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1.		The Banker Who Said No (forbes.com)
		135 points by dangoldin on April 4, 2009 \| 63 comments
2.		Some perspective on a destroyed career (rondam.blogspot.com)
		126 points by lisper on April 4, 2009 \| 23 comments
3.		How to Improve Typography In Your Designs (smashingmagazine.com)
		83 points by kivivi on April 4, 2009 \| 9 comments
4.		Mending the Bitter Absence of Reasoned Technical Discussion (al3x.net)
		69 points by madmotive on April 4, 2009 \| 51 comments
5.		Almost Perfect - The Rise and Fall of WordPerfect (wordplace.com)
		68 points by soundsop on April 4, 2009 \| 24 comments
6.		World’s Fastest Broadband at $20 Per Home (nytimes.com)
		65 points by hko on April 4, 2009 \| 38 comments
7.		Ask YC: How do you get your press?
		55 points by iamelgringo on April 4, 2009 \| 24 comments
8.		Mothers, Don't Let Your Children Grow Up to Be Game Developers (playthisthing.com)
		38 points by kqr2 on April 4, 2009 \| 16 comments
9.		Rails framework upgrades with git-bisect (brad.posterous.com)
		37 points by bradgessler on April 4, 2009 \| 7 comments
10.		Adobe Flex Builder 3 Professional for unemployed developers (adobe.com)
		35 points by chaostheory on April 4, 2009 \| 14 comments
11.		REIA language designer on Twitter/Ruby/Scala discussion (unlimitednovelty.com)
		32 points by garethr on April 4, 2009 \| 32 comments
12.		D.C. (School) Vouchers: Better Results at a Quarter the Cost (cato-at-liberty.org)
		24 points by chaostheory on April 4, 2009 \| 68 comments
13.		Philip Greenspun reviews "The Life You Can Save" by Peter Singer (law.harvard.edu)
		24 points by rglovejoy on April 4, 2009 \| 9 comments
14.		You Are Not Your Brain (salon.com)
		23 points by colins_pride on April 4, 2009 \| 27 comments
15.		Popcuts (YC S08): Buying Music Has Never Been So Profitable (hyveup.tv)
		20 points by drm237 on April 4, 2009 \| 9 comments
16.		Amazon.com Door Desk With a Twist (leftnode.com)
		21 points by leftnode on April 4, 2009 \| 14 comments
17.		IBM And Sun: There Will Be Blood (forbes.com)
		21 points by vaksel on April 4, 2009 \| 8 comments
18.		Native Google Chrome on Mac OS X: First Impressions (manu-j.com)
		20 points by boundlessdreamz on April 4, 2009 \| 10 comments
19.		The Google Ventures Cheat Sheet (techcrunch.com)
		19 points by transburgh on April 4, 2009 \| 6 comments
20.		Military robots and the future of war [TED] (ted.com)
		19 points by kvh on April 4, 2009 \| 32 comments
21.		Ask HN: What virtual-team software do you use?
		20 points by axeman on April 4, 2009 \| 26 comments
22.		No Backbone As Google Bows To Korean Government And Bans Users With Fake Names (siliconvalleywatcher.com)
		19 points by Mgreen on April 4, 2009 \| 6 comments
23.		JRuby - Quick and Dirty (logustus.com)
		19 points by jamesbritt on April 4, 2009 \| 2 comments
24.		Ask HN: Domain name searching
		18 points by phd_student on April 4, 2009 \| 15 comments
25.		'Eureka machine' works out laws of nature (guardian.co.uk)
		16 points by echair on April 4, 2009 \| 3 comments
26.		Why goofing off boosts productivity (computerworld.com)
		16 points by peter123 on April 4, 2009 \| 3 comments
27.		Facebook wants you to give credit where credit is due (venturebeat.com)
		15 points by peter123 on April 4, 2009 \| 12 comments
28.		iPhone development using static compilation in Mono (tirania.org)
		14 points by seren6ipity on April 4, 2009
29.		Lipton's April fool's factoring joke, part 2 (rjlipton.wordpress.com)
		13 points by jibiki on April 4, 2009 \| 1 comment
30.		Tips for starting a student hacker group at school (jtame05.wordpress.com)
		13 points by jmtame on April 4, 2009 \| 4 comments
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