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1.		How We Got Owned by a Few Teenagers (and Why It Will Never Happen Again) (phpfog.com)
		405 points by cardmagic on March 23, 2011 \| 188 comments
2.		I wanna work at Instagram (iwannaworkatinstagram.com)
		397 points by thankuz on March 23, 2011 \| 196 comments
3.		Mark Bao tracks down his stolen laptop and has the last laugh (switched.com)
		269 points by biggitybones on March 23, 2011 \| 186 comments
4.		Neil Gaiman: Why defend freedom of icky speech? (neilgaiman.com)
		259 points by uros643 on March 23, 2011 \| 97 comments
5.		Django 1.3 released (djangoproject.com)
		256 points by rodion_89 on March 23, 2011 \| 40 comments
6.		Time-saving tips for Linux (quora.com)
		242 points by thenicepostr on March 23, 2011 \| 85 comments
7.		How Carrots Became the new Junk Food (fastcompany.com)
		194 points by hnal943 on March 23, 2011 \| 81 comments
8.		Paul Graham spills: Why some companies get his cash and others don't (entrepreneur.com)
		186 points by rhartsock on March 23, 2011 \| 122 comments
9.		Ask HN: Are you working on any side projects that make "small/passive" income?
		177 points by riskish on March 23, 2011 \| 167 comments
10.		Why you should never ask permission to clean up code. (cdevroe.com)
		160 points by jakedahn on March 23, 2011 \| 105 comments
11.		How to Ace Calculus: The Art of Doing Well in Technical Courses (calnewport.com)
		149 points by motxilo on March 23, 2011 \| 58 comments
12.		From Redmond with Love - IE team sends cake for FF4 (fredericiana.com)
		142 points by dragonquest on March 23, 2011 \| 73 comments
13.		What is Bitcoin? (Video) (weusecoins.com)
		113 points by hippich on March 23, 2011 \| 133 comments
14.		Entrepreneurs: stop networking and showing off and get back to work (thenextweb.com)
		114 points by BorisBomega on March 23, 2011 \| 25 comments
15.		Mention @somebody. They're notified. (github.com/blog)
		108 points by mnemonik on March 23, 2011 \| 41 comments
16.		Web apps, credit cards, merchant accounts and PayPal (playnice.ly)
		107 points by adamcharnock on March 23, 2011 \| 36 comments
17.		Guy Steele: Growing a Language (video 53:30) (video.google.com)
		103 points by ashutoshm on March 23, 2011 \| 21 comments
18.		Internal status email: Twitter at 3 months old. 160 Users & 100 Tweets per day (anarchogeek.com)
		104 points by rabble on March 23, 2011 \| 49 comments
19.		Tout – How My Weekend Project Turned into a Real Lean Startup (tawheedkader.com)
		98 points by Tawheed on March 23, 2011 \| 16 comments
20.		Startup vs. Company (spencerfry.com)
		98 points by zachwaugh on March 23, 2011 \| 18 comments
21.		Bertrand Serlet to leave Apple (apple.com)
		97 points by cstuder on March 23, 2011 \| 52 comments
22.		Detroit is Dying… Quickly (freakonomics.com)
		92 points by cwan on March 23, 2011 \| 89 comments
23.		You’re not entitled to anything. Hustle for everything you’re worth (thestartupfoundry.com)
		88 points by g0atbutt on March 23, 2011 \| 16 comments
24.		Detecting Certificate Authority compromises and web browser collusion (torproject.org)
		88 points by adulau on March 23, 2011 \| 23 comments
25.		Thoughts on Convertible Notes (k9ventures.com)
		85 points by diego on March 23, 2011 \| 2 comments
26.		Eleven very short stories about SXSW (saladonions.tumblr.com)
		79 points by jedwhite on March 23, 2011 \| 4 comments
27.		The Rip-Off Express (panic.com)
		79 points by CrazedGeek on March 23, 2011 \| 11 comments
28.		Red Hat Nearing $1 billion in revenue (zdnet.com)
		76 points by marcog1 on March 23, 2011 \| 18 comments
29.		Trinity - Distributed Graph Database from Microsoft Research (research.microsoft.com)
		75 points by LiveTheDream on March 23, 2011 \| 30 comments
30.		Back to the front of the pack: Ars reviews Firefox 4 (arstechnica.com)
		73 points by brianwillis on March 23, 2011 \| 47 comments
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