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1. Why I Hate Frameworks (joelonsoftware.com)
126 points by Jebdm on Jan 13, 2009 | 125 comments
2. Failure (possibleprobable.com)
93 points by comatose_kid on Jan 13, 2009 | 31 comments
3. Open-plan offices are making workers sick (news.com.au)
90 points by astrec on Jan 13, 2009 | 71 comments
4. The History of Python (python-history.blogspot.com)
65 points by bockris on Jan 13, 2009 | 11 comments
5. Posterous had an amazing growth spike in December (dustincurtis.com)
63 points by alaskamiller on Jan 13, 2009 | 24 comments
6. When the Education Bubble Finally Pops (jamtoday.org)
61 points by babyshake on Jan 13, 2009 | 45 comments
7. Happiness 101 (nytimes.com)
48 points by tansengming on Jan 13, 2009 | 25 comments
8. Abstraction, intuition, and the “monad tutorial fallacy” (byorgey.wordpress.com)
47 points by jlhamilton on Jan 13, 2009 | 11 comments
9. At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard (nytimes.com)
46 points by tokenadult on Jan 13, 2009 | 46 comments
10. Clojure is running in a live system in a big veterinarian hospital (groups.google.com)
46 points by sctb on Jan 13, 2009 | 21 comments
11. Ask HN: Review my startup txtful - get stuff done on the web by sending a text
43 points by thomatas on Jan 13, 2009 | 60 comments
12. Ask HN: Best Micro Payment provider?
40 points by dell9000 on Jan 13, 2009 | 26 comments
13. Dominos Pizza Tracking in Real-time using Python (noflashlight.com)
38 points by frisco on Jan 13, 2009 | 14 comments
14. The Hackers Manifesto (spoiledtechie.com)
32 points by spoiledtechie on Jan 13, 2009 | 29 comments
15. Writing Decisions: Headline tests on the Highrise signup page (37signals.com)
32 points by brm on Jan 13, 2009 | 11 comments
16. Buckminster Fuller's Universe (jackcheng.com)
32 points by brm on Jan 13, 2009 | 13 comments
17. The bullshit of outage language (37signals.com)
30 points by sant0sk1 on Jan 13, 2009 | 31 comments
18. Tweet by Snail Mail (tweetbysnailmail.com)
23 points by ivankirigin on Jan 13, 2009 | 31 comments
19. One Space or Two? When did this change? (chicagomanualofstyle.org)
22 points by iamelgringo on Jan 13, 2009 | 30 comments
20. New Year's Resolution: Do Experiments, Not Projects (hbsp.com)
21 points by mattmcknight on Jan 13, 2009 | 6 comments
21. Venture capitalist picked to run FCC; 10 reason Fred Wilson likes him (avc.com)
20 points by gravitycop on Jan 13, 2009 | 8 comments
22. Ask YC: how to learn computer programming in 8 months?
19 points by deltapoint on Jan 13, 2009 | 61 comments
23. Lack of sleep 'raises cold risk' (bbc.co.uk)
18 points by ars on Jan 13, 2009 | 12 comments
24. New York court dismisses Amazon's objections to paying state taxes (techcrunch.com)
16 points by vaksel on Jan 13, 2009 | 16 comments
25. Open Hacker House tomorrow in San Francisco (archivd.com)
15 points by aristus on Jan 13, 2009 | 6 comments
26. Long Ring Fingers May Point to Wealth in Traders, Study Says (bloomberg.com)
13 points by cubix on Jan 13, 2009 | 21 comments
27. R.I.P. Enterprise RSS (readwriteweb.com)
14 points by qhoxie on Jan 13, 2009 | 8 comments
28. Carol Bartz to be named new Yahoo CEO (techcrunch.com)
13 points by vaksel on Jan 13, 2009 | 12 comments
29. Test for Dwindling Retail Jobs Spawns a Culture of Cheating (wsj.com)
13 points by epi0Bauqu on Jan 13, 2009 | 17 comments
30. New Prius: 50 mpg, optional solar roof, bigger engine, better drag coeff, EV Mode, etc (treehugger.com)
11 points by MikeCapone on Jan 13, 2009 | 14 comments

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