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1. "If you move your mouse pointer continuously... the query may not fail." (microsoft.com)
155 points by iamelgringo on May 25, 2009 | 29 comments
2. The man who could have been richer than Bill Gates (freeenterpriseland.com)
89 points by acangiano on May 25, 2009 | 41 comments
3. Poll: Should we ban TechCrunch?
87 points by andr on May 25, 2009 | 129 comments
4. Starting a business isn't as crazy and risky as they say (asmartbear.com)
76 points by lrm242 on May 25, 2009 | 20 comments
5. New Yorker cover painted using iPhone (Brushes app) (newyorker.com)
62 points by tortilla on May 25, 2009 | 8 comments
6. Netbook powered by 8 AA batteries (norhtec.com)
58 points by vaksel on May 25, 2009 | 34 comments
7. Simple wins (jchrisa.net)
56 points by dan_sim on May 25, 2009 | 16 comments
8. Life Size Katamari (nycresistor.com)
54 points by iamwil on May 25, 2009 | 3 comments
9. GitHub's Hg-Git mercurial plugin (hg-git.github.com)
52 points by mattculbreth on May 25, 2009 | 17 comments
10. Slashdot discovers Lisp (slashdot.org)
51 points by michael_dorfman on May 25, 2009 | 25 comments
11. Ignoring the Wisdom of Crowds (asmartbear.com)
45 points by tyn on May 25, 2009 | 7 comments
12. Sammy: JavaScript framework inspired by Sinatra (quirkey.com)
42 points by mbrubeck on May 25, 2009 | 3 comments
13. You and Your Research (raganwald.com)
40 points by raganwald on May 25, 2009 | 13 comments
14. Incanter is a Clojure, R-like statistical computing and graphics environment (github.com/liebke)
39 points by mindaugas on May 25, 2009 | 2 comments
15. Python's CleverCSS (pocoo.org)
38 points by iamelgringo on May 25, 2009 | 10 comments
16. Management and mathematics (utexas.edu)
38 points by abhinav on May 25, 2009 | 9 comments
17. What Emacs Commands Do You Use Most and Find Most Useful? (reddit.com)
36 points by apgwoz on May 25, 2009 | 9 comments
18. Facebook/Twitter too shall pass (rarestblog.com)
34 points by CalmQuiet on May 25, 2009 | 31 comments
19. Faking It (The Undereducation of an Overachiever) (nytimes.com)
31 points by villageidiot on May 25, 2009 | 14 comments
20. Clojure JNA - access C libs from Clojure (github.com/chouser)
31 points by lhorie on May 25, 2009 | 3 comments
21. Some music in Haskell (yaxu.org)
30 points by zzkt on May 25, 2009 | 1 comment
22. Lego does Frank Lloyd Wright (wired.com)
30 points by mnemonicsloth on May 25, 2009 | 9 comments
23. Success Breeds Success in Startups (hbs.edu)
25 points by quizbiz on May 25, 2009 | 6 comments
24. After the Car Crash (hackerfactor.com)
25 points by dan_the_welder on May 25, 2009 | 15 comments
25. The Man Who Could Have Been Bill Gates (2004) (businessweek.com)
23 points by kf on May 25, 2009 | 4 comments
26. Coming soon: First pictures of a black hole (newscientist.com)
24 points by swombat on May 25, 2009 | 1 comment
27. How to: add features to Firefox with Mozilla's new Jetpack (arstechnica.com)
23 points by soundsop on May 25, 2009 | 2 comments
28. Choosing between Webkit and Mozilla (chrislord.net)
23 points by hexis on May 25, 2009 | 1 comment
29. Ask HN: A site like Hacker News, but about art?
22 points by nahumfarchi on May 25, 2009 | 17 comments
30. How Sesame Street Changed the World (newsweek.com)
22 points by iamelgringo on May 25, 2009 | 7 comments

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