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1.		Australian Government adds Wikileaks to banned website list; $11k/day fine for linking (techradar.com)
		119 points by nickb on March 18, 2009 \| 70 comments
2.		How to Incorporate Stupidity Into Your AI Code (gamasutra.com)
		109 points by arem on March 18, 2009 \| 18 comments
3.		IBM in Talks to Buy Sun in Bid to Add To Web Heft (wsj.com)
		95 points by sown on March 18, 2009 \| 78 comments
4.		GNU Emacs Video Editing (1010.co.uk)
		73 points by rlm on March 18, 2009 \| 15 comments
5.		Programmer from Finland has lost finger replaced with USB drive (telegraph.co.uk)
		65 points by rglovejoy on March 18, 2009 \| 29 comments
6.		Chrome Gets Plugins: How to Write a Chrome Extension in Three Easy Steps (mattcutts.com)
		64 points by anuraggoel on March 18, 2009 \| 31 comments
7.		Parrot VM v1.0.0 released (parrot.org)
		61 points by johnm on March 18, 2009 \| 29 comments
8.		Startup Founder On Google Entering Their Market (npost.com)
		57 points by ccarpenterg on March 18, 2009 \| 24 comments
9.		NSA offering 'billions' for Skype eavesdrop solution (theregister.co.uk)
		53 points by CaptainMorgan on March 18, 2009 \| 61 comments
10.		For Sale: The $100 House (nytimes.com)
		52 points by dionidium on March 18, 2009 \| 52 comments
11.		Personal Renewal (pbs.org)
		46 points by queensnake on March 18, 2009 \| 9 comments
12.		Echodio (YC W09) Lets You Sync Your iTunes To The Cloud (300 Invites) (techcrunch.com)
		44 points by vaksel on March 18, 2009 \| 8 comments
13.		The Real Secret of Thoroughly Excellent Companies (harvardbusiness.org)
		45 points by peter123 on March 18, 2009 \| 19 comments
14.		Smallest full-featured Linux PC ever? (linuxdevices.com)
		43 points by kqr2 on March 18, 2009 \| 17 comments
15.		View your page in multiple versions of IE side-by-side (msdn.com)
		42 points by wayne on March 18, 2009 \| 17 comments
16.		Major Book Publishers Start Turning To Scribd (techcrunch.com)
		39 points by trip on March 18, 2009 \| 34 comments
17.		Apple's Joswiak: Wundrbar is Very Special (wundrbar.com)
		37 points by garbowza on March 18, 2009 \| 15 comments
18.		Paying for hackernews frontpage links, now? (rentacoder.com)
		36 points by slater on March 18, 2009 \| 42 comments
19.		Remember the $400k/year parrot ebook? Here's sales figures for another similar site. (sitepoint.com)
		34 points by bemmu on March 18, 2009 \| 20 comments
20.		Photos from YC (W09) Demo Day (divvyshot.com)
		32 points by zaveri on March 18, 2009 \| 18 comments
21.		Chrome Experiments: Javascript Demos in Chrome (chromeexperiments.com)
		25 points by chaostheory on March 18, 2009 \| 1 comment
22.		A/b test mallocs against your memory footprint (timetobleed.com)
		25 points by ice799 on March 18, 2009 \| 7 comments
23.		Fire the AIG management (law.harvard.edu)
		24 points by sanj on March 18, 2009 \| 47 comments
24.		Ask HN: How useful is Pair Programming?
		23 points by aj on March 18, 2009 \| 25 comments
25.		When is Amazon's EC2 appropriate for your workload? A little helper app for Ubuntu (dustinkirkland.com)
		23 points by mooism2 on March 18, 2009
26.		Pittsburgh Hacker News Meetup: Saturday, March 28th at 9PM at Church Brew Works (churchbrew.com)
		21 points by kf on March 18, 2009 \| 16 comments
27.		Business Ideas for Startups (financialreflections.com)
		21 points by coglethorpe on March 18, 2009 \| 22 comments
28.		Woz Survives round one of Dancing with the Stars (abc.go.com)
		20 points by scumola on March 18, 2009 \| 6 comments
29.		Poll: Do you like zombie movies?
		20 points by froo on March 18, 2009 \| 53 comments
30.		The Sun Cloud will be RESTful (tbray.org)
		18 points by alexandros on March 18, 2009 \| 14 comments
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