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1. Staging Servers, Source Control & Deploy Workflows, And Other Stuff (kalzumeus.com)
330 points by revorad on Dec 12, 2010 | 54 comments
2. The frontpage with a threshold of 100 points (news.ycombinator.com)
256 points by pg on Dec 12, 2010 | 110 comments
3. What's really wrong with BlackBerry (mobileopportunity.blogspot.com)
248 points by macrael on Dec 12, 2010 | 74 comments
4. SimpleCDN has been effectively kicked off the Internet by its ISPs w/o warning (simplecdn.com)
125 points by archon810 on Dec 12, 2010 | 86 comments
5. 10% unemployment yet every startup in NYC struggling to hire (jonsteinberg.com)
116 points by jonsteinberg on Dec 12, 2010 | 178 comments
6. Why choose Tropo over Twilio (diggz.org)
110 points by blitzo on Dec 12, 2010 | 98 comments
7. I Miss Lisp (technicat.com)
99 points by DanielRibeiro on Dec 12, 2010 | 66 comments
8. Ask HN: What is a monad?
100 points by Azuldolphin on Dec 12, 2010 | 43 comments
9. Wondering if you are getting a CR-48? Look for your zipcode here. (pastie.org)
84 points by peregrine on Dec 12, 2010 | 80 comments
10. Pornoscanners trivially defeated by pancake-shaped explosives (boingboing.net)
84 points by panarky on Dec 12, 2010 | 36 comments
11. Oracle VP: “We have a strategy to run Java inside a Javascript environment” (cemerick.com)
74 points by pepijndevos on Dec 12, 2010 | 55 comments
12. Sorting Algorithm Animations (sorting-algorithms.com)
69 points by drawkbox on Dec 12, 2010 | 18 comments
13. Procedural Building Generation in Unreal Engine 3 (epicgames.com)
65 points by grinich on Dec 12, 2010 | 20 comments
14. Sam Ruby, Brendan Eich, and Jeremy Ashkenas on CoffeeScript and "JS-next" (intertwingly.net)
65 points by sstephenson on Dec 12, 2010 | 17 comments
15. Show HN: Flattehn: A Chrome extension to hide points / users until you've voted (chrome.google.com)
61 points by Groxx on Dec 12, 2010 | 37 comments
16. When Free Software isn't better (mako.cc)
61 points by vu3rdd on Dec 12, 2010 | 45 comments
17. The danger of having system programmers around (utcc.utoronto.ca)
60 points by preek on Dec 12, 2010 | 28 comments
18. On C Linked Lists (Profiling and Optimizing) (ozlabs.org)
60 points by djcapelis on Dec 12, 2010 | 31 comments
19. Original Macintosh Business Plan: July 12, 1981 (computerhistory.org)
58 points by gatsby on Dec 12, 2010 | 11 comments
20. Dieter Rams: Principles For Good Design (vitsoe.com)
54 points by gatsby on Dec 12, 2010 | 14 comments
21. A Secretive Banking Elite Rules Trading in Derivatives (nytimes.com)
53 points by wallflower on Dec 12, 2010 | 34 comments
22. How to Get Started with Bitcoins (pzxc.com)
52 points by pzxc on Dec 12, 2010 | 47 comments
23. No evidence of time before Big Bang (nature.com)
50 points by japaget on Dec 12, 2010 | 40 comments
24. Head of Design at Facebook: How Her Team Uses Data To Make Decisions (zurb.com)
49 points by mikemcaveeney on Dec 12, 2010 | 18 comments
25. A Mothers's Blood Reveals Entire Genome of Child (cosmosmagazine.com)
49 points by J3L2404 on Dec 12, 2010 | 22 comments
26. TeX/LaTeX Stack Exchange (tex.stackexchange.com)
48 points by fogus on Dec 12, 2010 | 5 comments
27. Ranking Programming Languages by Size of Community and Number of Projects (readwriteweb.com)
47 points by ghurlman on Dec 12, 2010 | 16 comments
28. Initial Thoughts on Android 2.3 from a Game Developer's Perspective (badlogicgames.com)
47 points by wallflower on Dec 12, 2010 | 11 comments
29. Understand Haskell Monads through Macros (common-lisp.net)
45 points by tomdtpink on Dec 12, 2010 | 2 comments
30. Realistic CSS3 Box Shadow trick with generated content (ballyhooblog.com)
43 points by some1else on Dec 12, 2010 | 12 comments

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