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1. Brewing a Better Rating System (steepster.com)
200 points by jackcheng on Oct 29, 2009 | 35 comments
2. Observations from a real-world Clojure project (groups.google.com)
152 points by liebke on Oct 29, 2009 | 32 comments
3. What does HTML5 mean for us? (diveintohtml5.org)
126 points by SlyShy on Oct 29, 2009 | 37 comments
4. Does math have big scary teeth or something? (metafilter.com)
122 points by carterschonwald on Oct 29, 2009 | 47 comments
5. Facebook Memorial Mode: I'm not dead yet (thulbourn.com)
102 points by makmanalp on Oct 29, 2009 | 17 comments
6. Living in an RV as an Internet Nomad- 3G, solar, cost savings, and flexibility. (tynan.net)
94 points by colinplamondon on Oct 29, 2009 | 77 comments
7. XKCD Explained, One Strip at a Time (xkcdexplained.tumblr.com)
91 points by KirinDave on Oct 29, 2009 | 89 comments
8. Startup School Highlights (video) (ycombinator.posterous.com)
81 points by jl on Oct 29, 2009 | 13 comments
9. For Texas Instruments, Calculator Hackers Don't Add Up (ieee.org)
81 points by naish on Oct 29, 2009 | 90 comments
10. Shazam: not magic after all (revolution-computing.com)
77 points by mariorz on Oct 29, 2009 | 28 comments
11. Srinivasa Ramanujan (wikipedia.org)
77 points by vinutheraj on Oct 29, 2009 | 48 comments
12. Minimalist Gmail by Matt Constantine (mattconstantine.com)
67 points by Chirag on Oct 29, 2009 | 23 comments
13. The Busy Beaver Problem (catonmat.net)
64 points by pkrumins on Oct 29, 2009 | 28 comments
14. Great free ebook on pricing software (neildavidson.com)
63 points by pclark on Oct 29, 2009 | 4 comments
15. Speaker's Tip: Don't tell the audience you aren't prepared (37signals.com)
58 points by raghus on Oct 29, 2009 | 51 comments
16. What’s in a name – Tips for naming your startup (000fff.org)
55 points by swombat on Oct 29, 2009 | 29 comments
17. Improving WebKit's Web Inspector (bogojoker.com)
54 points by tlrobinson on Oct 29, 2009 | 7 comments
18. How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data (bret.appspot.com)
52 points by jgrahamc on Oct 29, 2009 | 13 comments
19. DARPA Network Challenge (darpa.mil)
50 points by jballanc on Oct 29, 2009 | 26 comments
20. Uroboros Programming With 11 Programming Languages (asiajin.com)
50 points by dfreidin on Oct 29, 2009 | 10 comments
21. H(m || k) also insecure, you really should use HMAC (root.org)
50 points by KateLawson on Oct 29, 2009 | 35 comments
22. 1 - 2 + 3 - 4 + 5 - 6 + ... made easy (paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
49 points by vinutheraj on Oct 29, 2009 | 17 comments
23. Netflix Prize: Was The Napoleon Dynamite Problem Solved? (whimsley.typepad.com)
49 points by jasonwatkinspdx on Oct 29, 2009 | 13 comments
24. Mike Shroepfer on Engineering at Scale at Facebook (25hoursaday.com)
49 points by Anon84 on Oct 29, 2009 | 1 comment
25. Heroku (YC W08) makes PaaS flexible with Add-ons (heroku.com)
50 points by teich on Oct 29, 2009 | 3 comments
26. Turn a user into a passionate customer before making them sign up (sachin.posterous.com)
44 points by j_baker on Oct 29, 2009 | 5 comments
27. A Job Posting in JSON (startupnorth.ca)
43 points by aliasaria on Oct 29, 2009 | 39 comments
28. Finally, semantic links for the girl i'm crushing on. what took so long? (whatwg.org)
40 points by clutchski on Oct 29, 2009 | 23 comments
29. When to Redis (paperplanes.de)
39 points by transmit101 on Oct 29, 2009 | 14 comments
30. Timing square root (crashworks.org)
37 points by edw519 on Oct 29, 2009 | 1 comment

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