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1. Washington Is Killing Silicon Valley (wsj.com)
81 points by prakash on Dec 22, 2008 | 98 comments
2. Trolling To Win: Can trolling work better than asking for help? (bash.org)
76 points by tc on Dec 22, 2008 | 24 comments
3. Indie game made by 2 people out-selling Spore, Left 4 Dead, & Fallout 3 at Amazon (2dboy.com)
69 points by jim-greer on Dec 22, 2008 | 34 comments
4. Posterous (YC S08) launches dead simple group blogs, raises angel round (techcrunch.com)
59 points by rantfoil on Dec 22, 2008 | 23 comments
5. jQuery 1.3 ßeta (jquery.com)
54 points by auston on Dec 22, 2008 | 28 comments
6. Massive scrape of the Twitter friend graph (groups.google.com)
51 points by pushcx on Dec 22, 2008 | 10 comments
7. Understanding Ruby Blocks, Procs and Lambdas (robertsosinski.com)
50 points by robertsosinski on Dec 22, 2008 | 8 comments
8. Inventor's 2020 vision: to help 1bn of the world's poorest see better (guardian.co.uk)
45 points by swombat on Dec 22, 2008 | 4 comments
9. Does Gödel Matter? (slate.com)
39 points by mlLK on Dec 22, 2008 | 48 comments
10. SVG Is The Future Of Application Development (sitepoint.com)
36 points by astrec on Dec 22, 2008 | 23 comments
11. Perl 5 now uses Git for version control (perl.org)
35 points by arthurk on Dec 22, 2008 | 16 comments
12. Toyota Expects Its First Loss in 70 Years (nytimes.com)
34 points by nikils on Dec 22, 2008 | 16 comments
13. Ask HN: slicehost-like providers outside the US?
30 points by abstractbill on Dec 22, 2008 | 27 comments
14. What Makes a Good Programming Font? (andersnoras.com)
29 points by theoneill on Dec 22, 2008 | 28 comments
15. Rumors of Upcoming Microsoft Cut-Backs (minimsft.blogspot.com)
28 points by azharcs on Dec 22, 2008 | 10 comments
16. Ask YC: What's the best way and place to start freelancing?
27 points by vineet7kumar on Dec 22, 2008 | 26 comments
17. Ask HN: Anyone else want google.com et al to be broken down by host on HN?
22 points by sh1mmer on Dec 22, 2008 | 8 comments
18. One ISP says RIAA must pay for piracy protection (cnet.com)
21 points by raju on Dec 22, 2008 | 7 comments
19. Ask HN: Review My Doohicky
19 points by ajkirwin on Dec 22, 2008 | 13 comments
20. The transformation of Reddit
19 points by Raphael on Dec 22, 2008 | 19 comments
21. OverTrainer.com update, thanks HN
19 points by ejs on Dec 22, 2008 | 14 comments
22. Crapify (mattmaroon.com)
19 points by twampss on Dec 22, 2008 | 16 comments
23. The Old New Thing : Cleaner, more elegant, and harder to recognize (msdn.com)
18 points by Anon84 on Dec 22, 2008 | 7 comments
24. SaaS delivers return before investment (zdnet.com)
17 points by terpua on Dec 22, 2008 | 3 comments
25. Landfill-Bound Garlic Salt is De-Icing Roads in Iowa (treehugger.com)
14 points by MikeCapone on Dec 22, 2008 | 8 comments
26. Advice for troubled times: Build war chest (sfgate.com)
14 points by raju on Dec 22, 2008 | 8 comments
27. 'Free-mium,' self-funded models set to gain traction (cnet.com)
13 points by johns on Dec 22, 2008 | 5 comments
28. How fat went global (newsweek.com)
12 points by newsit on Dec 22, 2008 | 2 comments
29. Twivia - Twitter based Trivia Game (timdorr.com)
11 points by nirmal on Dec 22, 2008 | 7 comments
30. Economists missed the brewing crisis. Now many are asking: How can we do better? (boston.com)
10 points by robg on Dec 22, 2008 | 9 comments

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