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1.		Beautiful plots of roots of polynomials (ucr.edu)
		102 points by fogus on Dec 6, 2009 \| 16 comments
2.		USB wall outlet - new standard for DC plugs? (fastmac.com)
		122 points by jonnytran on Dec 6, 2009 \| 67 comments
3.		Java is pass-by-value, Dammit (and so are Ruby and Python, Dammit) (javadude.com)
		108 points by raganwald on Dec 6, 2009 \| 73 comments
4.		Adieu google (kitenet.net)
		107 points by epi0Bauqu on Dec 6, 2009 \| 71 comments
5.		The death of if/else cascades, a lightweight alternative (leftrightfold.com)
		85 points by kyleburton on Dec 6, 2009 \| 51 comments
6.		Rithmomachy (wikipedia.org)
		79 points by fogus on Dec 6, 2009 \| 8 comments
7.		The looming crisis in human genetics (economist.com)
		63 points by kf on Dec 6, 2009 \| 62 comments
8.		Xmonad + bluetile = making tiling windowing accessible to new users (xmonad.wordpress.com)
		59 points by dons on Dec 6, 2009 \| 14 comments
9.		Chromoscope - the Milky Way at many wavelengths (chromoscope.net)
		58 points by michael_nielsen on Dec 6, 2009 \| 12 comments
10.		Visualization of the Grammars of Ruby, Java and Javascript (nicksieger.com)
		56 points by r11t on Dec 6, 2009 \| 15 comments
11.		Web forms design guidelines: an eyetracking study (cxpartners.co.uk)
		55 points by nreece on Dec 6, 2009 \| 11 comments
12.		Clarity - an open source web interface to grep and tail (leetsoft.com)
		51 points by xal on Dec 6, 2009 \| 7 comments
13.		Darpa announces Network Challenge winner (MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team) (darpa.mil)
		49 points by jeremyawon on Dec 6, 2009 \| 17 comments
14.		Ask HN: Ask to be acquired?
		47 points by MicahWedemeyer on Dec 6, 2009 \| 33 comments
15.		Pivot (from Microsoft) (getpivot.com)
		46 points by vijayr on Dec 6, 2009 \| 57 comments
16.		The Way We Ate: The Great Scrapple Correspondence of 1872 (nytimes.com)
		45 points by blasdel on Dec 6, 2009 \| 7 comments
17.		Embezzle a bit more of your building’s heat (marco.org)
		43 points by blasdel on Dec 6, 2009 \| 17 comments
18.		Is Small Still Beautiful? (lambda-the-ultimate.org)
		42 points by r11t on Dec 6, 2009 \| 13 comments
19.		Single-atom transistor discovered (sciencedaily.com)
		41 points by alexandros on Dec 6, 2009
20.		Bezos defends model of keeping 65% of (kindle) book revenue (nytimes.com)
		39 points by credo on Dec 6, 2009 \| 39 comments
21.		A simple chat server in Node.js (dhotson.tumblr.com)
		38 points by dhotson on Dec 6, 2009 \| 8 comments
22.		Ask HN: I'm a programmer. I am always angry at job. Is this normal?
		38 points by seymores on Dec 6, 2009 \| 54 comments
23.		ECMAScript 5 is an ECMA standard (despite IBM, Intel voting no) (mail.mozilla.org)
		38 points by ejs on Dec 6, 2009 \| 6 comments
24.		Rise of the Tablog (putthingsoff.com)
		36 points by fogus on Dec 6, 2009 \| 6 comments
25.		The $0.99 Problem (gamasutra.com)
		35 points by EvilTrout on Dec 6, 2009 \| 18 comments
26.		Ask HN: Any startups offering summer internships?
		33 points by pjw1187 on Dec 6, 2009 \| 21 comments
27.		The End of the Working Week (putthingsoff.com)
		32 points by chanux on Dec 6, 2009 \| 12 comments
28.		Ask HN: Start formal group to peer review climate code?
		31 points by hop on Dec 6, 2009 \| 39 comments
29.		Amazon loses about $2 for every e-book (tbiresearch.com)
		30 points by prakash on Dec 6, 2009 \| 29 comments
30.		Ask HN: Examples where you make something people want, but are unable to profit?
		30 points by employfive on Dec 6, 2009 \| 71 comments
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