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1.
How to stop the drug wars (economist.com)
129 points by arjunb on March 8, 2009 | 155 comments
2.
Wolfram Alpha is Coming -- and It Could be as Important as Google (twine.com)
97 points by toffer on March 8, 2009 | 73 comments
3.
Trailer now available for Ray Kurzweil's movie, "Transcendent Man" (transcendentman.com)
75 points by gourneau on March 8, 2009 | 56 comments
4.
Why the Wii will never get any better (hackmii.com)
58 points by dfox on March 8, 2009 | 29 comments
5.
Reilly’s Right - Tickets Are Cheap (ticketstumbler.com)
49 points by fallentimes on March 8, 2009 | 3 comments
6.
What Colour are your bits? (sooke.bc.ca)
48 points by blasdel on March 8, 2009 | 11 comments
7.
Ruby-style Blocks in Python (espians.com)
46 points by tav on March 8, 2009 | 42 comments
8.
Dolphins blowing bubble rings, and playing with them [video] (metacafe.com)
44 points by DaniFong on March 8, 2009 | 14 comments
9.
The Importance of the Facebook Redesign (unalone.tumblr.com)
40 points by unalone on March 8, 2009 | 17 comments
10.
How to rewrite files in Linux (launchpad.net)
40 points by kqr2 on March 8, 2009 | 20 comments
11.
Big Music Will Surrender, But Not Until At Least 2011 (techcrunch.com)
36 points by vaksel on March 8, 2009 | 26 comments
12.
Nice book on convex optimization techniques (stanford.edu)
33 points by carterschonwald on March 8, 2009 | 21 comments
13.
Dear Speakers: things that interfere with getting a message across to an audience (duncandavidson.com)
30 points by sarvesh on March 8, 2009 | 10 comments
14.
PostgreSQL: What happened to Hot Standby? (toolbox.com)
29 points by jawngee on March 8, 2009 | 36 comments
15.
CSRF vulnerability found in Gmail; Google not willing to fix it (seclists.org)
27 points by nickb on March 8, 2009 | 17 comments
16.
Doctoral Candidates Anticipate Hard Times (nytimes.com)
25 points by nickb on March 8, 2009 | 32 comments
17.
Hack your life for fun & profit with Mitch Altman (creator of the TV-B-Gone) (video.google.com)
25 points by gourneau on March 8, 2009 | 4 comments
18.
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (kottke.org)
25 points by kf on March 8, 2009 | 4 comments
19.
Reverse HTTP (ietf.org)
23 points by vaksel on March 8, 2009 | 9 comments
20.
The History of Python: How Exceptions Came to be Classes (python-history.blogspot.com)
22 points by dfox on March 8, 2009
21.
How the US forgot how to make Trident missiles (sundayherald.com)
22 points by kqr2 on March 8, 2009 | 7 comments
22.
Ask HN: Review our startup (www.chuwe.com)
21 points by sgrove on March 8, 2009 | 26 comments
23.
Enzyme behind cancer spread found (bbc.co.uk)
21 points by nickb on March 8, 2009 | 9 comments
24.
Solving the TinyUrl centralization problem (scripting.com)
20 points by nreece on March 8, 2009 | 16 comments
25.
Ask HN: Worthwhile hacker events in the Bay Area for March/April 2009?
17 points by denglish on March 8, 2009 | 13 comments
26.
All-in-one I-have-no-idea (37signals.com)
17 points by alecst on March 8, 2009 | 17 comments
27.
Your Cool Technology is Worthless... If You Don't Know How to Sell (mixergy.com)
17 points by thinkingserious on March 8, 2009 | 1 comment
28.
Is Google Rewiring Our Brains? Yes. fMRI studies of websearch in the Internet savvy. (searchengineland.com)
16 points by DaniFong on March 8, 2009 | 11 comments
29.
Return on Design (sethgodin.typepad.com)
15 points by peter123 on March 8, 2009 | 1 comment
30.
Ask HN: We just launched PleaseRT.me, a Twitter-app, please send feedback (pleasert.me)
15 points by Mazy on March 8, 2009 | 19 comments

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