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1. Introducing Google Public DNS: A new DNS resolver from Google (googlecode.blogspot.com)
264 points by johns on Dec 3, 2009 | 155 comments
2. Zed Shaw: Librelist to take on Google, Yahoo mailing lists (zedshaw.com)
173 points by mattculbreth on Dec 3, 2009 | 70 comments
3. http://to/ World's Shortest URL Shortener
164 points by Raphael on Dec 3, 2009 | 145 comments
4. Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering (computer.org)
112 points by andrewbadera on Dec 3, 2009 | 32 comments
5. Spirit Gets Stuck, Makes a Big Discovery (nasa.gov)
111 points by mshafrir on Dec 3, 2009 | 27 comments
6. Matt Brezina: No One Cares About Your Stupid Little Startup (slideshare.net)
86 points by prakash on Dec 3, 2009 | 16 comments
7. Google Public DNS (code.google.com)
83 points by dfreidin on Dec 3, 2009 | 45 comments
8. Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 1: Are Those My Initials? (steveblank.com)
79 points by nathanh on Dec 3, 2009 | 20 comments
9. David Ulevitch: Some thoughts on Google DNS (opendns.com)
77 points by drallison on Dec 3, 2009 | 65 comments
10. FlightCaster merges its statistical-learning code into Incanter (incanter-blog.org)
77 points by fogus on Dec 3, 2009 | 9 comments
11. Start Your Startup: "Don't Save Sex for your Old Age" (Warren Buffett) (fool.com)
75 points by alanthonyc on Dec 3, 2009 | 24 comments
12. Geeks trump alpha males on Wall Street (reuters.com)
74 points by cwan on Dec 3, 2009 | 83 comments
13. Ask HN: As an employer, what do you wish applicants did more often?
74 points by yangman on Dec 3, 2009 | 50 comments
14. What the "Black screen of death" story says about tech journalism (zdnet.com)
73 points by malte on Dec 3, 2009 | 15 comments
15. 4.3.2.1 -- Another google DNS ip
69 points by davidu on Dec 3, 2009 | 21 comments
16. 1/500th of humanity's time is spent on Facebook
60 points by RoboTeddy on Dec 3, 2009 | 55 comments
17. Tools for Lifelong Learners (openculture.com)
59 points by ypk on Dec 3, 2009 | 5 comments
18. Technically speaking, what makes Google Chrome fast? (chromium.org)
56 points by mbrubeck on Dec 3, 2009 | 43 comments
19. Helsinki server room heats 500 houses (helen.fi)
52 points by cromulent on Dec 3, 2009 | 10 comments
20. FlightCaster (YC S09) open-sources Crane: Hadoop Clusters on EC2 (measuringmeasures.blogspot.com)
50 points by jaf12duke on Dec 3, 2009 | 9 comments
21. Chargify vs. Spreedly vs. Cheddargetter: Subscription-Billing Service Prices (glendenin.com)
50 points by ccg on Dec 3, 2009 | 20 comments
22. How To Identify A Lame Programming Job (codypowell.com)
47 points by fogus on Dec 3, 2009 | 36 comments
23. New Amazon EC2 Feature: Boot from Elastic Block Store (aws.typepad.com)
44 points by jeffbarr on Dec 3, 2009 | 13 comments
24. John Carmack on hacking Doom and Quake (.plan file from 1998) (team5150.com)
42 points by mace on Dec 3, 2009 | 9 comments
25. Foursquare.com now all on Lift, in Scala (groups.google.com)
42 points by iamdanw on Dec 3, 2009 | 4 comments
26. Why Object-Oriented Languages Need Tail Calls (lambda-the-ultimate.org)
39 points by fogus on Dec 3, 2009 | 16 comments
27. ZumoDrive (YC S07) Is a Silver Lining In 'Cloud' Storage (wsj.com)
40 points by keevon on Dec 3, 2009 | 12 comments
28. Eric Schmidt: How Google Can Help Newspapers (wsj.com)
38 points by ilamont on Dec 3, 2009 | 13 comments
29. Facebook: FarmVille is bigger than Twitter (techradar.com)
37 points by mun411 on Dec 3, 2009 | 24 comments
30. The Generic Dilemma in Go (swtch.com)
36 points by fogus on Dec 3, 2009 | 24 comments

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