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1. Google Maps India learns to navigate like a local (googleblog.blogspot.com)
167 points by jeff18 on Dec 18, 2009 | 37 comments
2. Bingo Card Creator Annual Report (kalzumeus.com)
164 points by patio11 on Dec 18, 2009 | 38 comments
3. Browser Pong (stewdio.org)
160 points by marcusbooster on Dec 18, 2009 | 21 comments
4. C Craft (stanford.edu)
148 points by fogus on Dec 18, 2009 | 58 comments
5. Twitter down; hacked by "Iranian cyber army"? (techcrunch.com)
130 points by seldo on Dec 18, 2009 | 89 comments
6. The decline of the MBA will cut off the supply of bullshit (economist.com)
120 points by richardburton on Dec 18, 2009 | 66 comments
7. Predictions for 2010 (sites.google.com)
94 points by s3graham on Dec 18, 2009 | 30 comments
8. Why I think Mongo is to Databases what Rails was to Frameworks (railstips.org)
90 points by jnunemaker on Dec 18, 2009 | 13 comments
9. ACM trying to subvert open access
87 points by drallison on Dec 18, 2009 | 21 comments
10. 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice (chronicle.com)
82 points by gnosis on Dec 18, 2009 | 71 comments
11. Prague from the TV Tower - 18 Gigapixel Panoramic Photo (360cities.net)
77 points by dabent on Dec 18, 2009 | 29 comments
12. Web 2.0 Suicide Machine - Meet your Real Neighbours again - Sign out forever (suicidemachine.org)
76 points by MicahWedemeyer on Dec 18, 2009 | 57 comments
13. US Gov Requests Feedback on Open Access – ACM Gets it Wrong (Again) (realtimerendering.com)
69 points by drallison on Dec 18, 2009 | 10 comments
14. Tell HN: The joojoo guy [was] live on mixergy (mixergy.com)
70 points by vaksel on Dec 18, 2009 | 50 comments
15. Google In Discussions To Acquire Yelp For A Half Billion Dollars Or More (techcrunch.com)
67 points by andrewpbrett on Dec 18, 2009 | 33 comments
16. A programmer's personal story about finding a job in this economy (shadowcoding.blogspot.com)
59 points by rayvega on Dec 18, 2009 | 51 comments
17. The reason why banks are suddenly repaying their bailout funds (slate.com)
57 points by cwan on Dec 18, 2009 | 27 comments
18. Server-Side Javascript: Back With a Vengeance (readwriteweb.com)
55 points by alexandros on Dec 18, 2009 | 30 comments
19. Thoughts on "e-readers"
43 points by jamesmcintyre on Dec 18, 2009 | 51 comments
20. Rackspace Goes Down. Again. Takes The Internet With It. Again. (techcrunch.com)
48 points by vaksel on Dec 18, 2009 | 35 comments
21. Has dark matter finally been detected? (guardian.co.uk)
46 points by indy on Dec 18, 2009 | 21 comments
22. How to Manufacture a Climate Consensus (wsj.com)
43 points by DanielBMarkham on Dec 18, 2009 | 53 comments
23. Score Two Wins Against Software Patents (feld.com)
39 points by petewarden on Dec 18, 2009 | 3 comments
24. Clojure 1.1 RC1 is out (groups.google.com)
39 points by alrex021 on Dec 18, 2009 | 6 comments
25. Deploying Tornado in production (agiletesting.blogspot.com)
39 points by icey on Dec 18, 2009 | 5 comments
26. Death of OS X VLC Exaggerated (videolan.org)
39 points by durin42 on Dec 18, 2009 | 4 comments
27. Five laws of human nature (newscientist.com)
37 points by robg on Dec 18, 2009 | 17 comments
28. 2009 Open Source Top Ten (ozmm.org)
36 points by r11t on Dec 18, 2009 | 5 comments
29. W3 gets new Look (w3.org)
33 points by taranfx on Dec 18, 2009 | 28 comments
30. Refal programming language (wikipedia.org)
31 points by Stasyan on Dec 18, 2009 | 3 comments

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