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1.		Smart people can rationalize anything (thefarmers.org)
		79 points by vaksel on May 11, 2009 \| 27 comments
2.		The 75% answer (lbrandy.com)
		75 points by old-gregg on May 11, 2009 \| 41 comments
3.		An approach to fair ad blocking (adblockplus.org)
		68 points by haasted on May 11, 2009 \| 79 comments
4.		C++ Frequently Questioned Answers (yosefk.com)
		60 points by kmavm on May 11, 2009 \| 73 comments
5.		NYTimes.com Announces Map/Reduce Toolkit (nytimes.com)
		58 points by bdotdub on May 11, 2009 \| 12 comments
6.		Y Combinator’s ReMail Finally Brings Full-Text Email Search To The iPhone (techcrunch.com)
		55 points by vaksel on May 11, 2009 \| 35 comments
7.		Why there's nothing special about the business of software (businessofsoftware.org)
		48 points by pclark on May 11, 2009 \| 22 comments
8.		The App Store Is a Classic Example Of A Broken Business Process (thecodist.com)
		44 points by vaksel on May 11, 2009 \| 10 comments
9.		Clojure on the Google App Engine (fatvat.co.uk)
		41 points by coglethorpe on May 11, 2009 \| 8 comments
10.		NYT reader 2.0 (nytimes.com)
		39 points by _zhqs on May 11, 2009 \| 21 comments
11.		An Open Letter to Students Waiting for Their College Admissions Decisions (calnewport.com)
		39 points by epall on May 11, 2009 \| 9 comments
12.		Ubuntu One : Store, Sync & Share (ubuntuone.com)
		38 points by samueladam on May 11, 2009 \| 13 comments
13.		Ask HN: Stark Trek - How far are we?
		37 points by kyro on May 11, 2009 \| 55 comments
14.		Sony CEO: "If we had gone with Open Technology ... we would have beaten Apple" (engadget.com)
		38 points by jodrellblank on May 11, 2009 \| 37 comments
15.		Finding Great Domain Names with Mechanical Turk (domainpigeon.com)
		37 points by matt1 on May 11, 2009 \| 28 comments
16.		Beware Programming Language Requirements On Job Postings (shorestreet.com)
		34 points by robin_bb on May 11, 2009 \| 26 comments
17.		We need both engineers and artists in programming (loudthinking.com)
		33 points by joao on May 11, 2009 \| 30 comments
18.		One malloc to rule them all (reverberate.org)
		33 points by parenthesis on May 11, 2009 \| 11 comments
19.		Did Mark Zuckerberg's Inspiration for Facebook Come Before Harvard? (readwriteweb.com)
		30 points by jasonlbaptiste on May 11, 2009 \| 21 comments
20.		Ask HN: Review my website (hottweeters.com)
		29 points by wushupork on May 11, 2009 \| 31 comments
21.		Would you have survived in the middle ages? (shamusyoung.com)
		28 points by soundsop on May 11, 2009 \| 34 comments
22.		Mozilla Brings Webapps to the Desktop, Challenges AIR, Silverlight (webmonkey.com)
		28 points by troystribling on May 11, 2009 \| 16 comments
23.		Ask HN: legally start a Bay Area startup without being American?
		27 points by klein_waffle on May 11, 2009 \| 16 comments
24.		WebLisp: A Lisp Interpreter that runs inside the browser (christophdietze.com)
		27 points by fluffster on May 11, 2009 \| 16 comments
25.		New Amazon EC2 Competitor: Cloudlayer's pricing announced (softlayer.com)
		27 points by atarashi on May 11, 2009 \| 16 comments
26.		Top Information Architecture Mistakes (useit.com)
		26 points by brlewis on May 11, 2009 \| 2 comments
27.		Greg McAdoo, Sequoia Partner, made an iPhone flight planning app (itunes.apple.com)
		26 points by sama on May 11, 2009 \| 11 comments
28.		Inside V8 - A Javascript Virtual Machine (msdn.com)
		25 points by nreece on May 11, 2009 \| 2 comments
29.		The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Developers (msdn.com)
		25 points by dragonquest on May 11, 2009 \| 4 comments
30.		Ask HN: Free Monitoring tools other than Pingdom?
		24 points by dawie on May 11, 2009 \| 14 comments
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