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1.		Don’t use @import (stevesouders.com)
		75 points by mcxx on April 13, 2009 \| 14 comments
2.		Things You Don’t Know About User IDs That Will Destroy You (timetobleed.com)
		69 points by ice799 on April 13, 2009 \| 16 comments
3.		$80,000 for a Year Off? She'll Take It! (nytimes.com)
		68 points by physcab on April 13, 2009 \| 42 comments
4.		Why is programming fun? (grok2.com)
		56 points by signa11 on April 13, 2009 \| 51 comments
5.		Ebay Unacquires StumbleUpon (techcrunch.com)
		48 points by vaksel on April 13, 2009 \| 14 comments
6.		Stop the Press: Building A Startup Presskit 101 (chuwe.com)
		46 points by sgrove on April 13, 2009 \| 4 comments
7.		Ask HN: Feedback on Skritter, Learning Chinese with Spaced Repetition on App Engine (skritter.com)
		45 points by gsaines on April 13, 2009 \| 72 comments
8.		Google's "Immigration Fixer" (nytimes.com)
		44 points by physcab on April 13, 2009 \| 22 comments
9.		Ask HN: Startup PR - How could they get so many coverages?
		44 points by alexdong on April 13, 2009 \| 33 comments
10.		Ask HN: What do founders do for health insurance?
		38 points by lionheart on April 13, 2009 \| 62 comments
11.		On Amazon Failure, Meta-Trolls, and Bantown (tehdely.livejournal.com)
		38 points by kf on April 13, 2009 \| 3 comments
12.		High Performance Web Pages – Real World Examples: Netflix Case Study (billwscott.com)
		37 points by wave on April 13, 2009 \| 5 comments
13.		Writing a Package in Python (brenelz.com)
		36 points by Anon84 on April 13, 2009 \| 1 comment
14.		Computer as condom (papert.org)
		31 points by zain on April 13, 2009 \| 10 comments
15.		The Logic of Loss (aaronsw.com)
		31 points by soundsop on April 13, 2009 \| 26 comments
16.		Advice for Y Combinator Interviewees (from Sumon, Snaptalent, YC W08) (sharpshoot.blogspot.com)
		29 points by sharpshoot on April 13, 2009 \| 1 comment
17.		Lagrangians and Hamiltonians for High School Students (arxiv.org)
		27 points by kqr2 on April 13, 2009 \| 15 comments
18.		PHP on Google App Engine (using Quercus) (weirdhenge.appspot.com)
		31 points by arthurk on April 13, 2009 \| 16 comments
19.		You Will Be Using FriendFeed In The Future — But It May Be Called Facebook (techcrunch.com)
		27 points by jasonlbaptiste on April 13, 2009 \| 3 comments
20.		Startup Interviews: Balsamiq Studio LLC (antoniocangiano.com)
		25 points by acangiano on April 13, 2009 \| 1 comment
21.		The Defeat of the Schools (1939) (theatlantic.com)
		23 points by anthonyrubin on April 13, 2009 \| 11 comments
22.		Cocoa with Love: Showing a "Loading..." message over the iPhone keyboard (cocoawithlove.com)
		23 points by twampss on April 13, 2009 \| 11 comments
23.		A bold plan for mass adoption of electric cars (ted.com)
		22 points by bradgessler on April 13, 2009 \| 23 comments
24.		Ruby on Rails Development Companies in India (nitinh.com)
		22 points by theone on April 13, 2009 \| 13 comments
25.		Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking (ruhlman.com)
		21 points by KC8ZKF on April 13, 2009 \| 13 comments
26.		EcmaScript Edition 5, formerly known as 3.1: Getting a new JavaScript (ajaxian.com)
		21 points by ossreleasefeed on April 13, 2009 \| 16 comments
27.		Our ears may have built-in passwords (newscientist.com)
		20 points by muon on April 13, 2009 \| 9 comments
28.		Windows 7 could follow Vista to an early grave (venturebeat.com)
		20 points by transburgh on April 13, 2009 \| 21 comments
29.		Marx's important error (stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com)
		19 points by quoderat on April 13, 2009 \| 14 comments
30.		Why Warren Buffett is investing in Electric Car Company BYD (cnn.com)
		19 points by jakarta on April 13, 2009 \| 8 comments
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