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1. The Rise and Fall of Lisp at the Jet Propulsion Lab. (flownet.com)
82 points by spydez on Sept 15, 2008 | 72 comments
2. Stock Market Meltdowns - Why they will happen again and again and again (blogmaverick.com)
76 points by astrec on Sept 15, 2008 | 93 comments
3. The Fourth Quadrant: a Map of the Limits of Statistics (by Nassim Nicholas Taleb) (edge.org)
66 points by namin on Sept 15, 2008 | 22 comments
4. Dear Nature (jgc.org)
58 points by jgrahamc on Sept 15, 2008 | 37 comments
5. Abū Rayhān Bīrūnī -- Medieval Islamic Scientist, quite a read... (wikipedia.org)
55 points by DaniFong on Sept 15, 2008 | 50 comments
6. Don't buy that textbook, download it for free (nytimes.com)
55 points by rglovejoy on Sept 15, 2008 | 30 comments
7. How Dropbox ended my search for seamless sync on Linux (arstechnica.com)
45 points by apu on Sept 15, 2008 | 14 comments
8. Google Chrome running on OSX and Linux (codeweavers.com)
41 points by cliff on Sept 15, 2008 | 16 comments
9. What entrepreneurs need to know about founders' stock (lsvp.wordpress.com)
41 points by jeremyliew on Sept 15, 2008 | 3 comments
10. No Gods or Kings: Objectivism and Ayn Rand in BioShock (kotaku.com)
36 points by robg on Sept 15, 2008 | 47 comments
11. The Scene at Lehman Brothers London on Friday (joeydevilla.com)
35 points by raganwald on Sept 15, 2008 | 14 comments
12. Posterous is Not in beta (sachin.posterous.com)
30 points by dcurtis on Sept 15, 2008 | 18 comments
13. Tim Sweeney on the twilight of the GPU (arstechnica.com)
28 points by jparise on Sept 15, 2008 | 17 comments
14. Sharecropping in the Orchard: Everything old is new again (raganwald.com)
26 points by raganwald on Sept 15, 2008 | 4 comments
15. Podcaster Developer Uses Little-Known "Ad Hoc" Mode To Distribute Banned iPhone App (readwriteweb.com)
26 points by robg on Sept 15, 2008 | 8 comments
16. Warren Buffett on what went wrong with Lehman and Merrill (2003) (forbes.com)
26 points by byrneseyeview on Sept 15, 2008 | 23 comments
17. AT&T history (image) (amazonaws.com)
24 points by prakash on Sept 15, 2008 | 8 comments
18. Richard Wright of Pink Floyd has died (nytimes.com)
23 points by rglovejoy on Sept 15, 2008 | 18 comments
19. Ask HN: How can one deal with bad management?
22 points by bad_user on Sept 15, 2008 | 23 comments
20. Ask HN: Feedback on my new web app please (cli.gs)
21 points by pierrefar on Sept 15, 2008 | 34 comments
21. PHP Design Patterns Reference and Examples (fluffycat.com)
20 points by mcxx on Sept 15, 2008 | 8 comments
22. Countdown to a Meltdown (theatlantic.com)
20 points by MaysonL on Sept 15, 2008
23. Erlang: An introduction to "Applications" (spawnlink.com)
21 points by mitchellh on Sept 15, 2008
24. Best Buy to Acquire Napster for $121 Million (centernetworks.com)
21 points by moses1400 on Sept 15, 2008 | 24 comments
25. Forget the MB Air, Meet the ThinkPad X301 (geek.com)
18 points by thomas on Sept 15, 2008 | 32 comments
26. Dunkin' Donut stores using facial-recognition system to serve targeted ads (guardian.co.uk)
17 points by makimaki on Sept 15, 2008 | 16 comments
27. Tim Berners-Lee has lost the plot (inquisitr.com)
16 points by terpua on Sept 15, 2008 | 15 comments
28. U.N. eyes curbs on Internet anonymity (cnet.com)
16 points by chaostheory on Sept 15, 2008 | 6 comments
29. Dear Adobe... top 100 complaints about Adobe software (dearadobe.com)
16 points by nickb on Sept 15, 2008 | 11 comments
30. Google Tweaks Its AdWords Algorithm (techcrunch.com)
15 points by qhoxie on Sept 15, 2008 | 2 comments

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