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1. The Deadliest place on Earth? Surviving The Giant Crystal Cave (ironammonite.com)
133 points by bensummers on Jan 9, 2010 | 13 comments
2. Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All (zedshaw.com)
130 points by jmonegro on Jan 9, 2010 | 89 comments
3. Boost your productivity with Hemingway’s hack (secondactive.com)
87 points by berlinbrown on Jan 9, 2010 | 16 comments
4. Things I'm not allowed to do anymore (dadhacker.com)
83 points by cubicle67 on Jan 9, 2010 | 46 comments
5. UCSF Endocrinologist debunks "Calories In / Calories Out" Model (youtube.com)
71 points by ahoyhere on Jan 9, 2010 | 87 comments
6. Conway's Game Of Life in one line of APL (youtube.com)
69 points by profquail on Jan 9, 2010 | 31 comments
7. Undressing the Terror Threat: Running the numbers and changing the game (wsj.com)
68 points by cwan on Jan 9, 2010 | 21 comments
8. A Peek Into Netflix Queues (nytimes.com)
65 points by prakash on Jan 9, 2010 | 18 comments
9. Swedish startup selling North Korean jeans (spiegel.de)
65 points by maxklein on Jan 9, 2010 | 64 comments
10. Erik Naggum on Atlas Shrugged (salon.com)
60 points by beza1e1 on Jan 9, 2010 | 34 comments
11. The Crunchies are the Kid's Choice Awards of the startup scene. (styleguidance.com)
60 points by vaksel on Jan 9, 2010 | 34 comments
12. Rare self-rolling giant snow balls found in UK (telegraph.co.uk)
60 points by bensummers on Jan 9, 2010 | 13 comments
13. Wives of Rockstar's San Diego office are up in arms over engineer treatment (gamasutra.com)
57 points by rantfoil on Jan 9, 2010 | 66 comments
14. How Doug Engelbart taught kids to ride a bike (without training wheels) (collectiveiq.wordpress.com)
55 points by jackcheng on Jan 9, 2010 | 24 comments
15. Google Street View Meets Video - Amazing (immersivemedia.com)
52 points by jawngee on Jan 9, 2010 | 9 comments
16. What You Need To Know About Secure Password Schemes (matasano.com)
46 points by mcantor on Jan 9, 2010 | 12 comments
17. PHP Must Die (steike.com)
37 points by nreece on Jan 9, 2010 | 46 comments
18. The Children of Cyberspace: Old Fogies by Their 20’s (nytimes.com)
35 points by jasonlbaptiste on Jan 9, 2010 | 22 comments
19. Entrepreneurship is risk free: Heads I win, tails I don’t lose much (sameer.madhouse.in)
29 points by guglanisam on Jan 9, 2010 | 15 comments
20. Why Normalization Failed to Become the Ultimate Guide for Database Designers? (lambda-the-ultimate.org)
29 points by blasdel on Jan 9, 2010 | 15 comments
21. Ask HN: Are we too lenient on Google and Apple?
29 points by dnsworks on Jan 9, 2010 | 56 comments
22. Hiring and The Sixth Sense of Experience (dustincurtis.com)
27 points by grinich on Jan 9, 2010 | 7 comments
23. Google Faces Deluge of Nexus One Complaints (pcworld.com)
26 points by bbuffone on Jan 9, 2010 | 18 comments
24. French President Pushes For 'Google Tax' (eweekeurope.co.uk)
25 points by miles on Jan 9, 2010 | 29 comments
25. Linux on the desktop 2010, your honest thoughts?
23 points by berlinbrown on Jan 9, 2010 | 73 comments
26. Entrepreneurs Aren't Risk Takers - They're Arbitrageurs (siliconindia.com)
23 points by jakarta on Jan 9, 2010 | 6 comments
27. Software Sea Change (kickingbear.com)
21 points by panic on Jan 9, 2010 | 1 comment
28. Crunchies Winners (techcrunch.com)
20 points by vaksel on Jan 9, 2010 | 2 comments
29. Java Virtual Machine developer documentation (penberg.blogspot.com)
20 points by penberg on Jan 9, 2010
30. The First Jobs of 10 Wealthy Entrepreneurs (mint.com)
20 points by jmonegro on Jan 9, 2010 | 2 comments

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