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1.		How to be a program manager (joelonsoftware.com)
		161 points by twampss on March 9, 2009 \| 43 comments
2.		Color Scheme Designer 3 (colorschemedesigner.com)
		123 points by melvinram on March 9, 2009 \| 17 comments
3.		TED: Mike Rowe talks about dirty jobs and innovation (ted.com)
		108 points by geuis on March 9, 2009 \| 30 comments
4.		SIRC Guide to Flirting (sirc.org)
		104 points by nostrademons on March 9, 2009 \| 38 comments
5.		"I Quit" 1 Year anniversary (emadibrahim.com)
		94 points by eibrahim on March 9, 2009 \| 43 comments
6.		Tarsnap reaches profitability (daemonology.net)
		88 points by cperciva on March 9, 2009 \| 49 comments
7.		How did the web lose faith in charging for stuff? (37signals.com)
		87 points by zaveri on March 9, 2009 \| 81 comments
8.		How to build a front page (unalone.tumblr.com)
		70 points by unalone on March 9, 2009 \| 26 comments
9.		The Value of Downvoting, or, How Hacker News Gets It Wrong (stackoverflow.com)
		61 points by Anon84 on March 9, 2009 \| 114 comments
10.		TheSixtyOne (YC W09) Is Building a Digg For Indie Music (techcrunch.com)
		50 points by markbao on March 9, 2009 \| 22 comments
11.		Ask HN: How are url shorteners making money?
		54 points by melvinram on March 9, 2009 \| 38 comments
12.		Voxli (YC W09) Targets Gamers With Browser-Based Group Voice Chat (techcrunch.com)
		45 points by andrewow on March 9, 2009 \| 28 comments
13.		24 Solid State Drives Open All of Microsoft Office In .5 Seconds (gizmodo.com)
		46 points by darragjm on March 9, 2009 \| 44 comments
14.		What the Stock Market Really Thinks About the Economy (fivethirtyeight.com)
		45 points by bdr on March 9, 2009 \| 3 comments
15.		Data.gov Is Coming — Let's Help Build It (wired.com)
		43 points by peter123 on March 9, 2009 \| 9 comments
16.		Harvard CS264: Peer-to-Peer Systems (great list of papers) (eecs.harvard.edu)
		43 points by Anon84 on March 9, 2009 \| 6 comments
17.		Poll: How long did it take you to be ramen profitable?
		40 points by vaksel on March 9, 2009 \| 23 comments
18.		Free to Freemium: Lessons learned from YouSendIt.com (andrewchenblog.com)
		39 points by sadiq on March 9, 2009 \| 8 comments
19.		Ask HN: How long until you became "ramen profitable"?
		36 points by Bluem00 on March 9, 2009 \| 22 comments
20.		House Bill Will Ban Open Access to Scientific Publications (discovermagazine.com)
		35 points by troystribling on March 9, 2009 \| 11 comments
21.		Warren Buffett says economy fell off a cliff (businessweek.com)
		32 points by donna on March 9, 2009 \| 7 comments
22.		Elegance and the Surreals (github.com/raganwald)
		32 points by raganwald on March 9, 2009 \| 3 comments
23.		The Sheer Size of IPV6 (pthree.org)
		29 points by timf on March 9, 2009 \| 19 comments
24.		Jakob Nielsen: Kindle2 Usability Review (useit.com)
		27 points by edw519 on March 9, 2009 \| 13 comments
25.		A Parable (virginia.edu)
		26 points by grosales on March 9, 2009 \| 6 comments
26.		Calling All Student Entrepreneurs: Highland Capital Wants You (techcrunch.com)
		26 points by vaksel on March 9, 2009 \| 9 comments
27.		ReverseHttp (reversehttp.net)
		26 points by apgwoz on March 9, 2009 \| 36 comments
28.		Findjango, a django search vertical. Written in Django. (lethain.com)
		24 points by gourneau on March 9, 2009 \| 3 comments
29.		A few speed bumps (Lisp blog series) (funcall.blogspot.com)
		24 points by chris11 on March 9, 2009 \| 4 comments
30.		High-speed trains are coming to America (onearth.org)
		22 points by kqr2 on March 9, 2009 \| 28 comments
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