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1.		Renowned reverse engineer Fravia says goodbye (fravia.com)
		126 points by ilitirit on May 5, 2009 \| 52 comments
2.		Getting Buzz: From 0 to (maybe) Forbes in under a week (kyro.posterous.com)
		81 points by mariorz on May 5, 2009 \| 41 comments
3.		JQuery Plugin: Facebook Style Tokenizing Input Box (loopj.com)
		77 points by foobar2k on May 5, 2009 \| 9 comments
4.		Posterous (YC S08) launches group blogs that are also email lists (mashable.com)
		68 points by rantfoil on May 5, 2009 \| 17 comments
5.		Scaling Django - Michael Malone, Euro Django Con [pdf]
		71 points by samueladam on May 5, 2009 \| 4 comments
6.		Fix a bug in Ruby’s configure.in and get a ~30% performance boost (timetobleed.com)
		60 points by vaksel on May 5, 2009 \| 11 comments
7.		Create online UML diagrams in seconds (yuml.me)
		57 points by flexterra on May 5, 2009 \| 18 comments
8.		What MySQL Founder Michael Widenius said about Oracle acquiring Sun (monty-says.blogspot.com)
		52 points by edw519 on May 5, 2009 \| 10 comments
9.		Ask HN: Explain AWS
		50 points by gsmaverick on May 5, 2009 \| 31 comments
10.		Rule-Based Programming in Interactive Fiction (eblong.com)
		47 points by krs on May 5, 2009 \| 6 comments
11.		How to beat that exhausted feeling (guardian.co.uk)
		47 points by cake on May 5, 2009 \| 31 comments
12.		Request for Arc Bugs (arclanguage.org)
		46 points by pg on May 5, 2009
13.		The Britney Spears Problem (americanscientist.org)
		44 points by edw519 on May 5, 2009 \| 7 comments
14.		Does your monitor hurt your eyes at night? Auto-adjust your color temperature. (stereopsis.com)
		40 points by chaosmachine on May 5, 2009 \| 21 comments
15.		Face transplant patient is revealed (nytimes.com)
		39 points by raheemm on May 5, 2009 \| 19 comments
16.		Opening in SF hacker house (divvyshot.com)
		37 points by mwerty on May 5, 2009 \| 10 comments
17.		Notification Strategies for Social Networks (w/ math) (20bits.com)
		36 points by snakelemma on May 5, 2009 \| 9 comments
18.		HBC: Hierarchical Bayes Compiler (utah.edu)
		35 points by morpheism on May 5, 2009 \| 4 comments
19.		Designer/Writer Selling Everything She Owns (goodbyewafflemaker.com)
		35 points by tortilla on May 5, 2009 \| 25 comments
20.		Apple drives iPhone app developers to the brink (theregister.co.uk)
		35 points by Quarrelsome on May 5, 2009 \| 29 comments
21.		Bypassing the VC: Funding Your Business with Deferred Revenue (markenomics.com)
		35 points by mediaman on May 5, 2009 \| 11 comments
22.		Why Twitter catches on: No guilt (businessweek.com)
		34 points by peter123 on May 5, 2009 \| 13 comments
23.		Quitting your day job to make video games.
		30 points by mparent61 on May 5, 2009 \| 19 comments
24.		Allison Randal -- Parrot VM (talk from JVM Lang Summit 2008) (video.google.com)
		30 points by draegtun on May 5, 2009 \| 1 comment
25.		What's the story behind the name of your startup/company ?
		25 points by Stasyan on May 5, 2009 \| 45 comments
26.		Inspirational Video on Entrepreneurialism (grasshopper.com)
		24 points by dcharlton on May 5, 2009 \| 5 comments
27.		Computer Musings by Professor Donald E. Knuth (stanford.edu)
		24 points by andymoe on May 5, 2009 \| 3 comments
28.		Mozilla platform to use separate processes for UI and web content (wiki.mozilla.org)
		23 points by edw519 on May 5, 2009 \| 10 comments
29.		The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu Studio 9.04 (howtoforge.com)
		23 points by joschi on May 5, 2009 \| 16 comments
30.		Apple's Interest In Gaming Isn't Casual (forbes.com)
		22 points by nickb on May 5, 2009 \| 18 comments
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