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1. Sun engineer responds to the Backblaze "Petabytes on a budget" design (c0t0d0s0.org)
169 points by bensummers on Sept 3, 2009 | 103 comments
2. Saving is Obsolete: Etherpad adds time slider (etherpad.com)
139 points by PStamatiou on Sept 3, 2009 | 68 comments
3. Things Every Programmer Should Know - Edited Contributions (oreilly.com)
139 points by edw519 on Sept 3, 2009 | 11 comments
4. College, all you can learn, $99/month (washingtonmonthly.com)
117 points by sethg on Sept 3, 2009 | 85 comments
5. Ravelry - a very successful deployment of Ruby and Rails (tbray.org)
96 points by colinprince on Sept 3, 2009 | 28 comments
6. Is your product an Ice Cream Glove or a Snuggie? (oreilly.com)
83 points by wyday on Sept 3, 2009 | 52 comments
7. How To Get People To Reply To Your Messages In Online Dating, Part I (okcupid.com)
81 points by smokinn on Sept 3, 2009 | 54 comments
8. Ask HN: Is version control worth learning early on?
70 points by colbyolson on Sept 3, 2009 | 80 comments
9. For Hackers Who Don't Sleep (nytimes.com)
63 points by bearwithclaws on Sept 3, 2009 | 36 comments
10. Infinite Recursion (paulbarry.com)
59 points by luccastera on Sept 3, 2009 | 6 comments
11. Bithacks.h - bit hack macros (catonmat.net)
57 points by pkrumins on Sept 3, 2009 | 18 comments
12. JPEGrescan: unique way to losslessly shrink any JPEG file (pastebin.com)
54 points by DarkShikari on Sept 3, 2009 | 11 comments
13. The hidden cycle-eating demon: L1 cache misses (multimedia.cx)
55 points by DarkShikari on Sept 3, 2009 | 12 comments
14. Why I (Still) Code (continuations.com)
54 points by ivankirigin on Sept 3, 2009 | 8 comments
15. CKEditor 3.0, formerly known as FCKEditor, released (WYSIWYG editor) (ckeditor.com)
44 points by slater on Sept 3, 2009 | 29 comments
16. School kids measure distance to the Moon (technologyreview.com)
42 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Sept 3, 2009 | 15 comments
17. “So...what do you do?" (liveandcode.com)
42 points by edw519 on Sept 3, 2009 | 45 comments
18. Google user comment in 2000 (groups.google.com)
41 points by vijaydev on Sept 3, 2009 | 32 comments
19. Apple Heist Empties Store in Just 31 Seconds (wired.com)
40 points by Readmore on Sept 3, 2009 | 19 comments
20. Ask HN: how do people solve the 3 Google Code Jam problems in 25 minutes?
40 points by Tichy on Sept 3, 2009 | 27 comments
21. Ask HN: Why not Flex?
37 points by mrshoe on Sept 3, 2009 | 74 comments
22. Stanford group release Open Source Camera - Frankencamera (stanford.edu)
36 points by CodeChutney on Sept 3, 2009 | 5 comments
23. That's Not a Memory Leak, It's Bloat (engineyard.com)
36 points by wifelette on Sept 3, 2009 | 3 comments
24. Did Texas execute an innocent man? (newyorker.com)
33 points by justinchen on Sept 3, 2009 | 45 comments
25. New Math for Artificial Neurons (ieee.org)
34 points by dhimes on Sept 3, 2009 | 5 comments
26. Python and the power of 'first class' everything (itworld.com)
33 points by abennett on Sept 3, 2009 | 24 comments
27. Speed Kills (oreilly.com)
33 points by stefano on Sept 3, 2009 | 24 comments
28. Ubuntu running on a Kindle 2 (boingboing.net)
32 points by yan on Sept 3, 2009 | 11 comments
29. If it Looks Corporate, Change It (codinghorror.com)
32 points by Mintz on Sept 3, 2009 | 10 comments
30. Tweetvite: An Events Site Dedicated To Tweetups (From Anyvite YC S08) (techcrunch.com)
29 points by jmorin007 on Sept 3, 2009 | 6 comments

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