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1.		Wolfram Alpha: Our First Impressions (readwriteweb.com)
		93 points by functional-tree on April 26, 2009 \| 24 comments
2.		Honda Insight's immersive ad on Vimeo (vimeo.com)
		90 points by marcusbooster on April 26, 2009 \| 20 comments
3.		Apollo Astronauts Didn't Need Heavy Boots (ufl.edu)
		83 points by frisco on April 26, 2009 \| 55 comments
4.		Ask Entrepreneurs: Productivity tips for a chronic procrastinator?
		72 points by GeneralMaximus on April 26, 2009 \| 62 comments
5.		A few comments on pandemic influenza (fluidinfo.com)
		70 points by ivankirigin on April 26, 2009 \| 29 comments
6.		The Portuguese Experiment: Did Drug Decriminalization Work? (time.com)
		64 points by EGF on April 26, 2009 \| 30 comments
7.		Ask HN: Learning C
		62 points by FiveFiftyOne on April 26, 2009 \| 65 comments
8.		Ask PG: Can you paste paperwork used to get YC startups incorporated?
		60 points by newbcoder on April 26, 2009 \| 16 comments
9.		Processing in JS is beautiful (processingjs.org)
		59 points by bcx on April 26, 2009 \| 2 comments
10.		Ask HN: Best Python graphing and reporting libraries for web app
		46 points by TJensen on April 26, 2009 \| 10 comments
11.		Keeping Abreast of Pornographic Research in Computer Science (homelinux.org)
		36 points by nreece on April 26, 2009 \| 15 comments
12.		Richard Feynman's Works of Art (museumsyndicate.com)
		35 points by Rod on April 26, 2009 \| 6 comments
13.		Crunchy - Python Tutorials in the Browser (code.google.com)
		34 points by mattmcknight on April 26, 2009 \| 8 comments
14.		The embarrassment of American broadband (macworld.com)
		34 points by pmikal on April 26, 2009 \| 24 comments
15.		Why NPR is Thriving (They’re Not Afraid of Digital Media) (ikiw.org)
		34 points by madh on April 26, 2009 \| 16 comments
16.		The making of Playstation (edge-online.com)
		33 points by Keyframe on April 26, 2009 \| 6 comments
17.		Steve Jobs On The Value Of Stock Options (techcrunch.com)
		29 points by vaksel on April 26, 2009 \| 8 comments
18.		Engine Yard’s in great hands, and I’ve done what I wanted to do (lancewalley.wordpress.com)
		28 points by aditya on April 26, 2009 \| 6 comments
19.		Are your "peers" in academia worse than your boss in industry?
		23 points by amichail on April 26, 2009 \| 16 comments
20.		The moral panic over Twitter (upenn.edu)
		23 points by rglovejoy on April 26, 2009
21.		Design and the Google brain (fawny.org)
		23 points by herdrick on April 26, 2009 \| 7 comments
22.		Ask HN: What do you think of my new site? (foosurvey.com)
		23 points by ftse on April 26, 2009 \| 29 comments
23.		Swine flu: Twitter's power to misinform (foreignpolicy.com)
		22 points by swombat on April 26, 2009 \| 16 comments
24.		Celebrating Aggregation (avc.com)
		18 points by mattmcknight on April 26, 2009 \| 2 comments
25.		In defense of common English (chronicle.com)
		15 points by quoderat on April 26, 2009 \| 1 comment
26.		Performance comparison: key/value stores for language model counts (anyall.org)
		14 points by cgbystrom on April 26, 2009 \| 12 comments
27.		Ask HN: UCLA or UCSD for Computer Science?
		14 points by s_baar on April 26, 2009 \| 30 comments
28.		Keynote Kung-fu Two (randsinrepose.com)
		13 points by swombat on April 26, 2009 \| 1 comment
29.		Javascript template engine for users of HTML::Template released on github (dmclaughlin.com)
		13 points by chorny on April 26, 2009 \| 2 comments
30.		Multimethods (and other syntactic fun) in Perl (jrock.us)
		16 points by jrockway on April 26, 2009
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