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Stories from December 9, 2009

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1.		IBM's infamous "Black Team" (2002) (t3.org)
		234 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Dec 9, 2009 \| 62 comments
2.		What Not To Build (halfanhour.blogspot.com)
		200 points by vorador on Dec 9, 2009 \| 72 comments
3.		Travel by cargo ship around the world (transitionsabroad.com)
		123 points by TriinT on Dec 9, 2009 \| 40 comments
4.		Web Sockets Now Available In Google Chrome (chromium.org)
		119 points by gps408 on Dec 9, 2009 \| 38 comments
5.		Ask HN: Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine)
		103 points by itsmin on Dec 9, 2009 \| 50 comments
6.		Dijkstra: Battle Between Managers / Beancounters & Technologists [pdf] (utexas.edu)
		87 points by signa11 on Dec 9, 2009 \| 14 comments
7.		Marijuana might cause new cell growth in the brain (newscientist.com)
		86 points by fogus on Dec 9, 2009 \| 44 comments
8.		Not-so-safe Sex (forbes.com)
		85 points by araneae on Dec 9, 2009 \| 63 comments
9.		Google releases a Chrome extension to identify web app performance problems (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		82 points by sundaypancakes on Dec 9, 2009 \| 15 comments
10.		Is RightJS really faster than jQuery? (debuggable.com)
		74 points by felixge on Dec 9, 2009 \| 18 comments
11.		New Ruby on Rails Tutorial book-in-progress (railstutorial.org)
		66 points by mhartl on Dec 9, 2009 \| 19 comments
12.		Health Insurers Pay Facebook Gamers Virtual Currency To Oppose Reform Bill (businessinsider.com)
		67 points by Hunchr on Dec 9, 2009 \| 37 comments
13.		If we work day and night, we can match our competitor's features within 12 mos. (dilbert.com)
		61 points by kevindication on Dec 9, 2009 \| 14 comments
14.		Shor, I’ll do it (scottaaronson.com)
		59 points by helium on Dec 9, 2009 \| 3 comments
15.		The Making Of… Carmageddon (edge-online.com)
		59 points by b-man on Dec 9, 2009 \| 11 comments
16.		NoSQL Required Reading (asserttrue.blogspot.com)
		55 points by techdog on Dec 9, 2009 \| 7 comments
17.		Reddit opens self-serve ads to the public (promo your site for as little as $20) (reddit.com)
		48 points by kn0thing on Dec 9, 2009 \| 24 comments
18.		Psychologists find a drug-free way for fears to be unlearned (bps-research-digest.blogspot.com)
		47 points by alecco on Dec 9, 2009 \| 10 comments
19.		Don't Suck At Email (markosullivan.ca)
		43 points by andrewhyde on Dec 9, 2009 \| 24 comments
20.		An open letter to Eric Schmidt (vanelsas.wordpress.com)
		43 points by genieyclo on Dec 9, 2009 \| 35 comments
21.		Twitter: All Developers Will Get Access to the Firehose in Early 2010 (readwriteweb.com)
		41 points by mcxx on Dec 9, 2009 \| 8 comments
22.		Droid has been rooted (alldroid.org)
		40 points by RyanMcGreal on Dec 9, 2009 \| 11 comments
23.		Walt Disney Creative Org Chart (atissuejournal.com)
		40 points by grinich on Dec 9, 2009 \| 5 comments
24.		Disk IO and throughput benchmarks on Amazon's EC2 (stu.mp)
		37 points by sstrudeau on Dec 9, 2009 \| 14 comments
25.		Ask HN: Rate a StartUp Zatista.com (zatista.com)
		36 points by keltecp11 on Dec 9, 2009 \| 25 comments
26.		Ready, Set, Go (engineyard.com)
		36 points by wifelette on Dec 9, 2009 \| 2 comments
27.		Understanding Amazon Dynamo by Building it in Erlang (lethain.com)
		35 points by clofresh on Dec 9, 2009
28.		What debugging ought to feel like (video) (guba.com)
		30 points by nearestneighbor on Dec 9, 2009 \| 13 comments
29.		Happy Holidays from First Round Capital (firstround.com)
		30 points by e1ven on Dec 9, 2009 \| 5 comments
30.		How Simple Game Mechanics Can Impassion Your Users (mixergy.com)
		27 points by AndrewWarner on Dec 9, 2009 \| 9 comments
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