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Stories from April 6, 2009

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1.		A visit to id software, 1993 (rome.ro)
		72 points by abstractbill on April 6, 2009 \| 16 comments
2.		Why People Don’t Install Firefox - Part III (blog.mozilla.com)
		71 points by toni on April 6, 2009 \| 10 comments
3.		Ineligible Bachelors: Indian Men Living in U.S. Strike Out (wsj.com)
		68 points by rglovejoy on April 6, 2009 \| 87 comments
4.		Real-time view of Zappos purchases (zappos.com)
		64 points by kennyroo on April 6, 2009 \| 17 comments
5.		MySQL Doesn’t Always Suck; This Time it’s AMD (timetobleed.com)
		63 points by ice799 on April 6, 2009 \| 12 comments
6.		Facebook's photo storage rewrite (niallkennedy.com)
		60 points by sr3d on April 6, 2009 \| 12 comments
7.		"We think you'd also like..." and the Math of Suggestion – Part 1 (from Directed Edge) (gruenderszene.de)
		56 points by wheels on April 6, 2009 \| 8 comments
8.		How Obama used behavioral economics to win the election, and how he's using it to govern (time.com)
		53 points by gabrielroth on April 6, 2009 \| 68 comments
9.		Tutorial: Setup EC2 for Rails/Merb/Sinatra using Chef
		52 points by _pius on April 6, 2009 \| 6 comments
10.		What we did to (not) get into TechStars (aisleten.com)
		51 points by MicahWedemeyer on April 6, 2009 \| 31 comments
11.		Mapreduce Bash Script (last.fm)
		47 points by danw on April 6, 2009 \| 5 comments
12.		Pixar’s Latest Film Has Wall Street on Edge (nytimes.com)
		41 points by peter123 on April 6, 2009 \| 31 comments
13.		Interview with Posterous (YC S08) Co-Founder Sachin Agarwal (downloadsquad.com)
		43 points by rantfoil on April 6, 2009 \| 9 comments
14.		So Now Everything Is Google’s Fault (techcrunch.com)
		41 points by ericbieller on April 6, 2009 \| 39 comments
15.		20 of the Best Free Linux Books (linuxlinks.com)
		39 points by Anon84 on April 6, 2009 \| 2 comments
16.		Ask HN: How to Hire Hackers
		37 points by ALee on April 6, 2009 \| 30 comments
17.		The recession may be lifting (economist.com)
		35 points by nopinsight on April 6, 2009 \| 46 comments
18.		Finding freelance jobs: Sites for talented techies (itworld.com)
		34 points by abennett on April 6, 2009 \| 22 comments
19.		Ask PG: When will YC selectees be notified?
		33 points by jdileo on April 6, 2009 \| 51 comments
20.		Ask HN: Feedback Please - TapInko.com (tapinko.com)
		34 points by keltecp11 on April 6, 2009 \| 57 comments
21.		Sharp Variables (thejit.org)
		32 points by philogb on April 6, 2009 \| 15 comments
22.		Coming soon: 37signals University (37signals.com)
		31 points by _pius on April 6, 2009 \| 30 comments
23.		6 Months of free DropBox Pro (getdropbox.com)
		32 points by mikeyur on April 6, 2009 \| 23 comments
24.		Our Sentiments, Exactly (acm.org)
		29 points by njrc on April 6, 2009 \| 4 comments
25.		PayPal, Visa rival Revolution Money gets $42 mln from Goldman, others (reuters.com)
		29 points by ivankirigin on April 6, 2009 \| 9 comments
26.		The current database debate and graph databases (neo4j.org)
		28 points by Anon84 on April 6, 2009 \| 32 comments
27.		Amazon to no longer pay for paid search referrals (amazon.ca)
		25 points by r7000 on April 6, 2009 \| 11 comments
28.		A web service to unshorten short URLs, in modern Perl (jrock.us)
		24 points by jrockway on April 6, 2009 \| 21 comments
29.		A.P. Moving to Halt Use of Newspaper Articles on Web Sites (nytimes.com)
		24 points by senthil_rajasek on April 6, 2009 \| 47 comments
30.		George Soros: US Recovery Is Far Off, Banks Are 'Basically Insolvent' (cnbc.com)
		23 points by noor420 on April 6, 2009 \| 15 comments
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