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1.
Marc Andreessen - Guide to personal productivity (pmarca-archive.posterous.com)
155 points by suprgeek on Oct 16, 2009 | 27 comments
2.
Puzzle Websites to Sharpen Your Programming Skills (sixrevisions.com)
121 points by edw519 on Oct 16, 2009 | 18 comments
3.
Evil Maid goes after TrueCrypt (theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com)
103 points by spahl on Oct 16, 2009 | 64 comments
4.
Why Ice Cream Sellers Stand Next to Each Other Instead of Spreading Out (sjsu.edu)
101 points by lionhearted on Oct 16, 2009 | 72 comments
5.
YouTube’s Bandwidth Bill Is Low (wired.com)
98 points by bensummers on Oct 16, 2009 | 34 comments
6.
Nginx module to turn it into a long-polling message queuing HTTP push server. (github.com/slact)
80 points by labria on Oct 16, 2009 | 25 comments
7.
Better than ImageMagick: GraphicsMagick (graphicsmagick.org)
80 points by bhseo on Oct 16, 2009 | 13 comments
8.
If you think you haven't found your passion... (sivers.org)
62 points by jackchristopher on Oct 16, 2009 | 20 comments
9.
How Con Kolivas's BFS CPU scheduler works (lkml.org)
59 points by wmf on Oct 16, 2009 | 35 comments
10.
Mick Jagger to Andy Warhol (burstoid.com)
59 points by ctingom on Oct 16, 2009 | 32 comments
11.
Django admin awesomeness (joshourisman.com)
53 points by twampss on Oct 16, 2009 | 5 comments
12.
The Soviets Built a Doomsday Machine. It’s Still Working. (wired.com)
50 points by robg on Oct 16, 2009 | 7 comments
13.
Dean Kamen's Robot Arm (wired.com)
46 points by kingkawn on Oct 16, 2009 | 23 comments
14.
Bill Gates pledges 120 million to boost African, Indian farmers (yahoo.com)
44 points by Flemlord on Oct 16, 2009 | 32 comments
15.
The Halo Effect (economist.com)
41 points by gruseom on Oct 16, 2009 | 11 comments
16.
Android 2.0 screenshot walkthrough (boygeniusreport.com)
38 points by Flemlord on Oct 16, 2009 | 25 comments
17.
Street View: We can trike wherever you like (googleblog.blogspot.com)
37 points by alexandros on Oct 16, 2009 | 14 comments
18.
Business guys: how my first startup went wrong
37 points by notauser on Oct 16, 2009 | 15 comments
19.
Features planned for clojure 1.1 (clojure.blogspot.com)
37 points by silkodyssey on Oct 16, 2009 | 4 comments
20.
Bill Gates' Open Letter to Hobbyists (digibarn.com)
36 points by acangiano on Oct 16, 2009 | 45 comments
21.
Goldman Sachs Is Robbing Us Blind (businessinsider.com)
36 points by vorador on Oct 16, 2009 | 42 comments
22.
Instant EC2 Hosted Custom Map Server (tiledrawer.com)
35 points by superchink on Oct 16, 2009 | 5 comments
23.
The Wolfram Alpha API Has Arrived (wolframalpha.com)
34 points by edw519 on Oct 16, 2009 | 26 comments
24.
Software Design Review (greenspun.com)
34 points by tjr on Oct 16, 2009 | 6 comments
25.
Ask HN: What do you wish you had known before starting up ?
34 points by vorador on Oct 16, 2009 | 34 comments
26.
Programmers should know math.. just not all of it (giorgiosironi.blogspot.com)
33 points by fogus on Oct 16, 2009 | 39 comments
27.
Evolved virtual creatures (evolutionary programming, 1994) (archive.org)
31 points by derwiki on Oct 16, 2009 | 16 comments
28.
Sam's String Matching Algorithms Collection (shef.ac.uk)
31 points by mahmud on Oct 16, 2009 | 3 comments
29.
Spacetime alarms (gregdetre.blogspot.com)
29 points by gregdetre on Oct 16, 2009 | 19 comments
30.
What Not Buying Oil With Dollars Means (ianwelsh.net)
29 points by bensummers on Oct 16, 2009 | 21 comments

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