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1.
Google acquires AppJet/Etherpad (etherpad.com)
258 points by dreeves on Dec 4, 2009 | 98 comments
2.
Analyzing Y Combinator (awesomezombie.com)
169 points by ig1 on Dec 4, 2009 | 61 comments
3.
Ack - better than grep, a power search tool for programmers (betterthangrep.com)
152 points by mustpax on Dec 4, 2009 | 33 comments
4.
Google Dictionary (google.com)
106 points by chanux on Dec 4, 2009 | 69 comments
5.
No one gets fired for hiring IBM - how our pitch was stolen from us (solidstategroup.com)
106 points by dabeeeenster on Dec 4, 2009 | 43 comments
6.
Saying "NO" (objectmentor.com)
91 points by fogus on Dec 4, 2009 | 31 comments
7.
Webapp: image recognition to find nearest tennis courts from satellite photos (ahathereitis.blogspot.com)
84 points by Torn on Dec 4, 2009 | 25 comments
8.
Three lessons I learnt from porting Diablo (petewarden.typepad.com)
83 points by petewarden on Dec 4, 2009 | 24 comments
9.
Ask HN: alternatives to EtherPad?
71 points by jeff18 on Dec 4, 2009 | 59 comments
10.
 Mint Explains Why The Real Unemployment Rate Is 17.2 Percent (techcrunch.com)
68 points by transburgh on Dec 4, 2009 | 17 comments
11.
Apple App Store Surprise: Giving credit where credit is due (withfoam.com)
66 points by vlucas on Dec 4, 2009 | 18 comments
12.
Rails 3 : Vaporware To Awesome (slideshare.net)
65 points by r11t on Dec 4, 2009 | 48 comments
13.
Free vector and raster map data at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110m scales (naturalearthdata.com)
62 points by fortes on Dec 4, 2009 | 6 comments
14.
Blogs Are Godless Communist Bullshit (gilesbowkett.blogspot.com)
59 points by ph0rque on Dec 4, 2009 | 7 comments
15.
Sugru - hack things better (sugru.com)
56 points by laika4000 on Dec 4, 2009 | 12 comments
16.
A New Theory of Awesomeness and Miracles (shorttermmemoryloss.com)
54 points by prabodh on Dec 4, 2009 | 10 comments
17.
Python Moratorium: Let's think about this (jessenoller.com)
54 points by saturdayplace on Dec 4, 2009 | 20 comments
18.
JQuery 1.4 Alpha 1 Released (jquery.com)
50 points by johns on Dec 4, 2009 | 11 comments
19.
Ruins of Pompeii added to Google Street View (maps.google.com)
49 points by cesare on Dec 4, 2009 | 13 comments
20.
Ridiculous User Interfaces In Film, and the Man Who Designs Them (gizmodo.com)
48 points by nreece on Dec 4, 2009 | 21 comments
21.
Google Public DNS vs OpenDNS vs Your ISP's DNS: Find out which is fastest (browsermob.com)
45 points by Lightbody on Dec 4, 2009 | 21 comments
22.
The 37signals Manifesto (original site from 1999) (37signals.com)
44 points by revorad on Dec 4, 2009 | 19 comments
23.
Facebook's creepy privacy (jgc.org)
44 points by jgrahamc on Dec 4, 2009 | 27 comments
24.
Like Slime, for Vim (technotales.wordpress.com)
43 points by b-man on Dec 4, 2009 | 19 comments
25.
One Million Years of Isolation (bldgblog.blogspot.com)
42 points by kqr2 on Dec 4, 2009 | 10 comments
26.
Source: Google Is Acquiring AppJet, The Company Behind EtherPad (YC S07) (techcrunch.com)
40 points by mikek on Dec 4, 2009 | 11 comments
27.
String Interpolation in Clojure (muckandbrass.com)
40 points by fogus on Dec 4, 2009 | 5 comments
28.
Explaining to BBC Newsnight some of the problems with the CRU code (bbc.co.uk)
39 points by jgrahamc on Dec 4, 2009 | 30 comments
29.
Can Anyone Stop Facebook? (slate.com)
38 points by edw519 on Dec 4, 2009 | 51 comments
30.
Fortress (tbray.org)
36 points by wglb on Dec 4, 2009 | 12 comments

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