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1.Simpson's paradox: why mistrust seemingly simple statistics (wikipedia.org)
152 points by waldrews on Aug 28, 2009 | 17 comments
2.America's unjust sex laws (economist.com)
118 points by MikeCapone on Aug 28, 2009 | 106 comments
3.Buy somebody lunch (whattofix.com)
102 points by DanielBMarkham on Aug 28, 2009 | 52 comments
4.A design pattern is an artifact of a missing feature in your chosen language (snell-pym.org.uk)
85 points by bensummers on Aug 28, 2009 | 55 comments
5.Scratch.py -- hyper-fast mini-webapp production, in Python (speakeasy.org)
65 points by jmonegro on Aug 28, 2009 | 10 comments
6.Wireless Electricity Demo (ted.com)
64 points by keltecp11 on Aug 28, 2009 | 27 comments
7.Does money buy happiness? Yes, if it's used to buy memories (scienceblogs.com)
64 points by cwan on Aug 28, 2009 | 25 comments
8.Mark Bao's startup Atomplan acquired. Congratulations! (avecora.com)
64 points by kirubakaran on Aug 28, 2009 | 27 comments
9.Clamato: A Smalltalk Dialect for Javascript (clamato.net)
58 points by BigZaphod on Aug 28, 2009 | 38 comments
10.How to run a Linux based home web server (stevehanov.ca)
54 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Aug 28, 2009 | 25 comments
11.My project: CSVGet -- Get structured data from sites as CSV (github.com/fizx)
52 points by fizx on Aug 28, 2009 | 11 comments
12.Snow Leopard: It's Built for the Future. (delicious-monster.com)
52 points by gthank on Aug 28, 2009 | 40 comments
13.More Charts from HN Survey (Income, Age, Work Hours, Work Exp.) (vonsharp.net)
49 points by viggity on Aug 28, 2009 | 34 comments
14.The Facebook Exodus (nytimes.com)
47 points by smharris65 on Aug 28, 2009 | 24 comments
15.US Senate bill allows White House to disconnect private computers from Internet (cnet.com)
46 points by drewr on Aug 28, 2009 | 44 comments
16.API changes in Snow Leopard (developer.apple.com)
45 points by pieter on Aug 28, 2009 | 18 comments
17.Baseline - a designer framework (baselinecss.com)
43 points by adnymarc on Aug 28, 2009 | 11 comments
18.Nokia's first Linux phone rocks (nokia.com)
44 points by scharan on Aug 28, 2009 | 32 comments
19.Who else feels like sharing their adsense stats ?
42 points by jacquesm on Aug 28, 2009 | 20 comments
20.Who Causes Cyclists’ Deaths? (nytimes.com)
40 points by cwan on Aug 28, 2009 | 71 comments
21.FlightCaster (YC S09) on AWS Blog (aws.typepad.com)
38 points by delano on Aug 28, 2009 | 18 comments
22.Hulu Has More Viewers Than Time Warner Cable (businessinsider.com)
35 points by fromedome on Aug 28, 2009 | 18 comments
23.New planet hints we're very lucky—or our models are wrong (arstechnica.com)
33 points by soundsop on Aug 28, 2009 | 5 comments
24.Caml trading (janestreet.com)
33 points by apr on Aug 28, 2009 | 12 comments
25.OpenCL "Hello World" (developer.apple.com)
32 points by pieter on Aug 28, 2009 | 19 comments
26.Vidly: Twitvid.io (YC S08) Changes Names, Direction, And Gets Funding (techcrunch.com)
32 points by drm237 on Aug 28, 2009 | 11 comments
27.Rails Rumble finalists announced - Vote for the best 48-hour micro-app (railsrumble.com)
31 points by zapnap on Aug 28, 2009 | 12 comments
28.Is My Electric Bicycle Lame? (treehugger.com)
30 points by monkeygrinder on Aug 28, 2009 | 56 comments
29.*.apache.org is currently offline. (apache.org)
29 points by edu on Aug 28, 2009 | 12 comments
30.O'Reilly's "The Ruby Language" for $9.99 (limited time) (oreilly.com)
28 points by pjonesdotca on Aug 28, 2009 | 24 comments

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