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1.		37signals' follow up on "Get Satisfaction, Or Else..." (37signals.com)
		112 points by steamboiler on April 2, 2009 \| 140 comments
2.		Reversing Tooth Decay with Good Diet (wholehealthsource.blogspot.com)
		111 points by kortina on April 2, 2009 \| 65 comments
3.		(More Explicit) Advice to Summer Applicants
		83 points by pg on April 2, 2009 \| 39 comments
4.		Easy AI with Python (pycon.org)
		97 points by signa11 on April 2, 2009 \| 7 comments
5.		Twitter jilts Ruby for Scala (theregister.co.uk)
		85 points by astrec on April 2, 2009 \| 78 comments
6.		Dissent Is Dead At Facebook, Employees Complain (businessinsider.com)
		85 points by gamache on April 2, 2009 \| 50 comments
7.		"eye chart" to test for conficker - loads images from AV sites that conficker blocks (confickerworkinggroup.org)
		82 points by nfriedly on April 2, 2009 \| 10 comments
8.		On the Speed of Light, Innovation, and the Future of Parsing (codekana.com)
		71 points by jng on April 2, 2009 \| 23 comments
9.		'Hey I'm Dead' The Story Of The Very Lively Ant (npr.org)
		66 points by chaostheory on April 2, 2009 \| 9 comments
10.		Chicago 28-year-old made $70 million off cash loans, now he's buying slums (chicagobusiness.com)
		59 points by wushupork on April 2, 2009 \| 102 comments
11.		Things my new commute has taught me #1: not all seats are equal (meish.org)
		51 points by chrislo on April 2, 2009 \| 12 comments
12.		Chatterous (YC W08) launches im/email/sms group API and widgets. (chatterous.wordpress.com)
		49 points by arasakik on April 2, 2009 \| 14 comments
13.		Free Stanford course on developing iPhone software [itunes] (stanford.edu)
		44 points by code_devil on April 2, 2009 \| 6 comments
14.		"Sexy" Sells - I have the Stats to Prove It (reynoldsftw.com)
		41 points by mootymoots on April 2, 2009 \| 13 comments
15.		With 'Atlas Shrugged,' Hollywood may have its first anti-bailout movie (riskybusinessblog.com)
		40 points by gibsonf1 on April 2, 2009 \| 99 comments
16.		Exercises That Protect Against Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (lifehacker.com)
		39 points by terpua on April 2, 2009 \| 14 comments
17.		Windows 95 almost had floppy insertion detection but the training cost was prohibitive (msdn.com)
		37 points by nebula on April 2, 2009 \| 14 comments
18.		Robot Makes Scientific Discovery All by Itself (wired.com)
		30 points by peter123 on April 2, 2009 \| 5 comments
19.		Why Small Companies Will Win in This Economy (harvardbusiness.org)
		32 points by swombat on April 2, 2009 \| 4 comments
20.		Underground History of American Education (johntaylorgatto.com)
		27 points by ramchip on April 2, 2009 \| 24 comments
21.		How To Run a Stealth Rails Application (freshbooks.com)
		28 points by oneplusone on April 2, 2009 \| 10 comments
22.		Senate majority vs. national debt (iamwil.posterous.com)
		26 points by dcurtis on April 2, 2009 \| 21 comments
23.		Harvard P2P lawyer: file-swapping is fair use — no, really (arstechnica.com)
		26 points by swombat on April 2, 2009 \| 12 comments
24.		The real cause of the financial crisis -- An MIT Blackjack Team perspective (semyondukach.blogspot.com)
		26 points by fiaz on April 2, 2009 \| 8 comments
25.		How to Start, and Close, an Angel Round (from Travis Kalanick) (techcocktail.com)
		24 points by daveambrose on April 2, 2009
26.		Ask HN: Re-architecting on Slicehost to handle 50+ apache processes? (slicehost.com)
		23 points by brandnewlow on April 2, 2009 \| 23 comments
27.		Tesla's World Wide Wireless Power Tower (damninteresting.com)
		22 points by wolfish on April 2, 2009 \| 11 comments
28.		Netflix's 10 Year Sustained Bandwidth is 200 Gigabits Per Second (ryanmcintyre.com)
		22 points by peter123 on April 2, 2009 \| 2 comments
29.		"Macros are a net drawback" (csail.mit.edu)
		22 points by silentbicycle on April 2, 2009 \| 4 comments
30.		Getting A Better View (ticketstumbler.com)
		21 points by fallentimes on April 2, 2009 \| 5 comments
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