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1.		The Art and Science of Seductive Interactions (slideshare.net)
		91 points by replicatorblog on April 19, 2009 \| 13 comments
2.		Round manhole covers, or if Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft (sellsbrothers.com)
		69 points by swombat on April 19, 2009 \| 33 comments
3.		Experimenting with the YouTube audio fingerprinting system (rit.edu)
		67 points by BioGeek on April 19, 2009 \| 11 comments
4.		First reprapped circuit (reprap.org)
		64 points by ph0rque on April 19, 2009 \| 8 comments
5.		"Nothing like this will be built again" - A Nuclear Reactor Tour (antipope.org)
		60 points by jseliger on April 19, 2009 \| 20 comments
6.		Hawala: transferring money without actually moving it (wikipedia.org)
		58 points by Rod on April 19, 2009 \| 19 comments
7.		ISPs refuse to shut down Pirate Bay (thelocal.se)
		53 points by vaksel on April 19, 2009 \| 9 comments
8.		The Real Pirate Bay (harvardbusiness.org)
		48 points by peter123 on April 19, 2009 \| 43 comments
9.		Thoughts on the Y Combinator interview process (arvindn.livejournal.com)
		43 points by randomwalker on April 19, 2009 \| 8 comments
10.		NYCSeed's summer program: $10k for 5% for 10 groups (nycseed.com)
		38 points by aditya on April 19, 2009 \| 26 comments
11.		The Long Road from XHTML to HTML (nimbupani.com)
		36 points by deepakjois on April 19, 2009 \| 6 comments
12.		The method still works (37signals.com)
		34 points by peter123 on April 19, 2009 \| 3 comments
13.		Erlang: Efficiency Guide (erlang.org)
		30 points by erlanger on April 19, 2009 \| 7 comments
14.		How do kids these days get started in programming? (ensode.net)
		27 points by vaksel on April 19, 2009 \| 41 comments
15.		Ask HN: cloud computing options?
		26 points by Tichy on April 19, 2009 \| 27 comments
16.		Ask HN: Open-source project as startup?
		25 points by cool-RR on April 19, 2009 \| 46 comments
17.		Ask HN: Things They Don't Teach You In Computer Science
		25 points by wushupork on April 19, 2009 \| 27 comments
18.		Awesome Procedural Terrain Generation (shamusyoung.com)
		25 points by buggy_code on April 19, 2009 \| 10 comments
19.		PyPy 1.1.0 beta released (morepypy.blogspot.com)
		25 points by ropiku on April 19, 2009 \| 4 comments
20.		The Lean Startup Presentation at Web 2.0 (with audio) (slideshare.net)
		24 points by wave on April 19, 2009 \| 3 comments
21.		Ask HN: Is there an archive, dataset or RSS feed of all HN posts?
		24 points by tm on April 19, 2009 \| 4 comments
22.		13 iPhone Apps That Need to be Made -- Add Yours in HN Comments (ryanspoon.com)
		21 points by dell9000 on April 19, 2009 \| 24 comments
23.		How to save Sun/Sparc/Solaris, and why (zdnet.com)
		20 points by ableal on April 19, 2009 \| 28 comments
24.		Typeface Inspired by Comic Books Has Become a Font of Ill Will (wsj.com)
		20 points by nickb on April 19, 2009 \| 4 comments
25.		To help soldiers make sense of data, the US military now issues the iPod Touch. (newsweek.com)
		20 points by dannyr on April 19, 2009 \| 6 comments
26.		How long will it last? Graphic shows number of years left of various materials [pic] (newscientist.com)
		20 points by soundsop on April 19, 2009 \| 12 comments
27.		UK startup icons launch fund to bridge Europe’s ‘Equity gap’ (techcrunch.com)
		20 points by pclark on April 19, 2009 \| 1 comment
28.		First Mac OS X botnet activated (macworld.co.uk)
		20 points by luckystrike on April 19, 2009 \| 3 comments
29.		Microsoft trashes its brand — with Apple the big winner (bigtin.wordpress.com)
		20 points by zen53 on April 19, 2009 \| 31 comments
30.		Heaviside’s Operator Calculus (myreckonings.com)
		20 points by Rod on April 19, 2009 \| 6 comments
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