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1.		I.B.M. Withdraws $7 Billion Offer for Sun Microsystems (nytimes.com)
		85 points by neilc on April 5, 2009 \| 28 comments
2.		Sleep is Garbage Collection (discovermagazine.com)
		57 points by soundsop on April 5, 2009 \| 29 comments
3.		Radiohead to Testify Against the RIAA (torrentfreak.com)
		51 points by vaksel on April 5, 2009 \| 4 comments
4.		Obie Fernandez: My Reasoned Response about Scala at Twitter (obiefernandez.com)
		45 points by tortilla on April 5, 2009 \| 44 comments
5.		Grok This: Forget The Business Books, Go Sci-Fi To Stoke Your Imagination (techcrunch.com)
		42 points by blackswan on April 5, 2009 \| 47 comments
6.		Easy AI with Python (blip.tv)
		42 points by malvosenior on April 5, 2009 \| 1 comment
7.		J.K. Rowling: The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination (harvardmagazine.com)
		42 points by markbao on April 5, 2009 \| 3 comments
8.		Online Brokerage Zecco Pretends To Give Away Millions, Panics When People Start Spending (consumerist.com)
		40 points by peter123 on April 5, 2009 \| 19 comments
9.		Bruce Sterling requests assistance proving the validity of his marriage (wired.com)
		38 points by haasted on April 5, 2009 \| 13 comments
10.		How Baseball Players Catch Fly Balls (livescience.com)
		37 points by sobriquet on April 5, 2009 \| 7 comments
11.		Google is just an amoral menace (guardian.co.uk)
		38 points by raju on April 5, 2009 \| 62 comments
12.		Startup Weekend: Problems (startupweekend.com)
		36 points by transburgh on April 5, 2009 \| 20 comments
13.		Why the U.S. carrier group is scrap metal (exiledonline.com)
		35 points by bokonist on April 5, 2009 \| 78 comments
14.		Dubai: How not to build a city (thestar.com)
		32 points by peter123 on April 5, 2009 \| 26 comments
15.		Ask HN: Choosing a college
		29 points by v3rt on April 5, 2009 \| 84 comments
16.		Ask HN: How to spend a marketing budget of $US 2k per month?
		27 points by yeti on April 5, 2009 \| 26 comments
17.		Ext Core 3.0 vs jQuery, a comparison (sporcic.org)
		24 points by jrnkntl on April 5, 2009 \| 27 comments
18.		Open Source Shooter Nexuiz 2.5 Released (alientrap.org)
		24 points by _mocc on April 5, 2009 \| 9 comments
19.		An Aesthetics Reading List for Programmers (urbanhonking.com)
		24 points by atduskgreg on April 5, 2009 \| 3 comments
20.		Becoming my own OpenID provider with 99.999% downtime (bogomips.org)
		23 points by ericwong on April 5, 2009 \| 7 comments
21.		Ask HN: MAC vs PC for a developer?
		21 points by anon87 on April 5, 2009 \| 97 comments
22.		Luxim LIFI plasma light bulb more efficient than LED/CFL (treehugger.com)
		18 points by floatingatoll on April 5, 2009 \| 7 comments
23.		Will your application scale? (hacksushi.com)
		18 points by bandhunt on April 5, 2009 \| 10 comments
24.		Court Rules Part Of Copyright Act Unconstitutional (techdirt.com)
		17 points by vaksel on April 5, 2009
25.		Specialist vs. Generalist: Who Wins? (sitepoint.com)
		16 points by johns on April 5, 2009 \| 23 comments
26.		Learning new languages makes you a master of none?
		15 points by drhowarddrfine on April 5, 2009 \| 17 comments
27.		The Rise and Fall of Thinking Machines Corporation (1995) (inc.com)
		15 points by asciilifeform on April 5, 2009 \| 2 comments
28.		Web Site Makes Millions by Connecting Cheaters (npr.org)
		15 points by jasonlbaptiste on April 5, 2009 \| 25 comments
29.		A natural language date and time parser for Common Lisp (github.com/chaitanyagupta)
		15 points by zaph0d on April 5, 2009 \| 7 comments
30.		Eric Ries: Lean Startup Presentation For Web 2.0 Expo (slideshare.net)
		15 points by ivankirigin on April 5, 2009 \| 3 comments
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