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1. Swiss Army Knife of Unix Debugging: lsof (catonmat.net)
130 points by pkrumins on Dec 23, 2009 | 27 comments
2. Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity (johndcook.com)
114 points by imgabe on Dec 23, 2009 | 129 comments
3. An astrophysicist reviews the science of "Avatar". (aintitcool.com)
111 points by ilamparithi on Dec 23, 2009 | 67 comments
4. YC was nominated for a Crunchie, but please vote for Ron Conway instead. (ycombinator.posterous.com)
107 points by pg on Dec 23, 2009 | 20 comments
5. 4chan Founder “moot” to Speak at TED (gigaom.com)
110 points by Janteh on Dec 23, 2009 | 48 comments
6. Learn Python by writing games (free book) (inventwithpython.com)
85 points by larrykubin on Dec 23, 2009 | 10 comments
7. Anniversary of the Rails/Merb Merger: So How'd It Go? (engineyard.com)
80 points by wifelette on Dec 23, 2009 | 10 comments
8. Novice CL user writes mysql access in CL as an exercise (gmane.org)
67 points by wglb on Dec 23, 2009 | 6 comments
9. Apple is terrified of iphone web-apps being as good as native apps
65 points by ryankshaw on Dec 23, 2009 | 35 comments
10. Call this a recession? It isn’t the Dark Ages (ft.com)
63 points by icey on Dec 23, 2009 | 34 comments
11. iPhone app Gunman lets you have a shootout w/ friends via augmented reality (geek.com)
61 points by adamhowell on Dec 23, 2009 | 31 comments
12. Awesome new (relatively inexpensive) Brain-Computer Interface (emotivepoc.com)
57 points by speek on Dec 23, 2009 | 28 comments
13. Hackers break Kindle DRM (theregister.co.uk)
51 points by shrike on Dec 23, 2009 | 19 comments
14. Next Big Thing in health care: chronotherapy (nytimes.com)
47 points by tokenadult on Dec 23, 2009 | 13 comments
15. Is College Really Worth It? (fastcompany.com)
43 points by latif on Dec 23, 2009 | 65 comments
16. Orderly, a textual format for describing JSON (orderly-json.org)
42 points by whalesalad on Dec 23, 2009 | 13 comments
17. Why WordPress Should Not Have Won the Open Source CMS Award (vancelucas.com)
41 points by vlucas on Dec 23, 2009 | 23 comments
18. Inflation as a Compound Annual Interest Rate
41 points by joshkaufman on Dec 23, 2009 | 45 comments
19. WePay (YC S09) founders put down roots in Palo Alto, raise $1.6 million (boston.com)
35 points by sachinag on Dec 23, 2009 | 16 comments
20. HN Meet-up Netherlands update (bluwiki.com)
36 points by beeker on Dec 23, 2009 | 9 comments
21. Why Google allows target.com to spam search results (goodroi.com)
35 points by madars on Dec 23, 2009 | 30 comments
22. Functions are data (and very cool data, too) (jaspervdj.be)
34 points by dons on Dec 23, 2009 | 6 comments
23. Picking Your Co-Founders: What's luck got to do with it? (spencerfry.com)
37 points by spencerfry on Dec 23, 2009 | 12 comments
24. A Job Prize Inspired by the MIT Darpa Network (Balloon) Challenge Solution (heroku.com)
34 points by imperator on Dec 23, 2009 | 9 comments
25. Practical Uses of CSS3 (viget.com)
33 points by iiijjjiii on Dec 23, 2009 | 13 comments
26. Generating Thousands of PDFs on EC2 with Ruby (railsdog.com)
31 points by ghotli on Dec 23, 2009 | 13 comments
27. Google Nexus One Hands On (gizmodo.com)
31 points by anderzole on Dec 23, 2009 | 3 comments
28. Online chat - Olark vs Liveperson?
31 points by kuhfes on Dec 23, 2009 | 4 comments
29. Strapped to Android, HTC Takes a Dizzying Ride to the Top (wired.com)
29 points by chaostheory on Dec 23, 2009 | 8 comments
30. Ask HN: What magazines do you subscribe to?
29 points by rottencupcakes on Dec 23, 2009 | 43 comments

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