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1.
How I Landed A $50/hr Side Gig With Little Effort (zacharyburt.com)
122 points by zackattack on Feb 4, 2010 | 130 comments
2.
How to Replace IMAP (gaborcselle.com)
118 points by mk on Feb 4, 2010 | 60 comments
3.
Librarian builds self-checkout machine. Costs $1500 instead of $23000 (desmoinesregister.com)
122 points by _juof on Feb 4, 2010 | 50 comments
4.
The Oh My God Particle (fourmilab.ch)
100 points by mnemonicsloth on Feb 4, 2010 | 20 comments
5.
A = F/m, So Keep Your Foot on the Gas (shoptalkapp.com)
96 points by mrshoe on Feb 4, 2010 | 18 comments
6.
Computers shouldn't make people feel like idiots (37signals.com)
88 points by fogus on Feb 4, 2010 | 37 comments
7.
Symbian Operating System now open source (wired.com)
85 points by omfut on Feb 4, 2010 | 31 comments
8.
Johnny Cupcakes (johnnycupcakes.com)
85 points by eam on Feb 4, 2010 | 16 comments
9.
Sun’s Chief Executive Tweets His Resignation (nytimes.com)
81 points by asnyder on Feb 4, 2010 | 29 comments
10.
Lawrence Lessig: How to Get Our Democracy Back (thenation.com)
80 points by kriyative on Feb 4, 2010 | 71 comments
11.
Aerogel is now cheap enough to produce to be used as housing insulation (cnet.com)
65 points by ph0rque on Feb 4, 2010 | 10 comments
12.
Tom has a new crush. It's called the WattVision Energy Monitor. (energycircle.com)
62 points by pg on Feb 4, 2010 | 51 comments
13.
The Rails Module (in Rails 3) (litanyagainstfear.com)
57 points by qrush on Feb 4, 2010
14.
I found this secret code while geocaching. What could it mean? (reddit.com)
56 points by earle on Feb 4, 2010 | 18 comments
15.
Ask HN: Would you go to Iraq for a year and be paid $200k?
53 points by spoiledtechie on Feb 4, 2010 | 89 comments
16.
The Chapter In The Bible That Appears Twice (larrycheng.com)
53 points by lwc123 on Feb 4, 2010 | 45 comments
17.
Critical Fans (or how Mixergy did the Impossible) (pchristensen.com)
52 points by wglb on Feb 4, 2010 | 9 comments
18.
Google AI Challenge (uwaterloo.ca)
51 points by fogus on Feb 4, 2010 | 20 comments
19.
Maemo Firefox disables Flash (pavlov.net)
49 points by nootopian on Feb 4, 2010 | 26 comments
20.
'Vegetative' patient speaks to scientists using his brainwaves (scotsman.com)
49 points by prat on Feb 4, 2010 | 34 comments
21.
The War on the Young (mises.org)
48 points by limist on Feb 4, 2010 | 97 comments
22.
Photographer Loves Math, Graphs Her Images (wired.com)
46 points by francissson on Feb 4, 2010 | 14 comments
23.
What will happen when a software company downs tools for a week? (businessofsoftware.org)
45 points by bensummers on Feb 4, 2010 | 13 comments
24.
UIs that lie & the users who believe them (northtemple.com)
44 points by chanux on Feb 4, 2010 | 5 comments
25.
Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy, Father of Lisp (infoq.com)
44 points by alrex021 on Feb 4, 2010 | 7 comments
26.
AppFund (appfund.com)
42 points by mikek on Feb 4, 2010 | 24 comments
27.
JVisualVM and Clojure (fatvat.co.uk)
42 points by raju on Feb 4, 2010 | 2 comments
28.
‘Don’t Be Evil,’ Meet ‘Spy on Everyone’: How the NSA Deal Could Kill Google (wired.com)
41 points by brg on Feb 4, 2010 | 25 comments
29.
Highway Handbook: Why We Speed (deadcatbounce.com)
41 points by dmuino on Feb 4, 2010 | 18 comments
30.
Perpetual motion? (fraser.name)
41 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Feb 4, 2010 | 47 comments

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