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1. Ask HN: Zillow is trying to acquire my app + domain for "a couple hundred bucks", advice?
145 points by auston on May 1, 2009 | 119 comments
2. Attention NoScript users (adblockplus.org)
100 points by robin_reala on May 1, 2009 | 40 comments
3. Google: Mowing lawn with goats (googleblog.blogspot.com)
94 points by ropiku on May 1, 2009 | 76 comments
4. Reg Braithwaite on Optimism (github.com/raganwald)
94 points by raganwald on May 1, 2009 | 39 comments
5. Interview: Y Combinator Founder Jessica Livingston (thenextwomen.com)
78 points by drm237 on May 1, 2009 | 21 comments
6. Visualizing Bayes' theorem (oscarbonilla.com)
76 points by screwperman on May 1, 2009 | 14 comments
7. What's new in Firefox 3.5 (developer.mozilla.org)
75 points by geuis on May 1, 2009 | 33 comments
8. Sam Odio and the EFF vs. Apple Inc. (eff.org)
66 points by kf on May 1, 2009 | 15 comments
9. Mini Mario Game as Resignation Letter (bagofnothing.com)
55 points by newbcoder on May 1, 2009 | 15 comments
10. Django-piston - A mini-framework for Django for creating RESTful APIs (bitbucket.org/jespern)
50 points by jespern on May 1, 2009 | 9 comments
11. Did you know that there's an algorithm for symbolic integration that always works? (wikipedia.org)
50 points by amichail on May 1, 2009 | 16 comments
12. REST worst practices (jacobian.org)
48 points by luckystrike on May 1, 2009 | 15 comments
13. See Wolfram Alpha in Action: Our Screenshots (readwriteweb.com)
46 points by vladocar on May 1, 2009 | 17 comments
14. You got your Erlang in my Ruby (brainspl.at)
46 points by coglethorpe on May 1, 2009 | 6 comments
15. The Man Who Made Gmail Says Real-Time Conversation is What's Next (readwriteweb.com)
37 points by edw519 on May 1, 2009 | 30 comments
16. Clojure for non-Lisp programmers (moxleystratton.com)
36 points by martythemaniak on May 1, 2009 | 8 comments
17. Notes on making JGit (Java Git) fast (gmane.org)
31 points by wanderingmarker on May 1, 2009 | 6 comments
18. Disney acquires nearly 30% stake in Hulu (nma.co.uk)
31 points by daleharvey on May 1, 2009 | 29 comments
19. The New Plagiarism (chronicle.com)
30 points by pg on May 1, 2009 | 10 comments
20. Unskilled and Unaware of It (apa.org)
29 points by Xichekolas on May 1, 2009 | 12 comments
21. Evolution of Amazon.com Logo (kokogiak.com)
29 points by grinich on May 1, 2009 | 11 comments
22. Using Dropbox as a Host for Static Websites. (andothernoise.blogspot.com)
28 points by alexandros on May 1, 2009 | 16 comments
23. The future of Rails is Ruby 1.9 - real performance of 1.8, JRuby and 1.9 compared (pluron.com)
28 points by gleb on May 1, 2009 | 1 comment
24. Virtual Neurons Acting Like the Real Thing - The Blue Brain Project (singularityhub.com)
26 points by kkleiner on May 1, 2009 | 24 comments
25. Alternatives to SQL Databases (lwn.net)
26 points by edw519 on May 1, 2009 | 4 comments
26. My Tiny TodoList: A simple open source todolist written in PHP and jQuery (woork.blogspot.com)
26 points by edw519 on May 1, 2009 | 8 comments
27. Toys that detect brainwaves (washingtonpost.com)
25 points by nebula on May 1, 2009 | 10 comments
28. Pirate Party may gain seat in EU Parliament (torrentfreak.com)
25 points by javanix on May 1, 2009 | 8 comments
29. FunAdvice/MyYearBook acquisition emails (TechCrunch BCC'ed) (techcrunch.com)
24 points by eo on May 1, 2009 | 22 comments
30. Doomed Engineers: Careers even worse than yours (std.com)
24 points by kurtosis on May 1, 2009 | 7 comments

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