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1.		Pirate Bay Founder Devises DDo$ Attack (blogpirate.org)
		89 points by mcantelon on May 12, 2009 \| 34 comments
2.		How David Beats Goliath (newyorker.com)
		78 points by christonog on May 12, 2009 \| 22 comments
3.		Free Programming Books (e-booksdirectory.com)
		75 points by buluzhai on May 12, 2009 \| 11 comments
4.		What Makes Us Happy? (theatlantic.com)
		74 points by toffer on May 12, 2009 \| 31 comments
5.		How I Spent A Million Bucks And Ended Up With These Two Chairs. (mixergy.com)
		67 points by merrick33 on May 12, 2009 \| 38 comments
6.		Google Squared (techcrunch.com)
		61 points by secret on May 12, 2009 \| 41 comments
7.		Balsamiq hires 2nd empoyee (balsamiq.com)
		53 points by BvS on May 12, 2009 \| 20 comments
8.		The Programming Language with the Happiest Users (doloreslabs.com)
		53 points by lukas on May 12, 2009 \| 42 comments
9.		Norwegian ISP: dig your own fiber trench, save $400 (arstechnica.com)
		51 points by tewks on May 12, 2009 \| 17 comments
10.		I drink, therefore I can (prospect-magazine.co.uk)
		51 points by theoneill on May 12, 2009 \| 15 comments
11.		Stack Overflow DevDays (joelonsoftware.com)
		46 points by babakian on May 12, 2009 \| 22 comments
12.		My toughest job-interview question ever (asserttrue.blogspot.com)
		45 points by techdog on May 12, 2009 \| 78 comments
13.		Twitter Porn Names Scam (pcworld.com)
		45 points by coglethorpe on May 12, 2009 \| 25 comments
14.		Fear is the mind-killer (startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com)
		42 points by _pius on May 12, 2009 \| 6 comments
15.		Yasnippet: TextMate snippets for Emacs (code.google.com)
		40 points by pookleblinky on May 12, 2009 \| 5 comments
16.		Other Worlds and Wasted Talents (daviddfriedman.blogspot.com)
		38 points by jlhamilton on May 12, 2009 \| 9 comments
17.		Twitter invented in 1935? (infomarketingblog.com)
		38 points by loumf on May 12, 2009 \| 10 comments
18.		Pattern matching in Python (monkey.org)
		38 points by mariusae on May 12, 2009 \| 6 comments
19.		Hadoop sorts a petabyte in 16.25 hours and a terabyte in 62 seconds (yahoo.net)
		36 points by voberoi on May 12, 2009 \| 16 comments
20.		The Importance of Simplicity (abcdefu.wordpress.com)
		36 points by abi on May 12, 2009 \| 15 comments
21.		Google Announces Support for Microformats and RDFa (oreilly.com)
		34 points by Anon84 on May 12, 2009 \| 8 comments
22.		In Attics and Closets, 'Biohackers' Discover Their Inner Frankenstein (wsj.com)
		33 points by scott_s on May 12, 2009 \| 28 comments
23.		Is anyone actually using Xcode? (warpspire.com)
		32 points by geeko on May 12, 2009 \| 35 comments
24.		Daydreamers might solve problems faster (theage.com.au)
		31 points by nreece on May 12, 2009 \| 19 comments
25.		Porn at work = felony hacking? (wired.com)
		31 points by knieveltech on May 12, 2009 \| 30 comments
26.		Mendeley comes out of stealth with its "Last.fm for academic research" (techcrunch.com)
		30 points by wheels on May 12, 2009 \| 15 comments
27.		A new alternative to git submodules: git subtree (alumnit.ca)
		29 points by Xichekolas on May 12, 2009 \| 7 comments
28.		The Glider: A Universal Hacker Emblem (catb.org)
		27 points by twoz on May 12, 2009 \| 28 comments
29.		Processing.js: How to create links with Custom fonts (processingjs.org)
		26 points by f1lt3r on May 12, 2009 \| 20 comments
30.		MonaTweeta II: Trying to encode images in Twitter's 140 character limit (flickr.com)
		25 points by joshwa on May 12, 2009 \| 11 comments
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