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1. The Status of the P Versus NP Problem (acm.org)
118 points by yarapavan on Aug 26, 2009 | 45 comments
2. Ted Kennedy has died (nytimes.com)
110 points by dzlobin on Aug 26, 2009 | 143 comments
3. Review my Webapp: How to make ______? (food) (recipepuppy.com)
102 points by kbrower on Aug 26, 2009 | 57 comments
4. Zoho: Thriving Amid the Giants (nytimes.com)
94 points by terpua on Aug 26, 2009 | 56 comments
5. Google Opens Up Its EPUB Archive: Download 1 Million Books for Free (booksearch.blogspot.com)
93 points by naish on Aug 26, 2009 | 22 comments
6. Introducing Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (aws.typepad.com)
92 points by jeffbarr on Aug 26, 2009 | 19 comments
7. An Arc REPL online (dabuttonfactory.com)
77 points by palsecam on Aug 26, 2009 | 9 comments
8. Mozilla Test Swarm Alpha Open (ejohn.org)
76 points by fogus on Aug 26, 2009 | 15 comments
9. User Interface Myths (carsonified.com)
73 points by edw519 on Aug 26, 2009 | 13 comments
10. Twitter Exploit Still Works (davidnaylor.co.uk)
63 points by dredge on Aug 26, 2009 | 21 comments
11. SQLite: A Lesson In Low-Defect Software (review/summary w/ working source) (aleccolocco.blogspot.com)
61 points by alecco on Aug 26, 2009 | 13 comments
12. The Longest Poem in the World (longestpoemintheworld.com)
59 points by andreyf on Aug 26, 2009 | 19 comments
13. It's your first programming assignment, now what? (sites.google.com)
55 points by clawrencewenham on Aug 26, 2009 | 13 comments
14. Introducing Surinx (Ruby syntax w/ Java typing) (headius.com)
51 points by fogus on Aug 26, 2009 | 32 comments
15. LEGO Logic Gates (ikaruga.co.uk)
50 points by gcopenhaver on Aug 26, 2009 | 6 comments
16. Jenga Pistol (woodgears.ca)
49 points by mhb on Aug 26, 2009 | 8 comments
17. Diff Match and Patch: Google's open source text synchronization library (code.google.com)
50 points by mbrubeck on Aug 26, 2009 | 3 comments
18. Why is HTML Suddenly Interesting? (oreilly.com)
49 points by michaelfairley on Aug 26, 2009 | 19 comments
19. Ask HN: Steal my Ideas (or help me)
49 points by Cantdog on Aug 26, 2009 | 44 comments
20. Sd - a peer to peer bugtracker I actually like (bestpractical.com)
48 points by mst on Aug 26, 2009 | 8 comments
21. Pharo: a Smalltalk VM that doesn't look like a toy out of the box (pharo-project.org)
48 points by henning on Aug 26, 2009 | 17 comments
22. Tetris Code Challenge (tetrisapp.appspot.com)
44 points by paulbaumgart on Aug 26, 2009 | 6 comments
23. My hobby: Troll hugging. (pugs.blogs.com)
43 points by lupin_sansei on Aug 26, 2009 | 26 comments
24. The Fourier Transform and its Applications (free ebook) [pdf] (stanford.edu)
43 points by TriinT on Aug 26, 2009 | 2 comments
25. Fixing high bounce / low conversion web pages (kaushik.net)
42 points by ankeshk on Aug 26, 2009 | 3 comments
26. Programming Collective Intelligence author has 2 new books out (kiwitobes.com)
42 points by apgwoz on Aug 26, 2009 | 3 comments
27. Netboot.me - Turning netboot into internetboot (notdot.net)
37 points by gdp on Aug 26, 2009 | 7 comments
28. A possible approach to learning Common Lisp (deepaksurti.com)
36 points by icey on Aug 26, 2009 | 31 comments
29. How do you keep yourself disciplined when you are freelancing at home? (paralyzed.se)
34 points by ancide on Aug 26, 2009 | 25 comments
30. When a Good Idea Works: the origins of Processing (technologyreview.com)
33 points by mbrubeck on Aug 26, 2009 | 3 comments

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