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1. My Git Workflow (gweezlebur.com)
142 points by PStamatiou on Jan 20, 2009 | 25 comments
2. Ask HN: What is your favorite TED talk?
123 points by derwiki on Jan 20, 2009 | 80 comments
3. SICP in PDF from MIT (web.mit.edu)
93 points by michael_dorfman on Jan 20, 2009 | 22 comments
4. Hungry start-ups (Anyvite & TicketStumbler) on a drastic diet (ft.com)
86 points by fallentimes on Jan 20, 2009 | 56 comments
5. Whitehouse.gov Has A New Face (techcrunch.com)
63 points by transburgh on Jan 20, 2009 | 46 comments
6. Obama's New Robots.txt (codeulate.com)
56 points by r00k on Jan 20, 2009 | 15 comments
7. DIY DNA: One Father's Attempt to Hack His Daughter's Genetic Code (wired.com)
53 points by makimaki on Jan 20, 2009 | 20 comments
8. How VCs Block Exits (angelblog.net)
47 points by basilpeters on Jan 20, 2009 | 20 comments
9. Compojure - Clojure web framework (github.com/weavejester)
45 points by maryrosecook on Jan 20, 2009 | 5 comments
10. Ruby Warrior: Coding game designed to teach Ruby and A.I. (github.com/ryanb)
45 points by r11t on Jan 20, 2009 | 3 comments
11. Fuck the Cloud (textfiles.com)
45 points by henning on Jan 20, 2009 | 23 comments
12. Ask HN : What's the meanest thing that has been said about your startup?
41 points by dan_sim on Jan 20, 2009 | 91 comments
13. Ask HN: playin' the stocks game
38 points by kyro on Jan 20, 2009 | 104 comments
14. The Plot to Kill Google (wired.com)
38 points by __ on Jan 20, 2009 | 14 comments
15. President Obama’s inauguration, as seen from space (venturebeat.com)
36 points by erickhill on Jan 20, 2009 | 12 comments
16. Ask HN: What Would you want in a government API?
36 points by rrhyne on Jan 20, 2009 | 39 comments
17. Liquid Wood Is Plastic of Tomorrow, Say Scientists (dw-world.de)
34 points by mhb on Jan 20, 2009 | 20 comments
18. Live Free or Drown: Floating Utopias on the Cheap (wired.com)
33 points by makimaki on Jan 20, 2009 | 36 comments
19. Tag Clouds of Obama's Inaugural Speech Compared to Bush's (readwriteweb.com)
32 points by Anon84 on Jan 20, 2009 | 24 comments
20. The One Day iPhone App Experiment (gamesfromwithin.com)
32 points by llopis on Jan 20, 2009 | 5 comments
21. Google's Gdrive arriving in 2009 (tgdaily.com)
32 points by kyro on Jan 20, 2009 | 26 comments
22. Why Microsoft should forget about Yahoo and buy Palm (slate.com)
28 points by rogercosseboom on Jan 20, 2009 | 18 comments
23. The History of Python: Python's Design Philosophy (python-history.blogspot.com)
22 points by jaydub on Jan 20, 2009 | 2 comments
24. Learning Haskell through category theory (dekudekuplex.wordpress.com)
21 points by Kototama on Jan 20, 2009 | 6 comments
25. Elon Musk Is Betting His Fortune on a Mission Beyond Earth's Orbit (wired.com)
19 points by jscn on Jan 20, 2009 | 5 comments
26. Credit card scam exposes mind-blowing ignorance about security. (schneier.com)
16 points by andreyf on Jan 20, 2009 | 3 comments
27. Top 100 Best Software Engineering Books, Ever (knol.google.com)
16 points by Anon84 on Jan 20, 2009 | 19 comments
28. Tick tick tick... significant number of Seagate hard drives failing (tuaw.com)
14 points by transburgh on Jan 20, 2009 | 14 comments
29. Linux saga: Girl drops out of school over Ubuntu (tgdaily.com)
14 points by abossy on Jan 20, 2009 | 25 comments
30. Dutch government study: net effect of P2P use is positive (arstechnica.com)
13 points by crocus on Jan 20, 2009 | 4 comments

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