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1741.

Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com)

13 points by fogus on Sep 26, 2009 | 0 comments

1742.

The “Girth-Wealth” Gradient: the poorer you are the fatter you're likely to be (slate.com)

12 points by cwan on Sep 30, 2009 | 37 comments

1743.

Evidence Points To Conscious 'Metacognition' In Some Nonhuman Animals (sciencedaily.com)

12 points by limist on Sep 18, 2009 | 29 comments

1744.

New Exotic Investments Emerging On Wall Street (nytimes.com)

12 points by ojbyrne on Sep 5, 2009 | 28 comments

1745.

My Life With a Hackintosh (fastcompany.com)

12 points by auferstehung on Sep 9, 2009 | 23 comments

1746.

Is City-Wide Wi-Fi a Dead Idea? (yro.slashdot.org)

12 points by dimas on Sep 14, 2009 | 23 comments

1747.

Ask HN: I need some hardware based startup ideas ()

12 points by monological on Sep 26, 2009 | 19 comments

1748.

Richard Posner on "How I Became a Keynesian" (tnr.com)

12 points by sethg on Sep 25, 2009 | 18 comments

1749.

Our corporate WebSite runs on Clojure and Google App Engine (hackers-with-attitude.com)

12 points by fogus on Sep 21, 2009 | 17 comments

1750.

Help me improve my comic ad (querycell.com)

12 points by samh on Sep 1, 2009 | 16 comments

1751.

Dynamic graph of occupations in the U.S. (1850-2000) (flare.prefuse.org)

12 points by smikhanov on Sep 24, 2009 | 16 comments

1752.

I'm running an experiment with Facebook Ads for my Tumblog (giantrobotlasers.com)

12 points by ivankirigin on Sep 2, 2009 | 14 comments

1753.

Ask HN: Is is correct to judge a developer's performance this way? ()

12 points by digamber_kamat on Sep 7, 2009 | 14 comments

1754.

Beautiful Reading via Flex 4 (anirudhs.chaosnet.org)

12 points by joubert on Sep 2, 2009 | 13 comments

1755.

Are Apple Stores a Terrible Place to Work? (fastcompany.com)

12 points by incomethax on Sep 22, 2009 | 13 comments

1756.

The Loebner prize completely misrepresents Turing’s paper (yaxu.org)

12 points by edw519 on Sep 9, 2009 | 12 comments

1757.

Why is the Android Telephony API so limited (closed)? (blog.herlein.com)

12 points by gherlein on Sep 10, 2009 | 12 comments

1758.

Tweethook: Twitter data, pushed to you (tweethook.com)

12 points by nirmal on Sep 29, 2009 | 11 comments

1759.

Video Game Sales Slip Sixth Month in a Row (latimesblogs.latimes.com)

12 points by brandnewly on Sep 12, 2009 | 10 comments

1760.

Popular Search Engines in the 90’s: Then and Now (sixrevisions.com)

12 points by cwan on Sep 13, 2009 | 10 comments

1761.

On Michael Jordan: "It's not enough for him to beat you. He wants you dead." (sports.espn.go.com)

12 points by amichail on Sep 19, 2009 | 10 comments

1762.

Sticky tape gives off X-Rays (cosmosmagazine.com)

12 points by nkurz on Sep 14, 2009 | 9 comments

1763.

India might ban VoIP calls (latestgeeknews.blogspot.com)

12 points by omfut on Sep 18, 2009 | 9 comments

1764.

Machine Vision on the Horizon: Vitamin D Launches Object Recognition for Video (readwriteweb.com)

12 points by fjabre on Sep 23, 2009 | 9 comments

1765.

Dar - disk archive backup utility (dar.linux.free.fr)

12 points by dnewcome on Sep 25, 2009 | 9 comments

1766.

A Graph That Explains Scifi TV After Star Trek (io9.com)

12 points by kqr2 on Sep 2, 2009 | 8 comments

1767.

The Professional Twitter Client (hootsuite.com)

12 points by OwlHuntr on Sep 20, 2009 | 8 comments

1768.

Employees want a day off, not a Friday Fun Day (examiner.com)

12 points by CubeGuy12 on Sep 25, 2009 | 8 comments

1769.

Why AI is a dangerous dream (newscientist.com)

12 points by edw519 on Sep 1, 2009 | 7 comments

1770.

In Silicon Valley, the Jobs Picture Has Changed (nytimes.com)

12 points by snewe on Sep 6, 2009 | 6 comments