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1. North Korea Changes Currency (wsj.com)
143 points by garply on Dec 2, 2009 | 139 comments
2. Why I chose Common Lisp over Python, Ruby, and Clojure (postabon.posterous.com)
134 points by smanek on Dec 2, 2009 | 138 comments
3. Step-by-Step Math (wolframalpha.com)
132 points by kqr2 on Dec 2, 2009 | 32 comments
4. Sprint fed customer GPS data to police over 8 million times (arstechnica.com)
97 points by MikeCapone on Dec 2, 2009 | 28 comments
5. Dane who ripped his DVDs demands to be arrested under DRM law (boingboing.net)
94 points by ThomPete on Dec 2, 2009 | 30 comments
6. Programmer search engine (joelonsoftware.com)
90 points by babakian on Dec 2, 2009 | 86 comments
7. Do You See a Pattern? (slate.com)
84 points by edw519 on Dec 2, 2009 | 30 comments
8. Ask HN: Equity for a first employee
80 points by newdle on Dec 2, 2009 | 38 comments
9. Happy holidays from Gmail: Free snailmail gift cards (services.google.com)
73 points by genieyclo on Dec 2, 2009 | 47 comments
10. Google Analytics unblocks the Web w/ Async support (ajaxian.com)
65 points by alexandros on Dec 2, 2009 | 12 comments
11. From working remotely to out of an office. (spencerfry.com)
65 points by maxstoller on Dec 2, 2009 | 16 comments
12. Tweetminer opens up all their stats (income, server, users) (tweetminer.net)
59 points by dan_sim on Dec 2, 2009 | 38 comments
13. Next permutation: When C++ gets it right (wordaligned.org)
58 points by r11t on Dec 2, 2009 | 17 comments
14. How Robber Barons hijacked the "Victorian Internet" (arstechnica.com)
57 points by alecco on Dec 2, 2009 | 40 comments
15. A radically new type of engine (autoblog.com)
56 points by Nycto on Dec 2, 2009 | 14 comments
16. How to achieve greater productivity of teams (lostgarden.com)
46 points by mcxx on Dec 2, 2009 | 6 comments
17. Now you see it, now you don't (Google rolls out fade-in homepage) (googleblog.blogspot.com)
43 points by andrewpbrett on Dec 2, 2009 | 38 comments
18. Flawed climate data (financialpost.com)
40 points by BearOfNH on Dec 2, 2009 | 37 comments
19. Startup Lessons - a manual for aspiring entrepreneurs (jottit.com)
40 points by martian on Dec 2, 2009 | 12 comments
20. Google to limit free news access (bbc.co.uk)
40 points by intranation on Dec 2, 2009 | 36 comments
21. The Problem With Music (negativland.com)
39 points by alexkay on Dec 2, 2009 | 4 comments
22. Ask HN: How much did you spend on your startup before you got ramen profitable?
39 points by vaksel on Dec 2, 2009 | 18 comments
23. Baumol's Cost Disease: Why Artists are Always Poor (wikipedia.org)
39 points by mnemonicsloth on Dec 2, 2009 | 14 comments
24. Let's Give Visas to Startup Founders (businessweek.com)
36 points by pchristensen on Dec 2, 2009 | 27 comments
25. Thanks to Yahoo, Facebook is King of Identity (gigaom.com)
36 points by boundlessdreamz on Dec 2, 2009 | 12 comments
26. Start-up Visas Can Jump-Start the Economy (wsj.com)
33 points by steveplace on Dec 2, 2009 | 2 comments
27. Mark Coleran is a MovieOS designer (coleran.com)
33 points by robin_reala on Dec 2, 2009 | 5 comments
28. Investing in Pirates (reuters.com)
32 points by huangm on Dec 2, 2009 | 21 comments
29. How fast is your site? (googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
32 points by makimaki on Dec 2, 2009 | 3 comments
30. "Stop building lame business applications" (bradgessler.com)
31 points by bradgessler on Dec 2, 2009 | 6 comments

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