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1.		Dear American Airlines... (dustincurtis.com)
		136 points by kyro on May 18, 2009 \| 87 comments
2.		A Life Offline (aaronsw.com)
		130 points by imgabe on May 18, 2009 \| 83 comments
3.		Ruby on Rails and the importance of being stupid (law.harvard.edu)
		120 points by lackbeard on May 18, 2009 \| 92 comments
4.		Amazon EC2 gets statistics, auto scaling and elastic load balancing (aws.typepad.com)
		115 points by ropiku on May 18, 2009 \| 42 comments
5.		How to make your application viral - A guide to getting users (danieltenner.com)
		112 points by swombat on May 18, 2009 \| 32 comments
6.		Top Programming Fonts (hivelogic.com)
		68 points by danbenjamin on May 18, 2009 \| 49 comments
7.		Vim made easy: how to get your favorite IDE features in Vim (arstechnica.com)
		67 points by sdfx on May 18, 2009 \| 44 comments
8.		Ask HN: Your Hacker Workspace
		61 points by janitha on May 18, 2009 \| 86 comments
9.		The Death of Richard Dawkins: A short story by Steve Yegge (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
		59 points by mstevens on May 18, 2009 \| 20 comments
10.		Django tip: Caching and two-phased template rendering (holovaty.com)
		58 points by mace on May 18, 2009 \| 6 comments
11.		Djng - a Django powered microframework (simonwillison.net)
		56 points by simonw on May 18, 2009 \| 19 comments
12.		Django Command Extensions (wiki.github.com)
		53 points by samueladam on May 18, 2009 \| 6 comments
13.		Fixing Threads in Ruby 1.8: A 2-10x performance boost (timetobleed.com)
		51 points by sprsquish on May 18, 2009 \| 14 comments
14.		Computational complexity lectures by Fields medalist Tim Gowers. (cam.ac.uk)
		50 points by amichail on May 18, 2009 \| 7 comments
15.		Adium adds support for IRC and Twitter... (adium.im)
		50 points by ericholscher on May 18, 2009 \| 17 comments
16.		Scribd Invites Writers to Upload Work and Name Their Price (nytimes.com)
		49 points by robg on May 18, 2009 \| 12 comments
17.		Poll: How many HN readers are working on a Startup?
		48 points by minus on May 18, 2009 \| 60 comments
18.		All Medical Science is Wrong within a 95 % Confidence Interval (entropyproduction.blogspot.com)
		49 points by jackchristopher on May 18, 2009 \| 41 comments
19.		Mixed Feelings (wired.com)
		46 points by geuis on May 18, 2009 \| 7 comments
20.		Resty - a bash REST client (github.com/micha)
		44 points by wooby on May 18, 2009 \| 4 comments
21.		Preparing For A First Meeting With Me (feld.com)
		44 points by peter123 on May 18, 2009 \| 20 comments
22.		Finally, CSS based gradient text, no images (dragoninteractive.com)
		43 points by oni0n56 on May 18, 2009 \| 23 comments
23.		Financial secrets of the world's poorest people. (boston.com)
		43 points by robg on May 18, 2009 \| 21 comments
24.		Launch a Business, Not a side Project (thinkvitamin.com)
		43 points by GVRV on May 18, 2009 \| 13 comments
25.		ESR: Is Danish Dying? (ibiblio.org)
		43 points by mdemare on May 18, 2009 \| 24 comments
26.		Ask HN: Review our startup - www.webnotes.net
		38 points by peterlai on May 18, 2009 \| 27 comments
27.		'Youth Magnet' Cities Hit Midlife Crisis (wsj.com)
		32 points by tortilla on May 18, 2009 \| 15 comments
28.		Steve Blank: Founders and dysfunctional families (steveblank.com)
		32 points by wyday on May 18, 2009 \| 11 comments
29.		Facebook Launches OpenID Support - Users Can Now Login With Gmail Accounts (insidefacebook.com)
		31 points by peter123 on May 18, 2009 \| 8 comments
30.		Protein sequencing gone awry: 1 sample, 27 labs, 20 results (arstechnica.com)
		29 points by jgamman on May 18, 2009 \| 7 comments
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