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1.What I've Earned (And Learned) From Writing a Ruby Programming Book (beginningruby.org)
233 points by petercooper on Oct 8, 2009 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
2.Google’s Abandoned Library of 700 Million Titles: Usenet (wired.com)
170 points by gojomo on Oct 8, 2009 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
3.Get Out of My Building (steveblank.com)
137 points by bhousel on Oct 8, 2009 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
4. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 84 days ago | hide | 14 comments
4.First Pictures Of Single Window Gimp (omgubuntu.co.uk)
108 points by AjJi on Oct 8, 2009 [ext] | 73 comments [ext]
5.I Wouldn't Hire a Programmer With No Interest in Programming Outside of Work (github.com/raganwald)
102 points by raganwald on Oct 8, 2009 [ext] | 109 comments [ext]
6.Ask HN: How do you concentrate? [ext]
91 points by bgray on Oct 8, 2009 [ext] | 92 comments [ext]
7. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 15 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
7.Digitizing speech on a piano (makezine.com)
79 points by iamelgringo on Oct 8, 2009 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
8.Shark Eats Entrepreneur Alive (fairsoftware.net)
72 points by alain94040 on Oct 8, 2009 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
9.Minimizing Complexity In User Interfaces (smashingmagazine.com)
67 points by nreece on Oct 8, 2009 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
10. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 16 hours ago | hide | 47 comments
10.The Dollhouse Mafia, or "Don't Display Negative Karma" (buildingreputation.com)
66 points by kf on Oct 8, 2009 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
11.Everything You Wanted To Know About Startup Building But Were Afraid To Ask (techcrunch.com)
64 points by vaksel on Oct 8, 2009 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
12.MacRuby 0.5 beta 1 Released (macruby.org)
61 points by sant0sk1 on Oct 8, 2009 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
13. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
13.Common Bash Pitfalls (wooledge.org)
60 points by dunk010 on Oct 8, 2009 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
14.GDB 7.0 released (gnu.org)
59 points by edw519 on Oct 8, 2009 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
15.Extending ltrace to make your Ruby/Python/Perl/PHP apps faster (timetobleed.com)
61 points by ice799 on Oct 8, 2009 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
16. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
16.Startup rental website takes on Craigslist (reuters.com)
55 points by drm237 on Oct 8, 2009 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
17.Ask HN: Whom do you admire most? [ext]
56 points by eserorg on Oct 8, 2009 [ext] | 234 comments [ext]
18.Textbook Revolution: 364 modern free texts (textbookrevolution.org)
53 points by keenerd on Oct 8, 2009 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
19. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
19.Introduction to Statistical Thought (umass.edu)
50 points by yarapavan on Oct 8, 2009 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
20.Hackintoshed: Life With My “MacBook Nano” (theappleblog.com)
48 points by chuck_taylor on Oct 8, 2009 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
21.Ask HN: Who makes the best APIs? [ext]
45 points by breck on Oct 8, 2009 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
22. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 251 days ago | hide | 128 comments
22.Google proposes standard for making Ajax crawlable (googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
47 points by coderdude on Oct 8, 2009 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
23.Play Sierra On-Line games in your browser (with added multiplayer) (sarien.net)
46 points by jeff18 on Oct 8, 2009 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
24.Kurt Vonnegut's rules for writing short stories (wikipedia.org)
46 points by kf on Oct 8, 2009 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
25. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 489 days ago | hide | 26 comments
25.Tiny 'nuclear batteries' unveiled (bbc.co.uk)
43 points by FreeRadical on Oct 8, 2009 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
26.Google Begins Fixing Usenet Archive (wired.com)
41 points by nebula on Oct 8, 2009 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
27.I am a high-profile Silicon Valley venture capitalist. AMA (Ask Me Anything) (reddit.com)
40 points by kyro on Oct 8, 2009 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
28. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
28.Wufoo introduces integrated payments (wufoo.com)
38 points by pchristensen on Oct 8, 2009 [ext] | 1 comment [ext]
29.Forced Coding (webr3.org)
36 points by edw519 on Oct 8, 2009 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
30.Use an Old Linux Computer to Put your Baby to Sleep (labnol.org)
35 points by noaharc on Oct 8, 2009 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
31. 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

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