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1.
Using Zipcar may damage your credit (fstutzman.com)
140 points by kmfrk on Sept 19, 2010 | 94 comments
2.
PostgreSQL 9.0 Is Now Available (phoronix.com)
132 points by spahl on Sept 19, 2010 | 27 comments
3.
Thomas Jefferson's Letter to His Nephew Peter (yale.edu)
112 points by najirama on Sept 19, 2010 | 55 comments
4.
Down with fun: The depressing vogue for having fun at work (economist.com)
112 points by blasdel on Sept 19, 2010 | 74 comments
5.
Facebook Is Secretly Building A Phone (techcrunch.com)
102 points by MichaelApproved on Sept 19, 2010 | 96 comments
6.
Ask HN: He stole my laptop, and sent me this, what would you do?
99 points by kabuks on Sept 19, 2010 | 125 comments
7.
Screenshot: "A Fire Upon the Deep" sequel (2011) (norwescon.org)
86 points by 10ren on Sept 19, 2010 | 27 comments
8.
Algorithms from the Book (cstheory.stackexchange.com)
84 points by gphilip on Sept 19, 2010 | 4 comments
9.
My coffeehouse nightmare (slate.com)
82 points by ca98am79 on Sept 19, 2010 | 59 comments
10.
The Windows Shutdown crapfest (moishelettvin.blogspot.com)
77 points by adambyrtek on Sept 19, 2010 | 31 comments
11.
New Twitter has Gist Support (thechangelog.com)
76 points by vamsee on Sept 19, 2010 | 24 comments
12.
Making It Big In Software: Google's Peter Norvig (informationweek.com)
74 points by niyazpk on Sept 19, 2010 | 21 comments
13.
The Permission We Already Have (bldgblog.blogspot.com)
71 points by blasdel on Sept 19, 2010 | 13 comments
14.
Hole in Linux kernel provides root rights (h-online.com)
69 points by spahl on Sept 19, 2010 | 32 comments
15.
GOG.com shut down (gog.com)
60 points by psadauskas on Sept 19, 2010 | 28 comments
16.
Planning is overrated. The best performers seesaw between ideas and actions. (tompeters.com)
58 points by l0stman on Sept 19, 2010 | 34 comments
17.
Pearls Before Breakfast (washingtonpost.com)
57 points by vuknje on Sept 19, 2010 | 10 comments
18.
This is Your Brain on Food (seedmagazine.com)
56 points by robg on Sept 19, 2010 | 9 comments
19.
The Shell Haters Handbook (heroku.com)
52 points by chuhnk on Sept 19, 2010 | 31 comments
20.
The Most Powerful Word In The Human Vocabulary: Perspective (sokanu.com)
52 points by sthomps on Sept 19, 2010 | 23 comments
21.
Ask HN: What Firefox/Chrome extensions do you use?
49 points by steiger on Sept 19, 2010 | 89 comments
22.
iOS developers: Are you shocked by how vengeful users can be in the app store?
47 points by amichail on Sept 19, 2010 | 54 comments
23.
Streamie: Node.js + Websockets = Real time Twitter client (thechangelog.com)
47 points by netherland on Sept 19, 2010 | 7 comments
24.
Why are so many programmers arrogant? (programmers.stackexchange.com)
46 points by adn37 on Sept 19, 2010 | 95 comments
25.
4Chan To Target RIAA Next (torrentfreak.com)
44 points by Indyan on Sept 19, 2010 | 30 comments
26.
Google Sibyl: A system for large scale machine learning [pdf] (ladisworkshop.org)
43 points by yarapavan on Sept 19, 2010 | 3 comments
27.
Facebook: We Are Not Building a Phone (mashable.com)
42 points by hasanove on Sept 19, 2010 | 21 comments
28.
Ask HN: Is a Ph.D. in CS worth it?
37 points by alexgartrell on Sept 19, 2010 | 39 comments
29.
AMD and Valve Partner for Driver Updates via Steam (shacknews.com)
34 points by carusen on Sept 19, 2010 | 6 comments
30.
The future of work will not contain resumes (gigaom.com)
33 points by lukas on Sept 19, 2010 | 12 comments

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