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Stories from April 16, 2010
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1.
100 years ago, people paid money to see a fat man in a circus sideshow. (modeledbehavior.com)
251 points by yummyfajitas on April 16, 2010 | 136 comments
2.
Obama administration wanted warrantless access rights to most US email (cnet.com)
191 points by miked on April 16, 2010 | 92 comments
3.
Bill Gates Bans iTunes From Windows (pluggio.com)
165 points by njrc on April 16, 2010 | 85 comments
4.
Non-Apple's Mistake (loper-os.org)
148 points by zephyrfalcon on April 16, 2010 | 137 comments
5.
7,500 Online Shoppers Unknowingly Sold Their Souls (foxnews.com)
130 points by willphipps on April 16, 2010 | 28 comments
6.
App Store Bans Pulitzer-Winning Satirist. For Satire (wired.com)
126 points by pinstriped_dude on April 16, 2010 | 110 comments
7.
Torvalds: git vs CVS (marc.info)
111 points by helwr on April 16, 2010 | 111 comments
8.
Thousands of webcam images have been found in the school district being sued (philly.com)
109 points by obsaysditto on April 16, 2010 | 57 comments
9.
How I Cured my RSI Pain (aaroniba.net)
99 points by prakash on April 16, 2010 | 75 comments
10.
Page Rank 0 to 4 in Under Four Months, How I did it (whyspam.me)
98 points by thinkbohemian on April 16, 2010 | 56 comments
11.
$3 Cutting-Edge Healing Device, Field Tested in Haiti (fastcompany.com)
84 points by hariis on April 16, 2010 | 24 comments
12.
How to write to stderr so people will like you (utcc.utoronto.ca)
73 points by keyist on April 16, 2010 | 29 comments
13.
Tech sector in hiring drive (wsj.com)
72 points by adamhowell on April 16, 2010 | 25 comments
14.
Htop - better top (sourceforge.net)
70 points by juvenn on April 16, 2010 | 28 comments
15.
It’s Not the Control, It’s the Secrecy (daringfireball.net)
66 points by mrshoe on April 16, 2010 | 45 comments
16.
Online tutorials for LaTeX (tug.org.in)
62 points by samratjp on April 16, 2010 | 19 comments
17.
Mac OS X SSD tweaks (nullvision.com)
62 points by bensummers on April 16, 2010 | 37 comments
18.
I'm going to be on Mixergy today at 11am PDT (ycombinator.posterous.com)
58 points by jl on April 16, 2010 | 27 comments
19.
The Future is Movie OS (danhon.com)
53 points by danhon on April 16, 2010 | 56 comments
20.
ITunes for Research Papers (mendeley.com)
51 points by samratjp on April 16, 2010 | 21 comments
21.
Retailer adds 'immortal soul' clause to sale conditions (news.com.au)
50 points by RiderOfGiraffes on April 16, 2010 | 27 comments
22.
DOJ abandons warrantless attempt to read e-mail (cnet.com)
48 points by metamemetics on April 16, 2010 | 12 comments
23.
U.S. Accuses Goldman Sachs of Fraud (nytimes.com)
46 points by samratjp on April 16, 2010 | 2 comments
24.
The day my brain forgot where my back was (lucys-backbreak.blogspot.com)
43 points by gdee on April 16, 2010 | 35 comments
25.
Waking up in the same place every morning is boring (rationalcraft.com)
42 points by jojopotato on April 16, 2010 | 18 comments
26.
Linux AI programmable robot baby dinosaur. (handlewithlinux.com)
41 points by mapleoin on April 16, 2010 | 11 comments
27.
The Use Case for Blocks (github.com/raganwald)
40 points by zephyrfalcon on April 16, 2010 | 21 comments
28.
Obama ends NASA space race with slow road to Mars (timesonline.co.uk)
39 points by gaius on April 16, 2010 | 50 comments
29.
Mercurial over Git (jonchu.posterous.com)
38 points by jchonphoenix on April 16, 2010 | 52 comments
30.
WePad (wepad.mobi)
38 points by obsaysditto on April 16, 2010 | 46 comments

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