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1.		The man who could have been richer than Bill Gates (freeenterpriseland.com)
		89 points by acangiano on May 25, 2009 \| 41 comments
2.		Poll: Should we ban TechCrunch?
		87 points by andr on May 25, 2009 \| 129 comments
3.		Starting a business isn't as crazy and risky as they say (asmartbear.com)
		76 points by lrm242 on May 25, 2009 \| 20 comments
4.		New Yorker cover painted using iPhone (Brushes app) (newyorker.com)
		62 points by tortilla on May 25, 2009 \| 8 comments
5.		Netbook powered by 8 AA batteries (norhtec.com)
		58 points by vaksel on May 25, 2009 \| 34 comments
6.		Simple wins (jchrisa.net)
		56 points by dan_sim on May 25, 2009 \| 16 comments
7.		Life Size Katamari (nycresistor.com)
		54 points by iamwil on May 25, 2009 \| 3 comments
8.		GitHub's Hg-Git mercurial plugin (hg-git.github.com)
		52 points by mattculbreth on May 25, 2009 \| 17 comments
9.		Slashdot discovers Lisp (slashdot.org)
		51 points by michael_dorfman on May 25, 2009 \| 25 comments
10.		Ignoring the Wisdom of Crowds (asmartbear.com)
		45 points by tyn on May 25, 2009 \| 7 comments
11.		Sammy: JavaScript framework inspired by Sinatra (quirkey.com)
		42 points by mbrubeck on May 25, 2009 \| 3 comments
12.		You and Your Research (raganwald.com)
		40 points by raganwald on May 25, 2009 \| 13 comments
13.		Incanter is a Clojure, R-like statistical computing and graphics environment (github.com/liebke)
		39 points by mindaugas on May 25, 2009 \| 2 comments
14.		Management and mathematics (utexas.edu)
		38 points by abhinav on May 25, 2009 \| 9 comments
15.		Python's CleverCSS (pocoo.org)
		38 points by iamelgringo on May 25, 2009 \| 10 comments
16.		What Emacs Commands Do You Use Most and Find Most Useful? (reddit.com)
		36 points by apgwoz on May 25, 2009 \| 9 comments
17.		Facebook/Twitter too shall pass (rarestblog.com)
		34 points by CalmQuiet on May 25, 2009 \| 31 comments
18.		Faking It (The Undereducation of an Overachiever) (nytimes.com)
		31 points by villageidiot on May 25, 2009 \| 14 comments
19.		Clojure JNA - access C libs from Clojure (github.com/chouser)
		31 points by lhorie on May 25, 2009 \| 3 comments
20.		Some music in Haskell (yaxu.org)
		30 points by zzkt on May 25, 2009 \| 1 comment
21.		Lego does Frank Lloyd Wright (wired.com)
		30 points by mnemonicsloth on May 25, 2009 \| 9 comments
22.		Success Breeds Success in Startups (hbs.edu)
		25 points by quizbiz on May 25, 2009 \| 6 comments
23.		After the Car Crash (hackerfactor.com)
		25 points by dan_the_welder on May 25, 2009 \| 15 comments
24.		The Man Who Could Have Been Bill Gates (2004) (businessweek.com)
		23 points by kf on May 25, 2009 \| 4 comments
25.		Coming soon: First pictures of a black hole (newscientist.com)
		24 points by swombat on May 25, 2009 \| 1 comment
26.		How to: add features to Firefox with Mozilla's new Jetpack (arstechnica.com)
		23 points by soundsop on May 25, 2009 \| 2 comments
27.		Choosing between Webkit and Mozilla (chrislord.net)
		23 points by hexis on May 25, 2009 \| 1 comment
28.		Education Killed The Creativity [In Me] (creativitykilledtherecession.com)
		22 points by AdilD on May 25, 2009 \| 23 comments
29.		Ask HN: A site like Hacker News, but about art?
		22 points by nahumfarchi on May 25, 2009 \| 17 comments
30.		How Sesame Street Changed the World (newsweek.com)
		22 points by iamelgringo on May 25, 2009 \| 7 comments
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