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1. Things UNIX can do atomically (rcrowley.org)
148 points by blasdel on Jan 6, 2010 | 38 comments
2. The greatest program ever written (kuro5hin.org)
141 points by niyazpk on Jan 6, 2010 | 56 comments
3. Google's biggest announcement was not a phone, but a URL (arstechnica.com)
132 points by dfreidin on Jan 6, 2010 | 43 comments
4. Ten Rules for Web Startups (evhead.com)
119 points by dshah on Jan 6, 2010 | 42 comments
5. How Apple Does Controlled Leaks (macobserver.com)
116 points by prat on Jan 6, 2010 | 30 comments
6. Why Textmate 2.0 is not Developed in the Open (macromates.com)
98 points by jawngee on Jan 6, 2010 | 74 comments
7. Pirahã: a non-Turing-complete human language (newyorker.com)
85 points by nwatson on Jan 6, 2010 | 39 comments
8. A basic usability test on ten phones (quirksmode.org)
87 points by robin_reala on Jan 6, 2010 | 29 comments
9. Recommendations engine DirectedEdge opens up to developers (venturebeat.com)
77 points by drm237 on Jan 6, 2010 | 32 comments
10. Nexus One Total Cost of Ownership (chart) (billshrink.com)
63 points by tvon on Jan 6, 2010 | 34 comments
11. Calculating 316 Million Movie Correlations in 2 Minutes (Down From 2.5 Hours) (dmnewbie.blogspot.com)
61 points by physcab on Jan 6, 2010 | 8 comments
12. Ask HN: Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok?
60 points by jacquesm on Jan 6, 2010 | 111 comments
13. Blink-182's Tom DeLonge tries to sell Vampire Weekend a social network (kempa.com)
55 points by blasdel on Jan 6, 2010 | 37 comments
14. Simple rules for good typography (freddesign.co.uk)
53 points by madh on Jan 6, 2010 | 36 comments
15. Q&A with Professor Hal Abelson of MIT (research.google.com)
50 points by l0stman on Jan 6, 2010 | 9 comments
16. Weird HN caching bug: I appear logged in as other HN users sometimes
50 points by benhoyt on Jan 6, 2010 | 9 comments
17. A new Amiga with customizable coprocessor (osnews.com)
49 points by ams6110 on Jan 6, 2010 | 18 comments
18. Performance / Price for CPUs (paulisageek.com)
49 points by prat on Jan 6, 2010 | 42 comments
19. On State and Identity (clojure.org)
45 points by jluxenberg on Jan 6, 2010 | 3 comments
20. Python vs Haskell : An unsatisfying exercise in comparative code linguistics (sandersn.com)
38 points by mbrubeck on Jan 6, 2010 | 10 comments
21. Why Lisp is Awesome (atomized.org)
37 points by floater on Jan 6, 2010 | 58 comments
22. Django 1.2 alpha 1 released (djangoproject.com)
37 points by arthurk on Jan 6, 2010 | 7 comments
23. [60fps] Framerates do matter (significant-bits.com)
36 points by 0xbadcafebee on Jan 6, 2010 | 18 comments
24. Peter Schiff on Abolishing Student Loans to Make Colleges Affordable (schiffforsenate.com)
37 points by vlad on Jan 6, 2010 | 45 comments
25. The Unintended Negative Consequences of LEDs (nytimes.com)
35 points by cwan on Jan 6, 2010 | 33 comments
26. The perception of programming (rfw.posterous.com)
35 points by transmit101 on Jan 6, 2010 | 7 comments
27. Flow Analysis & Time-based Bloom Filters (igvita.com)
34 points by igrigorik on Jan 6, 2010
28. I/o Ventures – A Work/Cafe Incubator Launches In San Francisco (techcrunch.com)
31 points by andrewpbrett on Jan 6, 2010 | 3 comments
29. RockYou.com database breached, 32 million unencrypted passwords obtained (rockyou.com)
31 points by freejoe76 on Jan 6, 2010 | 35 comments
30. Case history of the freemium model on the iPhone (davidedicillo.com)
32 points by roder on Jan 6, 2010 | 6 comments

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