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1. 10 Downing Street: Treatment of Alan Turing was "appalling" (number10.gov.uk)
237 points by handelaar on Sept 10, 2009 | 81 comments
2. Google's Javascript PDF Viewer is Embeddable (googlesystem.blogspot.com)
115 points by blasdel on Sept 10, 2009 | 54 comments
3. Gordon Brown apologises to Alan Turing (telegraph.co.uk)
109 points by sharpn on Sept 10, 2009 | 26 comments
4. ICFP '09: "Get rid of cons!" Guy Steele on parallel algorithms & data structures (sun.com)
99 points by mquander on Sept 10, 2009 | 30 comments
5. Facebook releases Tornado (Python web server that powers FriendFeed) (facebook.com)
86 points by mtrichardson on Sept 10, 2009 | 7 comments
6. Blu-Ray Still Blows (textfiles.com)
71 points by blasdel on Sept 10, 2009 | 82 comments
7. Somebody Has To Say It: It’s Time For iTunes Lite (techcrunch.com)
71 points by jasonlbaptiste on Sept 10, 2009 | 95 comments
8. Tornado Web Server (tornadoweb.org)
71 points by ajbatac on Sept 10, 2009 | 5 comments
9. Oracle's Declaration to Sun Customers ... and IBM (oracle.com)
70 points by fogus on Sept 10, 2009 | 48 comments
10. Scientists Levitate Mice (msn.com)
66 points by brandnewly on Sept 10, 2009 | 33 comments
11. ITunes + CSS3 (judsoncollier.com)
62 points by jasonlbaptiste on Sept 10, 2009 | 31 comments
12. JsMath: Including Mathematics in Web Pages (union.edu)
59 points by gus_massa on Sept 10, 2009 | 20 comments
13. Critical: Vulnerabilities in Windows TCP/IP Could Allow Remote Code Execution (microsoft.com)
58 points by tvon on Sept 10, 2009 | 29 comments
14. What Happens When Apple Features Your iPhone App (return7.com)
60 points by PStamatiou on Sept 10, 2009 | 18 comments
15. Should Apache replace its current httpd.conf with Lua? (gmane.org)
58 points by compay on Sept 10, 2009 | 47 comments
16. Dark Stalking on Facebook (pjf.id.au)
57 points by zkz on Sept 10, 2009 | 23 comments
17. Early Risers Crash Faster Than People Who Stay Up Late (scientificamerican.com)
53 points by alex_c on Sept 10, 2009 | 34 comments
18. Facebook adds @mentions to status updates. (thenextweb.com)
52 points by mgcreed on Sept 10, 2009 | 28 comments
19. "On communicating better" --- 37signals revises security pages. (37signals.com)
50 points by tptacek on Sept 10, 2009 | 17 comments
20. Majority of US Healthcare Costs Are Caused by Bad Eating Habits (nytimes.com)
48 points by jyu on Sept 10, 2009 | 59 comments
21. The Founders Visa Movement (feld.com)
47 points by GVRV on Sept 10, 2009 | 54 comments
22. Did highways cause suburbanization? (marginalrevolution.com)
46 points by noheartanthony on Sept 10, 2009 | 51 comments
23. Why ERP is still so hard (computerworlduk.com)
44 points by monkeygrinder on Sept 10, 2009 | 30 comments
24. MP3 Blogs and wget (veen.com)
44 points by ivankirigin on Sept 10, 2009 | 9 comments
25. Inner-platform effect (wikipedia.org)
42 points by Hexstream on Sept 10, 2009 | 24 comments
26. Job description written in Ruby (37signals.com)
42 points by subbu on Sept 10, 2009 | 35 comments
27. Y Combinator Blog (ycombinator.posterous.com)
41 points by robg on Sept 10, 2009 | 3 comments
28. Entrepreneurs, does it help to be desperate? (sivers.org)
39 points by sivers on Sept 10, 2009 | 24 comments
29. Schneier on Security: File Deletion (schneier.com)
39 points by billpg on Sept 10, 2009 | 5 comments
30. Don't MAWK AWK - the fastest and most elegant big data munging language (anyall.org)
37 points by blasdel on Sept 10, 2009 | 22 comments

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