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1. What does one trillion dollars look like? (pagetutor.com)
142 points by pama on Jan 8, 2011 | 43 comments
2. Latency Compensating Methods in Client/Server Games (valvesoftware.com)
129 points by zemanel on Jan 8, 2011 | 54 comments
3. Redis memory fragmentation contest (groups.google.com)
112 points by antirez on Jan 8, 2011 | 4 comments
4. A Healthy Diet For The Mind (uni.edu)
110 points by bgray on Jan 8, 2011 | 32 comments
5. When Bad Patents Hurt Good People: Patent Threat Shuts Down Flight Planning Site (eff.org)
90 points by yanw on Jan 8, 2011 | 37 comments
6. Notifo (YC W10) Android Client - Beta signup (spreadsheets.google.com)
90 points by jazzychad on Jan 8, 2011 | 26 comments
7. Unreal Networking Architecture (epicgames.com)
88 points by jbrennan on Jan 8, 2011 | 12 comments
8. Why our best officers are leaving (theatlantic.com)
82 points by bobf on Jan 8, 2011 | 28 comments
9. Internet Identity System Said Readied by Obama Administration (businessweek.com)
78 points by atularora on Jan 8, 2011 | 71 comments
10. Chinese Mothers (wsj.com)
75 points by cwan on Jan 8, 2011 | 34 comments
11. Electric sheep (electricsheep.org)
74 points by shrikant on Jan 8, 2011 | 20 comments
12. DOM Monster: JavaScript performance bookmarklet (aculo.us)
74 points by mickeyben on Jan 8, 2011 | 15 comments
13. Best advice on product management, marketing, & biz dev for lean startups (platformsandnetworks.blogspot.com)
74 points by rafaelc on Jan 8, 2011 | 8 comments
14. Arduino: The Documentary has been released. (arduino.cc)
70 points by nickcharlton on Jan 8, 2011 | 14 comments
15. A DIY Origami Notebook to Keep in Your Jeans' Small Pocket (mostlymaths.net)
67 points by RBerenguel on Jan 8, 2011 | 27 comments
16. Ugly Software (like Blackboard) Gives Education a Bad Name (smartlyedu.com)
65 points by ashamedlion on Jan 8, 2011 | 54 comments
17. Is learning to program inherently hard? (computinged.wordpress.com)
62 points by gnosis on Jan 8, 2011 | 66 comments
18. 3D-Printed Flute Is Here (pcworld.com)
61 points by jamesjyu on Jan 8, 2011 | 22 comments
19. Can Google Get Its Mojo Back? (techcrunch.com)
59 points by ssclafani on Jan 8, 2011 | 49 comments
20. Picking Investments: Only Two Things Matter (futureadvisor.com)
57 points by jonxu on Jan 8, 2011 | 31 comments
21. Simple Haskell webapp: Generate random tweets using Markov chains (jaspervdj.be)
55 points by jaspervdj on Jan 8, 2011 | 30 comments
22. Poll: How much do you trust Google?
54 points by jacquesm on Jan 8, 2011 | 46 comments
23. What I Learned About Building Apps (feint.me)
54 points by feint on Jan 8, 2011 | 3 comments
24. Proofs By Contradiction And Other Dangers (rjlipton.wordpress.com)
53 points by jackfoxy on Jan 8, 2011 | 12 comments
25. US Department of Justice Subpoena to Twitter for Account Data [pdf] (salon.com)
51 points by hornokplease on Jan 8, 2011 | 11 comments
26. Which one will execute faster, if(flag==0) or if(0==flag)? (stackoverflow.com)
50 points by solipsist on Jan 8, 2011 | 61 comments
27. Google to Start Charging for Prediction API (readwriteweb.com)
49 points by sinzone on Jan 8, 2011 | 13 comments
28. U.S. teenager tortured in Kuwait and barred re-entry into the U.S. (salon.com)
47 points by yeahsure on Jan 8, 2011 | 30 comments
29. Zed Shaw & Dan Kaminsky Talk About Autho.me on Twitter (curated.by)
45 points by seanplaice on Jan 8, 2011 | 36 comments
30. No GPL Apps for Apple's App Store (zdnet.com)
46 points by tswicegood on Jan 8, 2011 | 92 comments

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