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1.		Google Maps India learns to navigate like a local (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		167 points by jeff18 on Dec 18, 2009 \| 37 comments
2.		Bingo Card Creator Annual Report (kalzumeus.com)
		164 points by patio11 on Dec 18, 2009 \| 38 comments
3.		Browser Pong (stewdio.org)
		160 points by marcusbooster on Dec 18, 2009 \| 21 comments
4.		C Craft (stanford.edu)
		148 points by fogus on Dec 18, 2009 \| 58 comments
5.		Twitter down; hacked by "Iranian cyber army"? (techcrunch.com)
		130 points by seldo on Dec 18, 2009 \| 89 comments
6.		The decline of the MBA will cut off the supply of bullshit (economist.com)
		120 points by richardburton on Dec 18, 2009 \| 66 comments
7.		Predictions for 2010 (sites.google.com)
		94 points by s3graham on Dec 18, 2009 \| 30 comments
8.		Why I think Mongo is to Databases what Rails was to Frameworks (railstips.org)
		90 points by jnunemaker on Dec 18, 2009 \| 13 comments
9.		ACM trying to subvert open access
		87 points by drallison on Dec 18, 2009 \| 21 comments
10.		50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice (chronicle.com)
		82 points by gnosis on Dec 18, 2009 \| 71 comments
11.		Prague from the TV Tower - 18 Gigapixel Panoramic Photo (360cities.net)
		77 points by dabent on Dec 18, 2009 \| 29 comments
12.		Web 2.0 Suicide Machine - Meet your Real Neighbours again - Sign out forever (suicidemachine.org)
		76 points by MicahWedemeyer on Dec 18, 2009 \| 57 comments
13.		US Gov Requests Feedback on Open Access – ACM Gets it Wrong (Again) (realtimerendering.com)
		69 points by drallison on Dec 18, 2009 \| 10 comments
14.		Tell HN: The joojoo guy [was] live on mixergy (mixergy.com)
		70 points by vaksel on Dec 18, 2009 \| 50 comments
15.		Google In Discussions To Acquire Yelp For A Half Billion Dollars Or More (techcrunch.com)
		67 points by andrewpbrett on Dec 18, 2009 \| 33 comments
16.		A programmer's personal story about finding a job in this economy (shadowcoding.blogspot.com)
		59 points by rayvega on Dec 18, 2009 \| 51 comments
17.		The reason why banks are suddenly repaying their bailout funds (slate.com)
		57 points by cwan on Dec 18, 2009 \| 27 comments
18.		Server-Side Javascript: Back With a Vengeance (readwriteweb.com)
		55 points by alexandros on Dec 18, 2009 \| 30 comments
19.		Thoughts on "e-readers"
		43 points by jamesmcintyre on Dec 18, 2009 \| 51 comments
20.		Rackspace Goes Down. Again. Takes The Internet With It. Again. (techcrunch.com)
		48 points by vaksel on Dec 18, 2009 \| 35 comments
21.		Has dark matter finally been detected? (guardian.co.uk)
		46 points by indy on Dec 18, 2009 \| 21 comments
22.		How to Manufacture a Climate Consensus (wsj.com)
		43 points by DanielBMarkham on Dec 18, 2009 \| 53 comments
23.		Deploying Tornado in production (agiletesting.blogspot.com)
		39 points by icey on Dec 18, 2009 \| 5 comments
24.		Clojure 1.1 RC1 is out (groups.google.com)
		39 points by alrex021 on Dec 18, 2009 \| 6 comments
25.		Score Two Wins Against Software Patents (feld.com)
		39 points by petewarden on Dec 18, 2009 \| 3 comments
26.		Death of OS X VLC Exaggerated (videolan.org)
		39 points by durin42 on Dec 18, 2009 \| 4 comments
27.		Five laws of human nature (newscientist.com)
		37 points by robg on Dec 18, 2009 \| 17 comments
28.		2009 Open Source Top Ten (ozmm.org)
		36 points by r11t on Dec 18, 2009 \| 5 comments
29.		W3 gets new Look (w3.org)
		33 points by taranfx on Dec 18, 2009 \| 28 comments
30.		The Refal programming language (wikipedia.org)
		31 points by Stasyan on Dec 18, 2009 \| 3 comments
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