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1.		Magic Ink (worrydream.com)
		109 points by cubicle67 on May 9, 2009 \| 13 comments
2.		Why I haven’t been blogging as much (balsamiq.com)
		93 points by hbien on May 9, 2009 \| 22 comments
3.		What Killed Smalltalk: My Balls (gilesbowkett.blogspot.com)
		83 points by sant0sk1 on May 9, 2009 \| 13 comments
4.		Alligator Eggs (worrydream.com)
		79 points by tumult on May 9, 2009 \| 9 comments
5.		Bcrypt is now obsolete (daemonology.net)
		73 points by cperciva on May 9, 2009 \| 43 comments
6.		Aussie censors implement six degrees of separation policy - Links to links now banned (theregister.co.uk)
		54 points by vaksel on May 9, 2009 \| 20 comments
7.		Some good javascript tips & handy functions (code.google.com)
		50 points by jauco on May 9, 2009 \| 17 comments
8.		Twitter Inventor About To Launch His Next Project, Code-named Squirrel (techcrunch.com)
		47 points by vaksel on May 9, 2009 \| 28 comments
9.		What does it take to be a programmer out at sea? (mattmcdole.com)
		47 points by Simucal on May 9, 2009 \| 29 comments
10.		Axum - A new parallel programming language from Microsoft (msdn.microsoft.com)
		43 points by chadaustin on May 9, 2009 \| 15 comments
11.		Ask HN: project ideas for a noob
		40 points by kunqiana on May 9, 2009 \| 40 comments
12.		Fravia died on Sunday, 3rd May 2009 (fravia.com)
		40 points by mpk on May 9, 2009 \| 18 comments
13.		Infrequently Asked Questions about Perl (plover.com)
		35 points by windsurfer on May 9, 2009 \| 6 comments
14.		EU Wants Developers to be Liable for Code; Provide Guarantees That Software will Work (zdnet.co.uk)
		34 points by mdasen on May 9, 2009 \| 34 comments
15.		What To Do When a Megacorp Wants To Buy You? (slashdot.org)
		33 points by saurabh on May 9, 2009 \| 18 comments
16.		Ask HN: Good books on the nuts and bolts of starting up
		30 points by ericb on May 9, 2009 \| 21 comments
17.		JPlayer: Fully CSS stylable mp3 player plugin using jQuery (happyworm.com)
		30 points by dkasper on May 9, 2009 \| 10 comments
18.		How France is surviving the economic crisis (economist.com)
		29 points by dimm on May 9, 2009 \| 14 comments
19.		Google Tips for the Entrepreneur (2002) (stanford.edu)
		30 points by datums on May 9, 2009 \| 2 comments
20.		What Do You Believe But Cannot Prove? (edge.org)
		28 points by jackchristopher on May 9, 2009 \| 51 comments
21.		Common Java Cookbook (discursive.com)
		28 points by Anon84 on May 9, 2009 \| 3 comments
22.		Surviving Emacs (tech.coop)
		26 points by silentbicycle on May 9, 2009 \| 24 comments
23.		Data, Not Design, Is King in the Age of Google (nytimes.com)
		25 points by tokenadult on May 9, 2009 \| 11 comments
24.		Functionless event handlers in jQuery (padolsey.com)
		24 points by johns on May 9, 2009 \| 6 comments
25.		Don't Shoot In Auto - Advice For DSLR Newbies (pcmag.com)
		24 points by geofffox on May 9, 2009 \| 18 comments
26.		Why Sarah Can’t Focus (And Other Questions About Paying Attention) (nytimes.com)
		22 points by robg on May 9, 2009 \| 3 comments
27.		Why Jeff Bezos Is Obsessed With Waste (gigaom.com)
		21 points by tortilla on May 9, 2009 \| 6 comments
28.		Ask HN: can I transfer a $6,000 Kindle book onto PC, DRM-free?
		21 points by old-gregg on May 9, 2009 \| 52 comments
29.		Factor VM ported to C++ (factor-language.blogspot.com)
		20 points by visitor4rmindia on May 9, 2009 \| 10 comments
30.		Slowing The Exodus Of Skilled Foreigners (yahoo.com)
		19 points by terpua on May 9, 2009 \| 18 comments
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