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1.How I Landed A $50/hr Side Gig With Little Effort (zacharyburt.com)
122 points by zackattack on Feb 4, 2010 | 130 comments
2.How to Replace IMAP (gaborcselle.com)
118 points by mk on Feb 4, 2010 | 60 comments
3.Librarian builds self-checkout machine. Costs $1500 instead of $23000 (desmoinesregister.com)
122 points by _juof on Feb 4, 2010 | 50 comments
4.The Oh My God Particle (fourmilab.ch)
100 points by mnemonicsloth on Feb 4, 2010 | 20 comments
5.A = F/m, So Keep Your Foot on the Gas (shoptalkapp.com)
96 points by mrshoe on Feb 4, 2010 | 18 comments
6.Computers shouldn't make people feel like idiots (37signals.com)
88 points by fogus on Feb 4, 2010 | 37 comments
7.Symbian Operating System now open source (wired.com)
85 points by omfut on Feb 4, 2010 | 31 comments
8.Johnny Cupcakes (johnnycupcakes.com)
85 points by eam on Feb 4, 2010 | 16 comments
9.Sun’s Chief Executive Tweets His Resignation (nytimes.com)
81 points by asnyder on Feb 4, 2010 | 29 comments
10.Lawrence Lessig: How to Get Our Democracy Back (thenation.com)
80 points by kriyative on Feb 4, 2010 | 71 comments
11.Aerogel is now cheap enough to produce to be used as housing insulation (cnet.com)
65 points by ph0rque on Feb 4, 2010 | 10 comments
12.Tom has a new crush. It's called the WattVision Energy Monitor. (energycircle.com)
62 points by pg on Feb 4, 2010 | 51 comments
13.The Rails Module (in Rails 3) (litanyagainstfear.com)
57 points by qrush on Feb 4, 2010
14.I found this secret code while geocaching. What could it mean? (reddit.com)
56 points by earle on Feb 4, 2010 | 18 comments
15.Ask HN: Would you go to Iraq for a year and be paid $200k?
53 points by spoiledtechie on Feb 4, 2010 | 89 comments
16.The Chapter In The Bible That Appears Twice (larrycheng.com)
53 points by lwc123 on Feb 4, 2010 | 45 comments
17.Critical Fans (or how Mixergy did the Impossible) (pchristensen.com)
52 points by wglb on Feb 4, 2010 | 9 comments
18.Google AI Challenge (uwaterloo.ca)
51 points by fogus on Feb 4, 2010 | 20 comments
19.'Vegetative' patient speaks to scientists using his brainwaves (scotsman.com)
49 points by prat on Feb 4, 2010 | 34 comments
20.Maemo Firefox disables Flash (pavlov.net)
49 points by nootopian on Feb 4, 2010 | 26 comments
21.The War on the Young (mises.org)
48 points by limist on Feb 4, 2010 | 97 comments
22.Photographer Loves Math, Graphs Her Images (wired.com)
46 points by francissson on Feb 4, 2010 | 14 comments
23.What will happen when a software company downs tools for a week? (businessofsoftware.org)
45 points by bensummers on Feb 4, 2010 | 13 comments
24.UIs that lie & the users who believe them (northtemple.com)
44 points by chanux on Feb 4, 2010 | 5 comments
25.Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy, Father of Lisp (infoq.com)
44 points by alrex021 on Feb 4, 2010 | 7 comments
26.AppFund (appfund.com)
42 points by mikek on Feb 4, 2010 | 24 comments
27.JVisualVM and Clojure (fatvat.co.uk)
42 points by raju on Feb 4, 2010 | 2 comments
28.‘Don’t Be Evil,’ Meet ‘Spy on Everyone’: How the NSA Deal Could Kill Google (wired.com)
41 points by brg on Feb 4, 2010 | 25 comments
29.Highway Handbook: Why We Speed (deadcatbounce.com)
41 points by dmuino on Feb 4, 2010 | 18 comments
30.Perpetual motion? (fraser.name)
41 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Feb 4, 2010 | 47 comments

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