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1. The Anatomy of Determination (paulgraham.com)
164 points by revorad on Sept 5, 2009 | 97 comments
2. Burn Baby Burn (cringely.com)
76 points by queensnake on Sept 5, 2009 | 38 comments
3. Quotes From PG’s FBFund Talk From Today (jasonlbaptiste.com)
61 points by jasonlbaptiste on Sept 5, 2009 | 17 comments
4. Interesting Bash Prompts (maketecheasier.com)
59 points by fogus on Sept 5, 2009 | 30 comments
5. Lactic Acid Is Not Muscles' Foe, It's Fuel (nytimes.com)
56 points by ph0rque on Sept 5, 2009 | 37 comments
6. History of the Super Soaker (isoaker.com)
54 points by blogimus on Sept 5, 2009 | 11 comments
7. Implementation of yesterday's xkcd comic (vkcouplestesting.com)
47 points by araneae on Sept 5, 2009 | 28 comments
8. Want an Unpaid Internship So You Can Get Valuable Experience ? – Screw You (blogmaverick.com)
45 points by jasonlbaptiste on Sept 5, 2009 | 183 comments
9. Should programmers learn machine code?
45 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Sept 5, 2009 | 62 comments
10. Unlearning (sivers.org)
39 points by kareemm on Sept 5, 2009 | 11 comments
11. Cappuccinocasts: free screencasts on the Cappuccino framework (cappuccinocasts.com)
32 points by henning on Sept 5, 2009 | 12 comments
12. RepRap, a (potentially) self-replicating 3D printer (ligress.wordpress.com)
32 points by jonmc12 on Sept 5, 2009 | 18 comments
13. How UK Government spun 136 people into 7m illegal file sharers (pcpro.co.uk)
31 points by edw519 on Sept 5, 2009 | 15 comments
14. Security Threat: WordPress Under Attack (techcrunch.com)
28 points by GVRV on Sept 5, 2009 | 25 comments
15. Paranoid survivor (economist.com)
27 points by edw519 on Sept 5, 2009 | 6 comments
16. Perils of C++ debugging: Petrifying functions (yosefk.com)
26 points by mbrubeck on Sept 5, 2009 | 19 comments
17. MIT Media labs' quickies (pranavmistry.com)
26 points by scharan on Sept 5, 2009
18. Java on 1000 cores (in one box) (youtube.com)
25 points by jbellis on Sept 5, 2009 | 7 comments
19. A Survey of Concurrency Constructs (slideshare.net)
25 points by iamelgringo on Sept 5, 2009 | 8 comments
20. Are there any startups applying to YC that are a man short?
25 points by ivanstojic on Sept 5, 2009 | 10 comments
21. I don’t feel safe with Wordpress, hackers broke in and took things (scobleizer.com)
24 points by mjfern on Sept 5, 2009 | 28 comments
22. Hacker News and Information Overload
24 points by WarTheatre on Sept 5, 2009 | 38 comments
23. Poll: Which webmail provider do you use?
24 points by ca98am79 on Sept 5, 2009 | 25 comments
24. Ask HN: What is Y Combinator's 'anti-portfolio' like
23 points by FreeRadical on Sept 5, 2009 | 33 comments
25. Writing GTK apps for the Nokia N900 (gnome.org)
22 points by mbrubeck on Sept 5, 2009 | 1 comment
26. Call with Current Continuation Patterns (readscheme.org)
20 points by fogus on Sept 5, 2009 | 1 comment
27. Please give us all your money (badscience.net)
20 points by baha_man on Sept 5, 2009 | 40 comments
28. Information Retrieval, Intelligence, Integrated Optimization and Marketing (miislita.com)
17 points by fogus on Sept 5, 2009 | 2 comments
29. Charge your iPod with your bike (bikehugger.com)
17 points by oshadi on Sept 5, 2009 | 2 comments
30. Code-breaking quantum algorithm run on a silicon chip (newscientist.com)
17 points by edw519 on Sept 5, 2009 | 3 comments

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