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1.
Middle school evacuated because of a science project (signonsandiego.com)
126 points by georgecmu on Jan 16, 2010 | 101 comments
2.
No Comment (dadgum.com)
108 points by EricBurnett on Jan 16, 2010 | 65 comments
3.
Dear Flash plugin, love OSX (codesketch.com)
99 points by g0atbutt on Jan 16, 2010 | 65 comments
4.
Making A Living (Barely) On The iPhone App Store (aka The Numbers Post) (gamesfromwithin.com)
87 points by adamhowell on Jan 16, 2010 | 16 comments
5.
Not enough women are arrogant self-aggrandizing jerks (shirky.com)
87 points by AndrewDucker on Jan 16, 2010 | 88 comments
6.
The Men Who Live Forever (menshealth.com)
62 points by chaostheory on Jan 16, 2010 | 26 comments
7.
The lost script: 1000-year-old African/Arabic writing system (boston.com)
53 points by davi on Jan 16, 2010 | 17 comments
8.
The girl who conned the Ivy League (rollingstone.com)
52 points by Fixnum on Jan 16, 2010 | 18 comments
9.
Programming with proportional fonts is great (m-mz.posterous.com)
48 points by brokenmusic on Jan 16, 2010 | 50 comments
10.
Ask PG & HN: Hardware VCs
46 points by ComputerGuru on Jan 16, 2010 | 16 comments
11.
Yahoo knew of attacks before Google, kept mum (reuters.com)
45 points by briansmith on Jan 16, 2010 | 27 comments
12.
Cool Augmented Reality App for Fixing Cars
44 points by mishmax on Jan 16, 2010 | 14 comments
13.
Chaining vs. Nesting (frankschmitt.org)
43 points by frankus on Jan 16, 2010 | 19 comments
14.
JQuery moved from Google Groups to Zoho Forum (jquery.com)
41 points by scorpion032 on Jan 16, 2010 | 25 comments
15.
Data Sorcery with Clojure (data-sorcery.org)
37 points by va_coder on Jan 16, 2010
16.
The Best Hiring Tip (zakimahomed.posterous.com)
36 points by alizaki on Jan 16, 2010 | 26 comments
17.
Brian Williams: Why Jon Stewart Is Good For News (npr.org)
35 points by jonmc12 on Jan 16, 2010 | 11 comments
18.
The repetitive and boring gameplay in WoW is probably intentional. (wikipedia.org)
34 points by amichail on Jan 16, 2010 | 37 comments
19.
Send the ISS to Mars (washingtonpost.com)
34 points by tocomment on Jan 16, 2010 | 19 comments
20.
A global fiasco brewing in Japan. (Will the US follow?) (telegraph.co.uk)
32 points by cwan on Jan 16, 2010 | 45 comments
21.
How Netflix loaded 1 billion rows into SimpleDB (practicalcloudcomputing.com)
32 points by petewarden on Jan 16, 2010 | 16 comments
22.
A Simply Neat Example of Function Pointers in C (stoneship.org)
31 points by ilovecomputers on Jan 16, 2010 | 22 comments
23.
Charts & Graphics: 10 excellent books (cbsolution.net)
30 points by Anon84 on Jan 16, 2010 | 4 comments
24.
Google vs. Apple (businessweek.com)
31 points by k7d on Jan 16, 2010 | 23 comments
25.
How to Take a Caffeine Nap (feint.me)
30 points by feint on Jan 16, 2010 | 20 comments
26.
"No Waiting Room" and Queuing Theory (apenwarr.ca)
28 points by bensummers on Jan 16, 2010 | 7 comments
27.
DARPA: U.S. Geek Shortage Is National Security Risk (wired.com)
26 points by cwan on Jan 16, 2010 | 28 comments
28.
Howto: Mac OSX on KVM (goddamm.it)
25 points by garply on Jan 16, 2010 | 13 comments
29.
Review of Let over Lambda by Doug Hoyte (john.freml.in)
24 points by vii on Jan 16, 2010 | 3 comments
30.
Does length matter? It does for video (wistia.com)
24 points by gsaines on Jan 16, 2010 | 2 comments

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