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1. New users: Welcome. Please read the site guidelines.
532 points by pg on Jan 31, 2009 | 137 comments
2. What Do Women Want? (nytimes.com)
76 points by echair on Jan 31, 2009 | 49 comments
3. Playboy Magazine interview with 29-year-old Steve Jobs (playboy.com)
75 points by unalone on Jan 31, 2009 | 18 comments
4. Google giving Malware Warning on all search results (now fixed) (tinypic.com)
73 points by danw on Jan 31, 2009 | 72 comments
5. Review my website: Cornify (cornify.com)
61 points by Cornify on Jan 31, 2009 | 46 comments
6. Scientists Create Logic Gates from Living Neurons (robots.net)
50 points by amackera on Jan 31, 2009 | 14 comments
7. Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python (python.net)
49 points by iamelgringo on Jan 31, 2009 | 8 comments
8. Obama Gives Keynes His First Real-World Test (npr.org)
43 points by budu3 on Jan 31, 2009 | 60 comments
9. Peter Norvig's review of SICP (amazon.com)
41 points by andreyf on Jan 31, 2009 | 18 comments
10. Shedskin: An experimental optimizing Python-to-C++ compiler (code.google.com)
36 points by frisco on Jan 31, 2009 | 8 comments
11. Uncle Bob's rant on Jeff and Joel (objectmentor.com)
34 points by abyx on Jan 31, 2009 | 11 comments
12. Insider Look at How Twitter Was Born (140characters.com)
31 points by tonystubblebine on Jan 31, 2009 | 2 comments
13. Imagining College Without Grades (insidehighered.com)
30 points by robg on Jan 31, 2009 | 41 comments
14. Official Google Blog: "This site may harm your computer" on every search result?? (googleblog.blogspot.com)
28 points by Anon84 on Jan 31, 2009 | 18 comments
15. Javascript is good enough (alarmingdevelopment.org)
28 points by jefffoster on Jan 31, 2009 | 21 comments
16. Branson: Fortunes to be made in downturn (bbc.co.uk)
27 points by petercooper on Jan 31, 2009 | 13 comments
17. Learning vi -- the "cheatsheet" technique (gentoo.org)
27 points by vp on Jan 31, 2009 | 22 comments
18. Open Table files for IPO. (venturebeat.com)
26 points by rokhayakebe on Jan 31, 2009 | 5 comments
19. Fine. Git is Awesome. (harmonize.fm)
25 points by jmtulloss on Jan 31, 2009 | 15 comments
20. How Google crawls the deep web (glinden.blogspot.com)
24 points by prakash on Jan 31, 2009 | 1 comment
21. World of Goo publisher bankrupt. (gamedaily.com)
24 points by chris11 on Jan 31, 2009 | 9 comments
22. The Economics of Giving It Away (wsj.com)
23 points by fauigerzigerk on Jan 31, 2009 | 2 comments
23. Nielsen Deletes Reply-To-All Button (techcrunch.com)
23 points by bkrausz on Jan 31, 2009 | 18 comments
24. Printing The NYT Costs Twice As Much As Sending Every Subscriber A Free Kindle (alleyinsider.com)
21 points by Flemlord on Jan 31, 2009 | 11 comments
25. Ask HN: How to you create and manage passwords?
21 points by rscott on Jan 31, 2009 | 58 comments
26. Send Me Your Nominations for Algorithms That Changed The World (parlezuml.com)
18 points by Anon84 on Jan 31, 2009 | 42 comments
27. Babies Know - A Little Dirt Is Good for You (nytimes.com)
16 points by echair on Jan 31, 2009 | 9 comments
28. Congratulations Facebook (tonyamoyal.com)
15 points by corgan1003 on Jan 31, 2009 | 12 comments
29. Teenage genius takes 23 A-levels in a single year (independent.co.uk)
14 points by parenthesis on Jan 31, 2009 | 13 comments
30. Downloading Is a Packrat's Dream (wired.com)
14 points by noonespecial on Jan 31, 2009 | 11 comments

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