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1.
LaTeX vs. Word vs. Writer (oestrem.com)
95 points by moxy on Nov 23, 2008 | 54 comments
2.
10 Totally Stupid Online Business Ideas That Made Someone Rich (nichegeek.com)
49 points by jasonlbaptiste on Nov 23, 2008 | 24 comments
3.
Amazon Web Services Hosted Public Data Sets (amazon.com)
44 points by danw on Nov 23, 2008 | 3 comments
4.
Poll: How do you feel about making HN invite only?
43 points by vaksel on Nov 23, 2008 | 80 comments
5.
Rice Paddies And Math Tests (gladwell.com)
41 points by cellis on Nov 23, 2008 | 36 comments
6.
ReCAPTCHA: simultaneously protecting against bots and digitizing books (recaptcha.net)
37 points by parenthesis on Nov 23, 2008 | 14 comments
7.
FeedbackArmy.com - simple, cheap usability testing for your site (feedbackarmy.com)
37 points by raffi on Nov 23, 2008 | 24 comments
8.
If I Started A Company Today (andrewhyde.net)
35 points by sanjayparekh on Nov 23, 2008 | 7 comments
9.
Watching the Times struggle (and what you can learn) (sethgodin.typepad.com)
34 points by bdfh42 on Nov 23, 2008 | 13 comments
10.
Typealyzer - Find Your Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (typealyzer.com)
33 points by tortilla on Nov 23, 2008 | 47 comments
11.
Why CouchDB Sucks (eflorenzano.com)
29 points by nickb on Nov 23, 2008 | 12 comments
12.
Global warming predictions are overestimated, suggests study on black carbon (cornell.edu)
29 points by rugger on Nov 23, 2008 | 38 comments
13.
Ask HN: Web Frameworks for Perl
29 points by aneesh on Nov 23, 2008 | 29 comments
14.
An Infinite Loop in the Brain (spiegel.de)
25 points by nreece on Nov 23, 2008 | 8 comments
15.
Git the fsck out (aisleten.com)
24 points by tortilla on Nov 23, 2008 | 38 comments
16.
Second Life bank crash foretold financial crisis (msn.com)
24 points by tlrobinson on Nov 23, 2008 | 21 comments
17.
IBM to build brain-like computers (bbc.co.uk)
21 points by timtrueman on Nov 23, 2008 | 28 comments
18.
A short history of the bagel (slate.com)
20 points by pg on Nov 23, 2008 | 8 comments
19.
Ask HN: On building a Social News site and its tools for moderation
19 points by iamelgringo on Nov 23, 2008 | 10 comments
20.
Facebook Hackathon Results in Slick Visualizations (allfacebook.com)
19 points by peter123 on Nov 23, 2008 | 4 comments
21.
Ask HN: Do social sites with karma need a decay function?
15 points by abstractbill on Nov 23, 2008 | 32 comments
22.
Google Relies On Akamai To Stream YouTube Live; 700,000 Concurrent Viewers (techcrunch.com)
15 points by gaz on Nov 23, 2008 | 2 comments
23.
The (Mostly) True Story of Helvetica and the New York City Subway (aiga.org)
13 points by atestu on Nov 23, 2008 | 2 comments
24.
A Lost Decade - But Not For Everyone (avc.com)
13 points by jasonlbaptiste on Nov 23, 2008 | 4 comments
25.
How Obama Helped Digg Fix Bugs (digg.com)
12 points by nreece on Nov 23, 2008 | 3 comments
26.
Tough times in Silicon Valley, but some hiring (sfgate.com)
12 points by nickb on Nov 23, 2008 | 5 comments
27.
A Proof of the Halting Problem's Undecidability in Verse (ed.ac.uk)
12 points by soundsop on Nov 23, 2008 | 3 comments
28.
Ask HN: Do you tell other people about HN?
11 points by viggity on Nov 23, 2008 | 37 comments
29.
Facebook’s Project Palantir: Beautiful Visualization Of People Connecting (techcrunch.com)
11 points by jaydub on Nov 23, 2008
30.
At Long Last, Physicists Calculate the Proton's Mass (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
10 points by jaydub on Nov 23, 2008 | 5 comments

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