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1. They Killed My Lawyer (foreignpolicy.com)
252 points by nice1 on Dec 27, 2009 | 65 comments
2. The Master, The Expert, The Programmer (zedshaw.com)
195 points by azharcs on Dec 27, 2009 | 104 comments
3. I'm not an enterpreneur, I'm a dirty hack (maxklein.posterous.com)
158 points by maxklein on Dec 27, 2009 | 73 comments
4. Google open-source projects that you probably don't know (0x1fff.com)
82 points by edw519 on Dec 27, 2009 | 12 comments
5. Lisp OS: what has been lost: Kent Pitman (groups.google.com)
75 points by wglb on Dec 27, 2009 | 45 comments
6. Has Hackers News Become Less About Hacking?
63 points by brennannovak on Dec 27, 2009 | 80 comments
7. Ira Glass on storytelling (catharsis.tumblr.com)
59 points by araneae on Dec 27, 2009 | 20 comments
8. Where Lisp Fails: at Turning People into Fungible Cogs (loper-os.org)
56 points by fogus on Dec 27, 2009 | 90 comments
9. If You’re Nervous About Quitting Your Boring Job, You’re Sane (alfajango.com)
56 points by JangoSteve on Dec 27, 2009 | 11 comments
10. Query DNS via a RESTful HTTP interface (jsondns.org)
49 points by jf on Dec 27, 2009 | 35 comments
11. Why Does Facebook Want to Suck the Fun Out of Unfriending? (fastcompany.com)
43 points by MicahWedemeyer on Dec 27, 2009 | 19 comments
12. Ask HN: How do you organize your code on your machine?
41 points by wfarr on Dec 27, 2009 | 51 comments
13. Palindromes (Clojure vs. Common Lisp) (imagine27.com)
40 points by jgrant27 on Dec 27, 2009 | 24 comments
14. MIT Open Courseware - Free Lectures (ocw.mit.edu)
39 points by macco on Dec 27, 2009 | 18 comments
15. Stephen Fry on the Blackberry (stephenfry.com)
38 points by grellas on Dec 27, 2009 | 15 comments
16. New wheel for your bicycle: The Copenhagen wheel (senseable.mit.edu)
38 points by boskom on Dec 27, 2009 | 22 comments
17. Schneier on Security: Separating Explosives from the Detonator (schneier.com)
37 points by stakent on Dec 27, 2009 | 18 comments
18. Weather the Star Wars way... (tomscott.com)
37 points by d4ft on Dec 27, 2009 | 8 comments
19. Ask HN: How to become a better programmer?
29 points by Paton on Dec 27, 2009 | 62 comments
20. Watch the 26th Chaos Communication Congress (ccc.de)
28 points by ugh on Dec 27, 2009 | 2 comments
21. I Don’t Git GitHub Yet, But I Hope I Will (developerblogs.com)
26 points by edw519 on Dec 27, 2009 | 12 comments
22. JMatch: Iterable Pattern Matching (cornell.edu)
26 points by jules on Dec 27, 2009 | 3 comments
23. Ask HN: How can I move to USA?
25 points by oscardelben on Dec 27, 2009 | 41 comments
24. Magic Tricks based on deep Mathematics (mathoverflow.net)
25 points by _giu on Dec 27, 2009 | 4 comments
25. jQuery Plugins (woorkup.com)
23 points by woork on Dec 27, 2009
26. Ask HN: How to setup scaled-down Craigslist for my struggling rural area?
23 points by JayNeely on Dec 27, 2009 | 35 comments
27. Why the web economy will continue growing rapidly (cdixon.org)
22 points by prakash on Dec 27, 2009 | 4 comments
28. Scientists want planes to fly in formation like geese, to save on jet fuel (guardian.co.uk)
22 points by vaksel on Dec 27, 2009 | 15 comments
29. Ample SDK - Open Source GUI Framework (amplesdk.com)
23 points by meddah on Dec 27, 2009 | 4 comments
30. Ask HN: How to jump into "real world" programming?
22 points by dmn on Dec 27, 2009 | 16 comments

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