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1. I never realized how useful netcat is (wikipedia.org)
190 points by tzury on Sept 16, 2009 | 32 comments
2. Google acquires reCAPTCHA (googleblog.blogspot.com)
181 points by smikhanov on Sept 16, 2009 | 93 comments
3. Haiku (arstechnica.com)
145 points by asdlfj2sd33 on Sept 16, 2009 | 29 comments
4. Mythbusters RFID episode banned (bit-tech.net)
123 points by bootload on Sept 16, 2009 | 17 comments
5. Open Source Is Really About Documentation – Twisted vs. Tornado (littlehart.net)
95 points by fogus on Sept 16, 2009 | 28 comments
6. Programming: Choosing the right name is everything (sites.google.com)
84 points by clawrencewenham on Sept 16, 2009 | 58 comments
7. Drinking is a Public Relations Vehicle (pjhyett.com)
76 points by tortilla on Sept 16, 2009 | 27 comments
8. Steve Yegge: Lisp is not an acceptable Lisp. (2006) (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
72 points by steiger on Sept 16, 2009 | 92 comments
9. Fungus-treated Violin Outdoes Stradivarius (sciencedaily.com)
67 points by dimas on Sept 16, 2009 | 22 comments
10. What Sort of Exercise Can Make You Smarter? (nytimes.com)
66 points by robg on Sept 16, 2009 | 58 comments
11. Google opens up more of their core Java libraries (code.google.com)
60 points by strlen on Sept 16, 2009 | 5 comments
12. Properly Molding the Gamer Child (jeff-vogel.blogspot.com)
56 points by lucumo on Sept 16, 2009 | 34 comments
13. UK Postcode coordinates on WikiLeaks (wikileaks.org)
55 points by aubergene on Sept 16, 2009 | 29 comments
14. Twitter Closing New Venture Round At $1 Billion Valuation (techcrunch.com)
51 points by rokhayakebe on Sept 16, 2009 | 38 comments
15. Scalable distributed b-tree (highscalability.com)
50 points by tim_sw on Sept 16, 2009 | 11 comments
16. Google Chrome 3.0 (googlesystem.blogspot.com)
49 points by nreece on Sept 16, 2009 | 52 comments
17. Parallel Programming: I Told You So (linux-mag.com)
47 points by linuxmag on Sept 16, 2009 | 12 comments
18. Why You Should Switch from Subversion to Git (carsonified.com)
44 points by fogus on Sept 16, 2009 | 75 comments
19. John Resig's Talks at the 2009 jQuery Conference (ejohn.org)
43 points by rickharrison on Sept 16, 2009 | 6 comments
20. ARM Cortex-A9 SMP Announced: High-Performance ARM (mvdirona.com)
43 points by neilc on Sept 16, 2009 | 13 comments
21. TwitTornado: Real-time Twitter using Tornado (twittornado.com)
42 points by garbowza on Sept 16, 2009 | 19 comments
22. Google Rumored to Buy Brightcove For $500-$700 Million (businessinsider.com)
40 points by radley on Sept 16, 2009 | 6 comments
23. The Most Expensive Place To Put A Computer (larrycheng.com)
37 points by lwc123 on Sept 16, 2009 | 34 comments
24. The Man Who Defused the ‘Population Bomb’ (wsj.com)
37 points by ivankirigin on Sept 16, 2009 | 44 comments
25. TechCrunch50 founders’ feud: “It’s over” for the startup conference (venturebeat.com)
36 points by rokhayakebe on Sept 16, 2009 | 30 comments
26. Mint.com: Nurtured by Super-Angel VCs (businessweek.com)
36 points by ckinnan on Sept 16, 2009 | 3 comments
27. 1024 by 2012 (enfranchisedmind.com)
34 points by silentbicycle on Sept 16, 2009 | 4 comments
28. Teacher certification a painful farce (knoxnews.com)
30 points by cwan on Sept 16, 2009 | 51 comments
29. Ask HN: About all this Lisp fuzz
30 points by Novash on Sept 16, 2009 | 38 comments
30. A Brief History of Lisp Machines (andromeda.com)
30 points by steiger on Sept 16, 2009 | 2 comments

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