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1.SnapTalent (YC W08) Shuts Down (snaptalent.com)
146 points by dannyr on Aug 17, 2009 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
2.How not to die (paulgraham.com)
145 points by swombat on Aug 17, 2009 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
3.Business Advice Plagued by Survivor Bias (asmartbear.com)
140 points by yarapavan on Aug 17, 2009 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
4. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 368 days ago | hide | 7 comments
4.Calculator hackers crack OS signing key, opening a closed platform (ticalc.org)
111 points by modeless on Aug 17, 2009 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
5.Gone Forever: What Does It Take to Really Disappear? (wired.com)
91 points by lucumo on Aug 17, 2009 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
6.MSNBC.com acquires EveryBlock (everyblock.com)
88 points by rmanocha on Aug 17, 2009 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
7. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
7.Post your HN tricks. [ext]
88 points by vaksel on Aug 17, 2009 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
8.Zed Shaw on SF vs NYC (zedshaw.com)
75 points by gthank on Aug 17, 2009 [ext] | 91 comments [ext]
9.John Carmack on keeping id small (kotaku.com)
67 points by swilliams on Aug 17, 2009 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
10. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 57 days ago | hide | 155 comments
10.YCRFS 2: New Paths Through Product Space (ycombinator.com)
61 points by pg on Aug 17, 2009 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
11.Tr.im to be Community-Owned (tr.im)
63 points by peter123 on Aug 17, 2009 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
12.Alan Kay: "We're running on fumes technologically today." (windley.com)
63 points by asciilifeform on Aug 17, 2009 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
13. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
13.Why I Don’t Use Twitter (techcrunch.com)
57 points by edw519 on Aug 17, 2009 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
14.Python solutions to the 99 Prolog Problems
57 points by mustpax on Aug 17, 2009 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
15.Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (classic) (stanford.edu)
52 points by fogus on Aug 17, 2009 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
16. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 602 days ago | hide | 193 comments
16.Haiku OS first alpha scheduled for September 6th (haiku-os.org)
49 points by tamas on Aug 17, 2009 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
17.DNA And Computers Are Reading Each Other (edge.org)
48 points by csbartus on Aug 17, 2009 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
18.How I grew to hate every computer language (lbrandy.com)
44 points by cruise02 on Aug 17, 2009 [ext] | 42 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.Do-not-reply (untrod.com)
43 points by numlocked on Aug 17, 2009 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
20.A Mathematical Model for Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse (io9.com)
37 points by dlnovell on Aug 17, 2009 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
21.The Antiviral Effect (bemmu.posterous.com)
33 points by kyro on Aug 17, 2009 [ext] | 8 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.Display your current git branch as part of your bash prompt (gist.github.com)
32 points by kd5bjo on Aug 17, 2009 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
23.How the design of a BMW Motorcycle affects your App (rypple.com)
33 points by jsatok on Aug 17, 2009 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
24.On HTML 5 Drag And Drop (alertdebugging.com)
32 points by boucher on Aug 17, 2009 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
25. Structure Over Style: How Knowledge and Practice Beat Natural Speaking Talent (m.youtube.com)
81 points by pom4591 230 days ago | hide | 180 comments
25.How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education (fastcompany.com)
31 points by maurycy on Aug 17, 2009 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
26.Signed copy of PG's "On Lisp" (out of print) - for charity (listia.com)
30 points by modsearch on Aug 17, 2009 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
27.Statistical Mechanics: Entropy, Order Parameters, and Complexity (free ebook) (cornell.edu)
30 points by TriinT on Aug 17, 2009 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
28. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 479 days ago | hide | 22 comments
28.Where people live (ibbly.com)
29 points by jonp on Aug 17, 2009 [ext] | 2 comments [ext]
29.Text Algorithms Book [pdf] (univ-mlv.fr)
29 points by yarapavan on Aug 17, 2009 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
30.Delicious.com loses its holy grail (briancray.com)
29 points by briancray on Aug 17, 2009 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
31. 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

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