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1. Microsoft rips off Plurk (plurk.com)
581 points by abraham on Dec 14, 2009 | 135 comments
2. Funding Clojure 2010 (groups.google.com)
239 points by swannodette on Dec 14, 2009 | 90 comments
3. Octopuses Carry Coconuts as Instant Shelters (nationalgeographic.com)
205 points by kqr2 on Dec 14, 2009 | 27 comments
4. Why are Europeans the whitest people on the planet? (knol.google.com)
174 points by martian on Dec 14, 2009 | 62 comments
5. Why James Chartrand Wears Women’s Underpants (copyblogger.com)
158 points by JoelSutherland on Dec 14, 2009 | 126 comments
6. Hacker News reader for iPhone (new native app) (michaelgrinich.com)
111 points by grinich on Dec 14, 2009 | 39 comments
7. Linux System Administration Basics (linode.com)
108 points by whalesalad on Dec 14, 2009 | 25 comments
8. Googling for Sociopaths (aaronsw.com)
105 points by mattyb on Dec 14, 2009 | 61 comments
9. Pure CSS 3D effect (romancortes.com)
102 points by barredo on Dec 14, 2009 | 27 comments
10. James Cameron’s New 3-D Epic Could Change Film Forever (wired.com)
101 points by edw519 on Dec 14, 2009 | 70 comments
11. The impact of language choice on github projects (corte.si)
99 points by fogus on Dec 14, 2009 | 21 comments
12. Amazon EC2 Spot Instances - And Now How Much Would You Pay? (aws.typepad.com)
101 points by jeffbarr on Dec 14, 2009 | 48 comments
13. 37% of people commute by bike in Copenhagen thanks to this infrastructure (streetfilms.org)
88 points by MikeCapone on Dec 14, 2009 | 74 comments
14. How to determine if your A/B test is statistically significant (asmartbear.com)
87 points by zackattack on Dec 14, 2009 | 14 comments
15. I'll sue you if you use my common-sense JavaScript tests (groups.google.com)
84 points by Rauchg on Dec 14, 2009 | 78 comments
16. Greybeard Stories: The Black Team (penzba.co.uk)
83 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Dec 14, 2009 | 7 comments
17. Let's Stop Talking About "Backups" (joelonsoftware.com)
83 points by JoelSutherland on Dec 14, 2009 | 82 comments
18. SSD Streaming at Last.fm (last.fm)
79 points by russss on Dec 14, 2009 | 23 comments
19. Clojure Roundup: FlightCaster (YC S09), Crane, Incanter, Leiningen (infoq.com)
70 points by jaf12duke on Dec 14, 2009 | 3 comments
20. Rock Solid HTML Emails (24ways.org)
63 points by bensummers on Dec 14, 2009 | 27 comments
21. Tinywm, a window manager in 50 lines of C (incise.org)
62 points by vorador on Dec 14, 2009 | 8 comments
22. Salman Khan, math master of the Internet (sfgate.com)
60 points by kqr2 on Dec 14, 2009 | 8 comments
23. Fructose increases diabetes and heart disease (timesonline.co.uk)
59 points by pg on Dec 14, 2009 | 43 comments
24. Gaming the System (randsinrepose.com)
59 points by andrewpbrett on Dec 14, 2009 | 8 comments
25. GHC 6.12 released Dramatic parallel performance tuning, dynamic linking... (gmane.org)
53 points by dons on Dec 14, 2009 | 2 comments
26. A simple Chrome extension that replaces your New Tab page with a to-do list (benhiller.github.com)
51 points by r11t on Dec 14, 2009 | 32 comments
27. Goo.gl: Making URLs shorter for Google Toolbar and FeedBurner (googleblog.blogspot.com)
51 points by jeff18 on Dec 14, 2009 | 22 comments
28. Why Google's Go is a Bore (funpic.de)
51 points by ThinkWriteMute on Dec 14, 2009 | 23 comments
29. jQuery.Behavior: Simple jQuery library for boosting productivity (rodpetrovic.com)
48 points by vuknje on Dec 14, 2009 | 12 comments
30. Objects Are Not Abstract Data Types (stuartsierra.com)
48 points by liebke on Dec 14, 2009 | 13 comments

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