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1. New Comment Features (ycombinator.com)
107 points by pg on Feb 5, 2009 | 225 comments
2. Ask HN: Would you pay $5/yr for HN?
101 points by alexandros on Feb 5, 2009 | 166 comments
3. The Great College Hoax (forbes.com)
95 points by robg on Feb 5, 2009 | 136 comments
4. Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast (swtch.com)
95 points by ambition on Feb 5, 2009 | 17 comments
5. 25 Things I Didn't Want to Know About You (time.com)
65 points by mitchm on Feb 5, 2009 | 40 comments
6. Gaming HN for an Orange Name - A Warning
64 points by GavinB on Feb 5, 2009 | 45 comments
7. Ask HN: Is HN slow for you lately? Or even not responding?
62 points by kmt on Feb 5, 2009 | 56 comments
8. 26 Years, 85 Notebooks (designobserver.com)
53 points by danw on Feb 5, 2009 | 16 comments
9. Ask HN: Rate my webapp: commandlinefu.com
51 points by codeinthehole on Feb 5, 2009 | 43 comments
10. Wozniak Accepts Post at a Storage Systems Start-Up (nytimes.com)
50 points by twampss on Feb 5, 2009 | 17 comments
11. Faster Copilot with faster Internet traffic (joelonsoftware.com)
48 points by gus_massa on Feb 5, 2009 | 38 comments
12. Ask HN: Light grey text is killing my eyes.
47 points by zepolen on Feb 5, 2009 | 39 comments
13. The orange/not orange experiment
44 points by mechanical_fish on Feb 5, 2009 | 28 comments
14. Lockheed Martin Skunk Works 14 Rules of Operation (1943) (lockheedmartin.com)
44 points by pbrown on Feb 5, 2009 | 7 comments
15. It feels kind of weird when.. you get rejected and than 5 months later read about.. your idea (news.ycombinator.com)
42 points by segnor on Feb 5, 2009 | 20 comments
16. Haskell vs Java job applicants (haskell.org)
40 points by nickb on Feb 5, 2009 | 23 comments
17. Opera releases new JavaScript engine named Carakan (opera.com)
37 points by mqt on Feb 5, 2009 | 10 comments
18. Startup Climate (patriciahandschiegel.tumblr.com)
35 points by marketer on Feb 5, 2009 | 15 comments
19. Microsoft Kills Flight Simulator, Fires Entire Dev Team (gamasutra.com)
31 points by joshwa on Feb 5, 2009 | 14 comments
20. Sabbaticals (joelonsoftware.com)
29 points by soundsop on Feb 5, 2009 | 8 comments
21. Christians Bailing on GoDaddy Due to 'Immoral' Advertising (wired.com)
29 points by tortilla on Feb 5, 2009 | 71 comments
22. Working from Home Part 2: Now about how it doesn't suck (geeksinboston.com)
28 points by shimon on Feb 5, 2009 | 9 comments
23. Apple's design process - BusinessWeek (businessweek.com)
27 points by muon on Feb 5, 2009 | 5 comments
24. Brains, Brains, Brains, Brains: different flavors of genius (scienceblogs.com)
26 points by hhm on Feb 5, 2009 | 8 comments
25. JavaScript makes relative times compatible with caching (37signals.com)
26 points by sant0sk1 on Feb 5, 2009 | 19 comments
26. The perfect mouseless FreeBSD desktop (bluepink.ro)
24 points by mapleoin on Feb 5, 2009 | 13 comments
27. Ask HN: Recommend science experiments and videos for unfortunate school students
24 points by fzkl on Feb 5, 2009 | 24 comments
28. Amazon FPS out of beta - adds limited-time free payment processing (90 days) (aws.typepad.com)
23 points by mattjaynes on Feb 5, 2009 | 11 comments
29. Hulu - Online video's new model (economist.com)
22 points by amrithk on Feb 5, 2009 | 11 comments
30. Unit testing is not (generally) useful (prehacked.com)
21 points by axod on Feb 5, 2009 | 53 comments

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