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1.		Some Brutally Honest iPhone App Sales Numbers: $32k Spent vs $535 Revenue (streamingcolour.com)
		128 points by twampss on March 12, 2009 \| 53 comments
2.		iPhone OS 3.0 is coming, preview on March 17th (engadget.com)
		99 points by jasonlbaptiste on March 12, 2009 \| 53 comments
3.		French police: we saved millions of euros by adopting Ubuntu (arstechnica.com)
		86 points by terpua on March 12, 2009 \| 16 comments
4.		Announcing Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances (aws.typepad.com)
		80 points by jeffbarr on March 12, 2009 \| 40 comments
5.		What caused that outage
		74 points by pg on March 12, 2009 \| 62 comments
6.		Did You Know: BeautifulSoup's bits are rotting (crummy.com)
		72 points by andrewljohnson on March 12, 2009 \| 37 comments
7.		Why is there Anti-Intellectualism? (uwgb.edu)
		72 points by asciilifeform on March 12, 2009 \| 60 comments
8.		Rackspace (via Mosso) to Launch Cloud Servers at 1.5 cents/hour ($10.95/month) Monday (mosso.com)
		71 points by mdasen on March 12, 2009 \| 34 comments
9.		"Now that you've finished SICP, time to move onto CTM" Online Book (ulb.ac.be)
		72 points by jules on March 12, 2009 \| 18 comments
10.		JQuery gestures (friggeri.net)
		69 points by bdfh42 on March 12, 2009 \| 25 comments
11.		HN: 33K visitors = 32,500 random tire kickers. But it also = 500 new hackers
		59 points by raganwald on March 12, 2009 \| 40 comments
12.		Datacenter Security: A Cautionary Tale from Last.fm (garrett.co.uk)
		59 points by danw on March 12, 2009 \| 15 comments
13.		Bit Twiddling Hacks (stanford.edu)
		49 points by mroman on March 12, 2009 \| 6 comments
14.		Has anyone realized Google is creating a Social network right under your feet? (google.com)
		47 points by peregrine on March 12, 2009 \| 34 comments
15.		RescueTime: Daylight Savings Time costs the United States $480,000,000 (rescuetime.com)
		43 points by ivankirigin on March 12, 2009 \| 38 comments
16.		Introduction to the ad auction (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		42 points by Anon84 on March 12, 2009 \| 5 comments
17.		Despite the downturn, entrepreneurs are enjoying a renaissance the world over (economist.com)
		35 points by HSO on March 12, 2009 \| 14 comments
18.		Operating System Interface Design Between 1981 and 2009 (webdesignerdepot.com)
		38 points by tsally on March 12, 2009 \| 9 comments
19.		Interactive map of Linux kernel (makelinux.net)
		37 points by kqr2 on March 12, 2009 \| 4 comments
20.		Sergey Brin has a mutation of the LRRK2 gene. (too.blogspot.com)
		35 points by wyclif on March 12, 2009 \| 15 comments
21.		What Do You Tell People You Are? (thecodist.com)
		34 points by r11t on March 12, 2009 \| 67 comments
22.		Releasing early and often... how it failed for us [extended version] (timmyontime.com)
		31 points by dan_sim on March 12, 2009 \| 17 comments
23.		Comparison of data analysis packages: R, Matlab, SciPy, Excel, SAS, SPSS, Stata (anyall.org)
		31 points by lrajlich on March 12, 2009 \| 9 comments
24.		Optimum Monopoly Strategy Based on Payback Period/ROI (amnesta.net)
		31 points by lionhearted on March 12, 2009 \| 3 comments
25.		Google announces Google Voice (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		30 points by rogercosseboom on March 12, 2009 \| 3 comments
26.		Releasing early and often... how it failed for us (timmyontime.com)
		29 points by dan_sim on March 12, 2009 \| 42 comments
27.		A New Battery That Charges In Seconds (nature.com)
		27 points by keltecp11 on March 12, 2009 \| 9 comments
28.		Machine Language For Beginners (atariarchives.org)
		28 points by mroman on March 12, 2009 \| 4 comments
29.		Python Library for Google Search (catonmat.net)
		26 points by Anon84 on March 12, 2009 \| 3 comments
30.		I have a question about organizing projects (github.com/raganwald)
		24 points by raganwald on March 12, 2009 \| 18 comments
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