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31. Why Crowdsourcing Might Be Better Than the Secret Service (collegemogul.com)
15 points by CollegeMogul on Jan 21, 2009 | 11 comments
32. The One Thing Programmers and Musicians Have In Common (codinghorror.com)
14 points by Oompa on Jan 21, 2009 | 18 comments
33. Ask HN: How do you simulate a flash crowd traffic to test your site before launch?
14 points by amjith on Jan 21, 2009 | 5 comments
34. Are Logo Design Contests Even Legal? (thelogofactory.com)
13 points by vlad on Jan 21, 2009 | 23 comments
35. Dealing with forks in a DVCS (ozmm.org)
13 points by defunkt on Jan 21, 2009 | 3 comments
36. Red Hat set to surpass Sun in market capitalization (cnet.com)
12 points by peter123 on Jan 21, 2009 | 22 comments
37. Obama's technology agenda (whitehouse.gov)
12 points by mixmax on Jan 21, 2009 | 7 comments
38. A fatal problem with the "games as art" conversation (gamasutra.com)
12 points by makimaki on Jan 21, 2009 | 7 comments
39. Ira Glass on creativity's dark stage (youtube.com)
12 points by mqt on Jan 21, 2009 | 4 comments
40. Roubini: "U.S. banking system is effectively insolvent" (bloomberg.com)
11 points by gibsonf1 on Jan 21, 2009
41. Writing Decisions: Saving space without losing meaning (37signals.com)
10 points by twampss on Jan 21, 2009 | 2 comments
42. Dude Gets Arm Replaced Just Like Luke Skywalker (pogpog.com)
9 points by chaostheory on Jan 21, 2009 | 5 comments
43. A Crash Course in Comments (chrisbrogan.com)
9 points by tomh on Jan 21, 2009 | 1 comment
44. Is Twitter search really real time full-text search? (lshift.net)
9 points by mqt on Jan 21, 2009 | 1 comment
45. Apple's iPhone may have outsold Android nearly 6-to-1 (appleinsider.com)
9 points by peter123 on Jan 21, 2009 | 9 comments
46. Ask HN: HTTP compression from client to server?
8 points by aristus on Jan 21, 2009 | 8 comments
47. Book Review - Programming Erlang, Software for a Concurrent World By Joe Armstrong (doubleclix.wordpress.com)
8 points by Anon84 on Jan 21, 2009 | 3 comments
48. Installing DB2 on Mac OS X (antoniocangiano.com)
7 points by acangiano on Jan 21, 2009
49. Review of Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong (uncoverr.com)
7 points by nreece on Jan 21, 2009 | 12 comments
50. Google AdWords - eleven herbs and spices revealed (theregister.co.uk)
7 points by twampss on Jan 21, 2009 | 1 comment
51. Tracking Clicks, Building a Clickmap with PHP and jQuery (css-tricks.com)
7 points by smoody on Jan 21, 2009 | 4 comments
52. Ridesharing in the Future (dilbert.com)
7 points by sarvesh on Jan 21, 2009 | 4 comments
53. Former Medtronic CEO: 100-Hour Work Weeks Won't Lead to Success (fool.com)
7 points by nswanberg on Jan 21, 2009 | 1 comment
54. Web development timeline [png image] (wikimedia.org)
6 points by habs on Jan 21, 2009
55. XSS prevention cheat sheet (owasp.org)
6 points by mcxx on Jan 21, 2009
56. Ask HN: algorithm to slice a number into parts
6 points by adm on Jan 21, 2009 | 14 comments
57. Simple, valuable business I want to use. . .
6 points by aresant on Jan 21, 2009 | 4 comments
58. Questions to Ask Before Selling With a Pilot Project (stevebarsh.com)
6 points by sbarsh on Jan 21, 2009
59. Boot Beep: The Story and Source Code of the Mac's Boot Chime (folklore.org)
5 points by mdasen on Jan 21, 2009 | 3 comments
60. Google Stops Print Ads Program (blogoscoped.com)
5 points by pclark on Jan 21, 2009 | 11 comments

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