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1.		Terry Prachett: Why Gandalf Never Married (1985) (ansible.co.uk)
		95 points by iamelgringo on March 15, 2009 \| 39 comments
2.		Ask YC: Anyone actually making money selling ebooks/digital goods?
		74 points by iamelgringo on March 15, 2009 \| 42 comments
3.		The Positive Legacy of C++ and Java (artima.com)
		50 points by jwilliams on March 15, 2009 \| 11 comments
4.		Tim Berners-Lee's TED Talk: The next Web of open, linked data (ted.com)
		49 points by mcxx on March 15, 2009 \| 24 comments
5.		The success of drug decriminalization in Portugal (salon.com)
		45 points by kqr2 on March 15, 2009 \| 24 comments
6.		Study: Old Age Begins at 27 (telegraph.co.uk)
		40 points by DanielBMarkham on March 15, 2009 \| 72 comments
7.		PyPy and Psyco (voidspace.org.uk)
		39 points by iamelgringo on March 15, 2009 \| 11 comments
8.		Rocket Scientists Shoot Down Mosquitoes With Lasers (wsj.com)
		38 points by kirubakaran on March 15, 2009 \| 12 comments
9.		Ask YC: Game programming in Lisp - is it possible?
		37 points by gameprogrdr on March 15, 2009 \| 40 comments
10.		Torrent search engine Mininova earning €1 million a year (arstechnica.com)
		36 points by peter123 on March 15, 2009 \| 17 comments
11.		How to Avoid Liquefying Your Jellyfish (nytimes.com)
		35 points by robg on March 15, 2009 \| 7 comments
12.		Samsung: Solid state will match hard drive price (cnet.com)
		35 points by dmoney on March 15, 2009 \| 22 comments
13.		Usability Analysis of Apple.com: Why is it so Good? (spoonfeddesign.com)
		32 points by rlm on March 15, 2009 \| 9 comments
14.		Double your userbase with two lines of code and a box of Modafinil (alexkrupp.typepad.com)
		29 points by samueladam on March 15, 2009 \| 13 comments
15.		Optimised to fail: Card readers for online banking (lightbluetouchpaper.org)
		29 points by dfox on March 15, 2009 \| 6 comments
16.		Just Don’t Compare Kosmix to Google (nytimes.com)
		28 points by pclark on March 15, 2009 \| 9 comments
17.		In Italy, A Vending Machine Makes the Pizza (nytimes.com)
		27 points by ojbyrne on March 15, 2009 \| 12 comments
18.		Purely Functional Retrogames (dadgum.com)
		27 points by hedgehog on March 15, 2009 \| 1 comment
19.		A Programmer's Plea to Laptop Makers (kevinwilliampang.com)
		26 points by kpanghmc on March 15, 2009 \| 38 comments
20.		Can you forge your future self when you never leave the present? (nytimes.com)
		25 points by robg on March 15, 2009 \| 8 comments
21.		Would You Bet $100,000,000 on Your Pet Programming Language? (2007) (dadgum.com)
		25 points by dschoon on March 15, 2009 \| 7 comments
22.		The power of a whiteboard (agile-software-development.com)
		24 points by dhotson on March 15, 2009 \| 13 comments
23.		Swiss to end secret bank accounts (upi.com)
		20 points by eisokant on March 15, 2009 \| 25 comments
24.		Clever Multiplication Technique (Video) (hostedfile.com)
		20 points by Gibbon on March 15, 2009 \| 3 comments
25.		Ask YC: Review my startup: See'n'Report - People Powered News
		17 points by sharjeel on March 15, 2009 \| 9 comments
26.		WeFollow.com: Kevin Rose creates Twitter Directory (wefollow.com)
		17 points by rogercosseboom on March 15, 2009 \| 28 comments
27.		Never turn down a sales lead (rondam.blogspot.com)
		16 points by lisper on March 15, 2009 \| 3 comments
28.		AT&T Fails The SXSW iPhone Test (businessinsider.com)
		16 points by ksvs on March 15, 2009 \| 12 comments
29.		Warning over narcissistic pupils (bbc.co.uk)
		15 points by nickb on March 15, 2009 \| 7 comments
30.		String and regexp performance in browsers (parallelbrowser.blogspot.com)
		15 points by dmolnar on March 15, 2009
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