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1.Zed Shaw - The ACL is Dead - CUSEC 2008 (cusec.net)
123 points by edwardog on Jan 5, 2009 | 51 comments
2.English-Prime - English without "is" (wikipedia.org)
108 points by silentbicycle on Jan 5, 2009 | 76 comments
3.The best paper airplane in the world (zurqui.com)
104 points by wallflower on Jan 5, 2009 | 30 comments
4.Xobni Closes $7 Million Series B Financing (xobni.com)
63 points by auston on Jan 5, 2009 | 31 comments
5.Ask YC: $1000 to advertise my startup
60 points by pclark on Jan 5, 2009 | 64 comments
6.Twitter Security Collapses; Obama, Fox and Britney Accounts Hacked (readwriteweb.com)
50 points by qhoxie on Jan 5, 2009 | 23 comments
7.Amazon's Best-Selling Album Download of 2008 Was Available for Free (readwriteweb.com)
44 points by peter123 on Jan 5, 2009 | 24 comments
8.Ask HN: Free accounts for students?
41 points by defunkt on Jan 5, 2009 | 88 comments
9.Social Security: The Biggest Ponzi Scheme on Earth (By Milton Friedman) (hoover.org)
38 points by chaostheory on Jan 5, 2009 | 121 comments
10.I'm using Git because it makes me feel cool (unethicalblogger.com)
37 points by gourneau on Jan 5, 2009 | 12 comments
11.The Year 2038 Problem (netcom.com)
35 points by makimaki on Jan 5, 2009 | 26 comments
12.Entrepreneur Hotels, Y Combinator, and Dead VCs (change.org)
30 points by nlwhittemore on Jan 5, 2009 | 42 comments
13.Do you set goals?
29 points by bkj123 on Jan 5, 2009 | 38 comments
14.Music Startups to Watch in 2009 (sachinrekhi.com)
27 points by sachin on Jan 5, 2009 | 6 comments
15.Is It Time to Let FeedBurner Burn? (chrisbaskind.com)
26 points by technofication on Jan 5, 2009 | 10 comments
16.Picasa Arrives on the Mac (picasa.google.com)
25 points by rscott on Jan 5, 2009 | 16 comments
17.MemcacheDB: A distributed key-value storage system designed for persistence (memcachedb.org)
24 points by chaostheory on Jan 5, 2009 | 17 comments
18.Famous Awk One-Liners Explained, Part III (catonmat.net)
24 points by Anon84 on Jan 5, 2009 | 2 comments
19.Alternative Memcache Usage: A Highly Scalable, Highly Available, In-Memory Shard Index (maxindelicato.com)
22 points by herewego on Jan 5, 2009 | 8 comments
20.Disgruntled employee kills JournalSpace with data wipe (geek.com)
20 points by thomas on Jan 5, 2009 | 22 comments
21.Running a microISV (successfulsoftware.net)
20 points by hermitcrab on Jan 5, 2009 | 6 comments
22.How an explorer of the South Pole did his employee recruiting (mathoda.com)
19 points by mathoda on Jan 5, 2009 | 15 comments
23.Integrating Yahoo BOSS Search in a Django site in 5 easy steps - Peter Krantz (peterkrantz.com)
19 points by iamelgringo on Jan 5, 2009 | 5 comments
24.FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE Announcement (DTrace & ULE scheduler by default) (freebsd.org)
19 points by epi0Bauqu on Jan 5, 2009 | 4 comments
25.How should I market this game?
19 points by mdonahoe on Jan 5, 2009 | 12 comments
26.Ask YC/HN: How do you help your job-hunting friends out?
18 points by Mystalic on Jan 5, 2009 | 13 comments
27.Ask HN: Do you guys use speed reading techniques?
16 points by elviejo on Jan 5, 2009 | 44 comments
28.DTrace gets guernsey in new FreeBSD (zdnet.com.au)
17 points by astrec on Jan 5, 2009 | 6 comments
29.New ESPN.com homepage (espn.com)
17 points by brandnewlow on Jan 5, 2009 | 19 comments
30.HN meet-up in Bangalore on Saturday 10th Jan at the Headstart conference?
17 points by prakash on Jan 5, 2009 | 17 comments

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