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1.
Tell HN: Couldn't Sleep Last Night, Wrote a (No-Flash) HTML5 Viewer for YouTube (neosmart.net)
110 points by ComputerGuru on Nov 8, 2009 | 56 comments
2.
How to Follow Through: The Emerging Science of Self-Control (rolfnelson.com)
108 points by alexandros on Nov 8, 2009 | 10 comments
3.
Lisp in about 200 lines of Ruby (gist.github.com)
94 points by r11t on Nov 8, 2009 | 34 comments
4.
Why the mainstream media is dying (fakesteve.net)
83 points by ksvs on Nov 8, 2009 | 38 comments
5.
Russia's Conquering Zeros: Strength of lonely productivity (wsj.com)
73 points by ypk on Nov 8, 2009 | 14 comments
6.
Stopping the Shortsigtedness Epidemic (newscientist.com)
68 points by rfreytag on Nov 8, 2009 | 18 comments
7.
Unlock A Door With A Secret Knock (grathio.com)
57 points by jmonegro on Nov 8, 2009 | 20 comments
8.
Zynga To Remove All In Game Offers (techcrunch.com)
57 points by physcab on Nov 8, 2009 | 16 comments
9.
My YC Interview Experience S09 by James (Listia.com) (listia.com)
54 points by siong1987 on Nov 8, 2009 | 20 comments
10.
The many sliders of Photoshop CS4 (mrgan.tumblr.com)
55 points by DavidSJ on Nov 8, 2009 | 24 comments
11.
The House Passed the Health Bill (washingtonpost.com)
54 points by raintrees on Nov 8, 2009 | 163 comments
12.
 “Horrible Things” Slink Back Into Zynga (techcrunch.com)
54 points by dwynings on Nov 8, 2009 | 16 comments
13.
Brace : Dialect of C that looks like Python (nipl.net)
51 points by r11t on Nov 8, 2009 | 19 comments
14.
Japanese Lisp Manga (bugyo.tk)
46 points by fogus on Nov 8, 2009 | 15 comments
15.
Priced To Go (newyorker.com)
42 points by m0th87 on Nov 8, 2009 | 8 comments
16.
Emacs Zen Coding - Write markup quickly (emacswiki.org)
41 points by kirubakaran on Nov 8, 2009 | 10 comments
17.
Extreme JavaScript Performance (slideshare.net)
39 points by _giu on Nov 8, 2009 | 17 comments
18.
Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit (tpg.com.au)
37 points by tokenadult on Nov 8, 2009 | 5 comments
19.
What DNS Is Not (acm.org)
37 points by bensummers on Nov 8, 2009 | 11 comments
20.
Ask HN: What music alters your state of consciousness?
37 points by zen53 on Nov 8, 2009 | 84 comments
21.
How to write a rude Q&A (scottberkun.com)
34 points by bootload on Nov 8, 2009 | 8 comments
22.
Phys Ed: Why Doesn’t Exercise Lead to Weight Loss? (nytimes.com)
33 points by yangyang on Nov 8, 2009 | 48 comments
23.
Comprehensive guide to bash scripting (talesofacoldadmin.wordpress.com)
32 points by tzury on Nov 8, 2009 | 4 comments
24.
Why Dilbert Is Doomed (salon.com)
29 points by ojbyrne on Nov 8, 2009 | 40 comments
25.
Turning Cellphones into Microscopes (nytimes.com)
28 points by qohen on Nov 8, 2009 | 4 comments
26.
Braess's paradox: adding roads can increase congestion (crowddynamics.co.uk)
28 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Nov 8, 2009 | 9 comments
27.
Ask HN: Speedreading - myth vs reality? your thoughts.
27 points by justlearning on Nov 8, 2009 | 24 comments
28.
Ask HN: What do founders spend their time on, after their product launch?
26 points by vaksel on Nov 8, 2009 | 16 comments
29.
Zero-day flaw found in web encryption (zdnet.co.uk)
25 points by Anon84 on Nov 8, 2009 | 15 comments
30.
You're An Idiot For Not Using Heroku (railstips.org)
23 points by _pius on Nov 8, 2009 | 36 comments

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