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1.		Ask HN: What hosting do you use for personal projects?
		106 points by j_baker on Dec 19, 2009 \| 126 comments
2.		Beating the Arc Challenge in Haskell (gist.github.com)
		100 points by chriseidhof on Dec 19, 2009 \| 95 comments
3.		Etherpad includes banned (on Google code) software JSMin (wonko.com)
		75 points by suprgeek on Dec 19, 2009 \| 58 comments
4.		HP computers are racist (youtube.com)
		67 points by jawngee on Dec 19, 2009 \| 45 comments
5.		Ask HN: Review my App - Freeciv.net (freeciv.net)
		62 points by roschdal on Dec 19, 2009 \| 47 comments
6.		Data-Oriented Design (Why You Might Be Shooting Yourself in The Foot With OOP) (gamesfromwithin.com)
		59 points by gruseom on Dec 19, 2009 \| 28 comments
7.		The rise of Python in computational science (walkingrandomly.com)
		53 points by TriinT on Dec 19, 2009 \| 31 comments
8.		Gadget Patrol: 21st century phone (antipope.org)
		49 points by alexandros on Dec 19, 2009 \| 8 comments
9.		Tell HN: I posted the JooJoo/CrunchPad interview (mixergy.com)
		46 points by AndrewWarner on Dec 19, 2009 \| 6 comments
10.		Stealth Startups, Get Over Yourselves: Nobody Cares About Your Secrets (techcrunch.com)
		46 points by edw519 on Dec 19, 2009 \| 34 comments
11.		Mac OS Evolution: From System 1.0 to Snow Leopard (francescomugnai.com)
		42 points by anderzole on Dec 19, 2009 \| 39 comments
12.		Why climatologists used the tree-ring data ‘trick’ (scienceblogs.com)
		39 points by MikeCapone on Dec 19, 2009 \| 70 comments
13.		The Puzzling Paradox of Sign Language (technologyreview.com)
		39 points by TriinT on Dec 19, 2009 \| 39 comments
14.		Tell HN: Asana.com founded by that other facebook guy just got 9M and is hiring (asana.com)
		34 points by d4ft on Dec 19, 2009 \| 21 comments
15.		--All You Zombies-- (wikipedia.org)
		30 points by vinutheraj on Dec 19, 2009 \| 13 comments
16.		How To Get Me To Hang Up On You (avc.com)
		30 points by peter123 on Dec 19, 2009 \| 27 comments
17.		JavaGems: gemcutter for the JVM (javagems.org)
		29 points by iamaleksey on Dec 19, 2009 \| 7 comments
18.		Ask HN: Where do you get your scientific papers from?
		28 points by ComputerGuru on Dec 19, 2009 \| 20 comments
19.		Functioning Form - The Apple Store's Checkout Form Redesign (lukew.com)
		28 points by madh on Dec 19, 2009 \| 6 comments
20.		Networking: The last bastion of mainframe computing (mvdirona.com)
		26 points by bbgm on Dec 19, 2009 \| 1 comment
21.		Jeremy Zawodny: My Top Resources of 2009 (linux-mag.com)
		25 points by ypk on Dec 19, 2009 \| 2 comments
22.		WordPress 2.9 launched (wordpress.org)
		24 points by jeff18 on Dec 19, 2009 \| 14 comments
23.		Semantic Editor Combinators (conal.net)
		23 points by davatk on Dec 19, 2009
24.		The Twitter API is Finished. Now What? (dashes.com)
		21 points by raghus on Dec 19, 2009 \| 2 comments
25.		Facebook users unwittingly solve CATPCHAs, aid spread of Koobface (lastwatchdog.com)
		20 points by dc2k08 on Dec 19, 2009 \| 5 comments
26.		Intelligence Improperly Collected on U.S. Citizens (nytimes.com)
		21 points by d4ft on Dec 19, 2009 \| 5 comments
27.		Iran cracks down on critics posting on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube (wsj.com)
		19 points by cwan on Dec 19, 2009 \| 1 comment
28.		Drexler: cognitive bias causes progress in nanotech to be overlooked (metamodern.com)
		16 points by awwx on Dec 19, 2009 \| 1 comment
29.		Tell HN: I wrote a website with a unique method of recommending links.
		16 points by njay on Dec 19, 2009 \| 14 comments
30.		Put Your Startup on Holiday Autopilot with Twilio (readwriteweb.com)
		14 points by danielle17 on Dec 19, 2009 \| 6 comments
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