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1. Working hard is overrated (caterina.net)
160 points by prakash on Sept 27, 2009 | 98 comments
2. Nate Silver Finds Unusual Patterns in a Polling Firm's Data. Was it fabricated? (fivethirtyeight.com)
98 points by gluejar on Sept 27, 2009 | 25 comments
3. PyPy Status Blog: First results of the JIT (morepypy.blogspot.com)
79 points by iamelgringo on Sept 27, 2009 | 7 comments
4. Apple behind Intel's new 10Gbps Optical Connector Standard (engadget.com)
74 points by mikedouglas on Sept 27, 2009 | 26 comments
5. Meet the man who sells $89 million of diapers each year online (inc.com)
66 points by cwan on Sept 27, 2009 | 19 comments
6. Ask HN: Orange dot?
63 points by colbyolson on Sept 27, 2009 | 58 comments
7. Why the Evidence of Water on the Moon is Bad News (ieee.org)
57 points by pieceofpeace on Sept 27, 2009 | 61 comments
8. GCD libdispatch w/Blocks support working on FreeBSD (macosforge.org)
54 points by pohl on Sept 27, 2009 | 5 comments
9. Review of a Linux laptop: Thinkpad T400. Do not buy it. (kontsevoy.blogspot.com)
46 points by old-gregg on Sept 27, 2009 | 74 comments
10. Who need XSS when you can simply ask? (reddit.com)
43 points by judofyr on Sept 27, 2009 | 25 comments
11. Charming Python: Decorators make magic easy (ibm.com)
42 points by mace on Sept 27, 2009 | 5 comments
12. Gyroscopic wheel as a replacement for training wheels (bikecommuters.com)
41 points by e1ven on Sept 27, 2009 | 16 comments
13. Google's first press release (google.com)
41 points by rokhayakebe on Sept 27, 2009 | 38 comments
14. On Elitism (stanford.edu)
39 points by unignorant on Sept 27, 2009 | 113 comments
15. An Introduction to JavaScript's "this" (harmonize.fm)
39 points by jmtulloss on Sept 27, 2009 | 36 comments
16. This Is Your Brain on Kafka (miller-mccune.com)
35 points by Sapient on Sept 27, 2009 | 8 comments
17. How to Respond to Criticism – Learning from Dr. King (fourhourworkweek.com)
35 points by jsmoov on Sept 27, 2009 | 16 comments
18. Good bank account for a startup?
32 points by forgotmypasswd on Sept 27, 2009 | 26 comments
19. Logicomix - A Comic Book About Logic, Math and Madness - Review (nytimes.com)
32 points by yagibear on Sept 27, 2009 | 8 comments
20. Software patents should be abolished (cdixon.org)
30 points by dwynings on Sept 27, 2009 | 29 comments
21. Very fast, scalable mutable maps and hashes for Haskell (donsbot.wordpress.com)
31 points by dons on Sept 27, 2009 | 27 comments
22. Ask HN: The ideal company for programmers, or giving freedom to your programmers
28 points by hackoder on Sept 27, 2009 | 21 comments
23. Duct Tape Programmers and the Culture of Complexity in Software Projects (25hoursaday.com)
28 points by Anon84 on Sept 27, 2009 | 12 comments
24. Hazelcast - In-Memory Data Grid for Java (code.google.com)
25 points by vinutheraj on Sept 27, 2009 | 7 comments
25. Analysis of Nate Silver's Analysis of Oklahoma Student Poll Pollster Fraud (smellthedata.com)
24 points by danger on Sept 27, 2009 | 1 comment
26. Free software is dead. Long live open source (cnet.com)
23 points by e1ven on Sept 27, 2009 | 14 comments
27. Scheme: Developing a Memcached Client (weblambda.blogspot.com)
21 points by fogus on Sept 27, 2009 | 2 comments
28. Lions: a photo essay by Nathan Myhrvold (2007) (edge.org)
21 points by Rod on Sept 27, 2009 | 1 comment
29. Ranking and Mapping scientific Knowledge (eigenfactor.org)
22 points by prabodh on Sept 27, 2009 | 7 comments
30. Anyone want to help test my Ajax chat (Erlang)? (tech9computers.com)
20 points by chrismoos on Sept 27, 2009 | 10 comments

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