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1.		Swiss Army Knife of Unix Debugging: lsof (catonmat.net)
		130 points by pkrumins on Dec 23, 2009 \| 27 comments
2.		Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity (johndcook.com)
		114 points by imgabe on Dec 23, 2009 \| 129 comments
3.		An astrophysicist reviews the science of "Avatar". (aintitcool.com)
		111 points by ilamparithi on Dec 23, 2009 \| 67 comments
4.		YC was nominated for a Crunchie, but please vote for Ron Conway instead. (ycombinator.posterous.com)
		107 points by pg on Dec 23, 2009 \| 20 comments
5.		4chan Founder “moot” to Speak at TED (gigaom.com)
		110 points by Janteh on Dec 23, 2009 \| 48 comments
6.		Learn Python by writing games (free book) (inventwithpython.com)
		85 points by larrykubin on Dec 23, 2009 \| 10 comments
7.		Anniversary of the Rails/Merb Merger: So How'd It Go? (engineyard.com)
		80 points by wifelette on Dec 23, 2009 \| 10 comments
8.		Novice CL user writes mysql access in CL as an exercise (gmane.org)
		67 points by wglb on Dec 23, 2009 \| 6 comments
9.		Apple is terrified of iphone web-apps being as good as native apps
		65 points by ryankshaw on Dec 23, 2009 \| 35 comments
10.		Call this a recession? It isn’t the Dark Ages (ft.com)
		63 points by icey on Dec 23, 2009 \| 34 comments
11.		iPhone app Gunman lets you have a shootout w/ friends via augmented reality (geek.com)
		61 points by adamhowell on Dec 23, 2009 \| 31 comments
12.		Awesome new (relatively inexpensive) Brain-Computer Interface (emotivepoc.com)
		57 points by speek on Dec 23, 2009 \| 28 comments
13.		Hackers break Kindle DRM (theregister.co.uk)
		51 points by shrike on Dec 23, 2009 \| 19 comments
14.		Next Big Thing in health care: chronotherapy (nytimes.com)
		47 points by tokenadult on Dec 23, 2009 \| 13 comments
15.		Is College Really Worth It? (fastcompany.com)
		43 points by latif on Dec 23, 2009 \| 65 comments
16.		Orderly, a textual format for describing JSON (orderly-json.org)
		42 points by whalesalad on Dec 23, 2009 \| 13 comments
17.		Inflation as a Compound Annual Interest Rate
		41 points by joshkaufman on Dec 23, 2009 \| 45 comments
18.		Why WordPress Should Not Have Won the Open Source CMS Award (vancelucas.com)
		41 points by vlucas on Dec 23, 2009 \| 23 comments
19.		WePay (YC S09) founders put down roots in Palo Alto, raise $1.6 million (boston.com)
		35 points by sachinag on Dec 23, 2009 \| 16 comments
20.		HN Meet-up Netherlands update (bluwiki.com)
		36 points by beeker on Dec 23, 2009 \| 9 comments
21.		Why Google allows target.com to spam search results (goodroi.com)
		35 points by madars on Dec 23, 2009 \| 30 comments
22.		Functions are data (and very cool data, too) (jaspervdj.be)
		34 points by dons on Dec 23, 2009 \| 6 comments
23.		Picking Your Co-Founders: What's luck got to do with it? (spencerfry.com)
		37 points by spencerfry on Dec 23, 2009 \| 12 comments
24.		A Job Prize Inspired by the MIT Darpa Network (Balloon) Challenge Solution (heroku.com)
		34 points by imperator on Dec 23, 2009 \| 9 comments
25.		Practical Uses of CSS3 (viget.com)
		33 points by iiijjjiii on Dec 23, 2009 \| 13 comments
26.		Google Nexus One Hands On (gizmodo.com)
		31 points by anderzole on Dec 23, 2009 \| 3 comments
27.		Online chat - Olark vs Liveperson?
		31 points by kuhfes on Dec 23, 2009 \| 4 comments
28.		Generating Thousands of PDFs on EC2 with Ruby (railsdog.com)
		31 points by ghotli on Dec 23, 2009 \| 13 comments
29.		Ask HN: What magazines do you subscribe to?
		29 points by rottencupcakes on Dec 23, 2009 \| 43 comments
30.		Strapped to Android, HTC Takes a Dizzying Ride to the Top (wired.com)
		29 points by chaostheory on Dec 23, 2009 \| 8 comments
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