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1.		Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable (shirky.com)
		99 points by kf on March 14, 2009 \| 37 comments
2.		HN Member on Frontpage of Today's NY Times (nytimes.com)
		77 points by breck on March 14, 2009 \| 23 comments
3.		"Traditional methods for protecting community from..scale..are now manifestly unfeasible" (kuro5hin.org)
		68 points by Jebdm on March 14, 2009 \| 22 comments
4.		Confessions of a terrible programmer (kickin-the-darkness.com)
		66 points by albertcardona on March 14, 2009 \| 41 comments
5.		Hello Haskell, Goodbye Lisp (newartisans.com)
		68 points by dons on March 14, 2009 \| 47 comments
6.		How do you recognise good programmers if you’re a business guy? (inter-sections.net)
		66 points by known on March 14, 2009 \| 81 comments
7.		Supermarket vegetables now 5-40% lower in nutrients than 50 years ago (time.com)
		56 points by crocus on March 14, 2009 \| 83 comments
8.		Tired of Looking for Work, Some Create Their Own (nytimes.com)
		43 points by robg on March 14, 2009 \| 9 comments
9.		Yay! Hacker News is on a new and improved server now.
		41 points by kirubakaran on March 14, 2009 \| 38 comments
10.		Overnight Success: It Takes Years (codinghorror.com)
		36 points by fiaz on March 14, 2009 \| 2 comments
11.		How I launched flickrup.com in less than two weeks
		34 points by monological on March 14, 2009 \| 43 comments
12.		Amazon 'sucks the air out of the room.' That room is now your server room (elctech.com)
		33 points by usiegj00 on March 14, 2009 \| 8 comments
13.		A Tiny Computer (lambda-the-ultimate.org)
		32 points by jwilliams on March 14, 2009 \| 3 comments
14.		Happy Pi Day (wikipedia.org)
		30 points by wayne on March 14, 2009 \| 11 comments
15.		Why Perforce is more scalable than Git (homelinux.org)
		29 points by peter123 on March 14, 2009 \| 47 comments
16.		Can Marijuana Save California's Economy? (yahoo.com)
		29 points by jaxn on March 14, 2009 \| 52 comments
17.		Facebook Connect for iPhone. Friends Now Included. (facebook.com)
		27 points by peter123 on March 14, 2009 \| 1 comment
18.		Ask HN: Would you pay for a shared office/startup space? What would it need?
		26 points by callmeed on March 14, 2009 \| 30 comments
19.		Kevin Ham, the $300 million master of Web domains (2007) (cnn.com)
		22 points by jasonlbaptiste on March 14, 2009 \| 22 comments
20.		Google Releases Jaiku Source Code (code.google.com)
		21 points by danw on March 14, 2009 \| 3 comments
21.		Ask HN: Please review Twollars
		21 points by eisokant on March 14, 2009 \| 11 comments
22.		Was Einstein Wrong?: A Quantum Threat to Special Relativity (sciam.com)
		18 points by ksvs on March 14, 2009 \| 7 comments
23.		Songsmith "is clearly a true work of genius" (torvalds-family.blogspot.com)
		19 points by chanux on March 14, 2009 \| 26 comments
24.		Microblogging Will Marginalize Corporate Email (bhc3.wordpress.com)
		17 points by crocus on March 14, 2009 \| 16 comments
25.		Stop guessing: A guide towards deciding your next feature (mixpanel.com)
		16 points by suhail on March 14, 2009 \| 5 comments
26.		Ask HN: Which are the things you want the most?
		15 points by burnedouthacker on March 14, 2009 \| 35 comments
27.		Engineering is about tradeoffs: How hard will you work to save 68KB of disk space? (msdn.com)
		16 points by nreece on March 14, 2009 \| 4 comments
28.		Surprise: these SXSW Twitter Visualizations are pure JavaScript (Flash-free) (pepsicozeitgeist.com)
		14 points by ahoyhere on March 14, 2009 \| 8 comments
29.		Things You Don’t Know About Pluto (discovermagazine.com)
		14 points by rglovejoy on March 14, 2009 \| 3 comments
30.		Foreclosing on a Plane, Then Flying It Away (nytimes.com)
		13 points by peter123 on March 14, 2009
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