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1. Comet is dead, long live websockets (armstrongonsoftware.blogspot.com)
109 points by mbrubeck on Dec 16, 2009 | 46 comments
2. Item 10^6 (news.ycombinator.com)
107 points by pg on Dec 16, 2009 | 45 comments
3. San Francisco: The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S. (sfweekly.com)
105 points by miked on Dec 16, 2009 | 115 comments
4. China bans individuals from registering domain names (telecompaper.com)
103 points by joe_bleau on Dec 16, 2009 | 85 comments
5. 'We are no longer as optimistic about removing the GIL completely. ' (code.google.com)
93 points by nailer on Dec 16, 2009 | 124 comments
6. Uncommon - Custom design your own iPhone case (getuncommon.com)
80 points by mattking on Dec 16, 2009 | 35 comments
7. Clojure Funding Progress (clojure.org)
78 points by alrex021 on Dec 16, 2009 | 19 comments
8. How to destroy the earth (qntm.org)
77 points by joss82 on Dec 16, 2009 | 35 comments
9. Knuth: Computer Programming as an Art (paulgraham.com)
68 points by revorad on Dec 16, 2009 | 26 comments
10. Gravatars: why publishing your email's hash is not a good idea (developer.it)
67 points by soundsop on Dec 16, 2009 | 47 comments
11. RedLaser iPhone App reaches 750K downloads, $1M in revenue (mobilecrunch.com)
68 points by andrewhyde on Dec 16, 2009 | 35 comments
12. TechStars to launch Seattle program (Fall 2010) (techcrunch.com)
64 points by paulgerhardt on Dec 16, 2009 | 2 comments
13. Realtime charts of EC2 spot prices (cloudexchange.org)
63 points by timf on Dec 16, 2009 | 19 comments
14. Ongoing · Concur.next — Hard-Core Clojure (tbray.org)
62 points by wglb on Dec 16, 2009 | 10 comments
15. HN Meet-up Netherlands
58 points by beeker on Dec 16, 2009 | 75 comments
16. SmartGit - A better GUI for Git (syntevo.com)
56 points by nym on Dec 16, 2009 | 37 comments
17. Parsing Techniques - A Practical Guide (vu.nl)
54 points by bgray on Dec 16, 2009
18. Google Chrome more popular than Safari (gizmodo.com)
54 points by richardburton on Dec 16, 2009 | 62 comments
19. Jekyll, the blog engine of kings (chrismdp.github.com)
52 points by samstokes on Dec 16, 2009 | 25 comments
20. Knuth's 15th Annual Christmas Tree Lecture [video] (stanford.edu)
49 points by michael_dorfman on Dec 16, 2009 | 14 comments
21. Widefinder 2 with Clojure (meshy.org)
49 points by icey on Dec 16, 2009 | 9 comments
22. Rackspace Chooses reMail (YC W09) To Bring Email Search To Its Customers (techcrunch.com)
49 points by Sam_Odio on Dec 16, 2009 | 9 comments
23. Management's Dirty Little Secret (wsj.com)
48 points by alanthonyc on Dec 16, 2009 | 23 comments
24. Appify: A City-by-City App Store (Aditya's startup) (readwriteweb.com)
46 points by aditya on Dec 16, 2009 | 5 comments
25. Justin.tv Testifies to Congress about its Copyright Protection Systems (c-spanarchives.org)
48 points by kvogt on Dec 16, 2009 | 21 comments
26. Dan Bricklin's Note Taker for the Apple iPhone (danbricklin.com)
44 points by jamesjyu on Dec 16, 2009 | 9 comments
27. Notes from the No Lone Zone - A computer scientist looks at ICBM security. (crypto.com)
44 points by wmorein on Dec 16, 2009 | 13 comments
28. Zynga Closes $180MM VC Round (techcrunch.com)
43 points by ed on Dec 16, 2009 | 52 comments
29. Compiling to Java as a target language (might.net)
41 points by mbrubeck on Dec 16, 2009 | 4 comments
30. How Facebook Is Making Friending Obsolete (wsj.com)
40 points by grellas on Dec 16, 2009 | 28 comments

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