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1. I bought a CD, not a licensing agreement (gcn1.posterous.com)
132 points by onreact-com on Sept 2, 2009 | 58 comments
2. How to take down an F-117 (strategypage.com)
125 points by TriinT on Sept 2, 2009 | 98 comments
3. More on today's Gmail issue (gmailblog.blogspot.com)
112 points by mgcreed on Sept 2, 2009 | 34 comments
4. List of Inventors Killed By Their Own Inventions (wikipedia.org)
109 points by Freebytes on Sept 2, 2009 | 59 comments
5. Olark (YC S09) Brings Chat to Any Website - Whether You Own the Site or Not (readwriteweb.com)
103 points by bcx on Sept 2, 2009 | 22 comments
6. Why You Should Quit Your Job and Travel around the World (chrisguillebeau.com)
94 points by onreact-com on Sept 2, 2009 | 75 comments
7. Ask HN: Am I crazy?
89 points by amohr on Sept 2, 2009 | 92 comments
8. Kurt Vonnegut explains drama (sivers.org)
78 points by lucumo on Sept 2, 2009 | 24 comments
9. Tiny Code (kmkeen.com)
75 points by edw519 on Sept 2, 2009 | 11 comments
10. Japan building 1GW, $21bn solar power station in space (bloomberg.com)
68 points by gjm11 on Sept 2, 2009 | 96 comments
11. Scott Hanselman's 2009 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows (hanselman.com)
65 points by bdfh42 on Sept 2, 2009 | 28 comments
12. Death To The Div (russellheimlich.com)
60 points by kingkool68 on Sept 2, 2009 | 37 comments
13. Why’s “Try Ruby” Back Online (rubyinside.com)
59 points by Hagelin on Sept 2, 2009 | 12 comments
14. Best Optical Illusion of the Year (scientificamerican.com)
58 points by Freebytes on Sept 2, 2009 | 10 comments
15. HighlightCam (YC S09) Releases Video Summarization API (code.google.com)
60 points by mjtokelly on Sept 2, 2009 | 18 comments
16. Naming characters with Google AdWords (kickstarter.com)
53 points by erikwiffin on Sept 2, 2009 | 20 comments
17. Diagrams Through Ascii Art (sourceforge.net)
52 points by fogus on Sept 2, 2009 | 12 comments
18. How we hash our Javascript for better caching and less breakage on updates (greenfelt.net)
52 points by __david__ on Sept 2, 2009 | 26 comments
19. What the Internet knows about you (whattheinternetknowsaboutyou.com)
44 points by kqr2 on Sept 2, 2009 | 30 comments
20. The N900 [hands-on] from a Community Perspective (maemo.org)
44 points by tuukkah on Sept 2, 2009 | 13 comments
21. Sudoku solver in SQL (celko.com)
43 points by makmanalp on Sept 2, 2009 | 7 comments
22. Farewell America (zerohedge.com)
41 points by Flemlord on Sept 2, 2009 | 62 comments
23. Why "require 'rubygems'" Is Wrong (tomayko.com)
41 points by blasdel on Sept 2, 2009 | 52 comments
24. Getting a Fair Toss From a Biased Coin (billthelizard.com)
40 points by spydez on Sept 2, 2009 | 8 comments
25. Free browser-based PHP IDE (smashingapps.com)
36 points by tsestrich on Sept 2, 2009 | 12 comments
26. Team Apart (YC S08) hosts group meetings online for free (nytimes.com)
35 points by rantfoil on Sept 2, 2009 | 5 comments
27. I didn't know Google had a store (googlestore.com)
36 points by vaksel on Sept 2, 2009 | 21 comments
28. Book Review: Coders at Work (slashdot.org)
35 points by edw519 on Sept 2, 2009 | 4 comments
29. Ask HN: When are you most alert? (bbc.co.uk)
33 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Sept 2, 2009 | 25 comments
30. London’s Surveillance Fails - Only 1 Crime Solved per 1000 Cameras (singularityhub.com)
32 points by kkleiner on Sept 2, 2009 | 22 comments

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