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1. What's A Non-Programmer To Do? (How I keep myself busy.) (spencerfry.com)
154 points by spencerfry on Oct 28, 2009 | 33 comments
2. Announcing Google Maps Navigation for Android 2.0 (googleblog.blogspot.com)
125 points by mqt on Oct 28, 2009 | 80 comments
3. Schwarzenegger gives California Legislature a Hidden Finger (techcrunch.com)
125 points by molecularhack on Oct 28, 2009 | 25 comments
4. Want 50Mbps Internet in your town? Threaten to roll out your own (arstechnica.com)
124 points by theandym on Oct 28, 2009 | 82 comments
5. Announcement: YC alumni will help us read applications
116 points by pg on Oct 28, 2009 | 181 comments
6. Underscore.js: Functional Programming for jQuery (documentcloud.github.com)
117 points by jashkenas on Oct 28, 2009 | 35 comments
7. The Answer Factory: Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell (wired.com)
111 points by chuck_taylor on Oct 28, 2009 | 41 comments
8. Ask HN: Which blogs did you contact to get coverage when you launched?
90 points by vaksel on Oct 28, 2009 | 24 comments
9. The Making of ReoCities, 600K accounts recovered already and counting (reocities.com)
90 points by jacquesm on Oct 28, 2009 | 51 comments
10. "SuperFoam" block collapses into chair under weight (cctv.com)
81 points by prat on Oct 28, 2009 | 22 comments
11. Java directly on Xen (sun.com)
76 points by wooby on Oct 28, 2009 | 30 comments
12. The Chinese Internet: Why the “Copy Cats” Win (techcrunch.com)
63 points by vaksel on Oct 28, 2009 | 39 comments
13. Open Lectures for Math Geeks (onlinecollege.org)
62 points by ypavan on Oct 28, 2009 | 7 comments
14. The moment (gapingvoid.com)
60 points by dabent on Oct 28, 2009 | 8 comments
15. Useful Online Generators for Designers (balkhis.com)
58 points by silkodyssey on Oct 28, 2009 | 2 comments
16. Nice Find: An asynchronous find in project plugin for TextMate (github.com/briancollins)
53 points by naz on Oct 28, 2009 | 25 comments
17. Google's Eric Schmidt on What the Web Will Look Like in 5 Years (readwriteweb.com)
52 points by nreece on Oct 28, 2009 | 39 comments
18. Daring Fireball: Pound the Quality (daringfireball.net)
52 points by unalone on Oct 28, 2009 | 38 comments
19. Google and the Deadly Power of Data (gizmodo.com)
51 points by dabent on Oct 28, 2009 | 27 comments
20. Good morning, you owe us $887,180 dollars and 48 cents (praetorianprefect.com)
51 points by Prefect on Oct 28, 2009 | 17 comments
21. A/B Testing to Increase User Engagement (mixpanel.com)
47 points by trefn on Oct 28, 2009 | 5 comments
22. Staying With Newfound Friends, for a Fee (AirBnB, YC W09) (nytimes.com)
37 points by mikek on Oct 28, 2009 | 8 comments
23. Zombies (stanford.edu)
42 points by infinity on Oct 28, 2009 | 19 comments
24. Ask HN: WTF Is The Value of Real-time Search?
39 points by sscheper on Oct 28, 2009 | 45 comments
25. Zinc-air battery could hold 3x more energy than lithium-ion (technologyreview.com)
38 points by MikeCapone on Oct 28, 2009 | 14 comments
26. SimpleDB gotcha: they can delete your data (dailyawswtf.com)
37 points by jasonwatkinspdx on Oct 28, 2009 | 14 comments
27. Dismantling the calculus pyramid (wildaboutmath.com)
37 points by timwiseman on Oct 28, 2009 | 45 comments
28. ReMail (YC W09) launches multiple accounts (venturebeat.com)
35 points by judegomila on Oct 28, 2009 | 9 comments
29. Neo Technology Raise $2.4M To Commercialize neo4j Graph Database (techcrunchit.com)
33 points by nikcub on Oct 28, 2009 | 11 comments
30. Zeus/Zbot: anatomy of a malware engine (threatexpert.com)
31 points by DarkShikari on Oct 28, 2009

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