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31.		What Are Friends for? A Longer Life (nytimes.com)
		26 points by robg on April 21, 2009 \| 11 comments
32.		Origins of Python's "Functional" Features (python-history.blogspot.com)
		26 points by mcxx on April 21, 2009
33.		Ask HN: Programming language power and 10 years to mastery
		25 points by tom_b on April 21, 2009 \| 42 comments
34.		Ask HN: Please review my MVP - Instant Drop Box (instantdropbox.com)
		25 points by travism on April 21, 2009 \| 27 comments
35.		Storing students' papers for plagiarism detection is 'Fair Use' (arstechnica.com)
		22 points by furyg3 on April 21, 2009 \| 19 comments
36.		Positively Misguided: The Myths & Mistakes of the Positive Thinking Movement (skeptic.com)
		21 points by adambyrtek on April 21, 2009 \| 17 comments
37.		America's Newest Profession (wsj.com)
		21 points by robg on April 21, 2009 \| 20 comments
38.		What copyright holders don't get about consumers and BitTorrent (nrkbeta.no)
		21 points by henriklied on April 21, 2009 \| 9 comments
39.		Researchers Use Brain Interface to Post to Twitter (newswise.com)
		20 points by nreece on April 21, 2009 \| 4 comments
40.		The wail of the 1% (nymag.com)
		19 points by quoderat on April 21, 2009 \| 6 comments
41.		Intentional Software raises the curtain (martinfowler.com)
		19 points by gfodor on April 21, 2009 \| 18 comments
42.		Mythbusting The WSJ's Stats About Pro Bloggers (businessinsider.com)
		19 points by fromedome on April 21, 2009 \| 2 comments
43.		Three Secrets to Make a Message Go Viral (fastcompany.com)
		19 points by peter123 on April 21, 2009 \| 7 comments
44.		Mistakes Made When Designing Logos (logocritiques.com)
		19 points by coglethorpe on April 21, 2009 \| 4 comments
45.		Your bounce rate is worse than you think (codeswimming.com)
		19 points by imp on April 21, 2009 \| 1 comment
46.		Android: New Cupcake Features (activefrequency.com)
		19 points by kgrin on April 21, 2009 \| 1 comment
47.		What are these renegade cybergeeks doing at the New York Times? Maybe saving it. (nymag.com)
		18 points by robg on April 21, 2009
48.		Search for "me" on Google (Google Profiles now in search results) (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		17 points by coglethorpe on April 21, 2009 \| 6 comments
49.		Clutter (roughtype.com)
		17 points by razorburn on April 21, 2009 \| 5 comments
50.		Twitter Applications can now use Tipjoy API with Twitter OAuth credentials (tipjoys2cents.blogspot.com)
		16 points by drm237 on April 21, 2009 \| 4 comments
51.		Cyberdyne Ready to Mass Produce Cyborgs (singularityhub.com)
		17 points by kkleiner on April 21, 2009 \| 11 comments
52.		Marc Andreessen Wants $250 Million For VC Fund (pehub.com)
		17 points by ciscoriordan on April 21, 2009 \| 2 comments
53.		Web Fonts - View on the web fonts issue from a font designer (talleming.com)
		16 points by nickb on April 21, 2009 \| 11 comments
54.		Smoothed Analysis of Algorithms (alternative to worst-case and average-case analyses) (yale.edu)
		16 points by amichail on April 21, 2009 \| 3 comments
55.		Announcing the Enlightened Perl Iron Man Competition (shadowcat.co.uk)
		15 points by brunov on April 21, 2009 \| 9 comments
56.		The Cost of Downloading All Those Videos: the data behind metered billing (nytimes.com)
		15 points by Barnabas on April 21, 2009 \| 5 comments
57.		BrowserCouch is an in-browser MapReduce implementation (toolness.com)
		14 points by bdfh42 on April 21, 2009 \| 3 comments
58.		How to Revise an Email So That People Will Read It (harvardbusiness.org)
		13 points by dreamz on April 21, 2009 \| 9 comments
59.		Ask HN: Mammoth Hacking - just do it? (nationalgeographic.com)
		12 points by hendler on April 21, 2009 \| 2 comments
60.		Why is it that as we age, time seems to race along? (nytimes.com)
		11 points by fleaflicker on April 21, 2009 \| 14 comments
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