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1.Ask HN: improving your design skills?
140 points by davidw on Feb 5, 2010 | 80 comments
2.LLVM's Clang Successfully Self-Hosts (llvm.org)
138 points by yan on Feb 5, 2010 | 44 comments
3.Ask HN: Who's Hiring?
129 points by Coax on Feb 5, 2010 | 179 comments
4.Ask HN: Do you need angel funding? (spreadsheets.google.com)
125 points by epi0Bauqu on Feb 5, 2010 | 50 comments
5.Rails 3.0 Beta Release (rubyonrails.org)
109 points by mrduncan on Feb 5, 2010 | 37 comments
6.An end to frivolous patents may finally be in sight (economist.com)
102 points by ryanb on Feb 5, 2010 | 30 comments
7.Quality is Fractal, from restaurants to software. (contrast.ie)
102 points by destraynor on Feb 5, 2010 | 22 comments
8.Tell HN: readwriteweb.com Canvassing HN'ers for their 'HN Love' (jacquesmattheij.com)
101 points by jacquesm on Feb 5, 2010 | 79 comments
9.The Day They Almost Decided To Put Windows NT On The Mac Instead Of OS X (macspeedzone.com)
92 points by elblanco on Feb 5, 2010 | 42 comments
10.TechCrunch Intern Admits To Asking For Compensation For Writing Posts (techcrunch.com)
89 points by kloncks on Feb 5, 2010 | 100 comments
11.Jeff Bezos - Regret Minimization Framework (youtube.com)
88 points by jey on Feb 5, 2010 | 7 comments
12.Revised Font Stack (awayback.com)
83 points by chaostheory on Feb 5, 2010 | 9 comments
13.IBM demonstrates manufacturing process for creating 100GHZ graphene transistors (technologyreview.com)
72 points by ericb on Feb 5, 2010 | 19 comments
disclose the company and the person
69 points | parent
15.Unemployment tax or $20000 reasons not to hire someone (nytimes.com)
70 points by georgecmu on Feb 5, 2010 | 84 comments
16.Video explaining how a differential gear works (youtube.com)
69 points by soundsop on Feb 5, 2010 | 24 comments
17.The Next Leg Of The Housing Crisis In Five Simple Charts (zerohedge.com)
66 points by limist on Feb 5, 2010 | 19 comments
18."On iteration": Why people leave Python (brehaut.net)
59 points by mattdw on Feb 5, 2010 | 80 comments
19.Chuck Moore (invented Forth) announced new CPU: 144 cores, 100 billion ops/sec (greenarraychips.com)
60 points by csmeder on Feb 5, 2010 | 14 comments
20.HTML5 Theora Video Codec for Silverlight (atoker.com)
57 points by ZeroGravitas on Feb 5, 2010 | 19 comments
21.Last speaker of ancient language of Bo dies (bbc.co.uk)
50 points by fogus on Feb 5, 2010 | 38 comments
22.Ask HN: Are you looking to fund startups? (spreadsheets.google.com)
50 points by ryanwaggoner on Feb 5, 2010 | 8 comments
23.Rails 3 Beta Top Line (engineyard.com)
49 points by wycats on Feb 5, 2010
24.Reddit clone in 60 minutes and 4 lines of C (benreeves.co.uk)
49 points by codexon on Feb 5, 2010 | 37 comments
25.Is the iPad for dumb people? (calebelston.com)
51 points by dkasper on Feb 5, 2010 | 79 comments
26.The Problem with Meritocracy (frontporchrepublic.com)
48 points by asciilifeform on Feb 5, 2010 | 65 comments

This is quite possibly the first job posting I've ever seen that has made me want to write C++.
28.EventVue post-mortem (eventvue.com)
47 points by curio on Feb 5, 2010 | 6 comments

SpaceX, Los Angeles. With the Obama administration's recent budget recommendations for NASA (cutting the Constellation program), we're continuing our expansion. Mad C++ & Linux skillz? Want to write code that lives on the International Space Station or controls our vehicle while it visits? Think humanity should colonize Mars? Drop us a line, we're hiring. Visit spacex.com/careers for more info.
30.Toppcloud and Django (ianbicking.org)
41 points by rmanocha on Feb 5, 2010 | 3 comments

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