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1.Don’t Work for Assholes (powazek.com)
146 points by danw on Feb 3, 2009 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
2.Download the internet (dotnetdotcom.org)
121 points by daleharvey on Feb 3, 2009 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
3.Programmers, Promise Yourself This (artisansystem.com)
109 points by leftnode on Feb 3, 2009 [ext] | 75 comments [ext]
4. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 71 days ago | hide | 174 comments
4.Why CSS Should Be Used for Layout (newmediacampaigns.com)
106 points by JoelSutherland on Feb 3, 2009 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
5.EtherPad out of private beta (etherpad.com)
91 points by anuraggoel on Feb 3, 2009 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
6.Google's new Ajax-powered search results breaks search keyword tracking for everyone (getclicky.com)
88 points by imp on Feb 3, 2009 [ext] | 80 comments [ext]
7. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 252 days ago | hide | 128 comments
7.Peeler Man, HN Salesmanship Hero, Passes (nytimes.com)
62 points by patio11 on Feb 3, 2009 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
8.Don't Blame CSS For Your Incompetence (jemjabella.co.uk)
54 points by Jem on Feb 3, 2009 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
9.The Republican Party has an API (gop.gov)
52 points by yef on Feb 3, 2009 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
10. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 479 days ago | hide | 22 comments
10.Angels flee from startup investments (nytimes.com)
47 points by amrithk on Feb 3, 2009 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
11.Ask HN: Where should I buy an SSL certificate for my site? [ext]
45 points by shimon on Feb 3, 2009 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
12.A Company Prospers by Saving Poor People’s Lives (nytimes.com)
44 points by robg on Feb 3, 2009 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
13. Blind Spots in the West: Why Every Chinese VC Studies Our Podcasts (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 219 days ago | hide | 175 comments
13.How 20 mbps Internet can be slower than 8 mbps (greenspun.com)
42 points by old-gregg on Feb 3, 2009 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
14.Help Stop Copyright Madness on Youtube (eff.org)
42 points by brentb on Feb 3, 2009 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
15.Clickpass (acquired) recruiting salaried "co-founder" to build Clickpass II (clickpass.com)
40 points by petenixey on Feb 3, 2009 [ext] | 17 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.Crackulous developer wants people to stop pirating his App Store piracy app (gizmodo.com)
37 points by astrec on Feb 3, 2009 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
17.Good Culture, Bad Culture, or No Culture at All [ext]
35 points by LukeG on Feb 3, 2009 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
18.Learning from failure is overrated (37signals.com)
34 points by pwim on Feb 3, 2009 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
19. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 57 days ago | hide | 155 comments
19.JQuery on Whitehouse.gov - A Closer in depth look (reynoldsftw.com)
32 points by mootymoots on Feb 3, 2009 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
20.Achieving a failure (startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com)
32 points by eries on Feb 3, 2009 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
21.IBM To North American Employees: To Keep Your Job, Move To India (alleyinsider.com)
30 points by ekrangel on Feb 3, 2009 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
22. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
22.Ask HN: How do you know when to give up? [ext]
30 points by jfornear on Feb 3, 2009 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
23.How to Manage People in 15 Minutes a Day (harvardbusiness.org)
29 points by makimaki on Feb 3, 2009 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
24.Is MIT Obsolete? (seedmagazine.com)
28 points by razorburn on Feb 3, 2009 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
25. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 92 days ago | hide | 70 comments
25.Ask YC: Feedback for our new startup [ext]
26 points by tyohn on Feb 3, 2009 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
26.Iran has launched a satellite into orbit (reuters.com)
26 points by rugger on Feb 3, 2009 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
27.Stanford Machine Learning course (theorymatters.wordpress.com)
25 points by csantini on Feb 3, 2009 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
28. 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
28.Poll: Allow override of noprocrast? [ext]
18 points by pg on Feb 3, 2009 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
29.Making CSS a lot more useful for many layouts (xulplanet.com)
22 points by sayrer on Feb 3, 2009 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
30.Change We Can Profit From: A start-up inspired by Barack Obama (economist.com)
20 points by netcan on Feb 3, 2009 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
31. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 85 days ago | hide | 122 comments

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