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1.The Way I Work: Jason Fried of 37Signals (inc.com)
177 points by phatboyslim on Nov 2, 2009 | 136 comments
2.My startups's new service for parents - A Story Before Bed (astorybeforebed.com)
179 points by hillel on Nov 2, 2009 | 116 comments
3.How to Drop Out (ranprieur.com)
125 points by gnosis on Nov 2, 2009 | 95 comments
Masters
117 points | parent
5.How To Spam Facebook Like A Pro: An Insiders Confession (techcrunch.com)
101 points by code_devil on Nov 2, 2009 | 24 comments
Some College
99 points | parent
No
92 points | parent
8.How I Lost 20 Pounds in 20 Weeks With My iPhone (or: Data is King) (chadaustin.me)
89 points by bemmu on Nov 2, 2009 | 53 comments
9.The Ph.D. Problem (harvardmagazine.com)
89 points by RyanMcGreal on Nov 2, 2009 | 68 comments
10.Why dolphins are deep thinkers (guardian.co.uk)
86 points by chaostheory on Nov 2, 2009 | 28 comments
11.Eventbug Watch JavaScript events finally in Firebug (softwareishard.com)
73 points by nym on Nov 2, 2009 | 8 comments
12.Cheaper, cleverer desalination (economist.com)
62 points by 10ren on Nov 2, 2009 | 14 comments
13.The origin of live and let live (and a very interesting system to analyse) (heretical.com)
60 points by etherael on Nov 2, 2009 | 18 comments
Wants a designer on founding team
57 points | parent
Yes
56 points | parent

In short:

"I want something else, so everyone else should change their behaviour to give me what I want."

Yeah. Ok.

I'm not saying you don't have a point, but it's really quite poorly made.

17.A tiny niche in collectible coins grows into a $5 million mini-empire (washingtonpost.com)
55 points by chwolfe on Nov 2, 2009 | 24 comments
18.ZFS Deduplication (sun.com)
51 points by bensummers on Nov 2, 2009 | 41 comments
19.The chat room/forum problem (scobleizer.com)
51 points by bdfh42 on Nov 2, 2009 | 25 comments
PhD
49 points | parent
21.Innovating Cron: Announcing Norc (perpetually.com)
51 points by jeremymims on Nov 2, 2009 | 30 comments
22.Lower fertility is changing the world for the better (economist.com)
48 points by l0stman on Nov 2, 2009 | 54 comments
23.FireQuery - Firebug enhancements for jQuery (binaryage.com)
48 points by nym on Nov 2, 2009 | 5 comments
24.Avro: A Format for Big Data (cloudera.com)
50 points by jhammerb on Nov 2, 2009 | 2 comments
25.Ask HN: What's the worst thing that could happen to Google?
45 points by bemmu on Nov 2, 2009 | 101 comments
26.Low End Dedicated Servers (lowenddedi.net)
44 points by jacquesm on Nov 2, 2009 | 41 comments
27.The Greatest Trade Ever: Profiting from the Crash (wsj.com)
43 points by jakarta on Nov 2, 2009 | 30 comments
28.Rails Best Practices (slideshare.net)
43 points by edw519 on Nov 2, 2009 | 8 comments
29.Something simple I wish I learned 17 years ago
41 points by 3pt14159 on Nov 2, 2009 | 64 comments
30.Why Your Friends Have More Friends Than You Do (psychologytoday.com)
43 points by malte on Nov 2, 2009 | 2 comments

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