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1.
Reddit IAMA. An ex Google programmer switched to a job in the lumbering industry (reddit.com)
138 points by tfh on May 9, 2010 | 87 comments
2.
Charles Munger (of Berkshire Hathaway): Elementary Worldly Wisdom (ycombinator.com)
135 points by apu on May 9, 2010 | 24 comments
3.
New Programming Jargon (globalnerdy.com)
106 points by tortilla on May 9, 2010 | 28 comments
4.
Linux-ready, open-platform ARM9/DSP SBC costs $89 (linuxfordevices.com)
104 points by ckcin on May 9, 2010 | 28 comments
5.
How (and when) to motivate yourself (hbr.org)
100 points by c0riander on May 9, 2010 | 16 comments
6.
Many gifted children fail academically (umontreal.ca)
100 points by tokenadult on May 9, 2010 | 117 comments
7.
Remind HN: Today (9th of May) is Mother's Day in US
97 points by jrnkntl on May 9, 2010 | 28 comments
8.
What Business is Wall Street In? (blogmaverick.com)
94 points by peter123 on May 9, 2010 | 34 comments
9.
Charlie Stross on Common Misconceptions About Publishing: Ebooks (antipope.org)
89 points by bensummers on May 9, 2010 | 54 comments
10.
Google the way it's supposed to be (google.com)
86 points by iamelgringo on May 9, 2010 | 73 comments
11.
The Productivity Myth (hbr.org)
83 points by cwan on May 9, 2010 | 17 comments
12.
Ask HN: Care to share your average Android Market daily revenues?
75 points by Concours on May 9, 2010 | 28 comments
13.
Stephen Fry on binary choices (stephenfry.com)
64 points by grellas on May 9, 2010 | 17 comments
14.
Mini Cannon Firing and Destroying Targets (youtube.com)
62 points by aaronbrethorst on May 9, 2010 | 28 comments
15.
There is no such thing as good hiring, only good firing (fonality.com)
59 points by mmt on May 9, 2010 | 92 comments
16.
Obama bemoans 'diversions' of IPod, Xbox era (google.com)
52 points by resdirector on May 9, 2010 | 58 comments
17.
Proof that Telstra Bigpond is Throttling Youtube Bandwidth in Australia (video) (youtube.com)
51 points by SpacemanSpiff on May 9, 2010 | 29 comments
18.
Facebook, Zynga, and buyer-supplier hold up (cdixon.org)
50 points by minalecs on May 9, 2010 | 14 comments
19.
Mark Cuban: place a 25 cent-per-share transaction fee on Wall St. trades (wallstreetpit.com)
49 points by davi on May 9, 2010 | 56 comments
20.
Unix system programming in Objective Caml (ocamlcore.org)
49 points by l0stman on May 9, 2010
21.
What's the deal with these weird comments on my blog? (thepursuitofquality.com)
47 points by gavingmiller on May 9, 2010 | 27 comments
22.
John Resig on Advanced Javascript to Improve Your Webapp (carsonified.com)
46 points by wallflower on May 9, 2010 | 1 comment
23.
Ask HN: Any health tips?
45 points by seymores on May 9, 2010 | 66 comments
24.
Death by stuff (gapingvoid.com)
42 points by MaysonL on May 9, 2010 | 4 comments
25.
Picwing is Offering 2 Months Free in Honor of Mother's Day (ycombinator.posterous.com)
38 points by pg on May 9, 2010 | 8 comments
26.
Bedbugs in the Duvet: An infestation on the Upper East Side (nymag.com)
37 points by cwan on May 9, 2010 | 13 comments
27.
Even Google now slamming ACTA (cnet.com)
35 points by CoryOndrejka on May 9, 2010 | 5 comments
28.
MPI-Mapreduce (sandia.gov)
34 points by helwr on May 9, 2010 | 2 comments
29.
Ongoing Facebook API Outage Worries Developers. Can the Web Depend on FB? (nytimes.com)
32 points by jfi on May 9, 2010 | 13 comments
30.
Lots of startups getting incubated in Texas (startupmuse.com)
31 points by j_baker on May 9, 2010 | 3 comments

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