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1.		Patrick McKenzie (patio11) interviewed for an hour on SEO & AdWords (gabrielweinberg.com)
		212 points by epi0Bauqu on April 6, 2010 \| 48 comments
2.		A 2.5 Year-Old Has A First Encounter with An iPad (laughingsquid.com)
		201 points by thomasreggi on April 6, 2010 \| 108 comments
3.		Actions That Made Me Happier (garyharan.com)
		155 points by macournoyer_ on April 6, 2010 \| 49 comments
4.		Kevin Rose is killing the DiggBar (digg.com)
		154 points by adamhowell on April 6, 2010 \| 35 comments
5.		32 years on, K&R's "The C Programming Language" still stands alone (reprog.wordpress.com)
		142 points by MikeTaylor on April 6, 2010 \| 66 comments
6.		Price Anchoring, Or Why a $499 iPad Seems Inexpensive (mint.com)
		142 points by jeff18 on April 6, 2010 \| 79 comments
7.		Wikileaks has really misled the public (firedoglake.com)
		129 points by nreece on April 6, 2010 \| 155 comments
8.		Mozilla shipping SSL root certificate, has no idea how it got there (groups.google.com)
		122 points by dfranke on April 6, 2010 \| 46 comments
9.		Amazing feats of Clang Error Recovery (llvm.org)
		112 points by pieter on April 6, 2010 \| 18 comments
10.		The Moderate's Position on iPad Openness (al3x.net)
		100 points by mqt on April 6, 2010 \| 31 comments
11.		Git for the nervous developer (beust.com)
		98 points by fogus on April 6, 2010 \| 9 comments
12.		US court rules against FCC on net neutrality (yahoo.com)
		89 points by viggity on April 6, 2010 \| 66 comments
13.		PyPy 1.2 Released (google-opensource.blogspot.com)
		85 points by jolie on April 6, 2010 \| 11 comments
14.		Mark Cuban: Why You Should Never Listen to Your Customers (blogmaverick.com)
		85 points by dwwoelfel on April 6, 2010 \| 33 comments
15.		Faster Firefox landing page increases download conversion by 15% (blog.mozilla.com)
		83 points by mbrubeck on April 6, 2010 \| 53 comments
16.		Cassandra Explained: An Intro to the Cassandra Data Model (arin.me)
		80 points by joshfinnie on April 6, 2010 \| 6 comments
17.		Robot that autonomously folds a pile of towels (youtube.com)
		75 points by jorgeortiz85 on April 6, 2010 \| 30 comments
18.		Microsoft's Quiet Success Story: Windows 7 (newsweek.com)
		69 points by ALee on April 6, 2010 \| 48 comments
19.		Happiness Button (A Parable) (dilbert.com)
		67 points by felixc on April 6, 2010 \| 21 comments
20.		iBooks and private APIs (marco.org)
		62 points by twampss on April 6, 2010 \| 24 comments
		ssn on April 6, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: A 2.5 Year-Old Has A First Encounter with An iPad Clearly her previous iPhone experience was paramount.
22.		Tools to Find Domain Names (domaingroovy.com)
		54 points by duck on April 6, 2010 \| 11 comments
		leviathant on April 6, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: A 2.5 Year-Old Has A First Encounter with An iPad Now try giving that 2.5 year old a violin and see how well that works. Now try giving that 2.5 year old a graphing calculator and see how well that works. Now try giving that 2.5 year old a drum kit and see how well that works. Now try giving that 2.5 year old canvas with a palette of oil paints and see how well that works.
		frou_dh on April 6, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: A 2.5 Year-Old Has A First Encounter with An iPad The physical home button for bailing out when problems or boredom strike certainly works well for her.
25.		Unix system programming in Objective Caml (ocamlcore.org)
		51 points by r11t on April 6, 2010
		frederickcook on April 6, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Kevin Rose is killing the DiggBar Completely agree. It is terribly annoying being linked to a website, looking up at the url, and seeing some bullshit aggregator or other url-forwarder. I feel like I'm being taken advantage of, and immediately bounce.
		dazmax on April 6, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Actions That Made Me Happier In the "removing small frustrations" category: getting a second power cord for my laptop. It makes me happy twice a day when I don't have to fish my cord out to bring it to work/home.
28.		Why Vector Clocks are Hard (basho.com)
		48 points by arto on April 6, 2010 \| 7 comments
29.		Writing a non-relational Django backend (allbuttonspressed.com)
		47 points by wkornewald on April 6, 2010 \| 21 comments
		gojomo on April 6, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: A 2.5 Year-Old Has A First Encounter with An iPad Shades of Neal Stephenson's A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer. But also, from a friend who's had problems reclaiming his iPad from his 3-year-old son: shades of Ray Bradbury's The Veldt.
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