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1. Guido's Proposal: Moratorium on Python language changes (python.org)
210 points by sammcd on Oct 21, 2009 | 64 comments
2. 37signals Launches Haystack for Web Designers and Clients To Find Each Other (37signals.com)
134 points by tptacek on Oct 21, 2009 | 66 comments
3. Unladen Swallow 2009Q3 Released with LLVM optimized Python (code.google.com)
127 points by yarapavan on Oct 21, 2009 | 35 comments
4. Starting a business isn't as crazy and risky as they say (asmartbear.com)
92 points by swombat on Oct 21, 2009 | 34 comments
5. Turn Your Entire Office Into a Whiteboard (fastcompany.com)
88 points by dan_sim on Oct 21, 2009 | 29 comments
6. 100,000 Users And So Can You (A history of Carbonmade) (spencerfry.com)
68 points by maxstoller on Oct 21, 2009 | 13 comments
7. A CS Research Topic Generator or How To pick A Worthy Topic In 10 Seconds (purdue.edu)
62 points by detcader on Oct 21, 2009 | 12 comments
8. Papers in Computer Science: summary and discussion of important papers (papersincomputerscience.org)
60 points by jey on Oct 21, 2009 | 6 comments
9. Pimping out git log (jukie.net)
59 points by juvenn on Oct 21, 2009 | 4 comments
10. RT @google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my (googleblog.blogspot.com)
59 points by vulpes on Oct 21, 2009 | 33 comments
11. Introducing BERT and BERT-RPC: GitHub's new serialization and RPC protocol (github.com/blog)
57 points by mojombo on Oct 21, 2009 | 17 comments
12. Apple.com now uses the HTML5 video tag (ajaxian.com)
56 points by edd on Oct 21, 2009 | 15 comments
13. Ask HN: What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it?
52 points by huyegn on Oct 21, 2009 | 77 comments
14. Loopt acquires GraffitiGeo (techcrunch.com)
52 points by arfrank on Oct 21, 2009 | 12 comments
15. Reliable, fast UDP-based data transfer protocol that outperforms TCP (sourceforge.net)
48 points by aux-k on Oct 21, 2009 | 14 comments
16. The Zimbu programming language, by vim author Bram Moolenaar (zimbu.org)
47 points by mbrubeck on Oct 21, 2009 | 51 comments
17. What’s Wrong with Probability Notation? (lingpipe-blog.com)
49 points by yarapavan on Oct 21, 2009 | 21 comments
18. HeyZap Helps Flash Games Go Viral With New API (techcrunch.com)
43 points by foobar2k on Oct 21, 2009 | 4 comments
19. Apple Stock Hits An All-Time High (businessweek.com)
45 points by pmjordan on Oct 21, 2009 | 15 comments
20. Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone (arxiv.org)
44 points by chromophore on Oct 21, 2009 | 4 comments
21. Regular Expression Tool for Live Editing/Testing of RegExps made with jQuery (gethifi.com)
43 points by KrisJordan on Oct 21, 2009 | 15 comments
22. Rewriting Playdar: C++ to Erlang, with code statistics (metabrew.com)
42 points by mbrubeck on Oct 21, 2009 | 12 comments
23. Introducing Nook, the most advanced ebook reader (barnesandnoble.com)
41 points by scapegraced on Oct 21, 2009 | 41 comments
24. Why The Founders of PayPal And HotorNot Helped This Dropout (mixergy.com)
39 points by blaisco on Oct 21, 2009 | 14 comments
25. Google Releases API for Website Optimizer: A/B & Multivariate Testing for All (readwriteweb.com)
36 points by wgj on Oct 21, 2009 | 9 comments
26. Pay for your own dog food (inklingmarkets.com)
36 points by nate on Oct 21, 2009 | 15 comments
27. Router man (networkworld.com)
36 points by muriithi on Oct 21, 2009 | 2 comments
28. Encrypting Your Dropbox Seamlessly and Automatically (pragmattica.wordpress.com)
33 points by r11t on Oct 21, 2009 | 15 comments
29. Reddit implements "best" comment sorting based on score confidence intervals. (reddit.com)
31 points by zck on Oct 21, 2009 | 19 comments
30. The risk psychology of the anti-vaccine movement (nytimes.com)
30 points by cwan on Oct 21, 2009 | 56 comments

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