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1. I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life. (slate.com)
186 points by peter123 on Feb 2, 2009 | 96 comments
2. The most effective debt collecting email I ever wrote (forabeautifulweb.com)
164 points by mixmax on Feb 2, 2009 | 30 comments
3. Life at Wal-Mart (boingboing.net)
125 points by lackbeard on Feb 2, 2009 | 55 comments
4. Tables vs CSS: CSS Trolls begone (iamelgringo.blogspot.com)
100 points by iamelgringo on Feb 2, 2009 | 68 comments
5. If English was Written Like Chinese (zompist.com)
73 points by mnemonicsloth on Feb 2, 2009 | 32 comments
6. What I don’t like about Python (lukepalmer.wordpress.com)
48 points by kirubakaran on Feb 2, 2009 | 17 comments
7. Still Doing the Math, But for 100K A Year (nytimes.com)
43 points by ojbyrne on Feb 2, 2009 | 87 comments
8. The Lecture System in Teaching Science, and My Discovery of the "Gutenberg Method" (1986) (entropysite.com)
41 points by niels_olson on Feb 2, 2009 | 13 comments
9. Google Executives Face Jail Time for Italian Video (nytimes.com)
38 points by brentb on Feb 2, 2009 | 38 comments
10. Remember the strop (37signals.com)
37 points by twampss on Feb 2, 2009 | 21 comments
11. Big Websites Start Small (rosshill.com.au)
34 points by rosshill on Feb 2, 2009 | 13 comments
12. IBM has developed a computerised voice that is almost indistinguishable from a human. (telegraph.co.uk)
27 points by vaksel on Feb 2, 2009 | 25 comments
13. PhpBB's site hacked
27 points by geuis on Feb 2, 2009 | 8 comments
14. Google: "We're Not Doing a Good Job with Structured Data" (readwriteweb.com)
27 points by Anon84 on Feb 2, 2009 | 14 comments
15. Ask HN: How do you get tech bloggers to review a startup?
27 points by flexterra on Feb 2, 2009 | 42 comments
16. How I DOS'd My Cell Phone Using EC2 (memestreams.net)
27 points by ardell on Feb 2, 2009 | 9 comments
17. Introduction to Statistical Learning Theory (cmu.edu)
25 points by dangoldin on Feb 2, 2009 | 7 comments
18. Tips for writing efficient Bash scripts (hacktux.com)
26 points by quoderat on Feb 2, 2009 | 4 comments
19. Response to Alex Payne: In Defense of "Everything Buckets" (wonderwarp.com)
25 points by dangrover on Feb 2, 2009 | 2 comments
20. The next frontier: 'Seasteading' the oceans (cnet.com)
23 points by peter123 on Feb 2, 2009 | 26 comments
21. Soon, Majority of Web Users Will No Longer Use IE (readwriteweb.com)
23 points by peter123 on Feb 2, 2009 | 18 comments
22. Two years after Vista launch, 71% of business PCs still running XP (zdnet.com)
22 points by crocus on Feb 2, 2009 | 29 comments
23. Passport RFIDs cloned wholesale by $250 eBay auction spree (theregister.co.uk)
20 points by atestu on Feb 2, 2009 | 14 comments
24. Ask HN: Stats on freemium services
20 points by nikhils on Feb 2, 2009 | 12 comments
25. Ask HN: Framing other sites has always seemed scummy to me. Am I off-base?
20 points by brandnewlow on Feb 2, 2009 | 24 comments
26. The Case For Web Applications (intridea.com)
19 points by mbleigh on Feb 2, 2009 | 2 comments
27. Remus: possible high availability of apps through replicating virtual machines (usenix.org)
17 points by ktom on Feb 2, 2009 | 4 comments
28. Ask HN: Why don't you use email encryption?
17 points by RK on Feb 2, 2009 | 20 comments
29. Google Earth To Show Ocean Floor (guardian.co.uk)
17 points by peter123 on Feb 2, 2009 | 1 comment
30. jwacs: Javascript With Advanced Continuation Support (chumsley.org)
16 points by andreyf on Feb 2, 2009 | 6 comments

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