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1. Why I love math (reddit.com)
231 points by dpatru on Dec 19, 2010 | 42 comments
2. WakeMates are ready (wakemate.com)
205 points by spydertennis on Dec 19, 2010 | 130 comments
3. Azul's Pauseless Garbage Collector (artima.com)
180 points by DanielRibeiro on Dec 19, 2010 | 50 comments
4. Mathematics: The Most Misunderstood Subject (fordham.edu)
144 points by spacemanaki on Dec 19, 2010 | 43 comments
5. Free High-Quality Fonts (smashingmagazine.com)
126 points by smashing_mag on Dec 19, 2010 | 16 comments
6. A Typical Day for PFC Bradley Manning (armycourtmartialdefense.info)
119 points by MaysonL on Dec 19, 2010 | 80 comments
7. Kod is a new Node.js scriptable code editor for OSX (kodapp.com)
118 points by tonyskn on Dec 19, 2010 | 67 comments
8. Minecraft developer streaming live while coding (mojang.com)
110 points by bentoner on Dec 19, 2010 | 45 comments
9. A crazy Ruby quine: a spinning globe. (hatena.ne.jp)
95 points by steveklabnik on Dec 19, 2010 | 18 comments
10. Show HN: Analysis of how long do items survive on the "New" page (solipsys.co.uk)
92 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Dec 19, 2010 | 21 comments
11. Vagrant is a tool for building virtualized development environments. (vagrantup.com)
85 points by lox on Dec 19, 2010 | 28 comments
12. Mac Apps With Beautiful Interfaces (designshack.co.uk)
80 points by phalien on Dec 19, 2010 | 42 comments
13. Database of private SSL keys for embedded devices (code.google.com)
80 points by bensummers on Dec 19, 2010 | 19 comments
14. Unhosted - Freedom from web 2.0's monopoly platforms (unhosted.org)
82 points by yungchin on Dec 19, 2010 | 46 comments
15. Building blocks of a scalable webcrawler. (marc-seeger.de)
80 points by 0x44 on Dec 19, 2010 | 29 comments
16. Startup Blogs To Make You a Better Entrepreneur (mattmazur.com)
77 points by matt1 on Dec 19, 2010 | 14 comments
17. Ask HN: Why are YC startups so secretive in Job postings?
77 points by middayc on Dec 19, 2010 | 61 comments
18. Just Make It Faster (feld.com)
68 points by admp on Dec 19, 2010 | 26 comments
19. The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming (cwi.nl)
66 points by zackham on Dec 19, 2010 | 8 comments
20. Fred Wilson's Nexus S Review (avc.com)
58 points by davidykay on Dec 19, 2010 | 65 comments
21. Charging Objects in Ruby (judofyr.net)
56 points by judofyr on Dec 19, 2010 | 23 comments
22. Using Puppet to Automatically Configure New EC2 Instances (codelord.net)
51 points by abyx on Dec 19, 2010 | 17 comments
23. Proofs without words (mathoverflow.net)
47 points by J3L2404 on Dec 19, 2010 | 5 comments
24. How Dark Patterns can improve your conversion rates but damage your brand. (90percentofeverything.com)
46 points by harrybr on Dec 19, 2010 | 23 comments
25. Ruby Test::Unit sucks (and why I still use it) (tiggerpalace.com)
44 points by sleight42 on Dec 19, 2010 | 33 comments
26. Former Yahoo Engineers Shed Light On Why Delicious And Other Acquisitions Failed (techcrunch.com)
42 points by lotusleaf1987 on Dec 19, 2010 | 1 comment
27. Profit from frontpaging HN and Reddit - what now? (yieldthought.com)
41 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Dec 19, 2010 | 18 comments
28. Apple posts free developer documentation for iBooks users (tuaw.com)
40 points by tortilla on Dec 19, 2010 | 13 comments
29. Ask HN: How do you balance college and a startup?
40 points by charlieyan10 on Dec 19, 2010 | 44 comments
30. The Economist's Books of the Year (economist.com)
40 points by corey on Dec 19, 2010 | 7 comments

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