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1. YC Rejected: Please read.
171 points by kyro on April 7, 2009 | 31 comments
2. Paul Graham: The 10 Secrets of Selling Online (1997) (archive.org)
82 points by jackchristopher on April 7, 2009 | 51 comments
3. Hack Your Speaking Skills (acm.org)
72 points by ziadbc on April 7, 2009 | 28 comments
4. I Want You to Apologize (harvardbusiness.org)
65 points by peter123 on April 7, 2009 | 22 comments
5. FriendFeed Is In Danger Of Becoming The Coolest App No One Uses (techcrunch.com)
63 points by ericbieller on April 7, 2009 | 55 comments
6. 50 mb Linux livecd distro with a XUL interface and 10 second boot (xpud.org)
61 points by sandGorgon on April 7, 2009 | 24 comments
7. The YC Rejection thread
61 points by nanexcool on April 7, 2009 | 137 comments
8. Ask HN: Got rejected by YC 6-12 months ago? Where are you now?
61 points by vaksel on April 7, 2009 | 56 comments
9. JamLegend is hiring interns this summer (snaptalent.com)
55 points by sharpshoot on April 7, 2009 | 27 comments
10. Lisp's reputation is so bad that many people don't even take a look at Lisp (scheming.org)
52 points by iamelgringo on April 7, 2009 | 68 comments
11. Twi.bz: the transparent URL shortener (twi.bz)
50 points by jgrahamc on April 7, 2009 | 72 comments
12. Ben Heck's C64 Laptop (benheck.com)
49 points by kqr2 on April 7, 2009
13. More than 20% of self-made billionaires never completed college (forbes.com)
46 points by oz on April 7, 2009 | 73 comments
14. The “Good” Student (steveblank.com)
44 points by _pius on April 7, 2009 | 23 comments
15. YC is Wrong About You
43 points by jeremynolan on April 7, 2009 | 25 comments
16. Apply to AlphaLab: $25K and 5mo free office space (alphalab.org)
40 points by thejash on April 7, 2009 | 34 comments
17. Ask HN: What would you love to pay for if it was available?
39 points by ryanwaggoner on April 7, 2009 | 189 comments
18. Checks Before Launching Your Website (smashingmagazine.com)
39 points by yaj on April 7, 2009 | 11 comments
19. Disk IO Performance: EC2 vs Mosso vs Linode (mudy.info)
39 points by wmf on April 7, 2009 | 10 comments
20. Experiences deploying a large-scale infrastructure in Amazon EC2 (agiletesting.blogspot.com)
37 points by davidw on April 7, 2009 | 4 comments
21. Ask HN: Obsessive Asian Parents
36 points by buggy_code on April 7, 2009 | 34 comments
22. How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet (douglasadams.com)
35 points by prateekdayal on April 7, 2009 | 9 comments
23. The end of Philosophy (nytimes.com)
35 points by knieveltech on April 7, 2009 | 37 comments
24. Where have all the graduate students gone? (2002) (csmonitor.com)
34 points by physcab on April 7, 2009 | 27 comments
25. The Science of When to Get Married (thedailybeast.com)
31 points by peter123 on April 7, 2009 | 9 comments
26. Ask HN: What Programming Book would you buy right now (if it existed)
32 points by plinkplonk on April 7, 2009 | 52 comments
27. GM and Segway announce two-wheeled urban transport vehicle (crunchgear.com)
29 points by vaksel on April 7, 2009 | 8 comments
28. How the Internet Got Its Rules (nytimes.com)
27 points by pj on April 7, 2009 | 2 comments
29. Daniel Weinreb: Fundamental problems with the Common Lisp language (scheming.org)
26 points by parenthesis on April 7, 2009 | 12 comments
30. The Rapid Release Tautology (modernperlbooks.com)
26 points by swombat on April 7, 2009 | 9 comments

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