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1.		Dealing with impossible crises - Relentless resourcefulness at work (danieltenner.com)
		87 points by tomh- on April 8, 2009 \| 22 comments
2.		How Software Companies Die (1995) (carolyn.org)
		86 points by kajecounterhack on April 8, 2009 \| 23 comments
3.		I'm Sick of This (github.com/raganwald)
		86 points by bdfh42 on April 8, 2009 \| 84 comments
4.		The Andrew Warner Story (quicksprout.com)
		78 points by merrick33 on April 8, 2009 \| 57 comments
5.		Why Reddit uses Python (theory.org)
		74 points by kqr2 on April 8, 2009 \| 34 comments
6.		Google AppEngine Java Support Launches (techcrunch.com)
		74 points by peter123 on April 8, 2009 \| 32 comments
7.		Followup on the $18000 StockArt.com story (thelogofactory.com)
		74 points by nkurz on April 8, 2009 \| 28 comments
8.		Information Retrieval papers you need to read (scienceforseo.com)
		63 points by Anon84 on April 8, 2009 \| 13 comments
9.		80 legs: Web Crawler as a Service (80legs.com)
		59 points by luckystrike on April 8, 2009 \| 20 comments
10.		SEO Advice from Someone Not Selling It (Some Contrarian) (gabrielweinberg.com)
		58 points by epi0Bauqu on April 8, 2009 \| 25 comments
11.		FBI Defends Disruptive Raids on Texas Data Centers (wired.com)
		50 points by ccarpenterg on April 8, 2009 \| 28 comments
12.		Google App Engine gets Cron (code.google.com)
		49 points by jessep on April 8, 2009 \| 8 comments
13.		Tipjoy opens Twitter Payments API, celebrates with an API Contest - Win a MacBook Air (techcrunch.com)
		46 points by ivankirigin on April 8, 2009 \| 7 comments
14.		A.P. Exec Doesn’t Know It Has A YouTube Channel, Threatens Affiliate For Embedding Videos (techcrunch.com)
		46 points by jasonlbaptiste on April 8, 2009 \| 9 comments
15.		We teach entrepreneurship as if every vertical market had the same set of rules (venturehacks.com)
		44 points by coglethorpe on April 8, 2009 \| 1 comment
16.		Implementing your own language on the Parrot VM (parrotblog.org)
		44 points by Xichekolas on April 8, 2009 \| 30 comments
17.		Story about spies penetrating grid may be part of a PR campaign (erratasec.blogspot.com)
		42 points by nebula on April 8, 2009 \| 17 comments
18.		A Grad Student's Day (greenspun.com)
		42 points by mhb on April 8, 2009 \| 24 comments
19.		New Way To Split Water Into Hydrogen And Oxygen (sciencedaily.com)
		41 points by vaksel on April 8, 2009 \| 11 comments
20.		Tell HN: Come hear me speak at BSDCan'09
		38 points by cperciva on April 8, 2009 \| 3 comments
21.		Seriously this time, the new language on App Engine: Java (googleappengine.blogspot.com)
		37 points by peter123 on April 8, 2009 \| 1 comment
22.		Inevitable Minds (kk.org)
		36 points by dangoldin on April 8, 2009 \| 10 comments
23.		Principles for a Black Swan-proof world (ninemsn.com.au)
		33 points by peter123 on April 8, 2009 \| 25 comments
24.		Company Caught in Texas Data Center Raid Loses Suit Against FBI (wired.com)
		33 points by peter123 on April 8, 2009 \| 19 comments
25.		Drunken Nation: Russia’s Depopulation Bomb (worldaffairsjournal.org)
		31 points by rglovejoy on April 8, 2009 \| 27 comments
26.		Effective Emacs (googlepages.com)
		31 points by beffbernard on April 8, 2009 \| 12 comments
27.		ShoeMoney Sues Google Employee For AdWords Violations (techcrunch.com)
		31 points by vaksel on April 8, 2009 \| 7 comments
28.		Meet the newest Anybots robot today at Stanford (bluwiki.com)
		28 points by Sam_Odio on April 8, 2009 \| 10 comments
29.		JRuby on Rails on Google App Engine (olabini.com)
		30 points by moomerman on April 8, 2009 \| 2 comments
30.		BackType Launches Wordpress Plugin to Connect Conversations (backtype.com)
		29 points by konsl on April 8, 2009 \| 22 comments
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