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1.		Stephen Hawking 'very ill' (cnn.com)
		144 points by kf on April 20, 2009 \| 57 comments
2.		Why it is so hard to stay focused these days—and what to do about it (wsj.com)
		67 points by jseliger on April 20, 2009 \| 31 comments
3.		Underbelly: What haughty startup bloggers don't tell you (asmartbear.com)
		64 points by lrm242 on April 20, 2009 \| 17 comments
4.		The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown (wired.com)
		59 points by ffernan on April 20, 2009 \| 19 comments
5.		Twitter and Posterous (mattmaroon.com)
		58 points by brlewis on April 20, 2009 \| 22 comments
6.		Atlassian Confluence $5 for 5 users (atlassian.com)
		64 points by Jakob on April 20, 2009 \| 13 comments
7.		ISP modifying .torrent file contents to add local seed (compsci.ca)
		55 points by swombat on April 20, 2009 \| 14 comments
8.		Peeping into Memcached (evanweaver.com)
		52 points by danielrhodes on April 20, 2009
9.		The Google Bay (google.com)
		49 points by dotcoma on April 20, 2009 \| 21 comments
10.		Ask HN: How much do you exercise a day/week?
		47 points by rockstar9 on April 20, 2009 \| 89 comments
11.		Link by Link - Creator of Web Cartoon xkcd Writing a Paper Book (nytimes.com)
		45 points by twampss on April 20, 2009 \| 15 comments
12.		Ask HN: A languishing startup with a great product - thoughts?
		42 points by jodrellblank on April 20, 2009 \| 24 comments
13.		New jQuery Plugin - ImageSwitch, amazing effect with simple code (hieu.co.uk)
		40 points by hieuuk on April 20, 2009 \| 12 comments
14.		The Edit Distance Problem (rjlipton.wordpress.com)
		39 points by Rod on April 20, 2009 \| 13 comments
15.		Jackie Chan: China Has A Problem With Its “Suzhi” (paulmidler.com)
		38 points by si2 on April 20, 2009 \| 32 comments
16.		Database giant Oracle has agreed to buy Sun Microsystems (theregister.co.uk)
		38 points by gaius on April 20, 2009 \| 5 comments
17.		Programming newbies make apps for iPhone (sfgate.com)
		37 points by gibsonf1 on April 20, 2009 \| 28 comments
18.		URL Shorteners – the herpes of the web (inquisitr.com)
		36 points by nreece on April 20, 2009 \| 17 comments
19.		Advice from Kleiner Perkins, Hummer Winblad, ... (fourhourworkweek.com)
		35 points by mattjung on April 20, 2009 \| 3 comments
20.		Oracle Agrees to Acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4B (nytimes.com)
		34 points by pierrefar on April 20, 2009 \| 10 comments
21.		How I Did It: Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos.com (2006) (inc.com)
		34 points by byrneseyeview on April 20, 2009 \| 12 comments
22.		The Unintended Consequences of Startups - Docstoc CEO (jasonnazar.com)
		33 points by cera on April 20, 2009 \| 19 comments
23.		Hacker News meetup in San Francisco (Wed Apr 22nd 6:00pm Revolution Cafe) (yahoo.com)
		32 points by abarrera on April 20, 2009 \| 8 comments
24.		60 Minutes - Cold Fusion Is Hot Again (cbsnews.com)
		31 points by keltecp11 on April 20, 2009 \| 31 comments
25.		Google Similar Images First Look (techcrunch.com)
		29 points by vaksel on April 20, 2009 \| 15 comments
26.		What if Smalltalk were invented today? (alarmingdevelopment.org)
		28 points by BigZaphod on April 20, 2009 \| 9 comments
27.		H-1B visa use cuts U.S. programmer, software engineer wages by up to 6% (computerworld.com)
		28 points by pushcx on April 20, 2009 \| 35 comments
28.		Facebook's Recruiting and Retention Problem (businessinsider.com)
		27 points by daviday on April 20, 2009 \| 32 comments
29.		Hackers: Intern for the Summer, Get Paid for a Year (jobalchemist.com)
		27 points by LukeG on April 20, 2009 \| 60 comments
30.		He makes $1 million crowdsourcing sources (newsosaur.blogspot.com)
		27 points by wallflower on April 20, 2009 \| 6 comments
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