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1.		Python switching to Mercurial (python.org)
		138 points by davidw on March 30, 2009 \| 59 comments
2.		How a month and a half on Paxil taught me to love being shy. (slate.com)
		132 points by vaksel on March 30, 2009 \| 54 comments
3.		How to make PCBs at home in 1 hour without special materials (riccibitti.com)
		131 points by ph0rque on March 30, 2009 \| 30 comments
4.		Don't Be Evil but Intentionally Deceptive is OK (diorex.com)
		107 points by Gibbon on March 30, 2009 \| 56 comments
5.		The Ugly American Programmer (codinghorror.com)
		79 points by worthlessgenius on March 30, 2009 \| 68 comments
6.		Performance Tuning PostgreSQL (revsys.com)
		73 points by twampss on March 30, 2009 \| 6 comments
7.		JSON Template (googlecode.com)
		71 points by judofyr on March 30, 2009 \| 11 comments
8.		A man, a vision, and the swimming pool he built in his garage (urbanitebaltimore.com)
		71 points by shard on March 30, 2009 \| 44 comments
9.		Western internet censorship: The beginning of the end or the end of the beginning? (wikileaks.org)
		58 points by vaksel on March 30, 2009 \| 16 comments
10.		What they Used to Teach You at Stanford Business School (portfolio.com)
		52 points by noor420 on March 30, 2009 \| 4 comments
11.		How My Startup Failed (storylog.com)
		50 points by inglorian on March 30, 2009 \| 20 comments
12.		DHH: Doing a Start Up in the Real World [video] (carsonified.com)
		47 points by sant0sk1 on March 30, 2009 \| 25 comments
13.		Why I'm Missing the iPhone gold rush (jeff-vogel.blogspot.com)
		46 points by pushcx on March 30, 2009 \| 22 comments
14.		Cash is not king (startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com)
		44 points by ivankirigin on March 30, 2009 \| 6 comments
15.		Atwood rebuttal: Mandarin Chinese programmer communites (odwks.com)
		44 points by jhancock on March 30, 2009 \| 27 comments
16.		Ride the Snake: reddit keynote at PyCon 09 (slideshare.net)
		43 points by jast on March 30, 2009 \| 11 comments
17.		Cool Things in Rails 2.3 (railspikes.com)
		41 points by 100k on March 30, 2009 \| 6 comments
18.		Measuring download speed by embedding a GIF inside a JavaScript comment (jgc.org)
		37 points by jgrahamc on March 30, 2009 \| 6 comments
19.		How to Choose and Learn a New Programming Language (micahelliott.com)
		34 points by Anon84 on March 30, 2009 \| 14 comments
20.		JK Rowling Attacks Scribd For Pirated Content (techcrunch.com)
		33 points by pclark on March 30, 2009 \| 58 comments
21.		Planarity - a game with planar graphs (planarity.net)
		33 points by infinity on March 30, 2009 \| 14 comments
22.		PyCon: PyCon 2009 Videos (pycon.blogspot.com)
		32 points by arthurk on March 30, 2009 \| 1 comment
23.		Single player PC game developers: We're All Charity Cases Now (ign.com)
		29 points by ChrisXYZ on March 30, 2009 \| 14 comments
24.		The Word "Hacker" (2004) (paulgraham.com)
		28 points by messel on March 30, 2009 \| 29 comments
25.		Skype Changes the Game and Releases the iPhone App (siliconangle.com)
		27 points by mcxx on March 30, 2009 \| 16 comments
26.		The thrill of a new technology: CouchDB (tempe.st)
		27 points by intinig on March 30, 2009 \| 47 comments
27.		Jawed Karim: How YouTube Took Off (2006) (gigaom.com)
		25 points by alexitosrv on March 30, 2009 \| 5 comments
28.		Sailing into the Wind, or Faster than the Wind (terrytao.wordpress.com)
		25 points by DaniFong on March 30, 2009 \| 13 comments
29.		Is a Shorter Web Address Worth Big Money? bit.ly Raises $2M (allthingsd.com)
		25 points by peter123 on March 30, 2009 \| 23 comments
30.		SysCon attacks prominent blogger (aralbalkan.com)
		23 points by gareth on March 30, 2009 \| 4 comments
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