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1.		YC Rejected: Please read.
		171 points by kyro on April 7, 2009 \| 31 comments
2.		Paul Graham: The 10 Secrets of Selling Online (1997) (archive.org)
		82 points by jackchristopher on April 7, 2009 \| 51 comments
3.		Hack Your Speaking Skills (acm.org)
		72 points by ziadbc on April 7, 2009 \| 28 comments
4.		I Want You to Apologize (harvardbusiness.org)
		65 points by peter123 on April 7, 2009 \| 22 comments
5.		FriendFeed Is In Danger Of Becoming The Coolest App No One Uses (techcrunch.com)
		63 points by ericbieller on April 7, 2009 \| 55 comments
6.		50 mb Linux livecd distro with a XUL interface and 10 second boot (xpud.org)
		61 points by sandGorgon on April 7, 2009 \| 24 comments
7.		Ask HN: Got rejected by YC 6-12 months ago? Where are you now?
		61 points by vaksel on April 7, 2009 \| 56 comments
8.		The YC Rejection thread
		61 points by nanexcool on April 7, 2009 \| 137 comments
9.		JamLegend is hiring interns this summer (snaptalent.com)
		55 points by sharpshoot on April 7, 2009 \| 27 comments
10.		Lisp's reputation is so bad that many people don't even take a look at Lisp (scheming.org)
		52 points by iamelgringo on April 7, 2009 \| 68 comments
11.		Twi.bz: the transparent URL shortener (twi.bz)
		50 points by jgrahamc on April 7, 2009 \| 72 comments
12.		Ben Heck's C64 Laptop (benheck.com)
		49 points by kqr2 on April 7, 2009
13.		More than 20% of self-made billionaires never completed college (forbes.com)
		46 points by oz on April 7, 2009 \| 73 comments
14.		The “Good” Student (steveblank.com)
		44 points by _pius on April 7, 2009 \| 23 comments
15.		YC is Wrong About You
		43 points by jeremynolan on April 7, 2009 \| 25 comments
16.		Apply to AlphaLab: $25K and 5mo free office space (alphalab.org)
		40 points by thejash on April 7, 2009 \| 34 comments
17.		Checks Before Launching Your Website (smashingmagazine.com)
		39 points by yaj on April 7, 2009 \| 11 comments
18.		Ask HN: What would you love to pay for if it was available?
		39 points by ryanwaggoner on April 7, 2009 \| 189 comments
19.		Disk IO Performance: EC2 vs Mosso vs Linode (mudy.info)
		39 points by wmf on April 7, 2009 \| 10 comments
20.		Experiences deploying a large-scale infrastructure in Amazon EC2 (agiletesting.blogspot.com)
		37 points by davidw on April 7, 2009 \| 4 comments
21.		Ask HN: Obsessive Asian Parents
		36 points by buggy_code on April 7, 2009 \| 34 comments
22.		How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet (douglasadams.com)
		35 points by prateekdayal on April 7, 2009 \| 9 comments
23.		The end of Philosophy (nytimes.com)
		35 points by knieveltech on April 7, 2009 \| 37 comments
24.		Where have all the graduate students gone? (2002) (csmonitor.com)
		34 points by physcab on April 7, 2009 \| 27 comments
25.		The Science of When to Get Married (thedailybeast.com)
		31 points by peter123 on April 7, 2009 \| 9 comments
26.		Ask HN: What Programming Book would you buy right now (if it existed)
		32 points by plinkplonk on April 7, 2009 \| 52 comments
27.		GM and Segway announce two-wheeled urban transport vehicle (crunchgear.com)
		29 points by vaksel on April 7, 2009 \| 8 comments
28.		How the Internet Got Its Rules (nytimes.com)
		27 points by pj on April 7, 2009 \| 2 comments
29.		Daniel Weinreb: Fundamental problems with the Common Lisp language (scheming.org)
		26 points by parenthesis on April 7, 2009 \| 12 comments
30.		The Rapid Release Tautology (modernperlbooks.com)
		26 points by swombat on April 7, 2009 \| 9 comments
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