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1. GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal (ibm.com)
186 points by soundphed on Sept 28, 2009 | 100 comments
2. JWZ: that "duct tape" silliness (jwz.livejournal.com)
186 points by allenbrunson on Sept 28, 2009 | 24 comments
3. JWZ Unable to Distribute Two Free Pre Apps (jwz.livejournal.com)
176 points by sutro on Sept 28, 2009 | 90 comments
4. Ask HN: Check out my little app (huddle.im)
108 points by jmonegro on Sept 28, 2009 | 75 comments
5. Why Stylesheet Abstractions Matter (chriseppstein.github.com)
107 points by chriseppstein on Sept 28, 2009 | 37 comments
6. Joe Armstrong and Simon Peyton Jones discuss Erlang and Haskell (infoq.com)
90 points by davidw on Sept 28, 2009 | 26 comments
7. GitHub's Architecture, before and after migration (anchor.com.au)
80 points by quellhorst on Sept 28, 2009 | 14 comments
8. You Commit Three Felonies a Day (wsj.com)
71 points by ctingom on Sept 28, 2009 | 38 comments
9. Duct tape context: A tale of two rewrites (gigamonkeys.com)
70 points by gthank on Sept 28, 2009 | 13 comments
10. Merlin Mann on Adobe's products (kungfugrippe.com)
67 points by qeek on Sept 28, 2009 | 35 comments
11. Python Library for Google Translate (catonmat.net)
61 points by pkrumins on Sept 28, 2009 | 9 comments
12. Is There An Artificial God? (biota.org)
58 points by detcader on Sept 28, 2009 | 17 comments
13. MD5 hash extension attack breaks API authentication in Flickr (and others) (netifera.com)
58 points by brl on Sept 28, 2009 | 22 comments
14. Find what's blocking sales with under a day of work (asmartbear.com)
57 points by froggy on Sept 28, 2009 | 5 comments
15. Why MacRuby Matters (slideshare.net)
55 points by r11t on Sept 28, 2009 | 9 comments
16. Django ponies: Proposals for Django 1.2 (simonwillison.net)
54 points by simonw on Sept 28, 2009 | 2 comments
17. Mono not Chasing Tail Lights (jeffreystedfast.blogspot.com)
52 points by oomkiller on Sept 28, 2009 | 22 comments
18. Apple loses Hackintosh ruling, angers judge (theregister.co.uk)
51 points by jacquesm on Sept 28, 2009 | 22 comments
19. Most of us have a finite supply of willpower (futurepundit.com)
49 points by cwan on Sept 28, 2009 | 22 comments
20. Securing an HTTPS server (daemonology.net)
49 points by cperciva on Sept 28, 2009 | 17 comments
21. Grand Central Dispatch: The Sleeping Barber Problem (madebysofa.com)
46 points by koenbok on Sept 28, 2009 | 9 comments
22. MySQL vs. PostgreSQL comparison by Anchor (github's migration team) (anchor.com.au)
44 points by adriand on Sept 28, 2009 | 42 comments
23. One time at D&D camp… (brouhaha.us)
44 points by kqr2 on Sept 28, 2009 | 3 comments
24. Ask HN: Seeing points again?
41 points by jacquesm on Sept 28, 2009 | 64 comments
25. Dumping the Gameboy Color boot ROM (w/ commented disassembly) (fpgb.org)
40 points by makmanalp on Sept 28, 2009 | 6 comments
26. Impossible Bottles (impossibottle.co.uk)
39 points by eru on Sept 28, 2009 | 18 comments
27. Twitter's Alex Payne: Why Scala? (viddler.com)
39 points by fogus on Sept 28, 2009 | 10 comments
28. Reminder: Twitter was started in 2006 (gettingmoreawesome.blogspot.com)
39 points by rishi on Sept 28, 2009 | 25 comments
29. Schneier on Security: Ass Bomber (schneier.com)
36 points by billpg on Sept 28, 2009 | 24 comments
30. Teen Inventors Fight Tinnitus (scientificamerican.com)
36 points by alexandros on Sept 28, 2009 | 20 comments

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