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1. Java in College: "You might as well be teaching Chinese to a monkey." (pshaw.wordpress.com)
83 points by bprater on Dec 19, 2008 | 142 comments
2. It's A Dirty Job, And I Love It (forbes.com)
62 points by IsaacSchlueter on Dec 19, 2008 | 31 comments
3. Evan - Twitter needs a better policy on Usernames (stevepoland.com)
60 points by sant0sk1 on Dec 19, 2008 | 64 comments
4. A Home Office FAQ (biscade.com)
53 points by bdfh42 on Dec 19, 2008 | 36 comments
5. Everybody is faking it. (thatgraph.com)
52 points by Raphael on Dec 19, 2008 | 42 comments
6. Markopolous' (ignored) complaint to SEC describing Madoff's fund as Ponzi scheme (scribd.com)
48 points by kqr2 on Dec 19, 2008 | 32 comments
7. Coding Horror: Hardware is Cheap, Programmers are Expensive (codinghorror.com)
49 points by Anon84 on Dec 19, 2008 | 57 comments
8. 10 is the one (opera.com)
41 points by luckystrike on Dec 19, 2008 | 8 comments
9. Ask HN: Interesting recent developments in academic computer science.
37 points by rplevy on Dec 19, 2008 | 32 comments
10. Is the Internet going down? Undersea sub-cables have just broken... (timesonline.typepad.com)
36 points by gibsonf1 on Dec 19, 2008 | 29 comments
11. Ask HN: Where does consciousness come from?
35 points by jmtame on Dec 19, 2008 | 130 comments
12. Scribd raises $9M in Series B, hires Bebo COO, and new marketing VP (techcrunch.com)
33 points by jasonbentley on Dec 19, 2008 | 17 comments
13. Music Industry to Abandon Mass Suits (wsj.com)
32 points by raju on Dec 19, 2008 | 34 comments
14. Ask HN: Writing DSL in Python
26 points by oltmans on Dec 19, 2008 | 29 comments
15. Paul Buchheit coded SUP examples on AppJet (appjet.net)
17 points by Raphael on Dec 19, 2008 | 4 comments
16. Synthasite Buys Clickpass (techcrunch.com)
21 points by jbenz on Dec 19, 2008 | 5 comments
17. The Curse of Information Addiction (geero.net)
21 points by andygeers on Dec 19, 2008 | 18 comments
18. App Store Pricing (It's not a free market) (appcubby.com)
20 points by pxlpshr on Dec 19, 2008 | 28 comments
19. Writing Domain Specific Languages (jamisbuck.org)
18 points by utnick on Dec 19, 2008
20. CTO's View on Clickpass Acquisition (immadsnewworld.com)
18 points by foobar2k on Dec 19, 2008 | 3 comments
21. Meebo adds Facebook and MySpace chat for full chat goodness (centernetworks.com)
19 points by moses1400 on Dec 19, 2008 | 10 comments
22. Socialmedian Purchased by Xing (socialmedian.com)
17 points by kf on Dec 19, 2008 | 4 comments
23. Ask HN: IDE versus Text Editor?
17 points by breck on Dec 19, 2008 | 33 comments
24. Intelligent soldiers most likely to die in battle (WW2 case study) (newscientist.com)
17 points by Tichy on Dec 19, 2008 | 32 comments
25. Economist Magazine's Take on India's Entrepreneurship Scene (economist.com)
16 points by paraschopra on Dec 19, 2008 | 4 comments
26. FoxIt (from PDF fame) readies ebook reader. $100 less than an Amazon Kindle. (linuxdevices.com)
16 points by rglullis on Dec 19, 2008 | 14 comments
27. Pandora hits 20 million registered users (techcrunch.com)
15 points by vaksel on Dec 19, 2008 | 15 comments
28. Chicago's Alt Weekly Puts Foot Down over Huffington Post's "straight stealing" (chicagoreader.com)
14 points by brandnewlow on Dec 19, 2008 | 5 comments
29. Android Diary I (tbray.org)
14 points by astrec on Dec 19, 2008 | 5 comments
30. Ask YN: Review my new side project, Netbook Tracker
13 points by jonknee on Dec 19, 2008 | 32 comments

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