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1.The real cause of the financial crisis -- An MIT Blackjack Team perspective (semyon.com)
185 points by prakash on Jan 14, 2009 | 60 comments
2.Apple: Jobs to Take Medical Leave of Absence (wsj.com)
159 points by bootload on Jan 14, 2009 | 107 comments
3.The $300 Million Button (uie.com)
113 points by astrec on Jan 14, 2009 | 43 comments
4.JQuery 1.3 Released (jquery.com)
105 points by rickharrison on Jan 14, 2009 | 29 comments
5.Qt 4.5 will be released under the LGPL (arstechnica.com)
86 points by icefox on Jan 14, 2009 | 18 comments
📚. The happiest I’ve ever been (ben-mini.com)
4 min read | by Ben Wallace | saved 7 days ago | archive
6.ISteam for iPhone earns a bunch of 22-year olds $100,000 in one month (tgdaily.com)
67 points by brk on Jan 14, 2009 | 25 comments
7.Why Haskell is beyond ready for Prime Time (intoverflow.wordpress.com)
51 points by raju on Jan 14, 2009 | 99 comments
8.Things I Learned the Hard Way: Ignore the Content (powazek.com)
51 points by brm on Jan 14, 2009 | 22 comments
9.XKCD inspired Mac Mini speech synth hack (coworkthailand.com)
49 points by bemmu on Jan 14, 2009 | 13 comments
10.Is Craigslist rotting on the vine? (roundabout101.blogspot.com)
48 points by kennyroo on Jan 14, 2009 | 37 comments
📚. Patrick Collison (patrickcollison.com)
3 min read | by patrickcollison.com | saved 186 days ago | archive
11.Anti-Love Drug May Be Ticket to Bliss (nytimes.com)
39 points by makimaki on Jan 14, 2009 | 15 comments
12.Why Lisp? 3 answers (mattknox.com)
38 points by prakash on Jan 14, 2009 | 18 comments
13.Twilio Recipes Open source PHP for common PBX features (twilio.com)
37 points by jeffiel on Jan 14, 2009 | 8 comments
14.The Man Who Made Too Much (portfolio.com)
36 points by ojbyrne on Jan 14, 2009 | 49 comments
15.Al Jazeera Announces Launch of Free Footage Under Creative Commons License (creativecommons.org)
35 points by zby on Jan 14, 2009 | 27 comments
📚. Data centers in space makes no sense (civai.org)
3 min read | by Andrew Yoon | saved 31 days ago | archive
16.Google Closes Offices in in Austin, Texas; Trondheim, Norway; and Lulea, Sweden. (googleblog.blogspot.com)
34 points by Anon84 on Jan 14, 2009 | 9 comments
17.Skype legend Morten Lund bankrupt (techcrunch.com)
32 points by pclark on Jan 14, 2009 | 13 comments
18.Fuck college education, start minding your own business instead (damirhorvat.com)
33 points by damir on Jan 14, 2009 | 72 comments
19.When newspapers are gone, what will you miss? (sethgodin.typepad.com)
30 points by ph0rque on Jan 14, 2009 | 62 comments
20.Screenbin - like pastebin, but for screen (dustinkirkland.com)
29 points by polvi on Jan 14, 2009 | 10 comments
📚. Insider Trading on War (archive.is)
17 min read | by Matt Levine | saved 1 day ago | archive
21.Distinguishing decorative from meaningful elements in UI design (37signals.com)
26 points by brm on Jan 14, 2009 | 8 comments
22.Ask HN: Would you fund this show? (johnaugust.com)
26 points by ed on Jan 14, 2009 | 14 comments
23.In the gig economy, everyone is a hustler (thedailybeast.com)
25 points by quoderat on Jan 14, 2009 | 18 comments
24.Google Reduces Hiring Department (googleblog.blogspot.com)
25 points by Anon84 on Jan 14, 2009 | 5 comments
25.'Theocracy of Hackers' Rules Autodesk Inc., A Strangely Run Firm (wsj.com)
24 points by prakash on Jan 14, 2009 | 9 comments
📚. mispriced assets (shaanpuri.com)
3 min read | by shaanpuri.com | saved 355 days ago | archive
26.Famous Sed One-Liners Explained, Part III (catonmat.net)
24 points by twampss on Jan 14, 2009
27.A Kindle trick changes the reading experience (goodexperience.com)
21 points by gabrielroth on Jan 14, 2009 | 14 comments
28.Steve Jobs steps down until June for health reasons (alleyinsider.com)
21 points by larrywright on Jan 14, 2009 | 8 comments
29.Avid founder Bill Warner: How a dirt farmer made me an entrepreneur (masshightech.com)
21 points by rantfoil on Jan 14, 2009
30.Book Is Rallying Resistance to the Antivaccine Crusade (nytimes.com)
20 points by scott_s on Jan 14, 2009 | 20 comments
📚. To Enjoy UWaterloo (ansonyu.me)
13 min read | by ansonyu.me | saved 71 days ago | archive

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