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1.Profitable Until Deemed Illegal (codinghorror.com)
174 points by imgabe on Dec 12, 2008 | 130 comments
2.Scaling memcached at Facebook (facebook.com)
77 points by snprbob86 on Dec 12, 2008 | 11 comments
3.Obama logo ideas that weren’t chosen (logodesignlove.com)
76 points by dilanj on Dec 12, 2008 | 27 comments
4.Free Software Foundation Files Suit Against Cisco For GPL Violations (fsf.org)
49 points by soundsop on Dec 12, 2008 | 18 comments
5.The fundamental problems with CSS3 (mattwilcox.net)
45 points by bdfh42 on Dec 12, 2008 | 43 comments
6.What email sending services do you use?
45 points by surfmike on Dec 12, 2008 | 52 comments
7.Ask YC: Which custom icon designers do you use for your startup?
39 points by psaccounts on Dec 12, 2008 | 20 comments
8.Amazon's search is pretty darn impressive (amazon.com)
37 points by brandnewlow on Dec 12, 2008 | 10 comments
9.You Only Live Twice (overcomingbias.com)
35 points by bloch on Dec 12, 2008 | 63 comments
10.Comfort with meaninglessness the key to good programmers (boingboing.net)
34 points by marcus on Dec 12, 2008 | 35 comments
11.HTML-Ipsum (html-ipsum.com)
33 points by jwilliams on Dec 12, 2008 | 8 comments
12.Auto bailout bill dies in Senate (cnn.com)
32 points by jasonlbaptiste on Dec 12, 2008 | 69 comments
13.Cappuccino 0.6 Released (cappuccino.org)
30 points by jaydub on Dec 12, 2008 | 17 comments
14.Watch bigger brighter moon tonight: moon at its closest to earth since 1993 (yahoo.com)
30 points by jyothi on Dec 12, 2008 | 21 comments
15.Ask YC: How do you follow YC threads you enjoy?
29 points by bprater on Dec 12, 2008 | 48 comments
16.The FCC's Plan to Censor the Internet (aynrand.org)
26 points by mike_organon on Dec 12, 2008 | 20 comments
17.Loopt for Android... with background location! (nytimes.com)
20 points by bootload on Dec 12, 2008 | 17 comments
18.Ask YC: Which is better to work at, a lab or a startup?
24 points by markessien on Dec 12, 2008 | 13 comments
19.Building a Better Resume for Developers (bennorthrop.com)
22 points by adnymarc on Dec 12, 2008 | 8 comments
20.Why port your Firefox add-on to Internet Explorer? Because your competitors won't (theregister.co.uk)
22 points by bdfh42 on Dec 12, 2008 | 19 comments
21.Every book that Art Garfunkel (from Simon and Garfunkel) has ever read (artgarfunkel.com)
19 points by tjic on Dec 12, 2008 | 12 comments
22.Ars on FSF Suit Against Cisco (arstechnica.com)
20 points by glymor on Dec 12, 2008
23.Edible Electronic Birthday Cakes (npr.org)
17 points by prbuckley on Dec 12, 2008 | 5 comments
24.Tech Layoffs Surge Past 100,000 (techcrunch.com)
16 points by dell9000 on Dec 12, 2008 | 9 comments
25.Ask HN: Review my startup - CloudFire
15 points by ashmaurya on Dec 12, 2008 | 21 comments
26.Anyone looking for part-time web development work?
14 points by il on Dec 12, 2008 | 1 comment
27.Did our cosmos exist before the big bang? (newscientist.com)
12 points by robg on Dec 12, 2008 | 15 comments
28.The Genuine Sieve of Eratosthenes [pdf] (hmc.edu)
11 points by raju on Dec 12, 2008
29.James Hamilton: Data center architect leaves Microsoft for Amazon (techflash.com)
11 points by bootload on Dec 12, 2008 | 3 comments
30.Your New Agreement With Google, Chrome Users (readwriteweb.com)
11 points by bootload on Dec 12, 2008 | 4 comments

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