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1. I’m Attending MIT, Stanford & Harvard (mattiasgeniar.be)
118 points by Anon84 on Jan 29, 2009 | 45 comments
2. Autonomous Robots Invade Retail Warehouses (wired.com)
80 points by prakash on Jan 29, 2009 | 55 comments
3. LÖVE - a 2D game engine for rapid game development in Lua (love2d.org)
78 points by teej on Jan 29, 2009 | 12 comments
4. Ask HN: good books about military strategy?
70 points by Tichy on Jan 29, 2009 | 65 comments
5. A single line assignment filled with epic fail (jgc.org)
74 points by jgrahamc on Jan 29, 2009 | 14 comments
6. Let's all grow up (antoniocangiano.com)
60 points by acangiano on Jan 29, 2009 | 26 comments
7. Phone Rubik Cube Solver Is Pure Genius (gizmodo.com)
52 points by zain on Jan 29, 2009 | 24 comments
8. White House Unbuttons Formal Dress Code (nytimes.com)
51 points by peter123 on Jan 29, 2009 | 62 comments
9. Services Worth Paying For as a Startup (emadibrahim.com)
51 points by eibrahim on Jan 29, 2009 | 74 comments
10. Want Git Preinstalled On The Next OS X? (github.com/blog)
45 points by thedob on Jan 29, 2009 | 40 comments
11. Ask HN: Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game (taxi-mogul.com)
39 points by villiros on Jan 29, 2009 | 44 comments
12. Ask HN: What do these startups need so much money for?
36 points by zepolen on Jan 29, 2009 | 43 comments
13. How Palm Designed Around Apple's iPhone Patents for the Pre (palmaddict.typepad.com)
35 points by dominik on Jan 29, 2009 | 12 comments
14. 'Immortal' jellyfish swarming across the world (telegraph.co.uk)
34 points by chaostheory on Jan 29, 2009 | 17 comments
15. Topical treatment wipes out herpes with RNAi (harvardscience.harvard.edu)
34 points by kf on Jan 29, 2009 | 28 comments
16. 350-page Internet market research report from JP Morgan (scribd.com)
33 points by fnazeeri on Jan 29, 2009 | 9 comments
17. Rate My Startup: DomainPigeon.com (domainpigeon.com)
31 points by matt1 on Jan 29, 2009 | 74 comments
18. Patterns: Great self promotion (37signals.com)
30 points by bdotdub on Jan 29, 2009 | 2 comments
19. Fannie Mae Logic Bomb Would Have Caused Weeklong Shutdown (wired.com)
28 points by albertni on Jan 29, 2009 | 22 comments
20. Full-disk encryption for all computer drives, coming soon (computerworld.com)
27 points by nreece on Jan 29, 2009 | 37 comments
21. The technical story of Muxtape (tlvx.net)
28 points by atestu on Jan 29, 2009 | 17 comments
22. OLPC 2.0: One Laptop Foundation Reboots With New Focus and Big Plans (xconomy.com)
26 points by bobbud on Jan 29, 2009 | 8 comments
23. Refactoring yourself out of business (startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com)
23 points by liangzan on Jan 29, 2009 | 2 comments
24. Ask HN: Has anyone ever gotten funding from this website? (angelsoft.net)
24 points by andrewljohnson on Jan 29, 2009 | 35 comments
25. I literally hate it (slate.com)
22 points by 10ren on Jan 29, 2009 | 36 comments
26. Why Web-based development might not be the best choice (infoworld.com)
19 points by ccraigIW on Jan 29, 2009 | 26 comments
27. Reflection on crisis: Daniel Kahneman and Nassim Taleb at DLD conference [video] (dld-conference.com)
18 points by bd on Jan 29, 2009 | 3 comments
28. Buying internships (wsj.com)
18 points by jmtame on Jan 29, 2009 | 18 comments
29. F# and Haskell, Estranged Cousins (atalasoft.com)
17 points by Minerick on Jan 29, 2009 | 6 comments
30. Background processing coming to Google AppEngine (zef.me)
17 points by mdasen on Jan 29, 2009 | 5 comments

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