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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. One malloc to rule them all (reverberate.org)
33 points by parenthesis on May 11, 2009 | 11 comments
18. We need both engineers and artists in programming (loudthinking.com)
33 points by joao on May 11, 2009 | 30 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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