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1. Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.
123 points by bemmu on Jan 9, 2009 | 251 comments
2. How we use IRC at Last.fm (metabrew.com)
109 points by dcancel on Jan 9, 2009 | 35 comments
3. 'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years (wsj.com)
105 points by epi0Bauqu on Jan 9, 2009 | 141 comments
4. Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction (locusmag.com)
81 points by michael_nielsen on Jan 9, 2009 | 16 comments
5. Manage Amazon EC2 With New Web-Based AWS Management Console (aws.typepad.com)
80 points by timf on Jan 9, 2009 | 25 comments
6. The Django book, Second Edition. (djangobook.com)
79 points by socratees on Jan 9, 2009 | 21 comments
7. My first app just got published to the app store Here's what I learned. (reddit.com)
76 points by peter123 on Jan 9, 2009 | 19 comments
8. Save Money By Deleting Your Cookies--A Case Study (appscout.com)
55 points by geofffox on Jan 9, 2009 | 21 comments
9. Six-month long exposures made with a pinhole camera. (pinholephotography.org)
52 points by jdnier on Jan 9, 2009 | 3 comments
10. Palm did it: better experience than Apple (scobleizer.com)
50 points by MaysonL on Jan 9, 2009 | 61 comments
11. Delete 10 Facebook friends, get a free Whopper (cnet.com)
47 points by jkopelman on Jan 9, 2009 | 32 comments
12. Ask HN: Review our webapp (Sproost); team met on HN
49 points by rtc on Jan 9, 2009 | 60 comments
13. Facebook's valuation (in Whoppers) (kottke.org)
40 points by JoelSutherland on Jan 9, 2009 | 30 comments
14. Web 2.0, Revenue Models and Profitability: A Web 1.0 Comparison (centernetworks.com)
40 points by humanlever on Jan 9, 2009 | 19 comments
15. Ask HN: Does this idea exist and who wants it?
39 points by andrewljohnson on Jan 9, 2009 | 37 comments
16. Unemployment Rate 7.2% (wsj.com)
37 points by kp212 on Jan 9, 2009 | 51 comments
17. We don’t pay you to work here (venturehacks.com)
35 points by terpua on Jan 9, 2009 | 9 comments
18. Ask HN: Review our startup: Mugasha - A better way to listen to electronic dance music (mugasha.com)
30 points by lyime on Jan 9, 2009 | 62 comments
19. The Janitor Programmer (janitorprogrammer.com)
28 points by sutro on Jan 9, 2009 | 8 comments
20. 4 Types of Person (a guide to stupidity) (secretgeek.net)
26 points by muon on Jan 9, 2009 | 9 comments
21. Developer who has used the Palm pré Mojo SDK speaks out on Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
26 points by clint on Jan 9, 2009 | 9 comments
22. In 2009, Microsoft Still Underestimates the Web (lifehacker.com)
23 points by nx on Jan 9, 2009 | 15 comments
23. Dirty Secrets of College Admissions (thedailybeast.com)
22 points by antiform on Jan 9, 2009 | 15 comments
24. The Geeks Behind Obama's Web Strategy (boston.com)
20 points by robg on Jan 9, 2009 | 2 comments
25. Standalone web applications using OCaml + Ocsigen, benchmarked against Rails (eigenclass.org)
19 points by mindaugas on Jan 9, 2009 | 6 comments
26. Incubator RoundUp 2008 (YC, TechStars, DreamIt, LaunchBox) (scribd.com)
19 points by morgang on Jan 9, 2009 | 7 comments
27. Google Chrome 2.0 Pre-Beta (googlesystem.blogspot.com)
19 points by ajbatac on Jan 9, 2009 | 18 comments
28. Palm's Pre smarthpone vs. Apple's iPhone 3G (technologizer.com)
14 points by technologizer on Jan 9, 2009 | 23 comments
29. Holovaty working on 2nd Edition of the Django Book (updated for 1.0) (holovaty.com)
14 points by naish on Jan 9, 2009
30. Sleep under my kitchen table at Inauguration (airbedandbreakfast.com)
14 points by brianchesky on Jan 9, 2009 | 10 comments

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