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1.A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter (ebay.com)
227 points by mcantelon on Jan 21, 2010 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
2.Ask HN: Review my site - devcheatsheet.com (devcheatsheet.com)
186 points by tim_church on Jan 21, 2010 [ext] | 90 comments [ext]
3.Improving sales with 3 characters and a misspelling (maxklein.posterous.com)
138 points by adityakothadiya on Jan 21, 2010 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
4. From Shortlist to Shipped: A Tournament Method for Picking Life's Work (guzey.com)
110 points by coz850 602 days ago | hide | 97 comments
4.PEP 3146: Merge Unladen Swallow into CPython (python.org)
117 points by dchest on Jan 21, 2010 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
5.Thesixtyone (YC W09) launches version 2.0 (thesixtyone.posterous.com)
117 points by jmtame on Jan 21, 2010 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
6.Why there's no real startup culture in New York (zedshaw.com)
115 points by indy on Jan 21, 2010 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
7. Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com)
292 points by ksk4362 203 days ago | hide | 110 comments
7.The Real Reason Outsourcing Continues To Fail (lessonsoffailure.com)
102 points by gacba on Jan 21, 2010 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
8.Kindle Development Kit (amazon.com)
101 points by fogus on Jan 21, 2010 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
9.Amazon Cracks Open the Kindle (nytimes.com)
88 points by jasonlbaptiste on Jan 21, 2010 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
10. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 263 days ago | hide | 183 comments
10.The Neural Advantage of Speaking 2 Languages (scientificamerican.com)
80 points by fogus on Jan 21, 2010 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
11.Gosling: So Long Old Friend (sun.com)
78 points by fogus on Jan 21, 2010 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
12.David Heinemeier Hansson, 37 Signals - Unlearn Your MBA (Audio) (stanford.edu)
77 points by hbien on Jan 21, 2010 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
13. Asymmetric leverage how Iran holds twenty percent of global oil supply hostage (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 23 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
13.71 percent of top colleges still have policies that severely restrict speech (reason.com)
72 points by JacobAldridge on Jan 21, 2010 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
14.From PlayStation to Y Combinator: The Reddit Origin Story, Part 2 (openforum.com)
62 points by prakash on Jan 21, 2010 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
15.Dropbox has an IANA port number now (iana.org)
66 points by enki on Jan 21, 2010 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
16. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 1 day ago | hide | 47 comments
16.Steve Blank: I’ve seen the Promised Land. And I might not get there with you. (steveblank.com)
59 points by stakent on Jan 21, 2010 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
17.On Wages (measuringmeasures.blogspot.com)
58 points by fogus on Jan 21, 2010 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
18.Introducing YouTube HTML5 Supported Videos (youtube-global.blogspot.com)
57 points by blasdel on Jan 21, 2010 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
19. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
19.Suppose The Earth Got Saturn's Rings... (npr.org)
57 points by suprgeek on Jan 21, 2010 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
20.Climate Change Authority Admits Mistake (technologyreview.com)
54 points by anuleczka on Jan 21, 2010 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
21.The Tale of the Teleporting Turtle (algorithm) (penzba.co.uk)
51 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Jan 21, 2010 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
22. Blind Spots in the West: Why Every Chinese VC Studies Our Podcasts (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 219 days ago | hide | 175 comments
22.Complete Notes to Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes | Higher Thought (higher-thought.net)
49 points by pelle on Jan 21, 2010 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
23.Singular Value Decomposition Tutorial (puffinwarellc.com)
50 points by roundsquare on Jan 21, 2010 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
24.10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr (slideshare.net)
49 points by brown9-2 on Jan 21, 2010 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
25. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 60 days ago | hide | 65 comments
25.It's all about the cores. Why AMD doesn't use HyperThreading (amd.com)
48 points by ssp on Jan 21, 2010 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
26.Firefox 3.6 Released (blog.mozilla.com)
47 points by johns on Jan 21, 2010 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
27.Flightcaster (YC S09) Wins the Amazon Payments Prize (amazon.com)
50 points by leelin on Jan 21, 2010 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
28. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 368 days ago | hide | 168 comments
28.Windows 7: The almost-there operating system (szynalski.com)
45 points by tszyn on Jan 21, 2010 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
29.Scott Adams on Bad Interfaces (dilbert.com)
42 points by dan_sim on Jan 21, 2010 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
30.How to raise money without lying to investors (venturehacks.com)
41 points by ciscoriordan on Jan 21, 2010 [ext] | 2 comments [ext]
31. Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 432 days ago | hide | 93 comments

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