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1.		Stop pouring hot water down the drain (yahoo.com)
		125 points by chaostheory on March 25, 2009 \| 49 comments
2.		Unladen Swallow: Making CPython Faster Using LLVM (code.google.com)
		105 points by durin42 on March 25, 2009 \| 15 comments
3.		Anxiety, Depression, Technology, and Me (anxious-tec.blogspot.com)
		73 points by tiredandempty on March 25, 2009 \| 51 comments
4.		The Global Warming Heretic - NYTimes On Freeman Dyson (nytimes.com)
		71 points by eisenkr on March 25, 2009 \| 111 comments
5.		Fast polling using C, memached, nginx and libevent (amix.dk)
		71 points by amix on March 25, 2009 \| 18 comments
6.		High-powered mathematicians take on free will (princeton.edu)
		62 points by nickb on March 25, 2009 \| 37 comments
7.		Wikileaks.de domain owner raided (wikileaks.org)
		59 points by chris11 on March 25, 2009 \| 12 comments
8.		RIP, MBA - The economic crisis has exposed the myth of business-school expertise (thebigmoney.com)
		57 points by winanga on March 25, 2009 \| 54 comments
9.		China bans Youtube (reuters.com)
		53 points by vaksel on March 25, 2009 \| 39 comments
10.		PhoneGap: Open Source Tool for Building 'Native' Mobile Apps (iPhone, Android) with Javascript (phonegap.com)
		45 points by chaostheory on March 25, 2009 \| 9 comments
11.		CS171 - Data Visualization at Harvard (seas.harvard.edu)
		42 points by Anon84 on March 25, 2009 \| 8 comments
12.		Justin.TV is bigger than Hulu...overseas (techcrunch.com)
		40 points by jrbedard on March 25, 2009 \| 17 comments
13.		Good Advice on Keeping Your Database Simple and Fast (allthingsdistributed.com)
		40 points by don420 on March 25, 2009 \| 14 comments
14.		Sand Won't Save You This Time: the story of chlorine trifluoride (corante.com)
		39 points by dschobel on March 25, 2009 \| 4 comments
15.		Xobni takes in funding, exits beta (cnet.com)
		38 points by jmorin007 on March 25, 2009 \| 11 comments
16.		Review: MailChimp (Email Marketing) (paulstamatiou.com)
		36 points by twampss on March 25, 2009 \| 18 comments
17.		How Y Combinator Schools Tech Startups (fastcompany.com)
		36 points by fallentimes on March 25, 2009 \| 26 comments
18.		Tell HN: YC Summer 2009 application is due today.
		35 points by sarvesh on March 25, 2009 \| 67 comments
19.		HN NYC: Spring Meetup at Shake Shack, 4/3 (anyvite.com)
		33 points by daveambrose on March 25, 2009 \| 20 comments
20.		How Google Routes Around Outages (datacenterknowledge.com)
		31 points by 1SockChuck on March 25, 2009 \| 1 comment
21.		Building a Brain on a Silicon Chip - 200K neurons linked up by 50 million connections (technologyreview.com)
		30 points by nickb on March 25, 2009 \| 5 comments
22.		Secure Programming for Unix (dwheeler.com)
		29 points by vorador on March 25, 2009
23.		Atlanta Gets Its Own Y Combinator In Shotput Ventures (techcrunch.com)
		28 points by vaksel on March 25, 2009 \| 48 comments
24.		Announcing Start@Spark: Why are we doing this? (startatspark.tumblr.com)
		27 points by ivankirigin on March 25, 2009 \| 11 comments
25.		How Third-Party Licensing Can Ruin Your Launch (softwarebyrob.com)
		25 points by rwalling on March 25, 2009 \| 12 comments
26.		MIT to make all faculty publications be open access (arstechnica.com)
		24 points by terpua on March 25, 2009 \| 8 comments
27.		MIT Graphene Multiplier May Push CPUs to 1,000 GHz (insidetech.com)
		22 points by vaksel on March 25, 2009 \| 23 comments
28.		Amazon Releases AWS Toolkit for Eclipse (amazon.com)
		22 points by KrisJordan on March 25, 2009 \| 4 comments
29.		Clojure and The Robot Apocalypse (phillyemergingtech.com)
		22 points by kyleburton on March 25, 2009 \| 5 comments
30.		Google invests in e-commerce start-up Pixazza (cnet.com)
		21 points by peter123 on March 25, 2009 \| 2 comments
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