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1. The real cause of the financial crisis -- An MIT Blackjack Team perspective (semyon.com)
185 points by prakash on Jan 14, 2009 | 60 comments
2. Apple: Jobs to Take Medical Leave of Absence (wsj.com)
159 points by bootload on Jan 14, 2009 | 107 comments
3. The $300 Million Button (uie.com)
113 points by astrec on Jan 14, 2009 | 43 comments
4. JQuery 1.3 Released (jquery.com)
105 points by rickharrison on Jan 14, 2009 | 29 comments
5. Qt 4.5 will be released under the LGPL (arstechnica.com)
86 points by icefox on Jan 14, 2009 | 18 comments
6. ISteam for iPhone earns a bunch of 22-year olds $100,000 in one month (tgdaily.com)
67 points by brk on Jan 14, 2009 | 25 comments
7. Why Haskell is beyond ready for Prime Time (intoverflow.wordpress.com)
51 points by raju on Jan 14, 2009 | 99 comments
8. Things I Learned the Hard Way: Ignore the Content (powazek.com)
51 points by brm on Jan 14, 2009 | 22 comments
9. XKCD inspired Mac Mini speech synth hack (coworkthailand.com)
49 points by bemmu on Jan 14, 2009 | 13 comments
10. Is Craigslist rotting on the vine? (roundabout101.blogspot.com)
48 points by kennyroo on Jan 14, 2009 | 37 comments
11. Anti-Love Drug May Be Ticket to Bliss (nytimes.com)
39 points by makimaki on Jan 14, 2009 | 15 comments
12. Why Lisp? 3 answers (mattknox.com)
38 points by prakash on Jan 14, 2009 | 18 comments
13. Twilio Recipes Open source PHP for common PBX features (twilio.com)
37 points by jeffiel on Jan 14, 2009 | 8 comments
14. The Man Who Made Too Much (portfolio.com)
36 points by ojbyrne on Jan 14, 2009 | 49 comments
15. Al Jazeera Announces Launch of Free Footage Under Creative Commons License (creativecommons.org)
35 points by zby on Jan 14, 2009 | 27 comments
16. Google Closes Offices in in Austin, Texas; Trondheim, Norway; and Lulea, Sweden. (googleblog.blogspot.com)
34 points by Anon84 on Jan 14, 2009 | 9 comments
17. Skype legend Morten Lund bankrupt (techcrunch.com)
32 points by pclark on Jan 14, 2009 | 13 comments
18. Fuck college education, start minding your own business instead (damirhorvat.com)
33 points by damir on Jan 14, 2009 | 72 comments
19. When newspapers are gone, what will you miss? (sethgodin.typepad.com)
30 points by ph0rque on Jan 14, 2009 | 62 comments
20. Screenbin - like pastebin, but for screen (dustinkirkland.com)
29 points by polvi on Jan 14, 2009 | 10 comments
21. Distinguishing decorative from meaningful elements in UI design (37signals.com)
26 points by brm on Jan 14, 2009 | 8 comments
22. Ask HN: Would you fund this show? (johnaugust.com)
26 points by ed on Jan 14, 2009 | 14 comments
23. Google Reduces Hiring Department (googleblog.blogspot.com)
25 points by Anon84 on Jan 14, 2009 | 5 comments
24. In the gig economy, everyone is a hustler (thedailybeast.com)
25 points by quoderat on Jan 14, 2009 | 18 comments
25. Famous Sed One-Liners Explained, Part III (catonmat.net)
24 points by twampss on Jan 14, 2009
26. 'Theocracy of Hackers' Rules Autodesk Inc., A Strangely Run Firm (wsj.com)
24 points by prakash on Jan 14, 2009 | 9 comments
27. A Kindle trick changes the reading experience (goodexperience.com)
21 points by gabrielroth on Jan 14, 2009 | 14 comments
28. Avid founder Bill Warner: How a dirt farmer made me an entrepreneur (masshightech.com)
21 points by rantfoil on Jan 14, 2009
29. Steve Jobs steps down until June for health reasons (alleyinsider.com)
21 points by larrywright on Jan 14, 2009 | 8 comments
30. Book Is Rallying Resistance to the Antivaccine Crusade (nytimes.com)
20 points by scott_s on Jan 14, 2009 | 20 comments

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