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1. How to detect a toxic customer (softwarebyrob.com)
293 points by swombat on Dec 9, 2010 | 114 comments
2. The ASF Resigns From the JCP Executive Committee (apache.org)
260 points by davidw on Dec 9, 2010 | 57 comments
3. Dropbox for Teams (dropbox.com)
243 points by johns on Dec 9, 2010 | 105 comments
4. Mark Zuckerberg Agrees to Give Away Fortune (wsj.com)
239 points by jakarta on Dec 9, 2010 | 193 comments
5. How to Fly 35,000 Miles, Visit 4 Continents, 9 Countries, and 15 Cities for $418 (nerdfitness.com)
193 points by vamsee on Dec 9, 2010 | 108 comments
6. Paypal.com appears to be unavailable (paypal.com)
148 points by ivankirigin on Dec 9, 2010 | 123 comments
7. A virus could increase lithium batteries capacity by 10x (fastcompany.com)
141 points by phalien on Dec 9, 2010 | 70 comments
8. How to reject a job candidate without being an asshole (nathanmarz.com)
140 points by nathanmarz on Dec 9, 2010 | 77 comments
9. Engineering Is Not Science (ieee.org)
134 points by naish on Dec 9, 2010 | 76 comments
10. Ask HN: How would you deal with DDoS?
129 points by samratjp on Dec 9, 2010 | 65 comments
11. Evernote makes $800,000 per Month (mashable.com)
123 points by kingsidharth on Dec 9, 2010 | 66 comments
12. Kinect finally fulfills its Minority Report destiny (engadget.com)
120 points by shawndumas on Dec 9, 2010 | 44 comments
13. Truly decentralized bittorrent (torrentfreak.com)
114 points by Rhapso on Dec 9, 2010 | 19 comments
14. YouTube Lifts Time Limit for Videos (nytimes.com)
107 points by J3L2404 on Dec 9, 2010 | 40 comments
15. Ask HN: Did anyone else get a Google Chrome Laptop yet?
102 points by simonsarris on Dec 9, 2010 | 102 comments
16. Ben the Bodyguard: The Perils of Promotion That's Better Than the Product (fastcompany.com)
99 points by hornokplease on Dec 9, 2010 | 26 comments
17. 10.1 inch Notion Ink Tablet - $375 (notionink.wordpress.com)
98 points by tomeast on Dec 9, 2010 | 50 comments
18. Objective-C Memory Management For Lazy People (interfacelab.com)
96 points by jawngee on Dec 9, 2010 | 35 comments
19. Giant Patent Troll Awakened: Intellectual Ventures Files Its First Lawsuits (techdirt.com)
89 points by yanw on Dec 9, 2010 | 15 comments
20. Kickstarting Hubcap: a Socially Aware GitHub Mac App (github.com/blog)
86 points by sferik on Dec 9, 2010 | 8 comments
21. The Most Honest Privacy Policy, Ever (itworld.com)
81 points by gacba on Dec 9, 2010 | 15 comments
22. Climber Creates The "Anti-Cam" - A Fall Protection Device (alpinist.com)
78 points by ccoop on Dec 9, 2010 | 79 comments
23. Sprite.js: HTML5 framework for creating efficient animations in browsers (github.com/batiste)
77 points by sverrejoh on Dec 9, 2010 | 14 comments
24. JavaScript is the most popular language on GitHub (github.com/languages)
78 points by Rauchg on Dec 9, 2010 | 30 comments
25. Ask HN: Big company looking to acquire us, I'm terrified
74 points by beingacquired on Dec 9, 2010 | 31 comments
26. Seattle School Board votes to keep 'Brave New World' on curriculum (nwsource.com)
66 points by aaronbrethorst on Dec 9, 2010 | 19 comments
27. My Y Combinator Interview Experience and my Startup Postmortem (maxlynch.com)
66 points by yesimahuman on Dec 9, 2010 | 22 comments
28. Two Days After Unveiling, Cr-48 Chrome Notebook Already Showing Up On Doorsteps (techcrunch.com)
63 points by vdondeti on Dec 9, 2010 | 11 comments
29. Hacker News, now with downvotes (jacquesmattheij.com)
60 points by swombat on Dec 9, 2010 | 45 comments
30. Mirrored display face-to-face pair programming setup (pivotallabs.com)
59 points by joshsusser on Dec 9, 2010 | 24 comments

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