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1.I Have No Talent (railstips.org)
334 points by jnunemaker on Jan 12, 2010 [ext] | 74 comments [ext]
2.The Fake Freeway Sign that Became a Real Public Service (good.is)
140 points by kf on Jan 12, 2010 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
3.Almost a third of our portfolio is under attack by patent trolls. (unionsquareventures.com)
137 points by figured on Jan 12, 2010 [ext] | 72 comments [ext]
4. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 105 days ago | hide | 48 comments
4.On how Google Wave surprisingly changed my life (maxklein.posterous.com)
133 points by icey on Jan 12, 2010 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
5.Has Amazon EC2 become over subscribed? (blog-city.com)
97 points by blasdel on Jan 12, 2010 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
6.Will single founders please stand up? (Musical edition.) (kalzumeus.com)
97 points by patio11 on Jan 12, 2010 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
7. The Three Ingredients Behind Jitse Groen's Takeaway.com Conquest Of Europe (linkedin.com)
154 points by krz3514 374 days ago | hide | 13 comments
7."Dabblers and Blowhards" - hackers are nothing like painters [2005] (idlewords.com)
95 points by mati on Jan 12, 2010 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
8.Humorless "North Face" Sues "South Butt" For Trademark Infringement (law.com)
89 points by grellas on Jan 12, 2010 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
9.Amish Hackers: How the Amish actually use and build their own tech (kk.org)
86 points by whatusername on Jan 12, 2010 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
10. 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
10.HN long term change (jacquesmattheij.com)
84 points by jacquesm on Jan 12, 2010 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
11.Record police with phone camera in Boston, get arrested (boston.com)
80 points by ilamont on Jan 12, 2010 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
12.Upload and store your files in the cloud with Google Docs (googledocs.blogspot.com)
75 points by johns on Jan 12, 2010 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
13. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 263 days ago | hide | 183 comments
13.Google to mobile industry: 'F*** you very much' (theregister.co.uk)
70 points by benpbenp on Jan 12, 2010 [ext] | 94 comments [ext]
14.Google Chromium Bug: Huge amount of goats teleported (code.google.com)
65 points by janitha on Jan 12, 2010 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
15.Why Did Google Build a Phone? A Browser? (designbygravity.wordpress.com)
62 points by cschanck on Jan 12, 2010 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
16. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 253 days ago | hide | 150 comments
16.The risks of "$15 for $2097 worth of mobile internet" (projectgus.com)
60 points by angusgr on Jan 12, 2010 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
17.Assembly Language Step By Step, for Linux (duntemann.com)
59 points by nkurz on Jan 12, 2010 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
18.How Face Detection Works (cognotics.com)
54 points by niyazpk on Jan 12, 2010 [ext] | 2 comments [ext]
19. Asymmetric leverage how Iran holds twenty percent of global oil supply hostage (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 1 day ago | hide | 150 comments
19.The Tel Aviv Cluster (nytimes.com)
54 points by uuilly on Jan 12, 2010 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
20.Visual evidence of Amazon EC2 network issues (cloudkick.com)
56 points by polvi on Jan 12, 2010 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
21.Apple, It's Time to Delete Safari From the iPhone (gizmodo.com)
51 points by jasonlbaptiste on Jan 12, 2010 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
22. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 263 days ago | hide | 11 comments
22.The West Is Choked by Fear (spiegel.de)
50 points by bluebird on Jan 12, 2010 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
23.Mochi Media Acquired By Shanda Games For $80 Million (techcrunch.com)
49 points by andrewpbrett on Jan 12, 2010 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
24.Protecting your email with 'AT domain DOT com' is making it easier to find (varenhor.st)
47 points by taylorbo on Jan 12, 2010 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
25. The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 170 days ago | hide | 48 comments
25.Pinboard.in blog - Technical Underpinnings (pinboard.in)
44 points by kylebragger on Jan 12, 2010 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
26.Heroku learns the hard way from Amazon EC2 outage (techtarget.com)
43 points by blasdel on Jan 12, 2010 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
27.Survey Monkey for the Phone - A Business on Twilio (twilio.com)
45 points by goberoi on Jan 12, 2010 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
28. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
28.GDrive is coming, 1GB free storage (googlesystem.blogspot.com)
42 points by ashley on Jan 12, 2010 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
29.An Android Developer's Top Gripes (plusses and minuses) (developer.com)
42 points by wglb on Jan 12, 2010 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
30.Metaprogramming: Ruby vs. Javascript (fingernailsinoatmeal.com)
38 points by drewolson on Jan 12, 2010 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
31. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments

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