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1.		Phusion Passenger now supports Nginx (phusion.nl)
		133 points by _pius on April 16, 2009 \| 36 comments
2.		4chan hacker discusses the manipulation of the Time poll (musicmachinery.com)
		120 points by mcantelon on April 16, 2009 \| 29 comments
3.		Tales from the trenches: our Y Combinator Interview Experience (tomaitch.com)
		101 points by tomaitch on April 16, 2009 \| 32 comments
4.		Water Front Apt. in San Mateo will trade for equity in Y Combinator startup (craigslist.org)
		92 points by freemanindia on April 16, 2009 \| 20 comments
5.		YouPorn is hiring. Apparently it's powered by Perl/Catalyst (perl.org)
		91 points by vaksel on April 16, 2009 \| 54 comments
6.		Is A Nomadic Lifestyle Cheaper Than Living In One Place? (locationindependent.com)
		75 points by swombat on April 16, 2009 \| 70 comments
7.		Catting weird things to /dev/audio (everything2.com)
		72 points by mattyb on April 16, 2009 \| 34 comments
8.		3mindme - Dead Simple Reminders (3mindme.com)
		68 points by _pius on April 16, 2009 \| 21 comments
9.		Obama Unveils Plan to Fund High-Speed Passenger Rail (wsj.com)
		65 points by ph0rque on April 16, 2009 \| 98 comments
10.		How to Raise Our I.Q. (nytimes.com)
		60 points by tokenadult on April 16, 2009 \| 57 comments
11.		Writing Physics (cornell.edu)
		58 points by DaniFong on April 16, 2009 \| 7 comments
12.		Tim Ferriss on his approach to learning [video] (ted.com)
		50 points by derwiki on April 16, 2009 \| 22 comments
13.		Non-Universality in Computation: The Myth of the Universal Computer (queensu.ca)
		46 points by ewakened on April 16, 2009 \| 58 comments
14.		Why airplane doors can't be opened mid-flight (everything2.com)
		38 points by mattyb on April 16, 2009 \| 29 comments
15.		Build a Low-Cost, High-End Class-D Amplifier (ieee.org)
		38 points by naish on April 16, 2009 \| 6 comments
16.		Haskell: It’s like Klingon, but with math (sdtimes.com)
		37 points by iamelgringo on April 16, 2009 \| 27 comments
17.		Evidence suggests first zombie Mac botnet is active (arstechnica.com)
		37 points by tvon on April 16, 2009 \| 47 comments
18.		When crime prevention strategies are effectively crime promotion (nytimes.com)
		34 points by alexandros on April 16, 2009 \| 8 comments
19.		Evils of the For Loop in Ruby (grayproductions.net)
		32 points by wolfish on April 16, 2009 \| 15 comments
20.		The secrets of really, really lucky companies (boston.com)
		32 points by robg on April 16, 2009 \| 5 comments
21.		The Monster List of Freelance Job Sites (freelanceswitch.com)
		31 points by collistaeed on April 16, 2009 \| 4 comments
22.		Parallel DBMSs faster than MapReduce (brown.edu)
		32 points by finin on April 16, 2009 \| 20 comments
23.		Coding Horror: Is Open Source Experience Overrated? (codinghorror.com)
		30 points by twampss on April 16, 2009 \| 31 comments
24.		How to Save $5000 on Your Logo (jimleff.blogspot.com)
		26 points by cjwestbrook on April 16, 2009 \| 28 comments
25.		$20,000 Per Source Line of Code (stevekrenzel.com)
		25 points by nreece on April 16, 2009 \| 24 comments
26.		Facebook rejects funding at $4 billion valuation, may not raise more (venturebeat.com)
		25 points by drusenko on April 16, 2009 \| 27 comments
27.		Boomerang: A bidirectional programming language for ad-hoc data (upenn.edu)
		24 points by durana on April 16, 2009 \| 11 comments
28.		Ruby 1.9 compatibility: a three step ladder to bliss (elctech.com)
		26 points by _pius on April 16, 2009 \| 2 comments
29.		National Geographic's Infinite Photograph will mesmerize you (cnet.com)
		23 points by chrisconley on April 16, 2009 \| 5 comments
30.		Should Twitter remove its follower count? (techcrunch.com)
		22 points by andr on April 16, 2009 \| 18 comments
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