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1.
How Difficult is it to Write a Compiler? (tratt.net)
119 points by breck on Dec 15, 2008 | 48 comments
2.
The Extraordinary Happenings At BitTorrent (techcrunch.com)
76 points by makimaki on Dec 15, 2008 | 27 comments
3.
Ask HN: you're rich, now what?
66 points by ryanwaggoner on Dec 15, 2008 | 152 comments
4.
Advice to Incoming Freshmen in Computer Science (colorado.edu)
64 points by brooksbp on Dec 15, 2008 | 49 comments
5.
Screencast on writing a ray tracer in Common Lisp (tum.de)
49 points by kirubakaran on Dec 15, 2008 | 3 comments
6.
Lawrence Lessig: The made-up dramas of the Wall Street Journal (lessig.org)
48 points by twampss on Dec 15, 2008 | 22 comments
7.
My Seth Godin decline letter. Thoughts?
45 points by bkj123 on Dec 15, 2008 | 73 comments
8.
If you have to lay people off, don't do it this way (infoworld.com)
44 points by ccraigIW on Dec 15, 2008 | 19 comments
9.
321 Vim colorschemes (cmu.edu)
41 points by mapleoin on Dec 15, 2008 | 12 comments
10.
Truck driver conducted a decade of research to build accurate replica of Hiroshima bomb (newyorker.com)
40 points by mhb on Dec 15, 2008 | 6 comments
11.
WSJ made to believe Google abandons strict net neutrality (wsj.com)
39 points by ckinnan on Dec 15, 2008 | 30 comments
12.
Books programmers don't really read (billthelizard.com)
36 points by mlLK on Dec 15, 2008 | 15 comments
13.
Eliminating the Programmer (slickedit.com)
36 points by lief79 on Dec 15, 2008 | 16 comments
14.
I haven’t given up on PHP — yet (phpadvent.org)
35 points by nreece on Dec 15, 2008 | 49 comments
15.
The Yawn Explained: It Cools Your Brain (discovery.com)
35 points by eisokant on Dec 15, 2008 | 24 comments
16.
SC, an s-expression based front end to C (kyoto-u.ac.jp)
34 points by ngvrnd on Dec 15, 2008 | 16 comments
17.
You can now build apps for Yahoo mail without plugins (let's hope gmail is next?) (yahoo.com)
27 points by auston on Dec 15, 2008 | 15 comments
18.
Ask YC: What Are Your Biggest Marketing/PR Problems As A Startup?
26 points by nathanburke on Dec 15, 2008 | 21 comments
19.
Selling ideas to a big company (sethgodin.typepad.com)
25 points by bdfh42 on Dec 15, 2008 | 18 comments
20.
Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part II: repeat.vim (catonmat.net)
21 points by twampss on Dec 15, 2008 | 7 comments
21.
Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning (demarcken.org)
17 points by atarashi on Dec 15, 2008 | 6 comments
22.
Some iPhone apps should not be written in Cocoa (kudtler.com)
17 points by jrnkntl on Dec 15, 2008 | 14 comments
23.
Social Networking Anti Patterns (microformats.org)
16 points by theblackbox on Dec 15, 2008 | 7 comments
24.
Twitter Joins The Google Friend Connect Party (techcrunch.com)
16 points by dell9000 on Dec 15, 2008 | 7 comments
25.
Pip: easy_install replacement (openplans.org)
15 points by de_guzman on Dec 15, 2008 | 1 comment
26.
LShift is terrified by asynchronous libraries performance (lshift.net)
14 points by bandris on Dec 15, 2008 | 9 comments
27.
Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest (sciencedaily.com)
14 points by soundsop on Dec 15, 2008 | 22 comments
28.
News You Can Lose (newyorker.com)
14 points by davidw on Dec 15, 2008 | 5 comments
29.
Yudkowsky And De Grey Discussion on Aging (thoughtware.tv)
13 points by jonmc12 on Dec 15, 2008 | 2 comments
30.
Syntax matters (bignerdranch.com)
13 points by osi on Dec 15, 2008 | 3 comments

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