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1. Man analyses cause of bad TV reception, finds his TV is de facto radar (frisnit.com)
134 points by theoneill on Jan 6, 2009 | 27 comments
2. Secrets of success from Google co-founder Larry Page (ycombinator.com)
129 points by popat on Jan 6, 2009 | 32 comments
3. Apple kills off DRM for whole iTunes music catalog (crunchgear.com)
122 points by tptacek on Jan 6, 2009 | 88 comments
4. Some Protect the Ego by Working on Their Excuses Early (nytimes.com)
71 points by robg on Jan 6, 2009 | 44 comments
5. Does Amazon S3 really save money?
71 points by psaccounts on Jan 6, 2009 | 45 comments
6. Tim O'Reilly: The Biggest Ponzi Scheme of Them All (oreilly.com)
68 points by toffer on Jan 6, 2009 | 44 comments
7. Encouraged Commentary (cool use of jQuery to enhance blog commenting) (donttrustthisguy.com)
53 points by mojombo on Jan 6, 2009 | 22 comments
8. Google is Working on its own router (sdtimes.com)
52 points by VonGuard on Jan 6, 2009 | 27 comments
9. Why the secret to speedier highways might be closing some roads: the Braess paradox (mindyourdecisions.com)
50 points by paulgb on Jan 6, 2009 | 21 comments
10. GRE Scores By Discipline (arisbe.com)
50 points by Jebdm on Jan 6, 2009 | 72 comments
11. MacRumors live feed hacked during keynote (macrumorslive.com)
48 points by Alex3917 on Jan 6, 2009 | 28 comments
12. How NASA writes 'perfect' software (1996) (fastcompany.com)
43 points by nreece on Jan 6, 2009 | 29 comments
13. A list of 200 Free & Open Textbooks (cccoer.wordpress.com)
42 points by ph0rque on Jan 6, 2009 | 9 comments
14. Rather crazy online logic test (drunkmenworkhere.org)
38 points by brl on Jan 6, 2009 | 23 comments
15. Foiled: Hacker's Audacious Plan to Rule the Stolen-Data Black Market (wired.com)
37 points by kwamenum86 on Jan 6, 2009 | 15 comments
16. New Git Homepage (github.com/blog)
32 points by mojombo on Jan 6, 2009 | 5 comments
17. The Day I Got Git (with some help from github) (lbrandy.com)
30 points by mojombo on Jan 6, 2009
18. Ask YC: Hacker Groups (please help me fill out) (gabrielweinberg.com)
29 points by epi0Bauqu on Jan 6, 2009 | 15 comments
19. Directed Edge: a new take on social-filtering technologies [interview, video] (intruders.tv)
25 points by wheels on Jan 6, 2009 | 6 comments
20. Pymc: implements Bayesian statistical models and ļ¬tting algorithms (python.org)
25 points by chaostheory on Jan 6, 2009 | 6 comments
21. Dalvik vs Mono (koushikdutta.com)
24 points by felixmar on Jan 6, 2009 | 9 comments
22. Discovering the Link Between Effort and Reward: What I've Learned Freelancing (geeksinboston.com)
23 points by shimon on Jan 6, 2009 | 10 comments
23. The Cost of Net Negative Producing Programmers (jayfields.com)
21 points by bdfh42 on Jan 6, 2009 | 7 comments
24. Invite HN: TeamPostgreSQL beta
21 points by johnyzee on Jan 6, 2009 | 15 comments
25. Paul Krugman: Fighting off depression (iht.com)
20 points by ardit33 on Jan 6, 2009 | 12 comments
26. LiveJournal Lays Off San Francisco Staff, Will Operate From Moscow (paidcontent.org)
19 points by allenbrunson on Jan 6, 2009 | 20 comments
27. DebGem (beta), Ruby packages for Debian (debgem.com)
19 points by tortilla on Jan 6, 2009 | 10 comments
28. A conversation with an iPhone pirate (jrtb.com)
19 points by signa11 on Jan 6, 2009 | 11 comments
29. How the newspaper industry tried to invent the Web but failed. (slate.com)
18 points by makimaki on Jan 6, 2009 | 2 comments
30. Hard-Hit Families Finally Start Saving, Aggravating Nation's Economic Woes (wsj.com)
17 points by theoneill on Jan 6, 2009 | 26 comments

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