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1.		Bootstrapping Technology For Eight Bucks a Day (interfacelab.com)
		90 points by jawngee on April 29, 2009 \| 19 comments
2.		News News: Faster, Fewer Flamewars (ycombinator.com)
		82 points by pg on April 29, 2009 \| 58 comments
3.		WebKit gets a new JavaScript profiler courtesy of 280 North (YC W08) (alertdebugging.com)
		80 points by boucher on April 29, 2009 \| 16 comments
4.		American excess: A Wall Street trader tells all (independent.co.uk)
		80 points by winanga on April 29, 2009 \| 29 comments
5.		Python Autocompletion for Vim, Emacs and TextMate (code.google.com)
		76 points by jenningsjason on April 29, 2009 \| 15 comments
6.		JWZ, on Garbage Collection (jwz.org)
		74 points by abstractbill on April 29, 2009 \| 29 comments
7.		Beej's Guide to Network Programming (beej.us)
		72 points by streblo on April 29, 2009 \| 22 comments
8.		Not Smart: Warner Music Issues DMCA Takedown On Larry Lessig Presentation (techdirt.com)
		67 points by jasonlbaptiste on April 29, 2009 \| 26 comments
9.		A Selection Of Thoughts From Actual Women (regarding GoGaRuCo) (hackety.org)
		66 points by sant0sk1 on April 29, 2009 \| 145 comments
10.		How to Work the Room (gigaom.com)
		62 points by Celcius on April 29, 2009 \| 19 comments
11.		Flight Control (#1 paid app) iPhone Game Sales Numbers (firemintgames.blogspot.com)
		54 points by defunkt on April 29, 2009 \| 11 comments
12.		Generalizing from one example (lesswrong.com)
		53 points by jibiki on April 29, 2009 \| 6 comments
13.		Ask YC: Cheap alternatives to Aeron chairs?
		52 points by ashishk on April 29, 2009 \| 69 comments
14.		Reddit.TV launches - what do you think, Hacker News? (reddit.tv)
		50 points by kn0thing on April 29, 2009 \| 33 comments
15.		Python: Intro to Decorators (tds.net)
		48 points by dgallagher on April 29, 2009 \| 3 comments
16.		Examples of “Lazy Registration” (webjackalope.com)
		45 points by tortilla on April 29, 2009 \| 25 comments
17.		60% of Twitter Users Quit Within the First Month (mashable.com)
		43 points by jasonlbaptiste on April 29, 2009 \| 44 comments
18.		Great funding model: Adopt a line of code (getmiro.com)
		41 points by geeko on April 29, 2009 \| 27 comments
19.		SHA1 collisions down to 2^52 [pdf] (cr.yp.to)
		40 points by durin42 on April 29, 2009 \| 23 comments
20.		An email from a very confused guy who can’t find a job (iwillteachyoutoberich.com)
		38 points by oscardelben on April 29, 2009 \| 39 comments
21.		India buys 250k OLPCs (guardian.co.uk)
		35 points by nigelbruin on April 29, 2009 \| 12 comments
22.		TextMate Basics Tutorial (serenity.de)
		35 points by twampss on April 29, 2009 \| 15 comments
23.		Talk about StackOverflow (joelonsoftware.com)
		35 points by twampss on April 29, 2009 \| 2 comments
24.		Perl saved my vacation (moertel.com)
		34 points by mudge on April 29, 2009 \| 14 comments
25.		How Scala Changed My Programming Style (artima.com)
		33 points by coglethorpe on April 29, 2009 \| 20 comments
26.		Ask HN : How can I estimate my market?
		33 points by csomar on April 29, 2009 \| 9 comments
27.		Acxiom: the company that knows if you own a cat or if you're right-handed (telegraph.co.uk)
		30 points by vaksel on April 29, 2009 \| 11 comments
28.		Is Fatigue Really Just All In Our Heads? (seedmagazine.com)
		29 points by peter123 on April 29, 2009 \| 14 comments
29.		Ask YC/PG: Quantitative success of YC so far?
		27 points by ryanwaggoner on April 29, 2009 \| 10 comments
30.		XP Mode in Windows 7 is a scam (theinquirer.net)
		27 points by ableal on April 29, 2009 \| 12 comments
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