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1. CSS Techniques I Wish I Knew When I Started Designing Websites (noupe.com)
146 points by prakash on Dec 22, 2009 | 46 comments
2. How To Rise Fast At Work: A True Story (forbes.com)
148 points by svjunkie on Dec 22, 2009 | 40 comments
3. Court: Microsoft violated patent; can't sell Word (yahoo.com)
143 points by kgrin on Dec 22, 2009 | 119 comments
4. Thorium, the New Green Nuke (wired.com)
124 points by unignorant on Dec 22, 2009 | 32 comments
5. SF author Greg Egan reviews Avatar (gregegan.net)
118 points by arundelo on Dec 22, 2009 | 104 comments
6. The world’s hardest (for native English speakers) languages (economist.com)
92 points by sethg on Dec 22, 2009 | 80 comments
7. Google’s ‘Meaning of Open’ (daringfireball.net)
80 points by seldo on Dec 22, 2009 | 38 comments
8. Stop being a productivity nerd, and chill out (feint.me)
80 points by feint on Dec 22, 2009 | 45 comments
9. Portrait of a Noob (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
77 points by ptn on Dec 22, 2009 | 41 comments
10. 80legs sets its web crawler free (venturebeat.com)
74 points by raghus on Dec 22, 2009 | 21 comments
11. Making Of ‘Gratuitous Space Battles’ (indievision.org)
74 points by chaostheory on Dec 22, 2009 | 8 comments
12. My lazy American students (boston.com)
68 points by tokenadult on Dec 22, 2009 | 64 comments
13. Soon-to-Be Open Secret (Males in College Admission) (insidehighered.com)
65 points by tokenadult on Dec 22, 2009 | 62 comments
14. Do what you love mirage (devcomponents.com)
66 points by ct on Dec 22, 2009 | 23 comments
15. Stroustrup: What Should We Teach New Software Developers? (acm.org)
61 points by zzygan on Dec 22, 2009 | 40 comments
16. Google should open source what actually matters: their search ranking algorithm (cdixon.org)
57 points by ivankirigin on Dec 22, 2009 | 65 comments
17. Holiday Fun: How Programming Language Fanboys See Each Others’ Languages (rubyinside.com)
47 points by jmonegro on Dec 22, 2009 | 17 comments
18. Tour of Blizzard HQ (leenks.com)
47 points by alex_c on Dec 22, 2009 | 11 comments
19. Opera 10.5 Alpha Released, New Javascript & Rendering engine, 7x faster (taranfx.com)
46 points by taranfx on Dec 22, 2009 | 33 comments
20. Lessons from teaching CS 1: Code fast (imprompt.us)
44 points by mbrubeck on Dec 22, 2009 | 39 comments
21. Benchmark of Asynchronous Servers in Python (nichol.as)
45 points by nichol4s on Dec 22, 2009 | 12 comments
22. Ruby & WebSockets: TCP for the Browser (igvita.com)
43 points by igrigorik on Dec 22, 2009 | 3 comments
23. Thoughts on a Successful Launch (skribit.com)
42 points by noodle on Dec 22, 2009 | 4 comments
24. Version Control Operating System (andrewfong.wordpress.com)
38 points by andrewfong on Dec 22, 2009 | 19 comments
25. It's no wonder they don't trust us (sethgodin.typepad.com)
37 points by AndrewWarner on Dec 22, 2009 | 29 comments
26. Bump Technologies (YC S09) Launches API (bu.mp)
35 points by jmintz on Dec 22, 2009 | 18 comments
27. Simon Willison: Django | Multiple Databases (simonwillison.net)
34 points by mnemonik on Dec 22, 2009 | 9 comments
28. Cliff Click checking in (azulsystems.com)
32 points by fogus on Dec 22, 2009 | 3 comments
29. The Idiot’s Guide to Marketing Your Indie Game (indievision.org)
32 points by flashingpumpkin on Dec 22, 2009 | 2 comments
30. Apple Approves Nintendo Emulator for iPhone (zdziarski.com)
30 points by jzdziarski on Dec 22, 2009 | 24 comments

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