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1.		Worst. Puzzle. Ever. (rondam.blogspot.com)
		152 points by lisper on Dec 28, 2009 \| 44 comments
2.		Hacking Stephen Fry's Twitter Account (xakep.ru)
		143 points by michael_dorfman on Dec 28, 2009 \| 37 comments
3.		GSM encryption broken (nytimes.com)
		89 points by tfincannon on Dec 28, 2009 \| 43 comments
4.		Replicating the Google Wave layout in 100 lines of js code with UkiJS (ukijs.org)
		68 points by mcantelon on Dec 28, 2009 \| 35 comments
5.		Predictions for 2010 (erickerr.com)
		65 points by treblig on Dec 28, 2009 \| 39 comments
6.		Programmer Conned CIA, Pentagon Into Buying Bogus Anti-Terror Code (wired.com)
		64 points by phsr on Dec 28, 2009 \| 32 comments
7.		'gravity wells' - depiction of relative gravity in the solar system (xkcd.com)
		63 points by sharpn on Dec 28, 2009 \| 12 comments
8.		Researchers Create Gold Aluminum, Black Platinum, Blue Silver (rochester.edu)
		63 points by prat on Dec 28, 2009 \| 40 comments
9.		TSA Security Directive SD-1544–09-06 (volokh.com)
		63 points by cwan on Dec 28, 2009 \| 116 comments
10.		Torrent Search Engines Unlawful, U.S. Judge Says (wired.com)
		59 points by phsr on Dec 28, 2009 \| 49 comments
11.		Turn On, Tune In, Veg Out (2005, Neal Stephenson) (nytimes.com)
		53 points by lincolnq on Dec 28, 2009 \| 14 comments
12.		Ask HN: Rate my startup idea "Be Caller Nine"
		48 points by jazzychad on Dec 28, 2009 \| 28 comments
13.		ATT to NYC: No iPhone for you... (consumerist.com)
		46 points by telemachos on Dec 28, 2009 \| 27 comments
14.		On Commit Messages (who-t.blogspot.com)
		45 points by edw519 on Dec 28, 2009 \| 23 comments
15.		HackerMusic (hackermusic.com)
		44 points by bkudria on Dec 28, 2009 \| 11 comments
16.		MapReduce: A Flexible Data Processing Tool (AKA Dean and Ghemawat strike back) (acm.org)
		44 points by bbgm on Dec 28, 2009 \| 5 comments
17.		Decoding Climate Change with Perl, gnuplot and Google Earth (oreilly.com)
		43 points by Anon84 on Dec 28, 2009 \| 34 comments
18.		Ask HN: Where do I go from here?
		40 points by VolatileVoid on Dec 28, 2009 \| 25 comments
19.		LÖVE 0.6.0 (lua game library) is released (love2d.org)
		42 points by phren0logy on Dec 28, 2009 \| 15 comments
20.		Announcing the Firefox 4 Design Challenge – The Home Tab (mozillalabs.com)
		39 points by abraham on Dec 28, 2009 \| 36 comments
21.		Good Guys Bring Down the Mega-D Botnet (pcworld.com)
		39 points by wglb on Dec 28, 2009 \| 30 comments
22.		Mathematical embarrassments are problems that should be solved already (rjlipton.wordpress.com)
		41 points by blasdel on Dec 28, 2009 \| 6 comments
23.		The Unbearable Complexity of Climate (wattsupwiththat.com)
		38 points by azgolfer on Dec 28, 2009 \| 36 comments
24.		The New, Terrifying, No-Electronics US Flight Security Rules (gizmodo.com)
		37 points by Flemlord on Dec 28, 2009 \| 58 comments
25.		Happy Birthday, Linus (linuxjournal.com)
		36 points by k7d on Dec 28, 2009 \| 12 comments
26.		Amazon S3 file system with improved caching: the itch I scratched over Christmas (github.com/russross)
		36 points by russross on Dec 28, 2009 \| 9 comments
27.		Poor man's profiler (poormansprofiler.org)
		35 points by emilis_info on Dec 28, 2009 \| 2 comments
28.		Google's Chrome OS is a Commitment Mechanism (hellosorld.com)
		34 points by stanleydrew on Dec 28, 2009 \| 20 comments
29.		Why are modern scientists so dull? (medicalhypotheses.blogspot.com)
		34 points by bootload on Dec 28, 2009 \| 20 comments
30.		Ask HN: How long after launch did you get your first customer?
		32 points by hajrice on Dec 28, 2009 \| 22 comments
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