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1.		North Korea Changes Currency (wsj.com)
		143 points by garply on Dec 2, 2009 \| 139 comments
2.		Why I chose Common Lisp over Python, Ruby, and Clojure (postabon.posterous.com)
		134 points by smanek on Dec 2, 2009 \| 138 comments
3.		Step-by-Step Math (wolframalpha.com)
		132 points by kqr2 on Dec 2, 2009 \| 32 comments
4.		Sprint fed customer GPS data to police over 8 million times (arstechnica.com)
		97 points by MikeCapone on Dec 2, 2009 \| 28 comments
5.		Dane who ripped his DVDs demands to be arrested under DRM law (boingboing.net)
		94 points by ThomPete on Dec 2, 2009 \| 30 comments
6.		Programmer search engine (joelonsoftware.com)
		90 points by babakian on Dec 2, 2009 \| 86 comments
7.		Do You See a Pattern? (slate.com)
		84 points by edw519 on Dec 2, 2009 \| 30 comments
8.		Ask HN: Equity for a first employee
		80 points by newdle on Dec 2, 2009 \| 38 comments
9.		Happy holidays from Gmail: Free snailmail gift cards (services.google.com)
		73 points by genieyclo on Dec 2, 2009 \| 47 comments
10.		Google Analytics unblocks the Web w/ Async support (ajaxian.com)
		65 points by alexandros on Dec 2, 2009 \| 12 comments
11.		From working remotely to out of an office. (spencerfry.com)
		65 points by maxstoller on Dec 2, 2009 \| 16 comments
12.		Tweetminer opens up all their stats (income, server, users) (tweetminer.net)
		59 points by dan_sim on Dec 2, 2009 \| 38 comments
13.		Next permutation: When C++ gets it right (wordaligned.org)
		58 points by r11t on Dec 2, 2009 \| 17 comments
14.		How Robber Barons hijacked the "Victorian Internet" (arstechnica.com)
		57 points by alecco on Dec 2, 2009 \| 40 comments
15.		A radically new type of engine (autoblog.com)
		56 points by Nycto on Dec 2, 2009 \| 14 comments
16.		How to achieve greater productivity of teams (lostgarden.com)
		46 points by mcxx on Dec 2, 2009 \| 6 comments
17.		Now you see it, now you don't (Google rolls out fade-in homepage) (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		43 points by andrewpbrett on Dec 2, 2009 \| 38 comments
18.		Flawed climate data (financialpost.com)
		40 points by BearOfNH on Dec 2, 2009 \| 37 comments
19.		Startup Lessons - a manual for aspiring entrepreneurs (jottit.com)
		40 points by martian on Dec 2, 2009 \| 12 comments
20.		Google to limit free news access (bbc.co.uk)
		40 points by intranation on Dec 2, 2009 \| 36 comments
21.		The Problem With Music (negativland.com)
		39 points by alexkay on Dec 2, 2009 \| 4 comments
22.		Ask HN: How much did you spend on your startup before you got ramen profitable?
		39 points by vaksel on Dec 2, 2009 \| 18 comments
23.		Baumol's Cost Disease: Why Artists are Always Poor (wikipedia.org)
		39 points by mnemonicsloth on Dec 2, 2009 \| 14 comments
24.		Let's Give Visas to Startup Founders (businessweek.com)
		36 points by pchristensen on Dec 2, 2009 \| 27 comments
25.		Thanks to Yahoo, Facebook is King of Identity (gigaom.com)
		36 points by boundlessdreamz on Dec 2, 2009 \| 12 comments
26.		Start-up Visas Can Jump-Start the Economy (wsj.com)
		33 points by steveplace on Dec 2, 2009 \| 2 comments
27.		Mark Coleran is a MovieOS designer (coleran.com)
		33 points by robin_reala on Dec 2, 2009 \| 5 comments
28.		Investing in Pirates (reuters.com)
		32 points by huangm on Dec 2, 2009 \| 21 comments
29.		How fast is your site? (googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
		32 points by makimaki on Dec 2, 2009 \| 3 comments
30.		Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in Python (brpreiss.com)
		31 points by pogos on Dec 2, 2009 \| 4 comments
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