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1.
Soldier in Wikileaks video of 2007 Apache attack reveals what happened that day (wired.com)
361 points by mawhidby on April 20, 2010 | 106 comments
2.
The scariest pricing idea ever. That works. (thefreelancery.com)
264 points by pw on April 20, 2010 | 71 comments
3.
Why 42? - Douglas Adams Explains (groups.google.com)
209 points by instantramen on April 20, 2010 | 64 comments
4.
Google reveals statistics on government requests of its data (google.com)
201 points by michaelfairley on April 20, 2010 | 53 comments
5.
Why Teenagers Are Growing Up So Slowly Today (newsweek.com)
162 points by anuleczka on April 20, 2010 | 100 comments
6.
JavaScript Things I Wish I Knew Much Earlier In My Career (smashingmagazine.com)
161 points by fogus on April 20, 2010 | 68 comments
7.
Why Perl 6 is different (perl.org)
152 points by fogus on April 20, 2010 | 99 comments
8.
Building Highly Reliable Websites For Small Companies (kalzumeus.com)
121 points by patio11 on April 20, 2010 | 23 comments
9.
Richard Stallman: "I Wished I Had Killed Myself" (opendotdotdot.blogspot.com)
101 points by Sandman on April 20, 2010 | 108 comments
10.
Anti-Cancer Agent Stops Metastasis In Its Tracks (bnl.gov)
101 points by cwan on April 20, 2010 | 13 comments
11.
2 Steps to Becoming a Great Developer (theadmin.org)
83 points by jmonegro on April 20, 2010 | 10 comments
12.
Web start-ups almost always fail. So why are these guys launching one? (slate.com)
80 points by tptacek on April 20, 2010 | 19 comments
13.
An Economy of Liars (wsj.com)
78 points by watchandwait on April 20, 2010 | 98 comments
14.
Woman Gives Her Autistic 9-Year-Old Marijuana (slate.com)
76 points by pw0ncakes on April 20, 2010 | 38 comments
15.
How To Design Like Apple (pragmaticmarketing.com)
75 points by asimjalis on April 20, 2010 | 8 comments
16.
"I decided to add "inertial" scrolling, where you gave the image a push..." (folklore.org)
74 points by vark on April 20, 2010 | 18 comments
17.
Cheat sheet for Lisp dialects (Common Lisp, Scheme, Clojure, Emacs Lisp) (wikidot.com)
74 points by alrex021 on April 20, 2010 | 11 comments
18.
SproutCore: Introducing GreenHouse (sproutcore.com)
72 points by joegaudet on April 20, 2010 | 20 comments
19.
Did rubyonrails.org get hijacked? (rubyonrails.org)
68 points by fretlessjazz on April 20, 2010 | 26 comments
20.
Free 6 Week Android Development Course by O'Reilly (creativelive.com)
68 points by mcantelon on April 20, 2010 | 3 comments
21.
Danger signs to search for in your writing (io9.com)
66 points by RiderOfGiraffes on April 20, 2010 | 29 comments
22.
Cyberattack on Google Said to Hit Password System (nytimes.com)
62 points by asnyder on April 20, 2010 | 4 comments
23.
Please... No rockstars (darrylsiry.posterous.com)
64 points by fromedome on April 20, 2010 | 46 comments
24.
No Shit in the App Store? Oh Please (designbygravity.wordpress.com)
61 points by cschanck on April 20, 2010 | 22 comments
25.
The pragmatic programmer tips (pragprog.com)
60 points by kunqiana on April 20, 2010 | 9 comments
26.
iPhone Developer Websites (appstorm.net)
58 points by collistaeed on April 20, 2010 | 7 comments
27.
World Bank Open Data (worldbank.org)
57 points by mcantelon on April 20, 2010 | 2 comments
28.
Geek Power: Steven Levy Revisits Tech Titans, Hackers, Idealists (wired.com)
53 points by mkuhn on April 20, 2010
29.
Steve Jobs “Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone” (techcrunch.com)
52 points by TheBurningOr on April 20, 2010 | 60 comments
30.
Brief Meditative Exercise Shown to Improve Cognition (sciencedaily.com)
50 points by mahipal on April 20, 2010 | 8 comments

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