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1.		What's up, bot? Google tries new Captcha method (cnet.com)
		58 points by nickb on April 18, 2009 \| 33 comments
2.		Bruce Sterling: Poor folk love their cellphones (nytimes.com)
		54 points by shalmanese on April 18, 2009 \| 36 comments
3.		Tarsnap and the prepaid billing model (daemonology.net)
		47 points by cperciva on April 18, 2009 \| 41 comments
4.		Damien Katz: CouchDB in the Browser (damienkatz.net)
		43 points by newsit on April 18, 2009 \| 6 comments
5.		Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (cs.berkeley.edu)
		42 points by kqr2 on April 18, 2009 \| 28 comments
6.		Ask YC: Would HN readers be interested in a HN events site?
		42 points by iamelgringo on April 18, 2009 \| 28 comments
7.		Things that do not make sense (2005) (newscientist.com)
		41 points by quoderat on April 18, 2009 \| 17 comments
8.		GitHub Developer site (develop.github.com)
		37 points by _pius on April 18, 2009 \| 3 comments
9.		On Being Sufficiently Smart (dadgum.com)
		36 points by blasdel on April 18, 2009 \| 11 comments
10.		A look inside the Y Combinator interview room. (dailybooth.com)
		37 points by j0ncc on April 18, 2009 \| 15 comments
11.		Bedroom Startups (businessweek.com)
		35 points by fallentimes on April 18, 2009 \| 13 comments
12.		If you want war, work for justice (daviddfriedman.blogspot.com)
		33 points by jacoblyles on April 18, 2009 \| 32 comments
13.		Mathematical trick wiki Terrence Tao blogged about is now live - Tricki (tricki.org)
		33 points by vang3lis on April 18, 2009 \| 7 comments
14.		Data analysis: more money == less sex, for the young (tableausoftware.com)
		33 points by nod on April 18, 2009 \| 21 comments
15.		VC Investment in Internet Deals Did Not Fall Off A Cliff (readwriteweb.com)
		32 points by catone on April 18, 2009 \| 3 comments
16.		Book of Ruby Completed: 425 pages, 300+ Sample Programs, free (sapphiresteel.com)
		29 points by nickb on April 18, 2009 \| 9 comments
17.		Google Book Search settlement gives Google a virtual monopoly over literature (boingboing.net)
		29 points by anuraggoel on April 18, 2009 \| 17 comments
18.		The Atom Publishing Protocol is a failure (bitworking.org)
		28 points by Anon84 on April 18, 2009 \| 5 comments
19.		The Year of the Scrappy Start-Up (uservoice.com)
		27 points by peter123 on April 18, 2009 \| 3 comments
20.		Before test of rote memorization move your eyes from side to side for about 30 seconds. (scienceblogs.com)
		25 points by amichail on April 18, 2009 \| 2 comments
21.		How To Live Forever (dansdata.com)
		25 points by reitzensteinm on April 18, 2009 \| 26 comments
22.		Ask HN: Sales book recommendation?
		25 points by sdragon on April 18, 2009 \| 25 comments
23.		Python Code for the new CRC ML Book -"Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective" (massey.ac.nz)
		25 points by yarapavan on April 18, 2009 \| 1 comment
24.		Curse of the Social (unalone.tumblr.com)
		24 points by markbao on April 18, 2009
25.		Things They Don’t Teach You In Design School (designreviver.com)
		24 points by csomar on April 18, 2009 \| 4 comments
26.		Venture Capital Down 50%. It’s Not Just the Recession, Folks. (techcrunch.com)
		24 points by vaksel on April 18, 2009 \| 4 comments
27.		Ask HN: best file manager for OS X?
		23 points by nailer on April 18, 2009 \| 35 comments
28.		The Road to Mediocrity is Paved with Best Practices. (adambreckler.com)
		22 points by damada2 on April 18, 2009 \| 16 comments
29.		Plain Language Contracts Built for Web Designers (24ways.org)
		20 points by weaksauce on April 18, 2009 \| 5 comments
30.		Crowdsourcing the semantic web (lexandera.com)
		20 points by nimbix on April 18, 2009 \| 4 comments
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