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1. Ask YC: Let's start a Hacker News book club
126 points by robertk on Dec 23, 2008 | 79 comments
2. Your idea sucks, now go do it anyway (asmartbear.com)
112 points by joel_liu on Dec 23, 2008 | 16 comments
3. How to Prototype a Game in Under 7 Days (by the World of Goo people) (gamasutra.com)
104 points by pchristensen on Dec 23, 2008 | 11 comments
4. Merb gets merged into Rails 3 (rubyonrails.org)
77 points by mojombo on Dec 23, 2008 | 10 comments
5. Long URLs Please (longurlplease.com)
71 points by bdfh42 on Dec 23, 2008 | 21 comments
6. Why Learning Haskell/Python Makes You a Worse Programmer (lukeplant.me.uk)
66 points by antiform on Dec 23, 2008 | 50 comments
7. Diary of a Self-Help Dropout: Flirting With the 4-Hour Workweek (wired.com)
66 points by qaexl on Dec 23, 2008 | 18 comments
8. Ask HN: How do you deal with mental illness?
52 points by time_management on Dec 23, 2008 | 87 comments
9. The Day Merb Joined Rails (rubyonrails.org)
49 points by KB on Dec 23, 2008 | 12 comments
10. Blind Man Sees With Subconscious Eye (npr.org)
45 points by ksvs on Dec 23, 2008 | 21 comments
11. The Dumbest Interview Question (lbrandy.com)
36 points by spydez on Dec 23, 2008 | 47 comments
12. Private (daringfireball.net)
35 points by naish on Dec 23, 2008 | 11 comments
13. Startups that are actually making money...not on advertising...
34 points by smysore on Dec 23, 2008 | 31 comments
14. Merb is Rails (brainspl.at)
33 points by qhoxie on Dec 23, 2008 | 12 comments
15. Happy Holidays HN: our new web app for easy sharing with your family (ramamia.com)
33 points by markbao on Dec 23, 2008 | 37 comments
16. You Know Chrysler is Toast Because (blogmaverick.com)
28 points by fallentimes on Dec 23, 2008 | 31 comments
17. Viktor Bout, arms-dealer extraordinaire - Flying anything to anybody (economist.com)
26 points by tortilla on Dec 23, 2008 | 2 comments
18. Moving to Argentina
26 points by guiseppecalzone on Dec 23, 2008 | 46 comments
19. High-Performance Click Analysis with MySQL (mysqlperformanceblog.com)
26 points by ajbatac on Dec 23, 2008 | 2 comments
20. The New Indie Videogame Movement (wsj.com)
25 points by sah on Dec 23, 2008 | 24 comments
21. In the Beginning was the Command Line, by Neal Stephenson (cryptonomicon.com)
24 points by andreyf on Dec 23, 2008 | 12 comments
22. How to reduce procrastination (psychologytoday.com)
23 points by bd on Dec 23, 2008 | 11 comments
23. Conspiracy Theory:The real story behind PlentyofFish (thisisgoingtobebig.com)
20 points by ceonyc on Dec 23, 2008 | 23 comments
24. Ioke 0 released (olabini.com)
19 points by jjames on Dec 23, 2008 | 5 comments
25. A peek at Extra Extra, an internal 37signals app (37signals.com)
18 points by danw on Dec 23, 2008 | 5 comments
26. Notifications, indicators and alerts (in Ubuntu) (markshuttleworth.com)
18 points by alexkay on Dec 23, 2008 | 2 comments
27. What Japanese toilets taught me about the auto industry (thehopkinsonreport.com)
18 points by chaostheory on Dec 23, 2008 | 13 comments
28. Windows 7: "The Linux Killer" (computerworld.com)
17 points by _hgt1 on Dec 23, 2008 | 66 comments
29. How Much Has Harvard Really Lost? (huffingtonpost.com)
17 points by bd on Dec 23, 2008 | 11 comments
30. Why wouldn’t a bank pay out 100 percent of feds money as executive bonuses? (law.harvard.edu)
15 points by old-gregg on Dec 23, 2008 | 5 comments

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