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1.		Apple engineer uses Lego to rebuild Antikythera mechanism (cnet.com)
		210 points by gommm on Dec 11, 2010 \| 42 comments
2.		How to impress Joel Spolsky (programmers.stackexchange.com)
		201 points by rlmw on Dec 11, 2010 \| 76 comments
3.		Ask HN: How do you cope with loneliness?
		158 points by krmboya on Dec 11, 2010 \| 77 comments
4.		My crazy boss sold everything, bought a boat, and is sailing for an entire year (sailingondine.com)
		142 points by bdickason on Dec 11, 2010 \| 95 comments
		Haskell
		136 points \| parent
6.		Comparing Compiler Optimizations (regehr.org)
		120 points by rcfox on Dec 11, 2010 \| 10 comments
7.		Anonymous sends a press release, but the author doesn't clear his metadata... (paulrankin.tumblr.com)
		108 points by _b8r0 on Dec 11, 2010 \| 55 comments
8.		New US cybersecurity bill could threaten free software (fsf.org)
		104 points by tjr on Dec 11, 2010 \| 61 comments
		Go
		100 points \| parent
10.		The Viral Me: Inside Y Combinator (gq.com)
		100 points by jakarta on Dec 11, 2010 \| 29 comments
		tptacek on Dec 11, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: How to impress Joel Spolsky Impressing your boss is a crappy career goal. Even if your boss is amazing.
12.		Terminal app for the Kindle (unipi.it)
		100 points by dholowiski on Dec 11, 2010 \| 15 comments
13.		No Jobs? Young Graduates Make Their Own (nytimes.com)
		95 points by ashwinl on Dec 11, 2010 \| 18 comments
14.		Paypal shut my account today because my business donated money to wikileaks (reddit.com)
		88 points by Flemlord on Dec 11, 2010 \| 34 comments
15.		"Do you listen to music while coding?" An analysis. (themoah.posterous.com)
		86 points by steveklabnik on Dec 11, 2010 \| 93 comments
16.		Tim Ferris: 3 More Case Studies of Successful Cash-Flow Businesses (fourhourworkweek.com)
		73 points by da5e on Dec 11, 2010 \| 61 comments
17.		Quicksort is the new Hello World (rmontanaro.com)
		70 points by rmontanaro on Dec 11, 2010 \| 60 comments
18.		Finding security issues in a website (or: How to get paid by Google) (adblockplus.org)
		69 points by twapi on Dec 11, 2010 \| 8 comments
19.		Why Teens Don't and Won't Tweet (readwriteweb.com)
		69 points by mmoorejones on Dec 11, 2010 \| 41 comments
20.		SpaceX's top secret payload (spacex.com)
		65 points by rglovejoy on Dec 11, 2010 \| 22 comments
		jasonkester on Dec 11, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: How to impress Joel Spolsky It's hard to believe that we used to get a new story like this every few weeks. Joel is such an enjoyable author to read that it really doesn't matter what he's writing about. He could be writing about some random Distributed Version Control system you have no intention of using (and he has) and you could still be pretty sure you'd be in for a pleasant 15 minutes. I hope somebody can convince the guy to put stuff like this up on JoelOnSoftware. I mean sure, somebody might accuse him of blogging again (god forbid), but selfishly it would be nice not to have to rely on HackerNews to find little gems like this for me.
22.		The New York subway-map wars, continued (capitalnewyork.com)
		61 points by J3L2404 on Dec 11, 2010 \| 10 comments
23.		How to run Redis natively on Xen (openfoo.org)
		58 points by soren on Dec 11, 2010 \| 19 comments
		Other
		54 points \| parent
25.		SHA-3 Finalists Announced (jonkatz.wordpress.com)
		54 points by snth on Dec 11, 2010 \| 4 comments
26.		Engadget's review on Nexus S (engadget.com)
		53 points by seahsq on Dec 11, 2010 \| 28 comments
27.		Are Posterous Fudging Visitor Statistics? (awesomezombie.com)
		53 points by ig1 on Dec 11, 2010 \| 33 comments
28.		Ask HN: Is there any market for creative coders?
		49 points by Banekin on Dec 11, 2010 \| 38 comments
29.		Google's Motion to Dismiss patent infringement charges granted (groklaw.net)
		48 points by DanielRibeiro on Dec 11, 2010 \| 14 comments
30.		On writing (and law) (grellas.com)
		48 points by grellas on Dec 11, 2010 \| 15 comments
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