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1.
Greybeard Stories: The Jamming Gyro (penzba.co.uk)
180 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Dec 17, 2009 | 45 comments
2.
Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones (wsj.com)
177 points by bbg on Dec 17, 2009 | 131 comments
3.
VLC desperately needs a Mac OS developer to help out (videolan.org)
166 points by anigbrowl on Dec 17, 2009 | 43 comments
4.
Browser Size, from Google Labs (googlelabs.com)
146 points by wglb on Dec 17, 2009 | 33 comments
5.
Shuttleworth steps down as Ubuntu CEO (computerworld.com)
139 points by ilamont on Dec 17, 2009 | 21 comments
6.
What's the Deal with Fish Oil? (nytimes.com)
136 points by frankus on Dec 17, 2009 | 65 comments
7.
Plurk’s official response to Microsoft’s apology (plurk.com)
97 points by pkrumins on Dec 17, 2009 | 61 comments
8.
Algorithm Tutorials (topcoder.com)
90 points by edw519 on Dec 17, 2009 | 7 comments
9.
Friendly: NoSQL With MySQL in Ruby (jamesgolick.com)
83 points by edwardog on Dec 17, 2009 | 17 comments
10.
The C Programming Language: 4.10 (HP Lovecraft version) (bobhobbs.com)
78 points by MaysonL on Dec 17, 2009 | 9 comments
11.
Camera Hack: How to find a lost camera (andrewmcdonald.net.au)
68 points by wakeless on Dec 17, 2009 | 26 comments
12.
JSCrypto — Fast symmetric cryptography in Javascript (stanford.edu)
63 points by chrislloyd on Dec 17, 2009 | 24 comments
13.
Make More Than GPA (overcomingbias.com)
55 points by jlhamilton on Dec 17, 2009 | 56 comments
14.
Early Adopters: How To Get The First Users To Your New Site (startbreakingfree.com)
53 points by barmstrong on Dec 17, 2009 | 23 comments
15.
How Google uses HTML5 to reduce startup latency for mobile Gmail (googlecode.blogspot.com)
50 points by adamhowell on Dec 17, 2009 | 18 comments
16.
IE9 adds support for CSS3, denies importance of ACID3 (judsoncollier.com)
49 points by judsoncollier on Dec 17, 2009 | 40 comments
17.
What if copyright infringement were made completely impossible? (marco.org)
45 points by blasdel on Dec 17, 2009 | 45 comments
18.
A computer scientist looks at ICBM security (crypto.com)
44 points by wglb on Dec 17, 2009 | 10 comments
19.
Codenode: write Python and Sage in your web browser (codenode.org)
43 points by j_baker on Dec 17, 2009 | 9 comments
20.
Skribit Finally Launches, Aims to Cure Your Writer’s Block (techcrunch.com)
40 points by dabent on Dec 17, 2009 | 28 comments
21.
Predator drones use less encryption than your TV, DVDs (arstechnica.com)
40 points by kmod on Dec 17, 2009 | 26 comments
22.
Getting things done by procrastinating (quandyfactory.com)
39 points by adriand on Dec 17, 2009 | 10 comments
23.
Netflix Spilled Your Brokeback Mountain Secret, Lawsuit Claims (wired.com)
37 points by phsr on Dec 17, 2009 | 28 comments
24.
Scott Aaronson: hopefully my last D-Wave post ever (scottaaronson.com)
34 points by TriinT on Dec 17, 2009 | 6 comments
25.
Writer of "Of Geeks and Girls" responds to some HN comments (likearadiotelescope.wordpress.com)
32 points by araneae on Dec 17, 2009 | 72 comments
26.
Rackspace Cloud Offers Relational Database-as-a-Service through FathomDB (YC 08) (rackspacecloud.com)
31 points by nicklongo on Dec 17, 2009 | 9 comments
27.
Google says ad blockers will save online ads (theregister.co.uk)
31 points by peter123 on Dec 17, 2009 | 40 comments
28.
2040: Diary of an interesting year (newyorker.com)
32 points by akkartik on Dec 17, 2009 | 25 comments
29.
How Facebook Squeezes More From Its Machines (gigaom.com)
32 points by hshah on Dec 17, 2009 | 10 comments
30.
Data Visualization Disease (jgc.org)
30 points by jgrahamc on Dec 17, 2009 | 7 comments

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