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1. The 'broken windows' theory of crime is tested and seems correct (economist.com)
108 points by robg on Nov 23, 2008 | 35 comments
2. LaTeX vs. Word vs. Writer (oestrem.com)
95 points by moxy on Nov 23, 2008 | 54 comments
3. 10 Totally Stupid Online Business Ideas That Made Someone Rich (nichegeek.com)
49 points by jasonlbaptiste on Nov 23, 2008 | 24 comments
4. Amazon Web Services Hosted Public Data Sets (amazon.com)
44 points by danw on Nov 23, 2008 | 3 comments
5. Poll: How do you feel about making HN invite only?
43 points by vaksel on Nov 23, 2008 | 80 comments
6. Rice Paddies And Math Tests (gladwell.com)
41 points by cellis on Nov 23, 2008 | 36 comments
7. FeedbackArmy.com - simple, cheap usability testing for your site (feedbackarmy.com)
37 points by raffi on Nov 23, 2008 | 24 comments
8. ReCAPTCHA: simultaneously protecting against bots and digitizing books (recaptcha.net)
37 points by parenthesis on Nov 23, 2008 | 14 comments
9. If I Started A Company Today (andrewhyde.net)
35 points by sanjayparekh on Nov 23, 2008 | 7 comments
10. Watching the Times struggle (and what you can learn) (sethgodin.typepad.com)
34 points by bdfh42 on Nov 23, 2008 | 13 comments
11. Typealyzer - Find Your Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (typealyzer.com)
33 points by tortilla on Nov 23, 2008 | 47 comments
12. Global warming predictions are overestimated, suggests study on black carbon (cornell.edu)
29 points by rugger on Nov 23, 2008 | 38 comments
13. Why CouchDB Sucks (eflorenzano.com)
29 points by nickb on Nov 23, 2008 | 12 comments
14. Ask HN: Web Frameworks for Perl
29 points by aneesh on Nov 23, 2008 | 29 comments
15. An Infinite Loop in the Brain (spiegel.de)
25 points by nreece on Nov 23, 2008 | 8 comments
16. Git the fsck out (aisleten.com)
24 points by tortilla on Nov 23, 2008 | 38 comments
17. Second Life bank crash foretold financial crisis (msn.com)
24 points by tlrobinson on Nov 23, 2008 | 21 comments
18. IBM to build brain-like computers (bbc.co.uk)
21 points by timtrueman on Nov 23, 2008 | 28 comments
19. A short history of the bagel (slate.com)
20 points by pg on Nov 23, 2008 | 8 comments
20. Ask HN: On building a Social News site and its tools for moderation
19 points by iamelgringo on Nov 23, 2008 | 10 comments
21. Facebook Hackathon Results in Slick Visualizations (allfacebook.com)
19 points by peter123 on Nov 23, 2008 | 4 comments
22. Google Relies On Akamai To Stream YouTube Live; 700,000 Concurrent Viewers (techcrunch.com)
15 points by gaz on Nov 23, 2008 | 2 comments
23. Ask HN: Do social sites with karma need a decay function?
15 points by abstractbill on Nov 23, 2008 | 32 comments
24. The (Mostly) True Story of Helvetica and the New York City Subway (aiga.org)
13 points by atestu on Nov 23, 2008 | 2 comments
25. A Lost Decade - But Not For Everyone (avc.com)
13 points by jasonlbaptiste on Nov 23, 2008 | 4 comments
26. A Proof of the Halting Problem's Undecidability in Verse (ed.ac.uk)
12 points by soundsop on Nov 23, 2008 | 3 comments
27. Tough times in Silicon Valley, but some hiring (sfgate.com)
12 points by nickb on Nov 23, 2008 | 5 comments
28. How Obama Helped Digg Fix Bugs (digg.com)
12 points by nreece on Nov 23, 2008 | 3 comments
29. Facebook’s Project Palantir: Beautiful Visualization Of People Connecting (techcrunch.com)
11 points by jaydub on Nov 23, 2008
30. Ask HN: Do you tell other people about HN?
11 points by viggity on Nov 23, 2008 | 37 comments

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