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1. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (pbwiki.com)
81 points by robertk on Dec 30, 2008 | 23 comments
2. How Rent Control Drives Out Affordable Housing (cato.org)
74 points by time_management on Dec 30, 2008 | 174 comments
3. The Untold Millions (37signals.com)
71 points by dcurtis on Dec 30, 2008 | 39 comments
4. Startup lessons from serial entrepreneur Norm Brodsky (inc.com)
64 points by prakash on Dec 30, 2008 | 14 comments
5. Tesco: 'Wal-Mart's Worst Nightmare' (businessweek.com)
60 points by epi0Bauqu on Dec 30, 2008 | 42 comments
6. Large Form iPod Touch To Launch in Fall ‘09 (techcrunch.com)
58 points by transburgh on Dec 30, 2008 | 28 comments
7. SvN: Design Decisions: The new Highrise signup chart (37signals.com)
54 points by sjs382 on Dec 30, 2008 | 11 comments
8. Developers are blinded by the light (antoniocangiano.com)
47 points by acangiano on Dec 30, 2008 | 35 comments
9. More about Google's commodity servers (eetimes.com)
40 points by wayne on Dec 30, 2008 | 3 comments
10. Ask HN: Do I need T&C for side projects
40 points by kevTheDev on Dec 30, 2008 | 24 comments
11. Ask HN: Can Google aggregate everything you've ever posted anonymously online based on writing style?
36 points by staunch on Dec 30, 2008 | 33 comments
12. Iceland after the fall (slate.com)
34 points by terpua on Dec 30, 2008 | 20 comments
13. Iphone's Golden Touch (Time to quit your day job?) (washingtonpost.com)
34 points by physcab on Dec 30, 2008 | 25 comments
14. Why we are, as we are (economist.com)
32 points by flavio87 on Dec 30, 2008 | 10 comments
15. Genesis Of a Web App: 46 Days, 3 Separate Cities, Countless All-Nighters (ramamia.com)
32 points by jasonlbaptiste on Dec 30, 2008 | 13 comments
16. Direct from the streets of Gaza - Demotix is the UGC picture agency (techcrunch.com)
20 points by azharcs on Dec 30, 2008 | 11 comments
17. Comodo will just issue you an SSL cert for anyone (startcom.org)
29 points by tptacek on Dec 30, 2008 | 18 comments
18. Verisign/RapidSSL Responds To Certificate Vulnerability (verisign.com)
27 points by tptacek on Dec 30, 2008 | 8 comments
19. Short tutorial on Haskell for C programmers (haskell.org)
27 points by socratees on Dec 30, 2008 | 5 comments
20. “You’re Trying to Divide by Zero” (globalnerdy.com)
26 points by echair on Dec 30, 2008 | 2 comments
21. Is your Netflix queue destroying the environment? (slate.com)
26 points by terpua on Dec 30, 2008 | 36 comments
22. Roger Ebert's bleak assessment of the next 100 years (suntimes.com)
23 points by tptacek on Dec 30, 2008 | 29 comments
23. Python Decorators: What they are underneath (crschmidt.net)
22 points by dhotson on Dec 30, 2008 | 5 comments
24. Ask HN: What editor do you use?
21 points by GrandMasterBirt on Dec 30, 2008 | 57 comments
25. "I Have a Startup" - Midwest vs Bay Area (leavingcorporate.com)
24 points by garbowza on Dec 30, 2008 | 28 comments
26. Lua Programming Gems (finally) Published (lua.org)
19 points by LogicHoleFlaw on Dec 30, 2008 | 6 comments
27. Espresso Public Beta Released - Textmate finally gets some competition (macrabbit.com)
19 points by jpcx01 on Dec 30, 2008 | 26 comments
28. Healthy Foods for Under $1 (nytimes.com)
16 points by robg on Dec 30, 2008 | 16 comments
29. Extraordinary Organizations: $170M company with no titles except “plant” manager (venturehacks.com)
16 points by wheels on Dec 30, 2008 | 17 comments
30. SlySoft takes a bite out of DRM again, cracks latest BD+ protection (tcmagazine.com)
15 points by azharcs on Dec 30, 2008

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