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Stories from December 17, 2008
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1.
"You're stealing from people who count on your honesty to make a living." (imageshack.us)
90 points by makimaki on Dec 17, 2008 | 75 comments
2.
Laying off George (zeldman.com)
67 points by ajbatac on Dec 17, 2008 | 49 comments
3.
Avoiding The Uncanny Valley of User Interface (codinghorror.com)
67 points by blackswan on Dec 17, 2008 | 25 comments
4.
Death To The Embargo (techcrunch.com)
57 points by ciscoriordan on Dec 17, 2008 | 50 comments
5.
Hacker News Search Extension for Firefox (webmynd.com)
45 points by pg on Dec 17, 2008 | 24 comments
6.
Jessica Fridrich Specializes in Problems That Only Seem Impossible to Solve (nytimes.com)
45 points by ksvs on Dec 17, 2008 | 28 comments
7.
Common Lisp + Machine Learning Internship at Google (Mountain View, CA)
45 points by moshe on Dec 17, 2008 | 16 comments
8.
Set in Our Ways: Why change is so hard after our 20s (sciam.com)
39 points by makimaki on Dec 17, 2008 | 19 comments
9.
Outsourcing Killed By Django And Ruby On Rails (awarelabs.com)
38 points by pwim on Dec 17, 2008 | 39 comments
10.
First Round Capital literally makes all their startups dance (techcrunch.com)
37 points by vaksel on Dec 17, 2008 | 9 comments
11.
A different type of VC holiday card (firstround.com)
36 points by jkopelman on Dec 17, 2008 | 7 comments
12.
Ask HN: How do I go about PHP?
35 points by oltmans on Dec 17, 2008 | 65 comments
13.
URL Routing in Recess my upcoming PHP Framework (recessframework.com)
32 points by KrisJordan on Dec 17, 2008 | 39 comments
14.
Ask HN: Are you working on a desktop software?
31 points by rokhayakebe on Dec 17, 2008 | 29 comments
15.
Apple 'Netbooks', Eh? (daringfireball.net)
28 points by KevinBongart on Dec 17, 2008 | 26 comments
16.
End Game: Cringely's predictions for 2009 (pbs.org)
24 points by naish on Dec 17, 2008 | 19 comments
17.
Evolution of the WordPress interface from 2003-2008 (planetozh.com)
24 points by mqt on Dec 17, 2008 | 6 comments
18.
Do Something New Every Three Years (longtail.com)
22 points by nreece on Dec 17, 2008 | 4 comments
19.
I just launched a $2,500 scholarship for entrepreneurial ideas...please apply! (iwillteachyoutoberich.com)
22 points by ramit on Dec 17, 2008 | 21 comments
20.
The Ladybird Book of Computers: old but brilliant (pointlessmuseum.com)
22 points by jgrahamc on Dec 17, 2008 | 7 comments
21.
Top 10 most useful webapps of 2008 (Posterous, Disqus, Anyvite) (lifeinlists.com)
19 points by jmorin007 on Dec 17, 2008 | 1 comment
22.
Simple iPhone Interface for Hacker News (dalampati.com)
18 points by arjunb on Dec 17, 2008 | 15 comments
23.
Entrepreneurs: We Will Happily Respect Your Embargoes (readwriteweb.com)
18 points by danw on Dec 17, 2008 | 6 comments
24.
Video Game Industry Trends of 2008 (gamasutra.com)
13 points by makimaki on Dec 17, 2008 | 9 comments
25.
Goldman Sachs cracks (ft.com)
13 points by Anon84 on Dec 17, 2008 | 7 comments
26.
ESPN Strives to Eject Clutter From Its Site (nytimes.com)
12 points by echair on Dec 17, 2008 | 10 comments
27.
Go go java ... play catch-up with C# (jonasbandi.net)
12 points by jbandi on Dec 17, 2008 | 37 comments
28.
The rise of "retail blogs" (longtail.com)
11 points by jbenz on Dec 17, 2008 | 3 comments
29.
Entrepreneur meetups in Melbourne (rosshill.com.au)
10 points by bootload on Dec 17, 2008 | 1 comment
30.
Xkcd - Flow Charts (xkcd.com)
10 points by Anon84 on Dec 17, 2008 | 1 comment

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