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1. Work Less, Get More Done: Analytics For Maximizing Productivity (kalzumeus.com)
109 points by patio11 on Oct 4, 2009 | 39 comments
2. Why dumb toys make kids smarter (thedailybeast.com)
91 points by bootload on Oct 4, 2009 | 33 comments
3. You Can't Do What You Want By Doing Something Else (artima.com)
86 points by saurabh on Oct 4, 2009 | 31 comments
4. There Are More Slaves Today Than at Any Time in Human History (alternet.org)
87 points by kf on Oct 4, 2009 | 46 comments
5. Bitbucket: On our extended downtime with Amazon (blog.bitbucket.org)
86 points by aiiie on Oct 4, 2009 | 36 comments
6. The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (an oldie but a goodie) (lambdassociates.org)
82 points by acangiano on Oct 4, 2009 | 22 comments
7. Drupal Sucks (robozen.com)
81 points by edw519 on Oct 4, 2009 | 94 comments
8. SQL Databases Don't Scale (heroku.com)
78 points by DavidSJ on Oct 4, 2009 | 41 comments
9. Will California become America's first failed state? (guardian.co.uk)
53 points by sdave on Oct 4, 2009 | 86 comments
10. The Burger That Shattered Her Life (nytimes.com)
51 points by peter123 on Oct 4, 2009 | 40 comments
11. The original IBM Thinkpad (acontinuouslean.com)
50 points by ritubpant on Oct 4, 2009 | 5 comments
12. Entire Cities Recreated Using Thousands of Flickr Photos (thenextweb.com)
49 points by mgcreed on Oct 4, 2009 | 10 comments
13. Matt Cutts 30 day challenge for October: No Microsoft Software (mattcutts.com)
46 points by tshtf on Oct 4, 2009 | 38 comments
14. Google Ajax API Code Playground (code.google.com)
44 points by tzury on Oct 4, 2009 | 3 comments
15. Xkcd blog: Physics for Entertainment book (xkcd.com)
43 points by falava on Oct 4, 2009 | 2 comments
16. HN top-100 sorted by karma per day (spreadsheets.google.com)
40 points by matthodan on Oct 4, 2009 | 50 comments
17. PyBrain -- the Python Machine Learning Library (github.com/pybrain)
39 points by jnaut on Oct 4, 2009 | 11 comments
18. Cheat sheets for front end web developers (sixrevisions.com)
38 points by Zenbach on Oct 4, 2009 | 1 comment
19. Rupert to Internet: It's War (vanityfair.com)
38 points by kevinheisler on Oct 4, 2009 | 31 comments
20. Version control of really huge files (alumnit.ca)
35 points by soundsop on Oct 4, 2009 | 8 comments
21. A graphical breakdown of the death of newspapers (mint.com)
34 points by JCThoughtscream on Oct 4, 2009 | 12 comments
22. US Navy awards funds for Polywell Fusion reactor experiment (classicalvalues.com)
31 points by cwan on Oct 4, 2009 | 9 comments
23. Cāˆ’āˆ’: a portable assembly language designed by Simon Peyton Jones et al. (cminusminus.org)
30 points by tillulen on Oct 4, 2009 | 9 comments
24. Startup Bootcamp: October 12th at MIT with many YC speakers (startupbootcamp.mit.edu)
29 points by kf on Oct 4, 2009 | 14 comments
25. Confessions of an IT pro: My biggest professional blunders (techrepublic.com.com)
29 points by edw519 on Oct 4, 2009 | 17 comments
26. John Cleese divorce tour: the first review (telegraph.co.uk)
28 points by rglovejoy on Oct 4, 2009 | 7 comments
27. How to access iPhone/iPod Touch from Ubuntu (ubuntugeek.com)
25 points by falava on Oct 4, 2009 | 3 comments
28. Video: Paul Graham at Startup School 08 (omnisio.com)
25 points by matthodan on Oct 4, 2009 | 11 comments
29. Software Patents: A Personal Story (thenoisychannel.com)
24 points by zjj on Oct 4, 2009 | 16 comments
30. Series E Terms for Twitter (pedatacenter.com)
23 points by vcexperts on Oct 4, 2009 | 14 comments

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