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1. What I Learned This Year (gigaom.com)
78 points by phil_KartMe on Dec 27, 2008 | 18 comments
2. How Niko Tinbergen Reverse Engineered the Seagull (dustincurtis.com)
75 points by kf on Dec 27, 2008 | 17 comments
3. A programmer's view of the Universe, part 2: Mario Kart (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
61 points by pavelludiq on Dec 27, 2008 | 22 comments
4. My Software Is Being Pirated (codinghorror.com)
53 points by lehmannro on Dec 27, 2008 | 121 comments
5. For all of you small business owners, you can relate to this (fivemilliondots.com)
45 points by edw519 on Dec 27, 2008 | 67 comments
6. Something I've noticed about the rich and powerful (dustincurtis.com)
44 points by kf on Dec 27, 2008 | 42 comments
7. Cuil Fail: Traffic Nearly Hits Rock Bottom (techcrunch.com)
40 points by vaksel on Dec 27, 2008 | 50 comments
8. No Furnaces but Heat Aplenty In Innovative ‘Passive Houses’ (nytimes.com)
35 points by kalvin on Dec 27, 2008 | 12 comments
9. Everything I Know About Business I Learned From Poker (zappos.com)
34 points by lionheart on Dec 27, 2008 | 27 comments
10. Scientists plan to ignite tiny man-made star (telegraph.co.uk)
28 points by nickb on Dec 27, 2008 | 8 comments
11. The Banach–Tarski paradox (wikipedia.org)
26 points by acangiano on Dec 27, 2008 | 20 comments
12. This 15 year old Calvin and Hobbs comic is frighteningly relevant to today (thetruthaboutcars.com)
24 points by acangiano on Dec 27, 2008 | 1 comment
13. A Christmas iFart explosion: Nearly 40,000 downloads and $30,000 net (venturebeat.com)
22 points by jasonlbaptiste on Dec 27, 2008 | 23 comments
14. Scalable Datasets with Bloom Filters and Ruby (igvita.com)
21 points by igrigorik on Dec 27, 2008 | 7 comments
15. Ask HN: Classic games?
20 points by siong1987 on Dec 27, 2008 | 33 comments
16. Bjork, Icelandic Singer and…Venture Capitalist? (nytimes.com)
18 points by atestu on Dec 27, 2008 | 21 comments
17. Women and Mathematics (micromath.wordpress.com)
17 points by pchristensen on Dec 27, 2008 | 31 comments
18. Internet sites could be given 'cinema-style age ratings', UK Culture Secretary says (telegraph.co.uk)
16 points by parenthesis on Dec 27, 2008 | 12 comments
19. Gravity Emerges…From Neutrinos? (discovermagazine.com)
15 points by Anon84 on Dec 27, 2008 | 2 comments
20. isitchristmas.com source code on github (github.com/isit)
14 points by evdawg on Dec 27, 2008 | 26 comments
21. Postbox declares war on email overload (venturebeat.com)
14 points by ajbatac on Dec 27, 2008
22. One of the most interesting new languages I've seen...and it's on geocities? (geocities.com)
14 points by emmett on Dec 27, 2008 | 8 comments
23. Big Brother is not watching you (dailymail.co.uk)
13 points by gaius on Dec 27, 2008 | 14 comments
24. What Carriers Aren't Eager to Tell You About Texting (nytimes.com)
13 points by ojbyrne on Dec 27, 2008 | 6 comments
25. Microsoft, Apple, Google sued over icon software patent (arstechnica.com)
14 points by chaostheory on Dec 27, 2008 | 22 comments
26. Snackfeed: A Newsfeed For The Web’s Hottest Video Clips (techcrunch.com)
10 points by jasonlbaptiste on Dec 27, 2008 | 3 comments
27. BulletML is a markup language that describes the barrage of bullets in shooting games. (asahi-net.or.jp)
9 points by r11t on Dec 27, 2008 | 2 comments
28. News.YCombinator Room on FriendFeed (friendfeed.com)
10 points by smysore on Dec 27, 2008
29. Ask HN: Advertising Books
7 points by matt1 on Dec 27, 2008 | 8 comments
30. Mike Ash discusses blocks in Objective C (mikeash.com)
7 points by tcskeptic on Dec 27, 2008 | 1 comment

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