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1.		The "C is Efficient" Language Fallacy (scienceblogs.com)
		157 points by silentbicycle on May 4, 2009 \| 124 comments
2.		Clojure 1.0 Released (groups.google.com)
		139 points by drewr on May 4, 2009 \| 31 comments
3.		Oberon, a delightfully insane system (ignorethecode.net)
		128 points by blasdel on May 4, 2009 \| 30 comments
4.		Malcolm Gladwell: How David Beats Goliath (newyorker.com)
		116 points by mlinsey on May 4, 2009 \| 36 comments
5.		Dear Mozilla community: I screwed up. Big time. (hackademix.net)
		124 points by robin_reala on May 4, 2009 \| 40 comments
6.		I Just Logged In As You (codinghorror.com)
		102 points by bdfh42 on May 4, 2009 \| 50 comments
7.		NIN Reaction to iPhone App Store Rejection (nin.com)
		86 points by ironkeith on May 4, 2009 \| 45 comments
8.		IsNSFW.com - The Safe For Work way to share Not Safe For Work links (isnsfw.com)
		84 points by grexican on May 4, 2009 \| 52 comments
9.		The Problem With Young Web Entrepreneurs (igorfaletski.com)
		58 points by ig0rskee on May 4, 2009 \| 45 comments
10.		Without Warning, Twitter Kills StatTweets (statsheet.com)
		58 points by RobbieStats on May 4, 2009 \| 37 comments
11.		Facebook pays 150 employees ~$50K to keep the site clean (newsweek.com)
		55 points by breck on May 4, 2009 \| 38 comments
12.		Clojure 1.0 (clojure.blogspot.com)
		51 points by remvee on May 4, 2009 \| 5 comments
13.		FreeBSD 7.2 released (freebsd.org)
		48 points by mattyb on May 4, 2009 \| 11 comments
14.		Fred Wilson: The End of the IPO Drought is Coming (avc.com)
		45 points by dwynings on May 4, 2009 \| 5 comments
15.		How to work on cool stuff (planeterlang.org)
		44 points by coglethorpe on May 4, 2009 \| 10 comments
16.		Ruby on Rails on Google App Engine (jruby-rack.appspot.com)
		41 points by EvilTrout on May 4, 2009 \| 10 comments
17.		Seven questions for Nate Silver (economist.com)
		40 points by kf on May 4, 2009 \| 4 comments
18.		Poll: funded or not funded?
		40 points by jmtame on May 4, 2009 \| 28 comments
19.		Procedural City Generation - Developer's Log (shamusyoung.com)
		40 points by jerf on May 4, 2009 \| 9 comments
20.		Distributed systems primer (evanweaver.com)
		39 points by sant0sk1 on May 4, 2009 \| 12 comments
21.		Is Haskell a good choice for web applications? (jekor.com)
		39 points by jamongkad on May 4, 2009 \| 11 comments
22.		Algorithmic Problems Around the Web (yury.name)
		38 points by paraschopra on May 4, 2009 \| 3 comments
23.		Some thoughts about the PSD format (adobe.com)
		37 points by sanj on May 4, 2009 \| 12 comments
24.		How CarsForAGrand.com Generated PR and Half a Million Visitors (knofun.com)
		36 points by merrick33 on May 4, 2009 \| 14 comments
25.		Researchers hijack botnet, score 56,000 passwords in an hour (arstechnica.com)
		36 points by alexandros on May 4, 2009 \| 8 comments
26.		Bruce Schneier on Mathematical Illiteracy (schneier.com)
		35 points by billswift on May 4, 2009 \| 14 comments
27.		Geek business myths (rondam.blogspot.com)
		34 points by prakash on May 4, 2009 \| 42 comments
28.		Frogmetrics, OMGPOP, Posterous, Scribd, Inkling, Xobni, and Loopt nominated for TiE50 Awards (tie50.net)
		34 points by jeremymims on May 4, 2009 \| 10 comments
29.		Let's Take a Trivial Problem and Make it Hard (dadgum.com)
		31 points by mbrubeck on May 4, 2009 \| 29 comments
30.		How to Escape Mundanity (openforum.com)
		25 points by luckystrike on May 4, 2009 \| 1 comment
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