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1.		The problems with url shorteners (schachter.org)
		94 points by joshu on April 3, 2009 \| 56 comments
2.		Sources: Google In Talks To Acquire Twitter (techcrunch.com)
		90 points by johns on April 3, 2009 \| 59 comments
3.		Open letter to Blackboard: $1M to charity if you drop patent litigation (desire2learn.com)
		87 points by paulgb on April 3, 2009 \| 55 comments
4.		Twitter, Ruby on Rails, Scala and people who don’t RTFA (ikaisays.com)
		85 points by mileszs on April 3, 2009 \| 64 comments
5.		Tiny computers + wireless mesh network + Python → Awesome (pycon.org)
		71 points by mdakin on April 3, 2009 \| 11 comments
6.		Linux is Obsolete [1992] (groups.google.com)
		69 points by vinutheraj on April 3, 2009 \| 46 comments
7.		Ask HN: What Paid Services Do You Use For Your Startup?
		64 points by quellhorst on April 3, 2009 \| 93 comments
8.		IBM On The Verge of Buying Sun for $7 billion (nytimes.com)
		61 points by ojbyrne on April 3, 2009 \| 24 comments
9.		Chat startup Chatterous (YC W08) throws gauntlet down against proprietary closed chat widgets (venturebeat.com)
		52 points by rantfoil on April 3, 2009 \| 1 comment
10.		E Text Editor: Releasing the Source (e-texteditor.com)
		51 points by bdfh42 on April 3, 2009 \| 22 comments
11.		Announcing HackStars (techstars.org)
		49 points by brianculler on April 3, 2009 \| 105 comments
12.		Lessons in Graphic Design Theory (tutsplus.com)
		48 points by kivivi on April 3, 2009 \| 2 comments
13.		Erlang Doesn’t Fit The JVM (hypotheticalabs.com)
		44 points by newsit on April 3, 2009 \| 49 comments
14.		Posterous (YC S08) launches Twitter commenting/tweetback and oAuth (blog.posterous.com)
		38 points by rantfoil on April 3, 2009 \| 11 comments
15.		Rails Template: Create a Twitter Application in Seconds (intridea.com)
		37 points by sant0sk1 on April 3, 2009 \| 15 comments
16.		Google Is Not in “Late-Stage Talks” to Acquire Twitter (allthingsd.com)
		36 points by nickb on April 3, 2009 \| 9 comments
17.		How Geico Wastes $90MM a Year on SEM (tippingpointlabs.com)
		36 points by tplDrew2 on April 3, 2009 \| 31 comments
18.		Simple and Impressive Design Techniques (smashingmagazine.com)
		33 points by _pius on April 3, 2009 \| 2 comments
19.		Proposed Bill Gives President Emergency Authority To Halt Web Traffic; Access Private Data (motherjones.com)
		30 points by mdasen on April 3, 2009 \| 30 comments
20.		Bill Venners chats with the Twitter developers, in Twitter on Scala (artima.com)
		30 points by jpedrosa on April 3, 2009 \| 3 comments
21.		Reddit pycon keynote video (blip.tv)
		28 points by dood on April 3, 2009 \| 2 comments
22.		Dice.com Shows 45% Drop In Tech Jobs (techcrunch.com)
		28 points by epi0Bauqu on April 3, 2009 \| 23 comments
23.		Trying out 'Amazon Remembers' (theruchi.blogspot.com)
		27 points by kirubakaran on April 3, 2009 \| 7 comments
24.		UserVoice founder on how to build a killer site by listening to feedback (mixergy.com)
		26 points by oliviakuhn on April 3, 2009 \| 2 comments
25.		Wrong Tomorrow (idlewords.com)
		25 points by prakash on April 3, 2009 \| 4 comments
26.		Three libraries, a framework and an API - how ContentTagger got built in 7 hours (jaggeree.com)
		25 points by danw on April 3, 2009 \| 2 comments
27.		Contacts considered crappy (yorksranter.wordpress.com)
		24 points by barry-cotter on April 3, 2009 \| 6 comments
28.		Human Evolution and Frameshift Mutations (gmilburn.ca)
		23 points by pg on April 3, 2009 \| 13 comments
29.		Investigating the people behind those sketchy flat-stomach ads. (thebigmoney.com)
		22 points by peter123 on April 3, 2009 \| 4 comments
30.		John Carmack surprises fans (and his CEO) with Wolfenstein 3D for the iPhone (venturebeat.com)
		23 points by peter123 on April 3, 2009 \| 14 comments
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