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31. Silicon, the new lithium? (mnn.com)
23 points by chanux on Dec 13, 2009 | 4 comments
32. How many times should you shuffle a deck of cards? [pdf] (dartmouth.edu)
23 points by TriinT on Dec 13, 2009 | 6 comments
33. HN approaching millionith item?
22 points by cool-RR on Dec 13, 2009 | 14 comments
34. Women in Science (Science as a career) (greenspun.com)
21 points by philf on Dec 13, 2009 | 9 comments
35. View all the letters of Vincent Van Gogh (vangoghletters.org)
21 points by MikeCapone on Dec 13, 2009 | 7 comments
36. Simple Top-Down Parsing in Python (effbot.org)
20 points by gcb on Dec 13, 2009
37. Content Farms: Why Media, Blogs & Google Should Be Worried (readwriteweb.com)
19 points by cwan on Dec 13, 2009 | 7 comments
38. Obituary: MIT's "foremost academic economist of the 20th century" (nytimes.com)
20 points by Fixnum on Dec 13, 2009 | 2 comments
39. Rationing, errors and mammogram math (nytimes.com)
18 points by cwan on Dec 13, 2009 | 5 comments
40. Bring back the evening paper (sachinagarwal.com)
18 points by brandnewlow on Dec 13, 2009 | 8 comments
41. Evony, US games company, sues British blogger in Australia (guardian.co.uk)
18 points by davecardwell on Dec 13, 2009 | 9 comments
42. Suggest PG: Alias/Redirect www.News.YCombinator.com to correct URL
18 points by vimalg2 on Dec 13, 2009 | 23 comments
43. MySpace/Imeem Deal Leaves Thousands of Artists Unpaid (wired.com)
17 points by Shamiq on Dec 13, 2009 | 6 comments
44. Cargo Cult Science by Richard Feynman (.PDF) (caltech.edu)
15 points by tokenadult on Dec 13, 2009 | 4 comments
45. At Stanford, nanotubes + ink + paper = instant battery (stanford.edu)
14 points by chanux on Dec 13, 2009 | 5 comments
46. Git Hooks - pre-commit (leftnode.com)
14 points by leftnode on Dec 13, 2009 | 6 comments
47. GNOME Developer Suggests Split From GNU Project (slashdot.org)
13 points by genieyclo on Dec 13, 2009 | 2 comments
48. The Do-It-Yourself Economy (nytimes.com)
11 points by chaostheory on Dec 13, 2009
49. Can Nokia Recapture Its Glory Days? (nytimes.com)
11 points by kennyroo on Dec 13, 2009 | 4 comments
50. The Strange Tale of DoS Attacks Against GRC.COM (2001) (crime-research.org)
10 points by Hoff on Dec 13, 2009 | 5 comments
51. StackOverflow Backup Policies (stackoverflow.com)
10 points by genieyclo on Dec 13, 2009 | 1 comment
52. Dropbox: A Privacy Black Box (techliberation.com)
10 points by barredo on Dec 13, 2009
53. What It Takes To Work In A Startup (dplouffe.ca)
9 points by wrath on Dec 13, 2009 | 5 comments
54. The Haskell runtime with DTrace support: threads, sparks and the GC (haskell.org)
9 points by dons on Dec 13, 2009
55. Why News Won't Work Like Murdoch Want's It To (dembot.com)
8 points by _oex2 on Dec 13, 2009 | 4 comments
56. Mediterranean Is Scary Laboratory of Ocean Futures (wired.com)
7 points by vorador on Dec 13, 2009 | 1 comment
57. Google to produce, sell own Nexus One phones (bypassing wireless operators) (reuters.com)
7 points by chaostheory on Dec 13, 2009
58. The health-care bill has no master plan for curbing costs. Is this a bad thing? (newyorker.com)
6 points by kcy on Dec 13, 2009 | 8 comments
59. How rails has changed how I seek for a job (devchix.com)
6 points by r11t on Dec 13, 2009 | 1 comment
60. Demand Media wants to produce 1 million pieces of content a month (wired.com)
5 points by js3309 on Dec 13, 2009 | 3 comments

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