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1.		Making Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up" in Ableton by Jim Pavloff (victusspiritus.com)
		183 points by messel on Dec 24, 2009 \| 63 comments
2.		Installing Etherpad (pauleira.com)
		129 points by nuba on Dec 24, 2009 \| 6 comments
3.		IKEA: Flat-pack accounting (2006) (economist.com)
		113 points by InclinedPlane on Dec 24, 2009 \| 31 comments
4.		Movement Mechanics in “The Legend of Zelda” (troygilbert.com)
		102 points by fogus on Dec 24, 2009 \| 10 comments
5.		Intercepting Predator Video (schneier.com)
		89 points by wglb on Dec 24, 2009 \| 46 comments
6.		The disappointingly ongoing success of WvDial (apenwarr.ca)
		79 points by windsurfer on Dec 24, 2009 \| 24 comments
7.		Amazon goes down; takes S3, Salesforce, Target, and others with them. (techcrunch.com)
		78 points by Sam_Odio on Dec 24, 2009 \| 46 comments
8.		Merry Christmas & a very happy 2010 HN
		74 points by jacquesm on Dec 24, 2009 \| 21 comments
9.		Walter Bright on C's Biggest Mistake (dobbscodetalk.com)
		64 points by kssreeram on Dec 24, 2009 \| 47 comments
10.		WePay’s (YC S09) Group Payments Get Some Big-Name Backers, Including Max Levchin (techcrunch.com)
		58 points by aberman on Dec 24, 2009 \| 12 comments
11.		Ask PG: What would your next startup be?
		58 points by nick007 on Dec 24, 2009 \| 32 comments
12.		Git: The Lean, Mean, Distributed Machine (slideshare.net)
		58 points by r11t on Dec 24, 2009 \| 27 comments
13.		Ask HN: Plans for 2010
		53 points by aitoehigie on Dec 24, 2009 \| 89 comments
14.		Maps Navigation : Google vs a Startup (silicontryst.wordpress.com)
		46 points by nishantmodak on Dec 24, 2009 \| 37 comments
15.		Sideroller demo. Have fun. (sideroller.com)
		46 points by Asmodeus on Dec 24, 2009 \| 24 comments
16.		Stealthy Passive Spliced Network Tap (janitha.com)
		45 points by janitha on Dec 24, 2009 \| 12 comments
17.		Female Founder Successes of 2009 (women2.org)
		45 points by jlhamilton on Dec 24, 2009 \| 11 comments
18.		Microsoft Security Essentials Ranks as Best-Performing Free Antivirus (lifehacker.com)
		43 points by hvasishth on Dec 24, 2009 \| 1 comment
19.		Ask HN: What are your goals for your startups in 2010?
		40 points by vaksel on Dec 24, 2009 \| 58 comments
20.		Symbols.com (symbols.com)
		39 points by fogus on Dec 24, 2009 \| 3 comments
21.		Make Your Mockup in Markup (24ways.org)
		38 points by justinl on Dec 24, 2009 \| 17 comments
22.		Ask HN: Review my site, CureCRM.com (curecrm.com)
		36 points by alexS on Dec 24, 2009 \| 44 comments
23.		Our Google Government (philosecurity.org)
		34 points by elcron on Dec 24, 2009 \| 8 comments
24.		NoSQL with MySQL in Ruby - Friendly (friendlyorm.com)
		32 points by madh on Dec 24, 2009 \| 13 comments
25.		Two logic puzzles (nickyee.com)
		29 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Dec 24, 2009 \| 36 comments
26.		Boeing’s 787 Is as Innovative Inside as Outside (wired.com)
		28 points by edw519 on Dec 24, 2009 \| 22 comments
27.		How bees perform perfect landing (bbc.co.uk)
		25 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Dec 24, 2009 \| 30 comments
28.		FCC Commissioner slams Verizon on $350 ETFs (arstechnica.com)
		24 points by abraham on Dec 24, 2009 \| 6 comments
29.		The Top Ten IPO Candidates For 2010 (techcrunch.com)
		23 points by edw519 on Dec 24, 2009 \| 11 comments
30.		Freakonomics: Incentivized Altruism (nytimes.com)
		23 points by cwan on Dec 24, 2009 \| 11 comments
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