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1.GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal (ibm.com)
186 points by soundphed on Sept 28, 2009 | 100 comments
2.JWZ: that "duct tape" silliness (jwz.livejournal.com)
186 points by allenbrunson on Sept 28, 2009 | 24 comments
3.JWZ Unable to Distribute Two Free Pre Apps (jwz.livejournal.com)
176 points by sutro on Sept 28, 2009 | 90 comments
4.Ask HN: Check out my little app (huddle.im)
108 points by jmonegro on Sept 28, 2009 | 75 comments
5.Why Stylesheet Abstractions Matter (chriseppstein.github.com)
107 points by chriseppstein on Sept 28, 2009 | 37 comments
6.Joe Armstrong and Simon Peyton Jones discuss Erlang and Haskell (infoq.com)
90 points by davidw on Sept 28, 2009 | 26 comments
7.GitHub's Architecture, before and after migration (anchor.com.au)
80 points by quellhorst on Sept 28, 2009 | 14 comments
8.You Commit Three Felonies a Day (wsj.com)
71 points by ctingom on Sept 28, 2009 | 38 comments
9.Duct tape context: A tale of two rewrites (gigamonkeys.com)
70 points by gthank on Sept 28, 2009 | 13 comments
10.Merlin Mann on Adobe's products (kungfugrippe.com)
67 points by qeek on Sept 28, 2009 | 35 comments
11.Python Library for Google Translate (catonmat.net)
61 points by pkrumins on Sept 28, 2009 | 9 comments
12.Is There An Artificial God? (biota.org)
58 points by _bfhp on Sept 28, 2009 | 17 comments
13.MD5 hash extension attack breaks API authentication in Flickr (and others) (netifera.com)
58 points by brl on Sept 28, 2009 | 22 comments
14.Find what's blocking sales with under a day of work (asmartbear.com)
57 points by froggy on Sept 28, 2009 | 5 comments
15.Why MacRuby Matters (slideshare.net)
55 points by r11t on Sept 28, 2009 | 9 comments
16.Django ponies: Proposals for Django 1.2 (simonwillison.net)
54 points by simonw on Sept 28, 2009 | 2 comments
17.Mono not Chasing Tail Lights (jeffreystedfast.blogspot.com)
52 points by oomkiller on Sept 28, 2009 | 22 comments
18.Apple loses Hackintosh ruling, angers judge (theregister.co.uk)
51 points by jacquesm on Sept 28, 2009 | 22 comments
19.Most of us have a finite supply of willpower (futurepundit.com)
49 points by cwan on Sept 28, 2009 | 22 comments
20.Securing an HTTPS server (daemonology.net)
49 points by cperciva on Sept 28, 2009 | 17 comments

Hello there HN'ers sitting on the fence or already working as consultants or freelancers.

I kept coming across questions of the "Ask HN" variety that were too complicated to answer fully in the setting of HN.

I've had my own share of "Ask HN" posts answered quite generously, so here is my attempt to repay in kind. At the request of the community I've not posted this here but instead on my own site.

Hopefully this is of use to some of you, any and all criticism is of course more than welcome, I'll spend a couple of hours every week on expanding it and fixing bugs or by writing about subjects that are not covered right now.

22.Grand Central Dispatch: The Sleeping Barber Problem (madebysofa.com)
46 points by koenbok on Sept 28, 2009 | 9 comments
23.MySQL vs. PostgreSQL comparison by Anchor (github's migration team) (anchor.com.au)
44 points by adriand on Sept 28, 2009 | 42 comments
24.One time at D&D camp… (brouhaha.us)
44 points by kqr2 on Sept 28, 2009 | 3 comments
25.Ask HN: Seeing points again?
41 points by jacquesm on Sept 28, 2009 | 64 comments
26.Dumping the Gameboy Color boot ROM (w/ commented disassembly) (fpgb.org)
40 points by makmanalp on Sept 28, 2009 | 6 comments
27.Impossible Bottles (impossibottle.co.uk)
39 points by eru on Sept 28, 2009 | 18 comments
28.Reminder: Twitter was started in 2006 (gettingmoreawesome.blogspot.com)
39 points by rishi on Sept 28, 2009 | 25 comments
29.Twitter's Alex Payne: Why Scala? (viddler.com)
39 points by fogus on Sept 28, 2009 | 10 comments
30.Schneier on Security: Ass Bomber (schneier.com)
36 points by billpg on Sept 28, 2009 | 24 comments

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