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1.
I'm on a deserted island. How can I tell which plants are poisonous? (straightdope.com)
104 points by yanowitz on Jan 22, 2010 | 62 comments
2.
Keeping computers from ending science's reproducibility (arstechnica.com)
101 points by yummyfajitas on Jan 22, 2010 | 62 comments
3.
Stop restricting my password - Help these sites get better security. (weakpasswords.org)
84 points by dinkumator on Jan 22, 2010 | 60 comments
4.
Rails and Merb Merge Update: Rails Core (engineyard.com)
84 points by wifelette on Jan 22, 2010 | 3 comments
5.
WSJ Jumps the Shark (ritholtz.com)
81 points by tortilla on Jan 22, 2010 | 67 comments
6.
API Status (api-status.com)
76 points by jmonegro on Jan 22, 2010 | 8 comments
7.
PDFs in Pure Ruby (majesticseacreature.com)
67 points by jmonegro on Jan 22, 2010 | 46 comments
8.
Hustle (how to learn new stuff) (ihumanable.com)
60 points by ihumanable on Jan 22, 2010 | 10 comments
9.
The jQuery Project launched (jquery.org)
60 points by ronnier on Jan 22, 2010 | 14 comments
10.
How to sue your employer and win (unposto.wordpress.com)
58 points by tallyh00 on Jan 22, 2010 | 22 comments
11.
SF Mayor on why open source is the new software policy in San Francisco (mashable.com)
55 points by anigbrowl on Jan 22, 2010 | 27 comments
12.
Google Chrome's H.264 support not true "free" software (ianweller.org)
54 points by cpearce on Jan 22, 2010 | 82 comments
13.
OfficePod - Tiny, Minimalist Office Space (officepod.co.uk)
48 points by rgrieselhuber on Jan 22, 2010 | 53 comments
14.
Lisp Quotes (paulgraham.com)
47 points by alrex021 on Jan 22, 2010 | 50 comments
15.
Vijual Graph Layout Library For Clojure (lisperati.com)
46 points by swannodette on Jan 22, 2010 | 6 comments
16.
Steve Jobs Is Building AppleWorld - And Google's Running Scared (seekingalpha.com)
46 points by profquail on Jan 22, 2010 | 76 comments
17.
The Chess Master and the Computer (by Garry Kasparov) (nybooks.com)
44 points by michael_nielsen on Jan 22, 2010 | 5 comments
18.
Ban on unscientific "bomb detector" after $85M sales (bbc.co.uk)
44 points by jodrellblank on Jan 22, 2010 | 28 comments
19.
Committing Location Based Service Suicide (andrewhy.de)
44 points by davidhoffman on Jan 22, 2010 | 28 comments
20.
JavaScript grid editor: I want to be Excel. Updated (open-lab.com)
42 points by alake on Jan 22, 2010 | 7 comments
21.
Data Mining competition for predicting drug reactions (orwik.com)
40 points by bucanrabi on Jan 22, 2010 | 4 comments
22.
Explore GitHub (trending/featured repos and podcasts) (github.com/explore)
39 points by pjhyett on Jan 22, 2010 | 10 comments
23.
Microsoft Reveals the Science Behind Project Natal for Xbox 360 (scientificamerican.com)
38 points by stakent on Jan 22, 2010 | 23 comments
24.
Tell HN: I released my open source iPhone AppStore Sales Graphing Tool (maxklein.github.com)
38 points by maxklein on Jan 22, 2010 | 14 comments
25.
Passive solar glass home: watching the sun move (faircompanies.com)
37 points by kirstendirksen on Jan 22, 2010 | 5 comments
26.
Ask HN: How would you make public transit profitable / create more value?
36 points by JayNeely on Jan 22, 2010 | 104 comments
27.
Scala: A Postfunctional Language (scala-lang.org)
35 points by davidblair on Jan 22, 2010 | 14 comments
28.
K Lambda and the Development of Qi (lambdassociates.org)
35 points by fogus on Jan 22, 2010 | 2 comments
29.
Active Record Query Interface 3.0 (onkey.org)
34 points by davidw on Jan 22, 2010 | 12 comments
30.
Hey psst, wanna know your HN #userid ? (hntags.com)
33 points by jacquesm on Jan 22, 2010 | 40 comments

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