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31.Google Caffeine: What it really is (theregister.co.uk)
20 points by davecardwell on Aug 16, 2009 | 3 comments
32.A New Approach to Aid: How a Basic Income Program Saved a Namibian Village (spiegel.de)
18 points by Flemlord on Aug 16, 2009 | 15 comments
33.How to kill your community (ma.tt)
18 points by zen53 on Aug 16, 2009 | 10 comments
34.Science and the Demise of Philosophy (robertpriddy.com)
18 points by 321abc on Aug 16, 2009 | 70 comments
35.Human children are the best learning machines in the universe. (edge.org)
17 points by gourneau on Aug 16, 2009 | 6 comments
36.Web vs. Desktop Applications: The Neverending Debate (return42.blogspot.com)
17 points by tobiassvn on Aug 16, 2009 | 28 comments
37.RFC 2324 - Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0) (ietf.org)
16 points by raju on Aug 16, 2009 | 9 comments
38.The Media Bundle Is Dead, Long Live The News Aggregators (techcrunch.com)
15 points by cwan on Aug 16, 2009 | 4 comments
39.America’s doomed small newspapers (reuters.com)
15 points by robg on Aug 16, 2009 | 26 comments
40.The Weinstein brothers are flailing. Why? Lack of focus. (nytimes.com)
14 points by adamhowell on Aug 16, 2009 | 4 comments
41.To Microsoft, Basic Research Is Good Insurance (nytimes.com)
14 points by newacc on Aug 16, 2009 | 13 comments
42.Mutation Tied to Need for Less Sleep Is Discovered (nytimes.com)
12 points by mhb on Aug 16, 2009 | 3 comments
43.Ensure VCs don't drag you out of your venture (indiatimes.com)
12 points by lucumo on Aug 16, 2009
44.AVGA: The AVR-based video game platform (prometheus4.com)
12 points by profquail on Aug 16, 2009 | 1 comment
45.Ideal first round funding terms (cdixon.org)
12 points by prakash on Aug 16, 2009 | 1 comment
46.Fatty Foods Affect Memory and Exercise (nytimes.com)
12 points by hedgehog on Aug 16, 2009 | 16 comments
47.Simple patterns for better arguments about programming languages (plsadventures.blogspot.com)
11 points by gdp on Aug 16, 2009 | 2 comments
48.The Flawed Terms in VC Deals (babblingvc.typepad.com)
11 points by wheels on Aug 16, 2009 | 4 comments
49.Google Insights: Standardized Test Searches Around the World (google.com)
11 points by dangoldin on Aug 16, 2009 | 5 comments
50.Free e-copy of Robin Hobb's Assassin's Apprentice (keepingthedoor.com)
11 points by renai42 on Aug 16, 2009 | 6 comments
51.The Computer Data Bank: will it kill your freedom? (1968) (modernmechanix.com)
11 points by TriinT on Aug 16, 2009 | 7 comments
52.Super Mario - Nintendo goes forward (i-programmer.info)
10 points by mikejuk on Aug 16, 2009
53.The Politics of Transhumanism (changesurfer.com)
9 points by 321abc on Aug 16, 2009 | 1 comment
54.Scanning headlines (avc.com)
8 points by cwan on Aug 16, 2009 | 1 comment
55.Partitioning Your Hard Drive During A Linux Install (skorks.com)
8 points by askorkin on Aug 16, 2009 | 6 comments
56.Ask HN: Web programming for a C++ server developer?
8 points by jknupp on Aug 16, 2009 | 20 comments
57.Steve Jobs: the man who polished Apple (timesonline.co.uk)
8 points by doodyhead on Aug 16, 2009
58.Ask HN: So, what's wrong with iTunes? (or what more would you want?)
7 points by prxtl on Aug 16, 2009 | 35 comments
59.Bokode: Imperceptible Visual Tags for Camera Based Interaction from a Distance (media.mit.edu)
6 points by pmorici on Aug 16, 2009 | 1 comment
60.Partial function application hack for Erlang, using parse transform (nickelcode.com)
6 points by kunley on Aug 16, 2009

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