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1.		Coding Horror: Finishing The Game (codinghorror.com)
		52 points by Anon84 on Jan 1, 2009 \| 39 comments
2.		JavaScript: The World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language Has Become Most Popular (crockford.com)
		49 points by initself on Jan 1, 2009 \| 30 comments
3.		No New Language In 2009; New Habits Instead (gilesbowkett.blogspot.com)
		45 points by r11t on Jan 1, 2009 \| 17 comments
4.		Is it crazy to quit a 6+ figure salaried job to do a startup right now?
		43 points by Skeletor on Jan 1, 2009 \| 81 comments
5.		How Sony inadvertently helped a competitor and lost position in the videogame market (wsj.com)
		42 points by sachinag on Jan 1, 2009 \| 16 comments
6.		Flash simulation of the Enigma cipher machine with visualization of the permutations (enigmaco.de)
		36 points by brl on Jan 1, 2009 \| 5 comments
7.		Branford Marsalis’ Take on Students Today (joeydevilla.com)
		37 points by r11t on Jan 1, 2009 \| 19 comments
8.		Seinfeld Calendar for Tracking Open Source Contributions (calendaraboutnothing.com)
		37 points by danw on Jan 1, 2009 \| 9 comments
9.		Ask HN: What will you learn this year?
		36 points by Anon84 on Jan 1, 2009 \| 93 comments
10.		New "Requester pays" Option for Amazon S3 (amazonwebservices.com)
		34 points by ggruschow on Jan 1, 2009 \| 3 comments
11.		Is the Euro the New Dollar? (time.com)
		33 points by noor420 on Jan 1, 2009 \| 30 comments
12.		The cause of the Zune leap year bug has been isolated to a Freescale date routine (zuneboards.com)
		32 points by divia on Jan 1, 2009 \| 23 comments
13.		Was whole economy a Ponzi scheme? (iht.com)
		28 points by noor420 on Jan 1, 2009 \| 44 comments
14.		Yoshimoto Cube Blows My Mind then Fries My Brain [video] (gizmodo.com)
		28 points by bd on Jan 1, 2009 \| 9 comments
15.		Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (2005) (randomhacks.net)
		27 points by d0mine on Jan 1, 2009 \| 31 comments
16.		Startups and H-1Bs (visalawyerblog.com)
		27 points by jayliew on Jan 1, 2009 \| 8 comments
17.		Happy New 1984 (thepiratebay.org)
		26 points by jmtame on Jan 1, 2009 \| 5 comments
18.		Juan Enriquez: The Untied States of America (poptech.org)
		25 points by bloch on Jan 1, 2009
19.		Google's Browser Security Handbook (code.google.com)
		23 points by olegp on Jan 1, 2009
20.		Dabbleboard Pro now available
		22 points by zhyder on Jan 1, 2009 \| 29 comments
21.		Monte Carlo simulation of the Monty Hall Problem in Ruby and Python (antoniocangiano.com)
		22 points by acangiano on Jan 1, 2009 \| 11 comments
22.		How to date an entrepreneur (klawless.wordpress.com)
		21 points by fnazeeri on Jan 1, 2009 \| 14 comments
23.		Why Wikipedia is not so great (wikipedia.org)
		21 points by makimaki on Jan 1, 2009 \| 15 comments
24.		Ask HN: Predictions for 2009
		17 points by DanielBMarkham on Jan 1, 2009 \| 41 comments
25.		Comparing GTD, "Never read email in the morning" and "The 4-hour work week" (wired.com)
		12 points by m0nty on Jan 1, 2009 \| 1 comment
26.		What Will Change Everything - The Edge Annual Question 2009 (edge.org)
		9 points by dood on Jan 1, 2009
27.		JQuery UI 1.6rc3: It’s getting really close (jquery.com)
		9 points by qhoxie on Jan 1, 2009 \| 1 comment
28.		The Happiness Effect (time.com)
		8 points by scw on Jan 1, 2009 \| 2 comments
29.		How to unlock your 3G iPhone (crunchgear.com)
		7 points by vaksel on Jan 1, 2009
30.		Ask HN: Page Rank Suggestions
		7 points by paul9290 on Jan 1, 2009 \| 12 comments
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