos (nytimes.com)
107 points by J3L2404 on Dec 9, 2010 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
14.Ask HN: Did anyone else get a Google Chrome Laptop yet? [ext]
102 points by simonsarris on Dec 9, 2010 [ext] | 102 comments [ext]
15.Ben the Bodyguard: The Perils of Promotion That's Better Than the Product (fastcompany.com)
99 points by hornokplease on Dec 9, 2010 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
16. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
16.10.1 inch Notion Ink Tablet - $375 (notionink.wordpress.com)
98 points by tomeast on Dec 9, 2010 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
17.Objective-C Memory Management For Lazy People (interfacelab.com)
96 points by jawngee on Dec 9, 2010 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
18.Giant Patent Troll Awakened: Intellectual Ventures Files Its First Lawsuits (techdirt.com)
89 points by yanw on Dec 9, 2010 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
19. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 367 days ago | hide | 7 comments
19.Kickstarting Hubcap: a Socially Aware GitHub Mac App (github.com/blog)
86 points by sferik on Dec 9, 2010 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
20.The Most Honest Privacy Policy, Ever (itworld.com)
81 points by gacba on Dec 9, 2010 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
21.Climber Creates The "Anti-Cam" - A Fall Protection Device (alpinist.com)
78 points by ccoop on Dec 9, 2010 [ext] | 79 comments [ext]
22. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 262 days ago | hide | 11 comments
22.Sprite.js: HTML5 framework for creating efficient animations in browsers (github.com/batiste)
77 points by sverrejoh on Dec 9, 2010 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
23.JavaScript is the most popular language on GitHub (github.com/languages)
78 points by Rauchg on Dec 9, 2010 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
24.Ask HN: Big company looking to acquire us, I'm terrified [ext]
74 points by beingacquired on Dec 9, 2010 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
25. How Google’s new ‘TurboQuant’ AI might end the current RAM price hike crisis (tech.sportskeeda.com)
312 points by gul702 10 hours ago | hide | 19 comments
25.Seattle School Board votes to keep 'Brave New World' on curriculum (nwsource.com)
66 points by aaronbrethorst on Dec 9, 2010 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
26.My Y Combinator Interview Experience and my Startup Postmortem (maxlynch.com)
66 points by yesimahuman on Dec 9, 2010 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
27.Two Days After Unveiling, Cr-48 Chrome Notebook Already Showing Up On Doorsteps (techcrunch.com)
63 points by vdondeti on Dec 9, 2010 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
28. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 114 days ago | hide | 193 comments
28.Hacker News, now with downvotes (jacquesmattheij.com)
60 points by swombat on Dec 9, 2010 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
29.Mirrored display face-to-face pair programming setup (pivotallabs.com)
59 points by joshsusser on Dec 9, 2010 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
30.How I killed Pluto and why it had it coming (theatlantic.com)
60 points by hugh3 on Dec 9, 2010 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
31. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 262 days ago | hide | 183 comments

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