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1.Tell HN: Couldn't Sleep Last Night, Wrote a (No-Flash) HTML5 Viewer for YouTube (neosmart.net)
110 points by ComputerGuru on Nov 8, 2009 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
2.How to Follow Through: The Emerging Science of Self-Control (rolfnelson.com)
108 points by alexandros on Nov 8, 2009 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
3.Lisp in about 200 lines of Ruby (gist.github.com)
94 points by r11t on Nov 8, 2009 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
4. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 14 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
4.Why the mainstream media is dying (fakesteve.net)
83 points by ksvs on Nov 8, 2009 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
5.Russia's Conquering Zeros: Strength of lonely productivity (wsj.com)
73 points by ypk on Nov 8, 2009 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
6.Stopping the Shortsigtedness Epidemic (newscientist.com)
68 points by rfreytag on Nov 8, 2009 [ext] | 18 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.Unlock A Door With A Secret Knock (grathio.com)
57 points by jmonegro on Nov 8, 2009 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
8.Zynga To Remove All In Game Offers (techcrunch.com)
57 points by physcab on Nov 8, 2009 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
9.My YC Interview Experience S09 by James (Listia.com) (listia.com)
54 points by siong1987 on Nov 8, 2009 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
10. Bots as Antitrust: Letting Code Negotiate on Your Behalf (continuations.com)
215 points by doz2675 593 days ago | hide | 76 comments
10.The many sliders of Photoshop CS4 (mrgan.tumblr.com)
55 points by DavidSJ on Nov 8, 2009 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
11.The House Passed the Health Bill (washingtonpost.com)
54 points by raintrees on Nov 8, 2009 [ext] | 163 comments [ext]
12. “Horrible Things” Slink Back Into Zynga (techcrunch.com)
54 points by dwynings on Nov 8, 2009 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
13. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
13.Brace : Dialect of C that looks like Python (nipl.net)
51 points by r11t on Nov 8, 2009 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
14.Japanese Lisp Manga (bugyo.tk)
46 points by fogus on Nov 8, 2009 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
15.Priced To Go (newyorker.com)
42 points by m0th87 on Nov 8, 2009 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
16. The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 170 days ago | hide | 48 comments
16.Emacs Zen Coding - Write markup quickly (emacswiki.org)
41 points by kirubakaran on Nov 8, 2009 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
17.Extreme JavaScript Performance (slideshare.net)
39 points by _giu on Nov 8, 2009 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
18.Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit (tpg.com.au)
37 points by tokenadult on Nov 8, 2009 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
19. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 601 days ago | hide | 193 comments
19.What DNS Is Not (acm.org)
37 points by bensummers on Nov 8, 2009 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
20.Ask HN: What music alters your state of consciousness? [ext]
37 points by zen53 on Nov 8, 2009 [ext] | 84 comments [ext]
21.How to write a rude Q&A (scottberkun.com)
34 points by bootload on Nov 8, 2009 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
22. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
22.Phys Ed: Why Doesn’t Exercise Lead to Weight Loss? (nytimes.com)
33 points by yangyang on Nov 8, 2009 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
23.Comprehensive guide to bash scripting (talesofacoldadmin.wordpress.com)
32 points by tzury on Nov 8, 2009 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
24.Why Dilbert Is Doomed (salon.com)
29 points by ojbyrne on Nov 8, 2009 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
25. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments
25.Turning Cellphones into Microscopes (nytimes.com)
28 points by qohen on Nov 8, 2009 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
26.Braess's paradox: adding roads can increase congestion (crowddynamics.co.uk)
28 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Nov 8, 2009 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
27.Ask HN: Speedreading - myth vs reality? your thoughts. [ext]
27 points by justlearning on Nov 8, 2009 [ext] | 24 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.Ask HN: What do founders spend their time on, after their product launch? [ext]
26 points by vaksel on Nov 8, 2009 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
29.Zero-day flaw found in web encryption (zdnet.co.uk)
25 points by Anon84 on Nov 8, 2009 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
30.You're An Idiot For Not Using Heroku (railstips.org)
23 points by _pius on Nov 8, 2009 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
31. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 84 days ago | hide | 122 comments

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