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1.		Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don't Go (chronicle.com)
		76 points by banned_man on April 12, 2009 \| 52 comments
2.		Tell HN: I didn't get a job due to a failed startup on my resume
		76 points by zubar on April 12, 2009 \| 89 comments
3.		Programming language popularity (langpop.com)
		63 points by alexk on April 12, 2009 \| 32 comments
4.		Why we don't develop for platforms other than iPhone (thisismobility.com)
		62 points by niyazpk on April 12, 2009 \| 21 comments
5.		Is high IQ as much a burden as a blessing? (ft.com)
		53 points by quoderat on April 12, 2009 \| 69 comments
6.		Making Yourself Likable (happiness-project.com)
		48 points by mhb on April 12, 2009 \| 27 comments
7.		Stonehenge Solved: Moving Big Rocks (j-walkblog.com)
		48 points by gibsonf1 on April 12, 2009 \| 16 comments
8.		IE8 will be distributed via automatic updates for IE6/IE7 (msdn.com)
		47 points by vaksel on April 12, 2009 \| 23 comments
9.		Every Color Has A Name (chir.ag)
		42 points by kirubakaran on April 12, 2009 \| 12 comments
10.		Kevin Rose denounces Trueveo's iFrame use (revision3.com)
		41 points by mikeyur on April 12, 2009 \| 8 comments
11.		The Education Visa: It’s Everywhere We Need It To Be (mattmaroon.com)
		38 points by mhb on April 12, 2009 \| 27 comments
12.		A primer on Bézier curves (ams.org)
		38 points by Rod on April 12, 2009 \| 4 comments
13.		How to do better in loud, crazy group conversations (succeedsocially.com)
		36 points by KevinPD on April 12, 2009 \| 26 comments
14.		Measure the gravitational constant like Cavendish did in 1798 (funcall.blogspot.com)
		35 points by rw on April 12, 2009 \| 20 comments
15.		Chinese Bias for Baby Boys Creates a Gap of 32 Million (nytimes.com)
		33 points by peter123 on April 12, 2009 \| 40 comments
16.		Time Travel Cheat Sheet (topatoco.com)
		32 points by joshwprinceton on April 12, 2009 \| 25 comments
17.		Ask HN: Worst working conditions you have written code in?
		33 points by saurabh on April 12, 2009 \| 73 comments
18.		A Documentary on Parkour [video] (pointbmovie.com)
		30 points by ctingom on April 12, 2009 \| 3 comments
19.		GitBug: an App Engine-based issue tracker for GitHub (gitbug.appspot.com)
		28 points by mcantelon on April 12, 2009 \| 4 comments
20.		On programming language design (andrej.com)
		25 points by kqr2 on April 12, 2009 \| 13 comments
21.		Blogs for Online Entrepreneurs (freelancefolder.com)
		24 points by collistaeed on April 12, 2009 \| 10 comments
22.		Ask HN: What do you use when searching for houses or apartments online?
		23 points by jmtame on April 12, 2009 \| 39 comments
23.		AutoPager: Browse HN and other sites more conveniently (addons.mozilla.org)
		23 points by nopinsight on April 12, 2009 \| 10 comments
24.		YC interview advice (bluwiki.com)
		22 points by apwalker on April 12, 2009 \| 18 comments
25.		Extracting 10 years of USAspending.gov data into CouchDB (full360.com)
		22 points by bbgm on April 12, 2009 \| 10 comments
26.		Where SSDs Don't Make Sense in Server Applications (mvdirona.com)
		21 points by neilc on April 12, 2009 \| 10 comments
27.		IPhone devotion blinds Silicon Valley app developers (venturebeat.com)
		20 points by peter123 on April 12, 2009 \| 19 comments
28.		17-year-old claims responsibility for Twitter worm (bnonews.com)
		19 points by peter123 on April 12, 2009 \| 29 comments
29.		The Evil Diggbar (webmonkey.com)
		19 points by mooted on April 12, 2009 \| 7 comments
30.		Rev="canonical" tags to cure short url problems (shiflett.org)
		19 points by davedevelopment on April 12, 2009 \| 13 comments
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