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1.		College vs Start-up - It's not about the job (danieltenner.com)
		104 points by swombat on March 2, 2009 \| 71 comments
2.		The Real High-Tech Immigrant Problem: They’re Leaving (nytimes.com)
		84 points by peter123 on March 2, 2009 \| 126 comments
3.		Database Versioning (heroku.com)
		72 points by ph0rque on March 2, 2009 \| 21 comments
4.		Mac OS 7 installed and running on the iPhone (co.cc)
		70 points by jasonlbaptiste on March 2, 2009 \| 18 comments
5.		Touch Book: Tablet Netbook with ARM CPU, 10+ Hour Battery, Detachable Screen (crunchgear.com)
		62 points by thepanister on March 2, 2009 \| 19 comments
6.		Chinese Students Want To Know: How Do I Get Rich? (forbes.com)
		59 points by physcab on March 2, 2009 \| 33 comments
7.		IPhone’s Misplaced Decline Button? (shawnblanc.net)
		60 points by KevinBongart on March 2, 2009 \| 24 comments
8.		The Y Combinator in Arc and Java (arcfn.com)
		57 points by wheels on March 2, 2009 \| 17 comments
9.		Why Skilled Immigrants Are Leaving the U.S (businessweek.com)
		55 points by raju on March 2, 2009 \| 22 comments
10.		Skittles.com: Interweb the rainbow (skittles.com)
		53 points by mariorz on March 2, 2009 \| 48 comments
11.		WebMynd (YC W08) Makes Your Search Engine Smarter With New Browser Plugin (techcrunch.com)
		41 points by moses1400 on March 2, 2009 \| 19 comments
12.		The Pirate Bay Trial Day 10: Calls for Jail Time (torrentfreak.com)
		43 points by adnymarc on March 2, 2009 \| 57 comments
13.		Facebook's Thiel Explains Failed Twitter Takeover (businessweek.com)
		41 points by markbao on March 2, 2009 \| 15 comments
14.		Arrington's Back (techcrunch.com)
		40 points by bkrausz on March 2, 2009 \| 36 comments
15.		Sentdiff: Diff for Writing (github.com/jackowayed)
		41 points by jackowayed on March 2, 2009 \| 21 comments
16.		The Google App Engine Hoax (brokenpromisms.blogspot.com)
		41 points by jjx on March 2, 2009 \| 39 comments
17.		The sad state of Detroit: outlook falls with home prices (chicagotribune.com)
		37 points by dcurtis on March 2, 2009 \| 30 comments
18.		Twilio Closes Funding Round, Lands Major Customers For Its Telephony API (techcrunch.com)
		34 points by thepanister on March 2, 2009 \| 9 comments
19.		Ask HN: How to grow a service that is popular but never took off?
		33 points by herval on March 2, 2009 \| 12 comments
20.		Does A/B testing lead to crappy products? (andrewchenblog.com)
		32 points by wmorein on March 2, 2009 \| 4 comments
21.		Netflix customers up in arms over the new Netflix Silverlight player (netflix.com)
		30 points by nickb on March 2, 2009 \| 35 comments
22.		Becoming a Great Programmer: Use Your Trash Can (javaworld.com)
		29 points by estherschindler on March 2, 2009 \| 9 comments
23.		A history of adventure games, and how interfaces affect puzzles (strangehorizons.com)
		28 points by MarkN on March 2, 2009 \| 2 comments
24.		Apple's Safari hits 10% browser market share (tgdaily.com)
		26 points by nickb on March 2, 2009 \| 12 comments
25.		Connexions: An Open Source Initiative to Kill Textbooks (collegemogul.com)
		24 points by CollegeMogul on March 2, 2009 \| 18 comments
26.		Hacker House in Palo Alto needs another hacker
		22 points by dangrover on March 2, 2009 \| 4 comments
27.		PHP Components & Tutorials for Everyday Projects (noupe.com)
		22 points by kqr2 on March 2, 2009 \| 6 comments
28.		Showing anger 'is good for career' (telegraph.co.uk)
		21 points by baha_man on March 2, 2009 \| 11 comments
29.		Fred Wilson on The Berkshire Hathaway 2008 Annual Letter (avc.com)
		20 points by spencerfry on March 2, 2009 \| 1 comment
30.		Obama Team Finds It Hard to Adapt Its Web Savvy to Government (washingtonpost.com)
		17 points by raju on March 2, 2009 \| 5 comments
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