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1. Fighter Pilots Face A Dismal Future (strategypage.com)
110 points by pg on Nov 8, 2009 | 127 comments
2. How to Follow Through: The Emerging Science of Self-Control (rolfnelson.com)
108 points by alexandros on Nov 8, 2009 | 10 comments
3. Lisp in about 200 lines of Ruby (gist.github.com)
94 points by r11t on Nov 8, 2009 | 34 comments
4. Why the mainstream media is dying (fakesteve.net)
83 points by ksvs on Nov 8, 2009 | 38 comments
5. Russia's Conquering Zeros: Strength of lonely productivity (wsj.com)
73 points by ypk on Nov 8, 2009 | 14 comments
6. Stopping the Shortsigtedness Epidemic (newscientist.com)
68 points by rfreytag on Nov 8, 2009 | 18 comments
7. Unlock A Door With A Secret Knock (grathio.com)
57 points by jmonegro on Nov 8, 2009 | 20 comments
8. Zynga To Remove All In Game Offers (techcrunch.com)
57 points by physcab on Nov 8, 2009 | 16 comments
9. My YC Interview Experience S09 by James (Listia.com) (listia.com)
54 points by siong1987 on Nov 8, 2009 | 20 comments
10. The many sliders of Photoshop CS4 (mrgan.tumblr.com)
55 points by DavidSJ on Nov 8, 2009 | 24 comments
11. “Horrible Things” Slink Back Into Zynga (techcrunch.com)
54 points by dwynings on Nov 8, 2009 | 16 comments
12. The House Passed the Health Bill (washingtonpost.com)
54 points by raintrees on Nov 8, 2009 | 163 comments
13. Brace : Dialect of C that looks like Python (nipl.net)
51 points by r11t on Nov 8, 2009 | 19 comments
14. Japanese Lisp Manga (bugyo.tk)
46 points by fogus on Nov 8, 2009 | 15 comments
15. Priced To Go (newyorker.com)
42 points by m0th87 on Nov 8, 2009 | 8 comments
16. Emacs Zen Coding - Write markup quickly (emacswiki.org)
41 points by kirubakaran on Nov 8, 2009 | 10 comments
17. Extreme JavaScript Performance (slideshare.net)
39 points by _giu on Nov 8, 2009 | 17 comments
18. What DNS Is Not (acm.org)
37 points by bensummers on Nov 8, 2009 | 11 comments
19. Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit (tpg.com.au)
37 points by tokenadult on Nov 8, 2009 | 5 comments
20. Ask HN: What music alters your state of consciousness?
37 points by zen53 on Nov 8, 2009 | 84 comments
21. How to write a rude Q&A (scottberkun.com)
34 points by bootload on Nov 8, 2009 | 8 comments
22. Phys Ed: Why Doesn’t Exercise Lead to Weight Loss? (nytimes.com)
33 points by yangyang on Nov 8, 2009 | 48 comments
23. Comprehensive guide to bash scripting (talesofacoldadmin.wordpress.com)
32 points by tzury on Nov 8, 2009 | 4 comments
24. Why Dilbert Is Doomed (salon.com)
29 points by ojbyrne on Nov 8, 2009 | 40 comments
25. Turning Cellphones into Microscopes (nytimes.com)
28 points by qohen on Nov 8, 2009 | 4 comments
26. Braess's paradox: adding roads can increase congestion (crowddynamics.co.uk)
28 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Nov 8, 2009 | 9 comments
27. Ask HN: Speedreading - myth vs reality? your thoughts.
27 points by justlearning on Nov 8, 2009 | 24 comments
28. Ask HN: What do founders spend their time on, after their product launch?
26 points by vaksel on Nov 8, 2009 | 16 comments
29. Zero-day flaw found in web encryption (zdnet.co.uk)
25 points by Anon84 on Nov 8, 2009 | 15 comments
30. You're An Idiot For Not Using Heroku (railstips.org)
23 points by _pius on Nov 8, 2009 | 36 comments

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