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1.
Why you should do OpenGL and not DirectX (wolfire.com)
192 points by zitterbewegung on Jan 8, 2010 | 42 comments
2.
Advanced Imaging Reveals a Computer 1,500 Years Ahead of Its Time (io9.com)
140 points by soundsop on Jan 8, 2010 | 50 comments
3.
How I got 50,000 page views by simply being me (jgc.org)
105 points by jgrahamc on Jan 8, 2010 | 33 comments
4.
Can't start a business only eating a Tombstone pizza every day (inklingmarkets.com)
97 points by nate on Jan 8, 2010 | 20 comments
5.
Why you should use English versions of your OS and other software (szynalski.com)
97 points by tszyn on Jan 8, 2010 | 61 comments
6.
Startup Advice in just three words (onstartups.com)
86 points by smartbear on Jan 8, 2010 | 53 comments
7.
Try Ruby (in your browser, now with 1.9) (tryruby.org)
72 points by jmonegro on Jan 8, 2010 | 39 comments
8.
Harvesting email addresses surreptitiously (arvindn.livejournal.com)
68 points by dangoldin on Jan 8, 2010 | 26 comments
9.
Using Visualization to Kill a Hoax (rhul.ac.uk)
67 points by byrneseyeview on Jan 8, 2010 | 11 comments
10.
Codility - Automated tests of programming skills (codility.com)
71 points by grk on Jan 8, 2010 | 95 comments
11.
How to detect a page request from Safari 4's Top Sites feature (sunpig.com)
65 points by mattking on Jan 8, 2010 | 12 comments
12.
Golden Ratio Discovered in Quantum World (sciencedaily.com)
63 points by slater on Jan 8, 2010 | 18 comments
13.
Gremlin: A Graph-Based Programming Language (github.com/tinkerpop)
62 points by dood on Jan 8, 2010 | 11 comments
14.
How newLisp Took My Breath (And Syntax) Away (taoeffect.com)
61 points by itistoday on Jan 8, 2010 | 32 comments
15.
Do It Now (aaronsw.com)
60 points by joao on Jan 8, 2010 | 15 comments
16.
Tadpole code convert any <4k string to a 'single' character (Unicode magic) (goozo.net)
59 points by est on Jan 8, 2010 | 28 comments
17.
An onion of obfuscation (arcanesentiment.blogspot.com)
55 points by blasdel on Jan 8, 2010 | 8 comments
18.
Reverse job fair Jan 16th: Job seekers have tables, recruiters walk around. (pbworks.com)
54 points by TimothyFitz on Jan 8, 2010 | 25 comments
19.
How to be insanely great in front of any audience (slideshare.net)
52 points by wallflower on Jan 8, 2010 | 12 comments
20.
Things I learnt by not writing tests (rfw.posterous.com)
51 points by transmit101 on Jan 8, 2010 | 22 comments
21.
Pyprocessing: Processing without Java. (code.google.com)
50 points by vicehead on Jan 8, 2010 | 21 comments
22.
Six Months of Pinboard (pinboard.in)
49 points by wyclif on Jan 8, 2010 | 24 comments
23.
The 14 Days of jQuery (jquery14.com)
48 points by robin_reala on Jan 8, 2010 | 8 comments
24.
Getting 60 thousand pageviews with 2 carefully constructed posts (maxklein.posterous.com)
45 points by azharcs on Jan 8, 2010 | 49 comments
25.
Brain Hack: turn your Loss Aversion Bias on its head (petermichaud.com)
44 points by pmichaud on Jan 8, 2010 | 25 comments
26.
2010: The year of the products + a new way of working (37signals.com)
42 points by mrduncan on Jan 8, 2010 | 19 comments
27.
Bad hackers copy, great hackers steal — Avi Bryant (cusec.net)
42 points by hyfen on Jan 8, 2010 | 5 comments
28.
Google SketchUp (sketchup.google.com)
41 points by kosofalla on Jan 8, 2010 | 4 comments
29.
The Happiest People (nytimes.com)
39 points by tokenadult on Jan 8, 2010 | 33 comments
30.
On Selling Exceptions to the GNU GPL (fsf.org)
36 points by bensummers on Jan 8, 2010 | 54 comments

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