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1.		Zed Shaw: Librelist to take on Google, Yahoo mailing lists (zedshaw.com)
		173 points by mattculbreth on Dec 3, 2009 \| 70 comments
2.		http://to/ World's Shortest URL Shortener
		164 points by Raphael on Dec 3, 2009 \| 145 comments
3.		Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering (computer.org)
		112 points by andrewbadera on Dec 3, 2009 \| 32 comments
4.		Spirit Gets Stuck, Makes a Big Discovery (nasa.gov)
		111 points by mshafrir on Dec 3, 2009 \| 27 comments
5.		Matt Brezina: No One Cares About Your Stupid Little Startup (slideshare.net)
		86 points by prakash on Dec 3, 2009 \| 16 comments
6.		Google Public DNS (code.google.com)
		83 points by dfreidin on Dec 3, 2009 \| 45 comments
7.		Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 1: Are Those My Initials? (steveblank.com)
		79 points by nathanh on Dec 3, 2009 \| 20 comments
8.		David Ulevitch: Some thoughts on Google DNS (opendns.com)
		77 points by drallison on Dec 3, 2009 \| 65 comments
9.		FlightCaster merges its statistical-learning code into Incanter (incanter-blog.org)
		77 points by fogus on Dec 3, 2009 \| 9 comments
10.		Start Your Startup: "Don't Save Sex for your Old Age" (Warren Buffett) (fool.com)
		75 points by alanthonyc on Dec 3, 2009 \| 24 comments
11.		Geeks trump alpha males on Wall Street (reuters.com)
		74 points by cwan on Dec 3, 2009 \| 83 comments
12.		Ask HN: As an employer, what do you wish applicants did more often?
		74 points by retroflexzy on Dec 3, 2009 \| 50 comments
13.		What the "Black screen of death" story says about tech journalism (zdnet.com)
		73 points by malte on Dec 3, 2009 \| 15 comments
14.		4.3.2.1 -- Another google DNS ip
		69 points by davidu on Dec 3, 2009 \| 21 comments
15.		1/500th of humanity's time is spent on Facebook
		60 points by RoboTeddy on Dec 3, 2009 \| 55 comments
16.		Tools for Lifelong Learners (openculture.com)
		59 points by ypk on Dec 3, 2009 \| 5 comments
17.		Technically speaking, what makes Google Chrome fast? (chromium.org)
		56 points by mbrubeck on Dec 3, 2009 \| 43 comments
		david927 on Dec 3, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: http://to/ World's Shortest URL Shortener And a problem to a solution that does.
19.		Helsinki server room heats 500 houses (helen.fi)
		52 points by cromulent on Dec 3, 2009 \| 10 comments
20.		Chargify vs. Spreedly vs. Cheddargetter: Subscription-Billing Service Prices (glendenin.com)
		50 points by ccg on Dec 3, 2009 \| 20 comments
21.		FlightCaster (YC S09) open-sources Crane: Hadoop Clusters on EC2 (measuringmeasures.blogspot.com)
		50 points by jaf12duke on Dec 3, 2009 \| 9 comments
		zedshaw on Dec 3, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: Zed Shaw: Librelist to take on Google, Yahoo maili... Yes, because the primary "user" for a company like Yahoo! or Google is the advertiser, not the mailing list user.
		davidu on Dec 3, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: Introducing Google Public DNS: A new DNS resolver ... I'll do a blog post about this later today for those interested in my perspective on them entering the DNS space. :-) Edit: Here it is: http://blog.opendns.com/2009/12/03/opendns-google-dns/
		mixmax on Dec 3, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: http://to/ World's Shortest URL Shortener It's so short that hacker news doesn't even show the domain in the heading :-)
		tptacek on Dec 3, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: David Ulevitch: Some thoughts on Google DNS Third, Google claims that this service is better because it has no ads or redirection. But you have to remember they are also the largest advertising and redirection company on the Internet. To think that Google’s DNS service is for the benefit of the Internet would be naive. In other words: Google's DNS service has no ads or redirections. Ours does. But that doesn't make our service worse, because Google is an ad company.
26.		How To Identify A Lame Programming Job (codypowell.com)
		47 points by fogus on Dec 3, 2009 \| 36 comments
27.		New Amazon EC2 Feature: Boot from Elastic Block Store (aws.typepad.com)
		44 points by jeffbarr on Dec 3, 2009 \| 13 comments
28.		John Carmack on hacking Doom and Quake (.plan file from 1998) (team5150.com)
		42 points by mace on Dec 3, 2009 \| 9 comments
29.		Foursquare.com now all on Lift, in Scala (groups.google.com)
		42 points by iamdanw on Dec 3, 2009 \| 4 comments
		fix3r on Dec 3, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: http://to/ World's Shortest URL Shortener Have they just broken every single url regex out there?
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