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1.Eric S. Raymond - The Curse of the Gifted (2000) (vanadac.com)
243 points by vinutheraj on March 4, 2010 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
2.Google AI Challenge: Winner post-mortem and source code (a1k0n.net)
146 points by codexon on March 4, 2010 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
3.Can you get cp to give a progress bar like wget? (chris-lamb.co.uk)
148 points by dfox on March 4, 2010 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
4. A CTO Killed A $150K SaaS Deal In A Week With Claude ()
44 points by gtl4094 92 days ago | hide | 70 comments
4.This Apple-HTC Patent Thing (daringfireball.net)
120 points by lid on March 4, 2010 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
5.Global warming? Check for yourself (nfshost.com)
107 points by KazimirMajorinc on March 4, 2010 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
6.Piet is a programming language, whose programs look like abstract art. (wikipedia.org)
99 points by psawaya on March 4, 2010 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
7. Two grad students bet biology can eat the chemicals industry by 2030 (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 601 days ago | hide | 170 comments
7.Your Version Control and Build Systems Don't Scale (chadaustin.me)
94 points by chadaustin on March 4, 2010 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
8.Did someone just patent the process of patent trolling? USPTO: 0080270152 (uspto.gov)
92 points by chaostheory on March 4, 2010 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
9.LiveJournal stripping users' affiliate links (vichan.livejournal.com)
83 points by daleharvey on March 4, 2010 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
10. Why giving advice fails and reflecting back changes minds (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 171 days ago | hide | 48 comments
10.How shipping saved my life (yearofhustle.com)
78 points by ahoyhere on March 4, 2010 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
11.Good ideas are meant to spread (daringfireball.net)
70 points by raganwald on March 4, 2010 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
12.Ubisoft’s Uber DRM Cracked Within a Day (torrentfreak.com)
69 points by jeff18 on March 4, 2010 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
13. How a Polymarket Wallet Outearned Google Predicting Gemini 3's Launch (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 59 days ago | hide | 13 comments
13.Clojure won't win the battle but may win the war (enfranchisedmind.com)
65 points by twism on March 4, 2010 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
14.Books in the Age of the iPad (craigmod.com)
64 points by bensummers on March 4, 2010 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
15.Human-flesh Search Engines in China (nytimes.com)
59 points by citizenparker on March 4, 2010 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
16. Assad's fall strands Moscow's warm-water ambitions at sea (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 490 days ago | hide | 26 comments
16.End-of-Life Warning at $618,616 Makes Me Wonder Was It Worth It (bloomberg.com)
59 points by AdamN on March 4, 2010 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
17.How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America (theatlantic.com)
49 points by known on March 4, 2010 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
18.Perfection By Subtraction – The Minimum Feature Set (steveblank.com)
47 points by nathanh on March 4, 2010 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
19. The $10 Lens That Reshaped Global Blindness Prevention (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 200 days ago | hide | 18 comments
19.Apple yanks Wi-Fi detectors from App Store (theregister.co.uk)
48 points by alexandros on March 4, 2010 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
20.Working with Mark Zuckerberg (facebook.com)
45 points by raghus on March 4, 2010 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
21.Politics-Oriented Software Development (kuro5hin.org)
43 points by skorks on March 4, 2010 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
22. Why Shipping Software Is the Worst Way to Monetize It ()
374 points by ium4024 71 days ago | hide | 174 comments
22.It's started (ostatus.org)
40 points by evanpro on March 4, 2010 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
23.Opera downloads triple after browser ballot screen debut (computerworld.com)
42 points by ilamont on March 4, 2010 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
24.I wonder if this will work - Roger Ebert on website monetization. (suntimes.com)
37 points by mds on March 4, 2010 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
25. Why Dollar Reserves Hit a 31-Year Low Despite Rising Treasury Holdings (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 114 days ago | hide | 68 comments
25.Quora - Programming Challenges (quora.com)
36 points by mshafrir on March 4, 2010 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
26.Company reaps $25,000,000 hacking TicketMaster & others . . . (sfgate.com)
36 points by aresant on March 4, 2010 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
27.‘Google’ Hackers Had Ability to Alter Source Code (wired.com)
35 points by phsr on March 4, 2010 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
28. Why rationing 'life points' guarantees mediocrity across every priority (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 399 days ago | hide | 12 comments
28.Coby $85 Smartbook Feels Like a Hundred Bucks (engadget.com)
33 points by Goronmon on March 4, 2010 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
29.Open Source microblogging (status.net)
33 points by yannis on March 4, 2010 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
30.Presentation and Pitching Skills for Entrepreneurs (immadsnewworld.com)
30 points by immad on March 4, 2010 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
31. The Constitutional Case That Trump's Tariffs Are Simply Illegal (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 368 days ago | hide | 7 comments

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