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1.With Domain Name Seizures Increasing, It's Time For A Decentralized DNS System (techdirt.com)
186 points by chaostheory on Dec 5, 2010 [ext] | 80 comments [ext]
2.There is no talent (judofyr.net)
158 points by judofyr on Dec 5, 2010 [ext] | 140 comments [ext]
3.List of freely available programming books (stackoverflow.com)
146 points by marcog1 on Dec 5, 2010 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
4. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 16 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
4.Introducing the New Profile (facebook.com)
141 points by michaelnovati on Dec 5, 2010 [ext] | 106 comments [ext]
5.Okay. So what are you going to do about it? (sebastianmarshall.com)
111 points by khingebjerg on Dec 5, 2010 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
6.Ask HN: Who's hiring (for H-1B)? | Dec 2010 [ext]
103 points by agentx on Dec 5, 2010 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
7. Bots as Antitrust: Letting Code Negotiate on Your Behalf (continuations.com)
215 points by doz2675 593 days ago | hide | 76 comments
7.Ask HN: experiences with Lasik eye surgery (programmers especially)? [ext]
91 points by conorgil145 on Dec 5, 2010 [ext] | 82 comments [ext]
8.How LG Described its Windows 7 Phone to Anandtech (anandtech.com)
85 points by JoelSutherland on Dec 5, 2010 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
9.HTML5 Speech Recognition (in Chrome) (html5rocks.com)
83 points by philfreo on Dec 5, 2010 [ext] | 72 comments [ext]
10. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 489 days ago | hide | 26 comments
10.Why are variables "i" and "j" used for counters? (stackoverflow.com)
81 points by J3L2404 on Dec 5, 2010 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
11.WikiLeaks now running on over 200 hosts around the world (wikileaks.ch)
77 points by zrail on Dec 5, 2010 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
12.ASK HN: Easy ways for a web developer to make online cash? [ext]
73 points by snow_mac on Dec 5, 2010 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
13. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
13.Deriving the Y Combinator in JavaScript in 7 Steps (igstan.ro)
71 points by rdtsc on Dec 5, 2010 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
14.Getting Creative Things Done: How To Fit Hard Thinking Into a Busy Schedule (the99percent.com)
66 points by widgetycrank on Dec 5, 2010 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
15.Hudson’s Secret: Kohsuke (pelegri.wordpress.com)
59 points by bensummers on Dec 5, 2010 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
16. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 90 days ago | hide | 148 comments
16.Rosie Redfield: No convincing evidence that As has been incorporated into DNA (rrresearch.blogspot.com)
59 points by bbgm on Dec 5, 2010 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
17.Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP (rjlipton.wordpress.com)
57 points by robg on Dec 5, 2010 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
18.Why Isn't WikiLeaks Trending on Twitter? (studentactivism.net)
55 points by hornokplease on Dec 5, 2010 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
19. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 17 hours ago | hide | 47 comments
19.Economics of Information Technology (sims.berkeley.edu)
54 points by bengtan on Dec 5, 2010 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
20. New Federal Law: Zero Taxes on Gains on Small Business Investments (angelsoft.net)
51 points by andrewljohnson on Dec 5, 2010 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
21.How to add a notifier LED to your computer (justblair.co.uk)
47 points by _b8r0 on Dec 5, 2010 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
22. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 478 days ago | hide | 22 comments
22.Tridge (of Samba fame) reviews a year of remote peer programming (tridgell.net)
44 points by jdub on Dec 5, 2010 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
23.Tumblr is Down – Fans Angry (centernetworks.com)
44 points by obilgic on Dec 5, 2010 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
24.Ask HN: Why aren't scientific journals free on the web? [ext]
45 points by clyfe on Dec 5, 2010 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
25. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 85 days ago | hide | 177 comments
25.Hey dude, where's our future? (citizen428.net)
41 points by bauchidgw on Dec 5, 2010 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
26.Get the New Facebook Profile Now (facebook.com)
40 points by jedwhite on Dec 5, 2010 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
27.Are you improving every day? Or are you a sheep? (pantuso.com)
40 points by cincinnatus on Dec 5, 2010 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
28. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 602 days ago | hide | 193 comments
28.Why shaken, not stirred? (wikipedia.org)
39 points by julian37 on Dec 5, 2010 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
29.Faster Mac Development for a Linux Developer (tmsh.posterous.com)
38 points by tmsh on Dec 5, 2010 [ext]
30.Julian Assange's Barrister speaks out (couriermail.com.au)
39 points by jedwhite on Dec 5, 2010 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
31. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments

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