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1.		China's Google Maps (zoom out for best effect) (edushi.com)
		132 points by pc on April 28, 2009 \| 40 comments
2.		How 4chan hacked ReCAPTCHA to win the TIME 100 Poll (musicmachinery.com)
		127 points by mariorz on April 28, 2009 \| 37 comments
3.		Ubuntu brings advanced Screen features (arstechnica.com)
		102 points by mblakele on April 28, 2009 \| 36 comments
4.		Why People Don't Like Nerds or Programmers (In School) (rorymarinich.tumblr.com)
		85 points by inglorian on April 28, 2009 \| 143 comments
5.		Hacking for fun and profit with Mathematica and the Google Analytics API (collison.ie)
		85 points by ktom on April 28, 2009 \| 5 comments
6.		Ignore Y Combinator at Your Own Risk (fool.com)
		73 points by SwellJoe on April 28, 2009 \| 16 comments
7.		Ask HN: I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions?
		64 points by anonymous1618 on April 28, 2009 \| 140 comments
8.		A Painful Decision (afreshcup.com)
		59 points by ph0rque on April 28, 2009 \| 73 comments
9.		Record-Breaking Amateur Rocket Launch (popularmechanics.com)
		58 points by robg on April 28, 2009 \| 16 comments
10.		Skew, The Frontend Engineer's Misery (lethain.com)
		55 points by twampss on April 28, 2009 \| 9 comments
11.		Hacker News (wikipedia.org)
		49 points by eru on April 28, 2009 \| 46 comments
12.		Are expensive running shoes a waste of money? (dailymail.co.uk)
		47 points by terpua on April 28, 2009 \| 37 comments
13.		Guido's final word on Tail Calls (neopythonic.blogspot.com)
		47 points by uggedal on April 28, 2009 \| 22 comments
14.		JSConf2009 Wrapup (michaelharrison.ws)
		44 points by geuis on April 28, 2009 \| 13 comments
15.		Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages (oreilly.com)
		43 points by 10ren on April 28, 2009 \| 28 comments
16.		Designer/Developer matching service (collabfinder.com)
		41 points by nir on April 28, 2009 \| 13 comments
17.		The Best Entrepreneurs Know How To Fail Fast (feld.com)
		41 points by peter123 on April 28, 2009 \| 15 comments
18.		Opera adds a splash page to celebrate 15 years of web innovation (opera.com)
		39 points by melito on April 28, 2009 \| 18 comments
19.		Keep it simple, startup (techcrunch.com)
		36 points by CalmQuiet on April 28, 2009 \| 3 comments
20.		Stop acting like a sissy and market your company (ideasonideas.com)
		35 points by karjaluoto on April 28, 2009 \| 5 comments
21.		How I finally understood the Y Combinator (noeit.wordpress.com)
		34 points by dragonquest on April 28, 2009 \| 8 comments
22.		Two wheels good (economist.com)
		33 points by jeffesp on April 28, 2009 \| 29 comments
23.		Edward Tufte on iPhone Visual Design (edwardtufte.com)
		30 points by grinich on April 28, 2009 \| 7 comments
24.		Geocities: Lessons So Far (textfiles.com)
		30 points by edw519 on April 28, 2009 \| 7 comments
25.		The last great swine flu epidemic (salon.com)
		28 points by peter123 on April 28, 2009 \| 13 comments
26.		Teralys: New $825m Fund announced in QC, Canada (montrealtechwatch.com)
		28 points by mtw on April 28, 2009 \| 4 comments
27.		Embedding Clojure in an Existing Application (ianp.org)
		27 points by coglethorpe on April 28, 2009
28.		Google: What we talk about when we talk about cloud computing (googleenterprise.blogspot.com)
		27 points by peter123 on April 28, 2009 \| 6 comments
29.		Write better Perl with Perl::Critic (damienlearnsperl.blogspot.com)
		28 points by chorny on April 28, 2009 \| 6 comments
30.		Google now searches public data (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		26 points by coglethorpe on April 28, 2009 \| 5 comments
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