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1. Don’t use @import (stevesouders.com)
75 points by mcxx on April 13, 2009 | 14 comments
2. Things You Don’t Know About User IDs That Will Destroy You (timetobleed.com)
69 points by ice799 on April 13, 2009 | 16 comments
3. $80,000 for a Year Off? She'll Take It! (nytimes.com)
68 points by physcab on April 13, 2009 | 42 comments
4. Why is programming fun? (grok2.com)
56 points by signa11 on April 13, 2009 | 51 comments
5. Ebay Unacquires StumbleUpon (techcrunch.com)
48 points by vaksel on April 13, 2009 | 14 comments
6. Stop the Press: Building A Startup Presskit 101 (chuwe.com)
46 points by sgrove on April 13, 2009 | 4 comments
7. Ask HN: Feedback on Skritter, Learning Chinese with Spaced Repetition on App Engine (skritter.com)
45 points by gsaines on April 13, 2009 | 72 comments
8. Google's "Immigration Fixer" (nytimes.com)
44 points by physcab on April 13, 2009 | 22 comments
9. Ask HN: Startup PR - How could they get so many coverages?
44 points by alexdong on April 13, 2009 | 33 comments
10. Ask HN: What do founders do for health insurance?
38 points by lionheart on April 13, 2009 | 62 comments
11. On Amazon Failure, Meta-Trolls, and Bantown (tehdely.livejournal.com)
38 points by kf on April 13, 2009 | 3 comments
12. High Performance Web Pages – Real World Examples: Netflix Case Study (billwscott.com)
37 points by wave on April 13, 2009 | 5 comments
13. Writing a Package in Python (brenelz.com)
36 points by Anon84 on April 13, 2009 | 1 comment
14. Computer as condom (papert.org)
31 points by zain on April 13, 2009 | 10 comments
15. The Logic of Loss (aaronsw.com)
31 points by soundsop on April 13, 2009 | 26 comments
16. Advice for Y Combinator Interviewees (from Sumon, Snaptalent, YC W08) (sharpshoot.blogspot.com)
29 points by sharpshoot on April 13, 2009 | 1 comment
17. Lagrangians and Hamiltonians for High School Students (arxiv.org)
27 points by kqr2 on April 13, 2009 | 15 comments
18. PHP on Google App Engine (using Quercus) (weirdhenge.appspot.com)
31 points by arthurk on April 13, 2009 | 16 comments
19. You Will Be Using FriendFeed In The Future — But It May Be Called Facebook (techcrunch.com)
27 points by jasonlbaptiste on April 13, 2009 | 3 comments
20. Startup Interviews: Balsamiq Studio LLC (antoniocangiano.com)
25 points by acangiano on April 13, 2009 | 1 comment
21. The Defeat of the Schools (1939) (theatlantic.com)
23 points by anthonyrubin on April 13, 2009 | 11 comments
22. Cocoa with Love: Showing a "Loading..." message over the iPhone keyboard (cocoawithlove.com)
23 points by twampss on April 13, 2009 | 11 comments
23. A bold plan for mass adoption of electric cars (ted.com)
22 points by bradgessler on April 13, 2009 | 23 comments
24. Ruby on Rails Development Companies in India (nitinh.com)
22 points by theone on April 13, 2009 | 13 comments
25. EcmaScript Edition 5, formerly known as 3.1: Getting a new JavaScript (ajaxian.com)
21 points by ossreleasefeed on April 13, 2009 | 16 comments
26. Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking (ruhlman.com)
21 points by KC8ZKF on April 13, 2009 | 13 comments
27. Our ears may have built-in passwords (newscientist.com)
20 points by muon on April 13, 2009 | 9 comments
28. Windows 7 could follow Vista to an early grave (venturebeat.com)
20 points by transburgh on April 13, 2009 | 21 comments
29. Why Warren Buffett is investing in Electric Car Company BYD (cnn.com)
19 points by jakarta on April 13, 2009 | 8 comments
30. 12.04.1961 - First human in outer space. (wikipedia.org)
19 points by ilkhd2 on April 13, 2009 | 8 comments

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