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1.
Google Goggles (google.com)
222 points by andrewpbrett on Dec 7, 2009 | 74 comments
2.
Crunchpad renamed "JooJoo" will cost $499 on sale Dec. 11 (engadget.com)
204 points by maudineormsby on Dec 7, 2009 | 211 comments
3.
Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides? (steveblank.com)
188 points by nathanh on Dec 7, 2009 | 35 comments
4.
Antiobjects (wikipedia.org)
133 points by raganwald on Dec 7, 2009 | 28 comments
5.
Living in a van - an inspirational story of frugality and achievement (salon.com)
112 points by imajes on Dec 7, 2009 | 53 comments
6.
TSA redaction fail: hidden text easily readable via copy & paste (wanderingaramean.com)
108 points by anigbrowl on Dec 7, 2009 | 54 comments
7.
Record industry faces liability over `infringement' (thestar.com)
102 points by fogus on Dec 7, 2009 | 16 comments
8.
Eliezer Yudkowsky: That Alien Message (lesswrong.com)
91 points by kf on Dec 7, 2009 | 33 comments
9.
WPA cracker in the cloud (wpacracker.com)
87 points by mcxx on Dec 7, 2009 | 30 comments
10.
An Inconvenient Truth: Intel Larrabee story revealed (brightsideofnews.com)
81 points by s3graham on Dec 7, 2009 | 15 comments
11.
Criticism, Cheerleading, and Negativity (al3x.net)
76 points by fogus on Dec 7, 2009 | 23 comments
12.
Linode adds datacenter in Europe (linode.com)
77 points by drewr on Dec 7, 2009 | 27 comments
13.
Chromium Software Updates: Courgette (chromium.org)
67 points by nreece on Dec 7, 2009 | 34 comments
14.
High Performance at Massive Scale: Lessons Learned at Facebook (idleprocess.wordpress.com)
66 points by niels on Dec 7, 2009 | 11 comments
15.
Virgin Galactic unveils commercial spaceship (yahoo.com)
65 points by prakash on Dec 7, 2009 | 15 comments
16.
Erlang MMORPG Engine (next-gen.cc)
64 points by flashingpumpkin on Dec 7, 2009 | 37 comments
17.
Rethinking artificial intelligence (web.mit.edu)
63 points by jacek on Dec 7, 2009 | 39 comments
18.
The Dumbest Interview Question (laouini.blogspot.com)
62 points by reeyuk on Dec 7, 2009 | 70 comments
19.
Vine seeds become gliders with 12% descent angle (bbc.co.uk)
61 points by pg on Dec 7, 2009 | 10 comments
20.
Hnsh - Hacker News from the command-line (scottjackson.org)
61 points by scottjackson on Dec 7, 2009 | 45 comments
21.
Ask HN: How to learn to web dev for real ?
58 points by Murkin on Dec 7, 2009 | 37 comments
22.
Short Chat Server in Clojure (kirindave.tumblr.com)
57 points by fogus on Dec 7, 2009 | 23 comments
23.
Ruby Gets An Official Spec: Heading To Become An ISO International Standard (rubyinside.com)
55 points by sant0sk1 on Dec 7, 2009 | 29 comments
24.
Frame-Dragging Clearly Visible (stanford.edu)
49 points by onoj on Dec 7, 2009 | 12 comments
25.
How the Government Helped Frequent Fliers Make a Mint (wsj.com)
49 points by shedd on Dec 7, 2009 | 31 comments
26.
Google’s Coolest 20% Project: Liquid Galaxy (techcrunch.com)
47 points by novicecoder on Dec 7, 2009 | 9 comments
27.
What is math? (scienceblogs.com)
43 points by fogus on Dec 7, 2009 | 35 comments
28.
Apple Bans Another Developer, 1000+ Apps Pulled (mobilecrunch.com)
41 points by ilamont on Dec 7, 2009 | 6 comments
29.
On being an AI in a box (rondam.blogspot.com)
40 points by lisper on Dec 7, 2009 | 62 comments
30.
 Aardvark Mulls Over A $30+ Million Offer From Google (techcrunch.com)
39 points by dwynings on Dec 7, 2009 | 22 comments

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