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1.		Paul Buchheit: Make your site faster and cheaper to operate in one easy step (paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
		186 points by paul on April 17, 2009 \| 59 comments
2.		Why Being Smart Won't Get You Laid (alternet.org)
		172 points by alexitosrv on April 17, 2009 \| 147 comments
3.		Just How Important is the Valley? Let's Look at some Data. (tonywright.com)
		83 points by webwright on April 17, 2009 \| 26 comments
4.		Sun JVM gets incremental, compacting GC (infoq.com)
		56 points by oconnor0 on April 17, 2009 \| 14 comments
5.		Singletasking by Caterina Fake (photo) (flickr.com)
		55 points by coglethorpe on April 17, 2009 \| 10 comments
6.		Twitter XSS Worm writer Mikeey gets hacked (seclists.org)
		52 points by janitha on April 17, 2009 \| 10 comments
7.		FireDiff - track changes to a page's DOM and CSS (incaseofstairs.com)
		48 points by bisceglie on April 17, 2009 \| 11 comments
8.		BBC iPlayer serves nearly 1000 requests per second with Catalyst (bbc.co.uk)
		42 points by SwellJoe on April 17, 2009 \| 13 comments
9.		ReBoxed - a collaborative inbox organization tool built in 77 hours (remail.com)
		40 points by gaborcselle on April 17, 2009 \| 13 comments
10.		Welcome To Our Site, Sorry You Can’t Use It (nytimes.com)
		37 points by ilamont on April 17, 2009 \| 15 comments
11.		HN/YC BBQ -- Saturday April 18th (anyvite.com)
		38 points by NathanielMc on April 17, 2009 \| 20 comments
12.		Google is replacing conference room paper schedules with solar-powered LCD's, updated via 802.15 (code.google.com)
		37 points by andreyf on April 17, 2009 \| 30 comments
13.		Ask HN: How do you learn to be creative?
		36 points by quizbiz on April 17, 2009 \| 66 comments
14.		Posterous (YC S08) Takes On TwitPic With New API (techcrunch.com)
		35 points by rantfoil on April 17, 2009 \| 6 comments
15.		We need the eggs (github.com/raganwald)
		32 points by raganwald on April 17, 2009 \| 24 comments
16.		Ask HN: Anyone else notice a higher churn rate for the front page?
		30 points by bsaunder on April 17, 2009 \| 25 comments
17.		Can anyone recommend a good collection agency?
		28 points by optik on April 17, 2009 \| 57 comments
18.		Alan Kay: The PC Must Be Revamped (2007) (cioinsight.com)
		27 points by Radix on April 17, 2009 \| 7 comments
19.		Coding Horror: Exception-Driven Development (codinghorror.com)
		28 points by Anon84 on April 17, 2009 \| 11 comments
20.		Functional programming with python (united-coders.com)
		27 points by Anon84 on April 17, 2009 \| 13 comments
21.		Y Combinator is prohibited
		26 points by vnuk on April 17, 2009 \| 24 comments
22.		Open Source Robotic Arm (thingiverse.com)
		25 points by iamelgringo on April 17, 2009 \| 1 comment
23.		4Chan's Plan to Game Twitter (The Race to 1 Million) (readwriteweb.com)
		24 points by calvin on April 17, 2009 \| 8 comments
24.		Ask HN: Best Command Line Email Client?
		24 points by buggy_code on April 17, 2009 \| 17 comments
25.		Caterina Fake shares some Hunch data (caterina.net)
		24 points by _pius on April 17, 2009 \| 2 comments
26.		Gmail Now Tells You Who You Want To Email (techcrunch.com)
		24 points by vaksel on April 17, 2009 \| 31 comments
27.		Fun Numbers - Ruby and Perl (Massive difference in core test suite size) (perl.org)
		24 points by draegtun on April 17, 2009 \| 12 comments
28.		Rubygems now has plugins (zenspider.com)
		23 points by _pius on April 17, 2009 \| 2 comments
29.		The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life (amazon.com)
		22 points by tokenadult on April 17, 2009 \| 8 comments
30.		Lungs breathing outside of the body (nextbigfuture.com)
		22 points by quoderat on April 17, 2009
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