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1. Cassandra vs MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak comparison (kkovacs.eu)
380 points by kkovacs on Dec 30, 2010 | 89 comments
2. Ask HN: I built a site that just went ridiculously viral. What do I do now?
370 points by markbao on Dec 30, 2010 | 188 comments
3. Ask HN: What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?
253 points by Athtar on Dec 30, 2010 | 149 comments
4. Dead End Jobs: Are You Suffering from Stockholm Syndrome? (chadfowler.com)
248 points by LiveTheDream on Dec 30, 2010 | 125 comments
5. 1960s IT department (luckham.org)
228 points by anigbrowl on Dec 30, 2010 | 50 comments
6. "Space Jam" movie website, untouched since 1996 (warnerbros.com)
150 points by ssclafani on Dec 30, 2010 | 30 comments
7. No More Fear (tbray.org)
138 points by olefoo on Dec 30, 2010 | 42 comments
8. The (Real) Hot Girl Effect and Networking (shrewple.com)
136 points by sjtgraham on Dec 30, 2010 | 82 comments
9. The Doctor vs. Char Limits (nytimes.com)
131 points by robg on Dec 30, 2010 | 67 comments
10. Every "best paper" from Computer Science conferences since 1996 (jeffhuang.com)
129 points by whathappenedto on Dec 30, 2010 | 38 comments
11. Me, but you, but me (diveintomark.org)
123 points by shawndumas on Dec 30, 2010 | 6 comments
12. The last unconquered sector of the web (seeinginteractive.com)
122 points by lloydarmbrust on Dec 30, 2010 | 47 comments
13. Software Patents Have Got to Go (pcmag.com)
103 points by bakbak on Dec 30, 2010 | 67 comments
14. Please don't use a {outline:none;} (outlinenone.com)
98 points by utkarshkukreti on Dec 30, 2010 | 39 comments
15. Skype banned from China (fastcompany.com)
89 points by inovica on Dec 30, 2010 | 40 comments
16. Libdivide, optimized integer division (by ridiculous_fish) (libdivide.com)
85 points by yan on Dec 30, 2010 | 6 comments
17. Forking Etiquette (dilbert.com)
84 points by fogus on Dec 30, 2010 | 54 comments
18. Oooh - I'd kill for a four day week... (nytimes.com)
84 points by hessenwolf on Dec 30, 2010 | 66 comments
19. On Improving When Your Friends Aren’t (sebastianmarshall.com)
82 points by acangiano on Dec 30, 2010 | 71 comments
20. Amazon Kindle book lending quietly goes live (amazon.com)
80 points by eng on Dec 30, 2010 | 63 comments
21. How the neo-medieval 21st century will be more like the 12th century (paragkhanna.com)
75 points by cwan on Dec 30, 2010 | 39 comments
22. Googlers, get a privacy screen for your laptops (arstechnica.com)
69 points by shawndumas on Dec 30, 2010 | 39 comments
23. OK Seriously What Is BizSpark? (wekeroad.com)
68 points by robconery on Dec 30, 2010 | 60 comments
24. Android tablets GPL compliance summary (codon.org.uk)
65 points by viraptor on Dec 30, 2010 | 6 comments
25. Chomsky's “The Responsibility of Intellectuals” (nybooks.com)
62 points by foenix on Dec 30, 2010 | 67 comments
26. GNU Emacs Theme Generator (beta) (elpa.gnu.org)
62 points by surki on Dec 30, 2010 | 22 comments
27. Has Clojure development stalled? (bestinclass.dk)
61 points by functional-tree on Dec 30, 2010 | 26 comments
28. The Joy of Stats available in its entirety (flowingdata.com)
55 points by Mongoose on Dec 30, 2010 | 4 comments
29. Free Kindle Math Books (math-blog.com)
44 points by acangiano on Dec 30, 2010 | 15 comments
30. Skype: We Have Not Been Banned in China (mashable.com)
44 points by azazo on Dec 30, 2010 | 3 comments

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