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1.		Meditation: Why Bother? (vipassana.com)
		84 points by PieSquared on May 16, 2009 \| 70 comments
2.		Danger Mouse's EMI-killed CD will be released as a blank CD-R, just add download (bbc.co.uk)
		66 points by Xichekolas on May 16, 2009 \| 52 comments
3.		Lamson The Python SMTP Server (lamsonproject.org)
		65 points by iamelgringo on May 16, 2009 \| 21 comments
4.		Heroku: Best money ever spent (elctech.com)
		56 points by tortilla on May 16, 2009 \| 9 comments
5.		Wolfram - what is the speed of an unladen swallow? (wolframalpha.com)
		53 points by dhotson on May 16, 2009 \| 49 comments
6.		Solaris + ZFS = The Perfect Home File/Media Server (st0w.com)
		47 points by j2d2 on May 16, 2009 \| 38 comments
7.		Scott Aaronson tears NKS apart [pdf] (scottaaronson.com)
		42 points by pookleblinky on May 16, 2009 \| 37 comments
8.		Confessions of an Introverted Traveler (worldhum.com)
		38 points by absconditus on May 16, 2009 \| 23 comments
9.		The Usability of Passwords (baekdal.com)
		34 points by csomar on May 16, 2009 \| 10 comments
10.		Evserver - Lightweight Asynchronous Python WSGI Server (code.google.com)
		34 points by ntoshev on May 16, 2009
11.		The Codex Seraphinianus: Man and woman copulate, turn into alligator (believermag.com)
		33 points by silentbicycle on May 16, 2009 \| 16 comments
12.		Altman says Loopt to be profitable in 2009 (bloomberg.com)
		28 points by cominatchu on May 16, 2009 \| 21 comments
13.		"America's War on Science" - Do you have a license for that beaker? (memepunks.blogspot.com)
		28 points by asciilifeform on May 16, 2009 \| 15 comments
14.		How the Mighty Fall: A Primer on the Warning Signs (businessweek.com)
		26 points by agrinshtein on May 16, 2009 \| 2 comments
15.		The World's First Web Server (flickr.com)
		24 points by vaksel on May 16, 2009 \| 4 comments
16.		Duck Duck go on CNN top story as a logo (gabrielweinberg.com)
		23 points by darwinw on May 16, 2009 \| 9 comments
17.		Github's fork queue is dangerous (manxome.org)
		23 points by toni on May 16, 2009 \| 14 comments
18.		Living abroad gives you a creative edge (economist.com)
		21 points by __ on May 16, 2009 \| 19 comments
19.		Erlang is pragmatic (12monkeys.co.uk)
		21 points by hassy on May 16, 2009 \| 14 comments
20.		Ask HN: Rate my startup, Nrds (nrds.co.uk)
		21 points by jparicka on May 16, 2009 \| 23 comments
21.		Ask HN: Using personal code at work
		20 points by jskopek on May 16, 2009 \| 21 comments
22.		The Odds of Winning Solitaire (roziturnbull.com)
		20 points by soundsop on May 16, 2009 \| 7 comments
23.		How to build a Universal Answer Engine: ten vital principles (trueknowledge.com)
		19 points by epi0Bauqu on May 16, 2009 \| 1 comment
24.		Wolfram Alpha: The Wikipedia Killer (25hoursaday.com)
		17 points by darwinw on May 16, 2009 \| 21 comments
25.		How Casinos Can Find and Target Their Favorite Customers: The Biggest Losers (upenn.edu)
		17 points by newmediaclay on May 16, 2009 \| 21 comments
26.		Ask HN: Please review my new social learning site (cafecourses.com)
		17 points by bdmac97 on May 16, 2009 \| 31 comments
27.		Facebook raises $150 million more to cash out employees (venturebeat.com)
		16 points by peter123 on May 16, 2009 \| 11 comments
28.		Darwin's Nightmare (technologyreview.com)
		15 points by razorburn on May 16, 2009 \| 3 comments
29.		Google gets patent on floating data centers (asserttrue.blogspot.com)
		13 points by techdog on May 16, 2009 \| 14 comments
30.		Thoughts from a startup on getting accepted into new incubator from TheFunded (jedwhite.com)
		13 points by jedwhite on May 16, 2009 \| 22 comments
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