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1.		Amazon releases the rumoured large-screen Kindle (amazon.com)
		112 points by jrockway on May 6, 2009 \| 106 comments
2.		Ask HN: Why no love for PHP?
		99 points by ironkeith on May 6, 2009 \| 145 comments
3.		198 people (ycombinator.posterous.com)
		92 points by pg on May 6, 2009 \| 32 comments
4.		Sid Meier's Rules (designer-notes.com)
		94 points by iamelgringo on May 6, 2009 \| 7 comments
5.		The Last Question -- Isaac Asimov (multivax.com)
		74 points by mariorz on May 6, 2009 \| 24 comments
6.		Student's Wikipedia hoax quote used worldwide in newspapers (irishtimes.com)
		65 points by vaksel on May 6, 2009 \| 26 comments
7.		Can you trust Paul Graham with your password? (jgc.org)
		65 points by MaysonL on May 6, 2009 \| 74 comments
8.		Going Dutch (nytimes.com)
		64 points by ido on May 6, 2009 \| 66 comments
9.		I Just Logged In As You: How It Happened (codinghorror.com)
		64 points by sant0sk1 on May 6, 2009 \| 33 comments
10.		Introductory course to iphone development (csail.mit.edu)
		58 points by geeko on May 6, 2009 \| 14 comments
11.		Poll: What is your highest educational qualification?
		58 points by naish on May 6, 2009 \| 128 comments
12.		Magic sucks, Django Rocks (christopherroach.com)
		56 points by vthakr on May 6, 2009 \| 39 comments
13.		A Better BART Kiosk Interface (bartkiosk.com)
		49 points by bluefish on May 6, 2009 \| 33 comments
14.		Debian is switching to EGLIBC (aurel32.net)
		47 points by tsally on May 6, 2009 \| 13 comments
15.		Bringing Traffic with Google Adwords (metajack.im)
		46 points by _pius on May 6, 2009 \| 4 comments
16.		Poll: Which cloud host do you use?
		42 points by merrick33 on May 6, 2009 \| 82 comments
17.		How P2 Changed Automattic (ma.tt)
		40 points by peter123 on May 6, 2009 \| 13 comments
18.		Poll: Do you smoke?
		39 points by brandon272 on May 6, 2009 \| 155 comments
19.		A thought: disposable realtime notifications for webapps (dustincurtis.com)
		40 points by dcurtis on May 6, 2009 \| 29 comments
20.		Ten Things Twitter is Not (seldo.com)
		37 points by seldo on May 6, 2009 \| 25 comments
21.		New Amazon EC2 competitor - SoftLayer launches CloudLayer (softlayer.com)
		37 points by sadiq on May 6, 2009 \| 23 comments
22.		Face Detection on iPhone (including source code) (beetlebugsoftware.com)
		36 points by jcollins on May 6, 2009 \| 14 comments
23.		The Tao Of Programming (canonical.org)
		35 points by muon on May 6, 2009 \| 11 comments
24.		Creative minds: the links between mental illness and creativity (independent.co.uk)
		35 points by hko on May 6, 2009 \| 36 comments
25.		Canon Cat (wikipedia.org)
		35 points by ido on May 6, 2009 \| 15 comments
26.		The Haskell Platform: a single, standard Haskell distribution for every system (haskell.org)
		34 points by jlhamilton on May 6, 2009 \| 18 comments
27.		Best practices for programming in C (ibm.com)
		33 points by twampss on May 6, 2009 \| 11 comments
28.		Ask Freelancers: How much do you charge?
		32 points by grinich on May 6, 2009 \| 24 comments
29.		Kindle Books Now 35% Of Sales When Kindle Version Available (businessinsider.com)
		31 points by mjfern on May 6, 2009 \| 12 comments
30.		Building a Mini Google: High Performance computing in Ruby (scribd.com)
		31 points by jcapote on May 6, 2009 \| 5 comments
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