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1. Why PHP won (startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com)
100 points by eries on Jan 16, 2009 | 59 comments
2. Doug Comer: How to Insult a Computer Scientist (purdue.edu)
81 points by dedalus on Jan 16, 2009 | 18 comments
3. 3 Rules of Database App Aging (push.cx)
79 points by pushcx on Jan 16, 2009 | 52 comments
4. Why PHP really won (dipert.org)
77 points by wooby on Jan 16, 2009 | 45 comments
5. Surgeons in England to adopt checklists - expect to halve death rate (independent.co.uk)
75 points by mhb on Jan 16, 2009 | 67 comments
6. Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07) (techcrunch.com)
63 points by drm237 on Jan 16, 2009 | 51 comments
7. Ask HN: How do you produce product demo videos?
50 points by Edinburger on Jan 16, 2009 | 39 comments
8. Hulu CEO: "We screwed up royally" (37signals.com)
50 points by peter123 on Jan 16, 2009 | 44 comments
9. More startups fail from a lack of customers than from a failure of product development (stanford.edu)
49 points by phil_KartMe on Jan 16, 2009 | 23 comments
10. New jQuery Techniques For Good User Experience (smashingmagazine.com)
43 points by qhoxie on Jan 16, 2009 | 7 comments
11. Noteflight: start-up that lets you compose music within your browser (noteflight.com)
41 points by unalone on Jan 16, 2009 | 18 comments
12. Clever bike lane hack (dustbowl.wordpress.com)
36 points by pingswept on Jan 16, 2009 | 30 comments
13. Y Combinator IRC channel?
35 points by informer on Jan 16, 2009 | 16 comments
14. Beautiful visualisations of everyday statistics (chrisjordan.com)
35 points by jgamman on Jan 16, 2009 | 11 comments
15. Tumblr v5 Released (staff.tumblr.com)
34 points by beaudeal on Jan 16, 2009 | 28 comments
16. Tracking Flight Path of US Airways 1549 (nytimes.com)
30 points by boundlessdreamz on Jan 16, 2009 | 17 comments
17. Why I hate software patents: IBM patents trim() (uspto.gov)
30 points by mdasen on Jan 16, 2009 | 28 comments
18. Work Smarter and Harder (callmejeffrey.com)
29 points by brm on Jan 16, 2009 | 9 comments
19. An Illustrated Guide to Git on Windows (nathanj.github.com)
28 points by zvikara on Jan 16, 2009 | 6 comments
20. Choices Narrowed for First U.S. CTO (businessweek.com)
27 points by nikils on Jan 16, 2009 | 29 comments
21. Web Design Job for the Eager
27 points by andrewljohnson on Jan 16, 2009 | 17 comments
22. In Software: Simplify, Simplify (codeclimber.blogspot.com)
26 points by eVizitei on Jan 16, 2009 | 7 comments
23. Sphinx Search at Craigslist (zawodny.com)
25 points by tortilla on Jan 16, 2009 | 6 comments
24. Why we can't stop birds downing aircraft (newscientist.com)
24 points by alexandros on Jan 16, 2009 | 53 comments
25. Morten Lund provides an update on life (lundxy.com)
23 points by numair on Jan 16, 2009 | 6 comments
26. Twitter May Have Found Its Business Model (readwriteweb.com)
24 points by lnguyen on Jan 16, 2009 | 18 comments
27. Circuit City to liquidate all US stores (google.com)
21 points by larrywright on Jan 16, 2009 | 19 comments
28. Building Scalable Databases: Pros and Cons of Various Database Sharding Schemes (25hoursaday.com)
21 points by Anon84 on Jan 16, 2009
29. Ask HN:Finding a Break
20 points by de_la_espada on Jan 16, 2009 | 27 comments
30. Zimbabwe unveils 100 trillion dollar banknote (yahoo.com)
19 points by azharcs on Jan 16, 2009 | 25 comments

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