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1. Why do we have an IMG element? (diveintomark.org)
148 points by gthank on Nov 3, 2009 | 13 comments
2. Announcing Duck It, a new way to search (duckduckgo.com)
135 points by epi0Bauqu on Nov 3, 2009 | 94 comments
3. Introducing Resque (github.com/blog)
135 points by mrduncan on Nov 3, 2009 | 15 comments
4. Berkshire Hathaway buys Burlington Northern Santa Fe (a U.S. railroad) for $44B (nytimes.com)
134 points by davi on Nov 3, 2009 | 118 comments
5. OMG Ponies (Aka Humanity: Epic Fail) (msmvps.com)
125 points by gthank on Nov 3, 2009 | 27 comments
6. 16 Year Old CEOs, What Has The World Come To? (brandonpaton.com)
118 points by cj on Nov 3, 2009 | 67 comments
7. Exhaustive list of things to do after installing Ubuntu Linux 9.10 (thesilentnumber.me)
114 points by r11t on Nov 3, 2009 | 26 comments
8. We're Rich, You're Not. End of Story. (nytimes.com)
88 points by MikeCapone on Nov 3, 2009 | 113 comments
9. IPhone Flash prototype got 30 min battery life (adobegripes.tumblr.com)
84 points by martingordon on Nov 3, 2009 | 64 comments
10. The Nemesis hypothesis (lbl.gov)
76 points by Panoramix on Nov 3, 2009 | 19 comments
11. The power of "no" (jacobian.org)
71 points by jacobian on Nov 3, 2009 | 31 comments
12. The 37signals Podcast (37signals.com)
69 points by nwjsmith on Nov 3, 2009 | 16 comments
13. Apple.com XSS attack (imgur.com)
66 points by NathanKP on Nov 3, 2009 | 31 comments
14. It's All Just Programming (uni.edu)
65 points by bgray on Nov 3, 2009 | 2 comments
15. Droid: iDon't Understand Search Engine Optimization (newmediacampaigns.com)
60 points by KrisJordan on Nov 3, 2009 | 31 comments
16. Clojure N00b Tips from Tim Bray (tbray.org)
56 points by gthank on Nov 3, 2009 | 13 comments
17. Mint’s Aaron Patzer: “We Will End-Of-Life Quicken Online” In Six to Nine Months (techcrunch.com)
54 points by vaksel on Nov 3, 2009 | 15 comments
18. What every developer should know about time (windwardreports.com)
52 points by fogus on Nov 3, 2009 | 25 comments
19. The questionable value of the real-time web - Demand-side attention economics (danieltenner.com)
52 points by swombat on Nov 3, 2009 | 23 comments
20. Want a Stronger Democracy? Invest in Education (nytimes.com)
49 points by vincentchan on Nov 3, 2009 | 17 comments
21. MongoDB Developer 10gen Raises $3.4 Million (pehub.com)
48 points by yan on Nov 3, 2009 | 19 comments
22. Plane Gets 45 MPG at 207 MPH, Capable of 100 MPG (Better Than Most Cars) (aopa.org)
46 points by MikeCapone on Nov 3, 2009 | 38 comments
23. A 'revisited' guide to GNU Screen (linuxgazette.net)
43 points by ypk on Nov 3, 2009 | 29 comments
24. Most of Slicehost is Down (slicehost.com)
42 points by smanek on Nov 3, 2009 | 18 comments
25. Cracking Passwords in the Cloud: Breaking PGP on EC2 with EDPR (electricalchemy.net)
42 points by edw519 on Nov 3, 2009 | 8 comments
26. Managing Software Engineers (greenspun.com)
41 points by andreyf on Nov 3, 2009 | 21 comments
27. Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part III: Calculations (catonmat.net)
41 points by epi0Bauqu on Nov 3, 2009 | 4 comments
28. Charting time series as calendar heat maps in R (revolution-computing.com)
39 points by Anon84 on Nov 3, 2009 | 5 comments
29. Saving forums from themselves with shared hierarchical white lists (demon.co.uk)
39 points by alan-crowe on Nov 3, 2009 | 26 comments
30. Loopt Shifts Its Strategy To Tap The Pulse Of Location (techcrunch.com)
35 points by edw519 on Nov 3, 2009 | 6 comments

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