| 1. |  | I made a native Python module for MS Word docx (github.com/mikemaccana) | 
 | 144 points by nailer on Dec 30, 2009  | 25 comments | 
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| 2. |  | My latest flash game, Robokill 2 (rocksolidarcade.com) | 
 | 122 points by reitzensteinm on Dec 30, 2009  | 62 comments | 
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| 3. |  | How to write and deploy a Lisp Webapp (postabon.com) | 
 | 101 points by smanek on Dec 30, 2009  | 7 comments | 
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| 4. |  | All my methods take 316 arguments, and I like it that way (muckandbrass.com) | 
 | 97 points by anonjon on Dec 30, 2009  | 86 comments | 
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| 5. |  | Secret language (joelonsoftware.com) | 
 | 95 points by stakent on Dec 30, 2009  | 24 comments | 
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| 6. |  | Minimalism (ihumanable.com) | 
 | 86 points by ihumanable on Dec 30, 2009  | 43 comments | 
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| 7. |  | Students Ace Textbook Physics While Struggling With Basic Understanding (video) (youtube.com) | 
 | 72 points by vinutheraj on Dec 30, 2009  | 77 comments | 
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| 8. |  | Libcpu (libcpu.org) | 
 | 70 points by fogus on Dec 30, 2009  | 5 comments | 
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| 9. |  | Programmer Competency Matrix | 
 | 69 points by sliceghost on Dec 30, 2009  | 40 comments | 
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| 10. |  | Fraud U: Toppling a Bogus-Diploma Empire (wired.com) | 
 | 61 points by Anon84 on Dec 30, 2009  | 30 comments | 
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| 11. |  | Intercourse and Intelligence (gnxp.com) | 
 | 52 points by pwnstigator on Dec 30, 2009  | 73 comments | 
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| 12. |  | Zynga and the End of the Beginning (gamasutra.com) | 
 | 50 points by rampr on Dec 30, 2009  | 9 comments | 
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| 13. |  | The Fifth Underhanded C Contest is Now Open (xcott.com) | 
 | 49 points by marcus on Dec 30, 2009  | 10 comments | 
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| 14. |  | Twilio (phone call web API) is crazy fun: MicroISV on a Shoestring (kalzumeus.com) | 
 | 49 points by stakent on Dec 30, 2009  | 4 comments | 
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| 15. |  | It's hard to change a little. It's much easier to change a lot. (plpatterns.com) | 
 | 47 points by jonnytran on Dec 30, 2009  | 6 comments | 
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| 16. |  | Ask HN: What startups here are focusing on developing on top of .NET? | 
 | 45 points by rbanffy on Dec 30, 2009  | 66 comments | 
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| 17. |  | Open Source Obligations (red-sweater.com) | 
 | 44 points by bensummers on Dec 30, 2009  | 12 comments | 
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| 18. |  | Gone Nomad? Try Coworking. (zetetic.net) | 
 | 45 points by billymeltdown on Dec 30, 2009  | 15 comments | 
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| 19. |  | Twilio Raises $3.7 Million For Powerful Telephony API (techcrunch.com) | 
 | 44 points by immad on Dec 30, 2009  | 15 comments | 
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| 20. |  | Cross-domain privacy vulnerability using CSS, in all browsers (scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com) | 
 | 40 points by mbrubeck on Dec 30, 2009  | 6 comments | 
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| 21. |  | GitHub Flavored Markdown (github.github.com) | 
 | 37 points by chaostheory on Dec 30, 2009  | 15 comments | 
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| 22. |  | Terrastore - Scalable, elastic, consistent document store (code.google.com) | 
 | 37 points by tyler on Dec 30, 2009  | 14 comments | 
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| 23. |  | Follow up to "Functional Programming Doesn't Work" (dadgum.com) | 
 | 35 points by steveklabnik on Dec 30, 2009  | 34 comments | 
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| 24. |  | Giles Bowkett: No New Languages In 2010; New Businesses Instead (gilesbowkett.blogspot.com) | 
 | 34 points by ph0rque on Dec 30, 2009  | 14 comments | 
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| 25. |  | Microsoft.com - Careers: Linux/Open Office (microsoft.com) | 
 | 32 points by wglb on Dec 30, 2009  | 34 comments | 
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| 26. |  | Ask HN: How do you get in your "productive" mode? | 
 | 31 points by hajrice on Dec 30, 2009  | 41 comments | 
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| 27. |  | The 4 Metrics of User Acquisition and the Customer Bull’s Eye (mattbrezina.com) | 
 | 31 points by brezina on Dec 30, 2009  | 4 comments | 
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| 28. |  | Why do so many terrorists have engineering degrees? (slate.com) | 
 | 31 points by pchristensen on Dec 30, 2009  | 33 comments | 
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| 29. |  | T-Mobile "Officially" Confirms Google Phone (tmonews.com) | 
 | 30 points by Flemlord on Dec 30, 2009  | 4 comments | 
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| 30. |  | Google Nexus One docs get leaked: $530 unsubsidized, $180 with plan (boygeniusreport.com) | 
 | 29 points by transburgh on Dec 30, 2009  | 50 comments | 
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