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1.		I like Unicorn (Rack HTTP server) because it's Unix (tomayko.com)
		192 points by pjhyett on Oct 6, 2009 \| 53 comments
2.		"How do I set the User-Agent string in Java?" - L. Page (1996) (guyro.typepad.com)
		173 points by frisco on Oct 6, 2009 \| 39 comments
3.		Unit testing in Coders at Work (gigamonkeys.com)
		109 points by mqt on Oct 6, 2009 \| 85 comments
4.		Email Newsletters Are Serious Business (jasonlbaptiste.com)
		88 points by jasonlbaptiste on Oct 6, 2009 \| 27 comments
5.		RethinkDB (YC S09) looking for a technical cofounder
		on Oct 6, 2009
6.		How to crack a master lock (markedwardcampos.com)
		84 points by yan on Oct 6, 2009 \| 43 comments
7.		21-year-old computer geek makes £1m with online game (Torn) (telegraph.co.uk)
		80 points by tortilla on Oct 6, 2009 \| 66 comments
8.		AT&T to allow 3G Skype calls (skype.com)
		79 points by Timothee on Oct 6, 2009 \| 61 comments
9.		Judge rules against Autodesk in eBay software case (computerworlduk.com)
		71 points by dreemteem on Oct 6, 2009 \| 20 comments
10.		Criminalizing everyone - Needed: A 'clean line' to determine lawfulness (washingtontimes.com)
		70 points by cwan on Oct 6, 2009 \| 60 comments
11.		Math Every Day (googlepages.com)
		70 points by yarapavan on Oct 6, 2009 \| 17 comments
12.		Nerdkit - an electronics kit for hackers (nerdkits.com)
		69 points by sdp on Oct 6, 2009 \| 16 comments
		anigbrowl on Oct 6, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: This Is a Photoshop and It Blew My Mind - Photoske... The former, obviously. This is why I can't have nice things :-D
14.		Null-prefix certificate for paypal (seclists.org)
		63 points by bensummers on Oct 6, 2009 \| 12 comments
		donw on Oct 6, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: "How do I set the User-Agent string in Java?" - L.... Why didn't he just Googl... er... uh... nevermind.
16.		DRAM errors vastly more frequent than previously thought (zdnet.com)
		57 points by wglb on Oct 6, 2009 \| 22 comments
17.		The odd one out - inspired by IQ tests (tanyakhovanova.com)
		57 points by cema on Oct 6, 2009 \| 35 comments
		wmf on Oct 6, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: This Is a Photoshop and It Blew My Mind - Photoske... The obligatory shark attacking a helicopter is a nice touch. This technology has epic potential in the LOLcat market.
19.		Google launches WhatBrowser.org, talks web browsers for Mom and Dad (whatbrowser.org)
		55 points by cscotta on Oct 6, 2009 \| 42 comments
20.		Miguel de Icaza responds to latest RMS article (tirania.org)
		54 points by michael_h on Oct 6, 2009 \| 103 comments
21.		25 years of X (lwn.net)
		51 points by robin_reala on Oct 6, 2009 \| 33 comments
22.		Good agile vs Bad agile (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
		50 points by joubee on Oct 6, 2009 \| 21 comments
		anigbrowl on Oct 6, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: This Is a Photoshop and It Blew My Mind - Photoske... Sigh...third time today and I only got one karma point for pointing it first. https://hackertimes.com/item?id=862216 if you feel sympathetic :) EDIT: gee guys, the smiley should tell you this ^ is not a serious complaint. I thought people might actually be interested in reading the actual paper v, since project page link has been inaccessible. Sheesh. Site is down but this is the Siggraph paper: http://www.ece.nus.edu.sg/stfpage/eletp/Papers/sigasia09_pho... I have downloaded the binaries (also requires openCV1.1, recently updated OpenCV2.0 doesn't work) and have made some progress, though it's very clunky and the instructions are, um...lacking. http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/files/ http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/
		hegemonicon on Oct 6, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: 21-year-old computer geek makes £1m with online ga... Not shown: other 100,000 computer geeks making $0 from their online games.
25.		Why I gave marijuana to my autistic child (doublex.com)
		48 points by tptacek on Oct 6, 2009 \| 53 comments
26.		JavaScript Programming Patterns (klauskomenda.com)
		48 points by ZLOB-o-ZLOB on Oct 6, 2009 \| 28 comments
27.		Jeff Bezos supposedly invested $250k in Google in '98, worth $1.6 billion today (techflash.com)
		48 points by adamhowell on Oct 6, 2009 \| 9 comments
28.		Twitter Data: An Investor's Perspective (techcrunch.com)
		44 points by jakestein on Oct 6, 2009 \| 16 comments
29.		How copy editing is done at the New Yorker (redroom.com)
		43 points by yarapavan on Oct 6, 2009 \| 3 comments
30.		Freakonomics: Do We Need a 37-Cent Coin? (nytimes.com)
		42 points by cwan on Oct 6, 2009 \| 50 comments
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