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1.The polynomial algorithm for 3-SAT problem (or P=NP) (romvf.wordpress.com)
269 points by caustic on Jan 19, 2011 [ext] | 142 comments [ext]
2.Why HN was slow and how Rtm fixed it (ycombinator.com)
257 points by pg on Jan 19, 2011 [ext] | 184 comments [ext]
3.Introducing AWS Elastic Beanstalk (aws.typepad.com)
209 points by jluxenberg on Jan 19, 2011 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
4. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 114 days ago | hide | 193 comments
4.No double standards: supporting Google's push for WebM (fsf.org)
202 points by tjr on Jan 19, 2011 [ext] | 163 comments [ext]
5.Facebook is what happens to the Web when you hit it with the stupid stick (scalzi.com)
184 points by surlyadopter on Jan 19, 2011 [ext] | 107 comments [ext]
6.Senator Al Franken: No joke, Comcast trying to whack Netflix (arstechnica.com)
157 points by shawndumas on Jan 19, 2011 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
7. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
7.Sony uses DMCA to silence speech that reveals its security flaws (eff.org)
146 points by grellas on Jan 19, 2011 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
8.Website calculates how your life might be like in another country (ifitweremyhome.com)
142 points by ck2 on Jan 19, 2011 [ext] | 106 comments [ext]
9.Everything you need to know about cryptography in 1 hour, by Colin Percival (mefeedia.com)
136 points by ibejoeb on Jan 19, 2011 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
10. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 59 days ago | hide | 65 comments
10.How do emulators work and how are they written? (stackoverflow.com)
132 points by alcuadrado on Jan 19, 2011 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
11.The Bad Board Member (steveblank.com)
120 points by duck on Jan 19, 2011 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
12.Crowdsource HN: Resources for making your next website. (docs.google.com)
116 points by EGreg on Jan 19, 2011 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
13. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
13. Sproutcore vs jQuery +backbone.js (ryth.posterous.com)
108 points by thomasdavis on Jan 19, 2011 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
14.Mark Pilgrim Ask Me Anything on Reddit (reddit.com)
100 points by thamer on Jan 19, 2011 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
15.HTML is the new HTML5 (whatwg.org)
93 points by earnubs on Jan 19, 2011 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
16. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 84 days ago | hide | 14 comments
16.How I implemented 2D collision detection in Pistol Slut (maryrosecook.com)
90 points by maryrosecook on Jan 19, 2011 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
17.Yes, browsers do cache SSL resources, so please use Google's CDN (hoisie.com)
90 points by marketer on Jan 19, 2011 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
18.The road to faster tests (37signals.com)
87 points by duck on Jan 19, 2011 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
19. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 368 days ago | hide | 168 comments
19.Wolfram Alpha's take on the Drake Equation (wolframalpha.com)
82 points by cosgroveb on Jan 19, 2011 [ext] | 74 comments [ext]
20.Learning Lisp the hard way (groups.google.com)
70 points by gnosis on Jan 19, 2011 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
21.Notes of a native tiger son: it's a weird time to be Asian-American (theatlantic.com)
68 points by nitefly on Jan 19, 2011 [ext] | 54 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.Open-Source Projects Are Getting Ripped On Amazon (phoronix.com)
65 points by bwag on Jan 19, 2011 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
23.Maptail.js geoips your tail -f to a map (github.com/stagas)
65 points by stagas on Jan 19, 2011 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
24.Andreas’ Personal Flying Suit (“Monocopter”) Project (technologie-entwicklung.de)
63 points by xd on Jan 19, 2011 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
25. Why Most Marketplace Network Effects Are Surprisingly Easy to Replicate ()
257 points by pen4647 496 days ago | hide | 50 comments
25.Tom Faulhaber: Lisp, Functional Programming, And The State Of Flow (ontwik.com)
63 points by ahmicro on Jan 19, 2011 [ext] | 2 comments [ext]
26.HTML5 client-side graphing calculator (graph.tk)
56 points by anigbrowl on Jan 19, 2011 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
27.Hadoopy: Cython based MapReduce library for Python (w/ Oozie Support) (brandynwhite.com)
52 points by brandynwhite on Jan 19, 2011 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
28. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 15 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
28.Ruby's rmagick Gem looking for a maintainer (github.com/rmagick)
51 points by andrewvc on Jan 19, 2011 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
29.Startup Row at PyCon 2011 (pycon.org)
49 points by VanL on Jan 19, 2011 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
30.AWS Elastic Beanstalk (amazon.com)
45 points by Anon84 on Jan 19, 2011 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
31. The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 333 days ago | hide | 88 comments

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