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31.		Patent troll to sue Linden Lab, Blizzard (washingtonpost.com)
		24 points by jibiki on March 12, 2009 \| 5 comments
32.		A Little Web Spider I Wrote Last Night (code included) (trailbehind.com)
		24 points by andrewljohnson on March 12, 2009 \| 7 comments
33.		Stephen Fry: Why the Internet is such a wondrous thing (bbc.co.uk)
		24 points by makimaki on March 12, 2009 \| 2 comments
34.		Ask HN: HN Meetup at SXSW?
		19 points by PStamatiou on March 12, 2009 \| 6 comments
35.		How Much Is A Suggested Slot On Twitter Worth? Jason Calacanis Offers $250,000. (techcrunch.com)
		20 points by vaksel on March 12, 2009 \| 9 comments
36.		Children of older fathers have lower IQs (guardian.co.uk)
		18 points by ksvs on March 12, 2009 \| 45 comments
37.		200+ Windows 7 beta users surveyed: They like it. Quite a bit, actually. (technologizer.com)
		15 points by technologizer on March 12, 2009 \| 10 comments
38.		Ask HN: How do you decide if another person would be a good co-founder?
		14 points by tokenadult on March 12, 2009 \| 4 comments
39.		VPS Showdown (dodgydev.net)
		12 points by jesseread on March 12, 2009 \| 13 comments
40.		The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist (wired.com)
		12 points by peter123 on March 12, 2009
41.		The Aristotle illusion (newscientist.com)
		10 points by ksvs on March 12, 2009 \| 2 comments
42.		$12 Computer: Playpower Wants to Save the World 8 Bits at a Time (wired.com)
		11 points by naish on March 12, 2009 \| 1 comment
43.		TomTom Can License FAT without violating GPL (sdtimes.com)
		11 points by VonGuard on March 12, 2009 \| 1 comment
44.		Description and implementation of Longest Common Subsequence in python and c++ (wordaligned.org)
		10 points by apu on March 12, 2009 \| 1 comment
45.		Erlang versus Clojure? Rich Hickey explains. (groups.google.com)
		10 points by jaaron on March 12, 2009
46.		Google Also Likes To Use FriendFeed For R&D; Reader Gets Conversations (techcrunch.com)
		10 points by thepanister on March 12, 2009 \| 1 comment
47.		Californian VC (YC) wants Cambridge start-ups for new funding round (businessweekly.co.uk)
		8 points by drm237 on March 12, 2009 \| 6 comments
48.		Fuzed: A Distributed Erlang Frontend for Heterogenous Clusters (github.com/kirindave)
		9 points by mojombo on March 12, 2009
49.		Great news: Tony Morris is OK (twitter.com/drmaciver)
		9 points by acangiano on March 12, 2009 \| 2 comments
50.		New Battery Could Recharge in Seconds (wired.com)
		9 points by naish on March 12, 2009
51.		Do Not Crawl in the DUST: Different URLs with Similar Text (www2007.org)
		9 points by quilby on March 12, 2009 \| 1 comment
52.		Assembly Language: x86 Instruction Set Reference (siyobik.info)
		8 points by mroman on March 12, 2009
53.		C++ Frequently Questioned Answers (yosefk.com)
		8 points by dfox on March 12, 2009
54.		Erlang vs. Haskell (lambda-the-ultimate.org)
		8 points by aswanson on March 12, 2009
55.		Boltzmann’s Universe (discovermagazine.com)
		8 points by MaysonL on March 12, 2009
56.		Barbara Liskov wins Turing Award (web.mit.edu)
		8 points by dimm on March 12, 2009
57.		Google redesign (Google in a grid) (vcarrer.com)
		7 points by vladocar on March 12, 2009 \| 3 comments
58.		Google Ad Chief Tim Armstrong Replaces Randy Falco As Chairman And CEO Of AOL (techcrunch.com)
		7 points by vaksel on March 12, 2009
59.		The multicore crises: Scala vs. Erlang (infoq.com)
		7 points by snorkel on March 12, 2009 \| 4 comments
60.		Paying Entrepreneurs To Find the Right Business (nytimes.com)
		7 points by wyday on March 12, 2009
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