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1.		What Solitary Confinement Does to the Brain (newyorker.com)
		95 points by JabavuAdams on May 17, 2009 \| 27 comments
2.		Ask HN: What apps are essential for mac?
		84 points by phn1x on May 17, 2009 \| 142 comments
3.		Ask HN: "Dumbing yourself down" around your peers?
		73 points by ilitirit on May 17, 2009 \| 111 comments
4.		Amazing JS rainbow effect (dragoninteractive.com)
		53 points by alexkearns on May 17, 2009 \| 19 comments
5.		Tell HN: PG's 6 Unexpected Advantages of "Cheapness" in a Startup
		52 points by dwynings on May 17, 2009 \| 45 comments
6.		Ask HN: What do you eat?
		51 points by pj on May 17, 2009 \| 109 comments
7.		Why did the peoples of the New World fail to invent the wheel? (straightdope.com)
		47 points by soundsop on May 17, 2009 \| 30 comments
8.		An easy way to use GNU Screen over SSH (earthinfo.org)
		41 points by Anon84 on May 17, 2009 \| 10 comments
9.		Socks - A javascript UI toolkit inspired by Shoes (wiki.github.com)
		40 points by desheikh on May 17, 2009 \| 9 comments
10.		What To Look For In A Co-Founder (thenetsetter.com)
		34 points by collistaeed on May 17, 2009 \| 4 comments
11.		Humans are driven to endlessly acquire. (seedmagazine.com)
		32 points by peter123 on May 17, 2009 \| 7 comments
12.		Kon-Boot CD:110KB Floppy image/CD ISO to remove your Windows admin and Linux root pwd (piotrbania.com)
		32 points by est on May 17, 2009 \| 18 comments
13.		Wolfram and Lisp Recollections (groups.google.com)
		29 points by asciilifeform on May 17, 2009 \| 17 comments
14.		Superduper Slow Jar Command (embarassing bug in the jar code) (sun.com)
		28 points by ks on May 17, 2009 \| 19 comments
15.		Ask HN: What Web frameworks exist around Python?
		28 points by deane on May 17, 2009 \| 30 comments
16.		Sony Pictures CEO: nothing good ever came from the Internet (current.com)
		28 points by hernan7 on May 17, 2009 \| 26 comments
17.		Eric Drexler: How to Understand Everything (and Why) (metamodern.com)
		27 points by MikeCapone on May 17, 2009 \| 1 comment
18.		Hack Your Own CNC Machine (buildyourcnc.com)
		27 points by dag on May 17, 2009 \| 3 comments
19.		Laws to Save Journalism (or The Most Unintentionally Funny Thing I've Read All Day) (washingtonpost.com)
		27 points by TomOfTTB on May 17, 2009 \| 26 comments
20.		Ask HN: The HN karma paradox
		26 points by johnnybgoode on May 17, 2009 \| 40 comments
21.		A Bad Time to Be A Professional (businessweek.com)
		25 points by tokenadult on May 17, 2009 \| 25 comments
22.		Linux - disk usage (du) human readable and sorted by size (earthinfo.org)
		25 points by csm888 on May 17, 2009 \| 2 comments
23.		What Does Your Credit-Card Company Know About You? (nytimes.com)
		24 points by tokenadult on May 17, 2009 \| 7 comments
24.		The Plumber’s Guide to Finding & Keeping Clients (freelanceswitch.com)
		21 points by tomh on May 17, 2009 \| 6 comments
25.		Sample Google Chrome Extensions ‎(Chromium Developer Documentation)‎ (chromium.org)
		21 points by jmonegro on May 17, 2009 \| 17 comments
26.		A Financial Prophet Online Is Vilified in Reality (nytimes.com)
		20 points by credo on May 17, 2009 \| 6 comments
27.		32bit Windows can use more than 3GB of RAM, MS just doesn't want you too (geoffchappell.com)
		21 points by asmosoinio on May 17, 2009 \| 20 comments
28.		Using http:// and .com is madness (elliottkember.com)
		19 points by madmotive on May 17, 2009 \| 49 comments
29.		Why the free software community cares about The Pirate Bay (northxsouth.com)
		18 points by brl on May 17, 2009 \| 37 comments
30.		Poll: What percentage of Hacker News users are programmers/hackers?
		18 points by jmonegro on May 17, 2009 \| 11 comments
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