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1.
How to implement 'realistic' swordfighting in video games. (shamusyoung.com)
81 points by jamongkad on May 8, 2009 | 35 comments
2.
Being too successful is one of life's biggest risks (2004) (groups.google.com)
69 points by zachbeane on May 8, 2009 | 19 comments
3.
Search Goes Real-Time With Scoopler (YC S08) (techcrunch.com)
67 points by rokhayakebe on May 8, 2009 | 35 comments
4.
What database would you use to store (min) 10 billion objects?
63 points by imajes on May 8, 2009 | 46 comments
5.
Speeding up a Rails request by 150ms by changing 1 line (scaldeferri.com)
60 points by amanfredi on May 8, 2009 | 34 comments
6.
Being able to build something cool is not good enough. Neither is fast performance. (groups.google.com)
56 points by zachbeane on May 8, 2009 | 17 comments
7.
KIVA Robots Continue to Conquer Warehouses (singularityhub.com)
55 points by kkleiner on May 8, 2009 | 31 comments
8.
The Harlem Miracle (nytimes.com)
52 points by robg on May 8, 2009 | 33 comments
9.
Backup your Database in Git (viget.com)
50 points by tortilla on May 8, 2009 | 18 comments
10.
A 'nerd' shoots for the stars, and NASA comes knocking (theglobeandmail.com)
43 points by awk on May 8, 2009 | 17 comments
11.
Help wanted: Seasoned wikipedia editors to write a proper article about Fravia (wikipedia.org)
43 points by pygy on May 8, 2009 | 15 comments
12.
Econometrics In R (r-project.org)
39 points by Anon84 on May 8, 2009 | 8 comments
13.
Calendar as Filter (dilbert.com)
38 points by mad44 on May 8, 2009 | 8 comments
14.
Debian moving away from SHA-1 (debian-administration.org)
38 points by r11t on May 8, 2009 | 5 comments
15.
Hooray: The Second Derivative of the Unemployment Rate Improved (fivethirtyeight.com)
38 points by soundsop on May 8, 2009 | 16 comments
16.
Ask HN: Merchant account and payment gateway for subscription-based web apps?
37 points by _pius on May 8, 2009 | 19 comments
17.
My mom is a programmer, raging against the machine (boingboing.net)
35 points by kqr2 on May 8, 2009 | 16 comments
18.
Hackers wanted: Scholarships available to coders to save journalism and democracy (oreilly.com)
34 points by peter123 on May 8, 2009 | 10 comments
19.
Tell HN: Wolfram Alpha preview goes live
34 points by anigbrowl on May 8, 2009 | 49 comments
20.
Urwid - Console User Interface Library for Python (excess.org)
33 points by samueladam on May 8, 2009 | 6 comments
21.
Smeed's law (wikipedia.org)
33 points by nice1 on May 8, 2009 | 5 comments
22.
Flickr: PHP4 vs PHP5 drop in CPU comparison (flickr.com)
34 points by vaksel on May 8, 2009 | 19 comments
23.
BBC Vs National Geographic - a subtle comparison (naturenet.net)
33 points by justlearning on May 8, 2009 | 10 comments
24.
What does a programmer have to barter with? (aisleten.com)
32 points by MicahWedemeyer on May 8, 2009 | 20 comments
25.
GLASS/Seaside Success Story (mindclue.ch)
29 points by dhenrichs on May 8, 2009 | 6 comments
26.
Fonts for Designers (free) (fontsquirrel.com)
29 points by Milansoc15 on May 8, 2009 | 6 comments
27.
Html5 canvas support matrix (html5.org)
27 points by senthil_rajasek on May 8, 2009 | 6 comments
28.
Increased food intake alone explains the increase in body weight in US (esciencenews.com)
26 points by ph0rque on May 8, 2009 | 50 comments
29.
First Impressions of the Fortress Language (cilk.com)
26 points by threadman on May 8, 2009 | 9 comments
30.
Intern at the Free Software Foundation (fsf.org)
26 points by kf on May 8, 2009 | 7 comments

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