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31.		A Micropreneur’s Perspective: Selling Physical Products vs. Digital Products (softwarebyrob.com)
		25 points by rwalling on May 4, 2009 \| 10 comments
32.		Code Project Management in Emacs, Part 3 (lispservice.posterous.com)
		24 points by saikat on May 4, 2009
33.		Natural protein vs. designed (nano)machines (crnano.typepad.com)
		23 points by ph0rque on May 4, 2009 \| 4 comments
34.		Bill Gates v. Warren Buffett On Competing With Google: Charge The Moat (techcrunch.com)
		22 points by vaksel on May 4, 2009 \| 4 comments
35.		The most important job interview question to ask an R&D candidate (asserttrue.blogspot.com)
		22 points by techdog on May 4, 2009 \| 14 comments
36.		Prolog in Haskell (propella.blogspot.com)
		22 points by Locke on May 4, 2009 \| 1 comment
37.		Ask HN: How to fix overwide pre text?
		22 points by pg on May 4, 2009 \| 10 comments
38.		Why Facebook Can't Become Twitter: Its Closed Nature (techdirt.com)
		21 points by peter123 on May 4, 2009 \| 15 comments
39.		Ben Stein: The Sales Profession: Attention Must Still Be Paid (nytimes.com)
		20 points by edw519 on May 4, 2009 \| 5 comments
40.		The Man Who Made Gmail Says Real-Time Conversation is What's Next (nytimes.com)
		20 points by robg on May 4, 2009 \| 20 comments
41.		The Trickery in "MapReduce vs. Parallel DBs" (everythingisdata.wordpress.com)
		20 points by neilc on May 4, 2009 \| 5 comments
42.		EuroDjangoConf2009 Keynote All Over Your Twitters (zedshaw.com)
		20 points by nanexcool on May 4, 2009 \| 4 comments
43.		How to Land a Six-Figure Software Developer Job (pcworld.com)
		20 points by r11t on May 4, 2009 \| 26 comments
44.		Hungarian government goes 50% open source, half the IT budget must go to open source (heise.de)
		21 points by vaksel on May 4, 2009 \| 7 comments
45.		Blackberry Curve outsells iPhone in Q1 (cnet.com)
		21 points by stcredzero on May 4, 2009 \| 14 comments
46.		Grove Says Patent System May Have Same Flaws as Derivatives (bloomberg.com)
		21 points by lnguyen on May 4, 2009 \| 8 comments
47.		Steve Blank: The Sharp End of the Stick (steveblank.com)
		20 points by lrm242 on May 4, 2009 \| 2 comments
48.		I want to believe (in Lisp vs C performance) (imagine27.com)
		20 points by jgrant27 on May 4, 2009 \| 19 comments
49.		Ask HN: How does a non-hacker get into a start-up?
		19 points by wannabetechgeek on May 4, 2009 \| 16 comments
50.		Ask HN: Is there a bias against hackers from 'name-brand' colleges?
		19 points by rdr on May 4, 2009 \| 18 comments
51.		Talk to your target customer in 4 easy steps (andrewchenblog.com)
		18 points by teej on May 4, 2009
52.		Reflections on 3 years, or so, as an independent software developer (mikepence.wordpress.com)
		18 points by mikepence on May 4, 2009
53.		The fickle Twitterer (roughtype.com)
		17 points by robg on May 4, 2009 \| 6 comments
54.		Firing tenured teachers can be a costly and tortuous task (latimes.com)
		16 points by edw519 on May 4, 2009 \| 2 comments
55.		Norway Tests Laptop Exam, to Prevent Cheating (technology.am)
		15 points by edw519 on May 4, 2009 \| 8 comments
56.		The NYTimes Doesn't Understand Facebook's API (ynniv.com)
		15 points by ynniv on May 4, 2009 \| 1 comment
57.		The Origins of Scala (artima.com)
		15 points by catch404 on May 4, 2009
58.		How to use folds in vim (tuxtraining.com)
		15 points by soundsop on May 4, 2009 \| 4 comments
59.		A Silver Ooze That Could Shrink the iPod (nytimes.com)
		14 points by dwynings on May 4, 2009 \| 7 comments
60.		Feynman diagrams for the masses (carlbrannen.wordpress.com)
		14 points by TriinT on May 4, 2009
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