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1.I'm on a deserted island. How can I tell which plants are poisonous? (straightdope.com)
104 points by yanowitz on Jan 22, 2010 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
2.Keeping computers from ending science's reproducibility (arstechnica.com)
101 points by yummyfajitas on Jan 22, 2010 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
3.Stop restricting my password - Help these sites get better security. (weakpasswords.org)
84 points by dinkumator on Jan 22, 2010 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
4. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
4.Rails and Merb Merge Update: Rails Core (engineyard.com)
84 points by wifelette on Jan 22, 2010 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
5.WSJ Jumps the Shark (ritholtz.com)
81 points by tortilla on Jan 22, 2010 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
6.API Status (api-status.com)
76 points by jmonegro on Jan 22, 2010 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
7. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
7.PDFs in Pure Ruby (majesticseacreature.com)
67 points by jmonegro on Jan 22, 2010 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
8.Hustle (how to learn new stuff) (ihumanable.com)
60 points by ihumanable on Jan 22, 2010 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
9.The jQuery Project launched (jquery.org)
60 points by ronnier on Jan 22, 2010 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
10. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
10.How to sue your employer and win (unposto.wordpress.com)
58 points by tallyh00 on Jan 22, 2010 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
11.SF Mayor on why open source is the new software policy in San Francisco (mashable.com)
55 points by anigbrowl on Jan 22, 2010 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
12.Google Chrome's H.264 support not true "free" software (ianweller.org)
54 points by cpearce on Jan 22, 2010 [ext] | 82 comments [ext]
13. How a PVC rig in a Dallas garage became a $500M chemicals company (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 600 days ago | hide | 170 comments
13.OfficePod - Tiny, Minimalist Office Space (officepod.co.uk)
48 points by rgrieselhuber on Jan 22, 2010 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
14.Lisp Quotes (paulgraham.com)
47 points by alrex021 on Jan 22, 2010 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
15.Vijual Graph Layout Library For Clojure (lisperati.com)
46 points by swannodette on Jan 22, 2010 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
16. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
16.Steve Jobs Is Building AppleWorld - And Google's Running Scared (seekingalpha.com)
46 points by profquail on Jan 22, 2010 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
17.The Chess Master and the Computer (by Garry Kasparov) (nybooks.com)
44 points by michael_nielsen on Jan 22, 2010 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
18.Ban on unscientific "bomb detector" after $85M sales (bbc.co.uk)
44 points by jodrellblank on Jan 22, 2010 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
19. Blind Spots in the West: Why Every Chinese VC Studies Our Podcasts (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 219 days ago | hide | 175 comments
19.Committing Location Based Service Suicide (andrewhy.de)
44 points by davidhoffman on Jan 22, 2010 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
20.JavaScript grid editor: I want to be Excel. Updated (open-lab.com)
42 points by alake on Jan 22, 2010 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
21.Data Mining competition for predicting drug reactions (orwik.com)
40 points by bucanrabi on Jan 22, 2010 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
22. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
22.Explore GitHub (trending/featured repos and podcasts) (github.com/explore)
39 points by pjhyett on Jan 22, 2010 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
23.Microsoft Reveals the Science Behind Project Natal for Xbox 360 (scientificamerican.com)
38 points by stakent on Jan 22, 2010 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
24.Tell HN: I released my open source iPhone AppStore Sales Graphing Tool (maxklein.github.com)
38 points by maxklein on Jan 22, 2010 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
25. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 16 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
25.Passive solar glass home: watching the sun move (faircompanies.com)
37 points by kirstendirksen on Jan 22, 2010 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
26.Ask HN: How would you make public transit profitable / create more value? [ext]
36 points by JayNeely on Jan 22, 2010 [ext] | 104 comments [ext]
27.Scala: A Postfunctional Language (scala-lang.org)
35 points by davidblair on Jan 22, 2010 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
28. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 210 days ago | hide | 32 comments
28.K Lambda and the Development of Qi (lambdassociates.org)
35 points by fogus on Jan 22, 2010 [ext] | 2 comments [ext]
29.Active Record Query Interface 3.0 (onkey.org)
34 points by davidw on Jan 22, 2010 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
30.Hey psst, wanna know your HN #userid ? (hntags.com)
33 points by jacquesm on Jan 22, 2010 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
31. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 251 days ago | hide | 170 comments

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