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1.
YC-Funded Lingt Uses Games To Turn You Into A Language Learning Addict (techcrunch.com)
113 points by transburgh on Dec 20, 2009 | 60 comments
2.
What is DRM doing in my garage? (arstechnica.com)
100 points by kmod on Dec 20, 2009 | 9 comments
3.
Ask HN: What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?
90 points by iamelgringo on Dec 20, 2009 | 82 comments
4.
Eye Contact (nytimes.com)
83 points by bootload on Dec 20, 2009 | 52 comments
5.
Anatomy of a bad search result (cdixon.org)
72 points by blasdel on Dec 20, 2009 | 12 comments
6.
Ask HN: Please review my DropZap web demo. It's written using GWT. (dropzap.appspot.com)
68 points by amichail on Dec 20, 2009 | 46 comments
7.
The Known Universe Scientifically Rendered For All to See (amnh.org)
66 points by ccarpenterg on Dec 20, 2009 | 20 comments
8.
Reading the Tattoos on People’s Faces (reason.com)
64 points by rglovejoy on Dec 20, 2009 | 18 comments
9.
Nuclear Reactor Wall Charts (bibliodyssey.blogspot.com)
64 points by kqr2 on Dec 20, 2009 | 10 comments
10.
Facebook 1: 0 Simon Cowell - Rage Against The Machine is UK #1 single for Xmas (sheamus.co.uk)
59 points by handelaar on Dec 20, 2009 | 40 comments
11.
Tell HN: Please read /noobstories and flag posts
58 points by cperciva on Dec 20, 2009 | 9 comments
12.
Lessons I learned building an MPs' expenses crowdsourcing app for the Guardian (simonwillison.net)
57 points by simonw on Dec 20, 2009 | 32 comments
13.
Going to America: A Ponzi scheme that works (economist.com)
56 points by petercooper on Dec 20, 2009 | 63 comments
14.
Goldmine of zsh information and tips/tricks (strcat.de)
55 points by r11t on Dec 20, 2009
15.
Some highlights of Na’vi (upenn.edu)
53 points by waterlesscloud on Dec 20, 2009 | 6 comments
16.
Steve Yegge's five essential phone-screen questions (googlepages.com)
48 points by vinutheraj on Dec 20, 2009 | 28 comments
17.
 Online Development Studio - CodeRun (coderun.com)
44 points by jmonegro on Dec 20, 2009 | 22 comments
18.
The Power of Origami (maths.org)
42 points by davatk on Dec 20, 2009 | 3 comments
19.
Optimizing Wikipedia's Fundraising Banner Ads (wikimedia.org)
41 points by sax on Dec 20, 2009 | 14 comments
20.
When Developers Work Late, Should Manager Stay or Go? (earthweb.com)
39 points by edw519 on Dec 20, 2009 | 21 comments
21.
Palm's Ares IDE builds on bespin (palm.com)
38 points by sax on Dec 20, 2009 | 9 comments
22.
Oscar best picture changed from single vote to full preferential ranking (nytimes.com)
37 points by huangm on Dec 20, 2009 | 26 comments
23.
New Model of the Universe Says Past Crystallizes out of the Future (technologyreview.com)
37 points by ca98am79 on Dec 20, 2009 | 10 comments
24.
Beating the Arc Challenge in Clojure (bestinclass.dk)
32 points by lbj on Dec 20, 2009 | 4 comments
25.
The Arc challenge in Go (github.com/hoisie)
32 points by marketer on Dec 20, 2009 | 10 comments
26.
 Chat with the 17 year old hacker who hacked my blog (thenextweb.com)
31 points by Zilioum on Dec 20, 2009 | 15 comments
27.
Bowing to Body Clocks, Some N.B.A. Teams Are Sleeping In (nytimes.com)
29 points by prakash on Dec 20, 2009 | 17 comments
28.
Happstack 0.4: A scalable framework for developing web applications in Haskell (haskell.org)
29 points by dons on Dec 20, 2009 | 14 comments
29.
Western Digital’s Advanced Format: The 4K Sector Transition Begins (anandtech.com)
28 points by MikeCapone on Dec 20, 2009 | 1 comment
30.
What Will Future Space Battles Be Like? (gizmodo.com)
28 points by mhb on Dec 20, 2009 | 25 comments

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