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1. A visit to id software, 1993 (rome.ro)
72 points by abstractbill on April 6, 2009 | 16 comments
2. Why People Don’t Install Firefox - Part III (blog.mozilla.com)
71 points by toni on April 6, 2009 | 10 comments
3. Ineligible Bachelors: Indian Men Living in U.S. Strike Out (wsj.com)
68 points by rglovejoy on April 6, 2009 | 87 comments
4. Real-time view of Zappos purchases (zappos.com)
64 points by kennyroo on April 6, 2009 | 17 comments
5. MySQL Doesn’t Always Suck; This Time it’s AMD (timetobleed.com)
63 points by ice799 on April 6, 2009 | 12 comments
6. Facebook's photo storage rewrite (niallkennedy.com)
60 points by sr3d on April 6, 2009 | 12 comments
7. "We think you'd also like..." and the Math of Suggestion – Part 1 (from Directed Edge) (gruenderszene.de)
56 points by wheels on April 6, 2009 | 8 comments
8. How Obama used behavioral economics to win the election, and how he's using it to govern (time.com)
53 points by gabrielroth on April 6, 2009 | 68 comments
9. Tutorial: Setup EC2 for Rails/Merb/Sinatra using Chef
52 points by _pius on April 6, 2009 | 6 comments
10. What we did to (not) get into TechStars (aisleten.com)
51 points by MicahWedemeyer on April 6, 2009 | 31 comments
11. Mapreduce Bash Script (last.fm)
47 points by danw on April 6, 2009 | 5 comments
12. Pixar’s Latest Film Has Wall Street on Edge (nytimes.com)
41 points by peter123 on April 6, 2009 | 31 comments
13. Interview with Posterous (YC S08) Co-Founder Sachin Agarwal (downloadsquad.com)
43 points by rantfoil on April 6, 2009 | 9 comments
14. So Now Everything Is Google’s Fault (techcrunch.com)
41 points by ericbieller on April 6, 2009 | 39 comments
15. 20 of the Best Free Linux Books (linuxlinks.com)
39 points by Anon84 on April 6, 2009 | 2 comments
16. Ask HN: How to Hire Hackers
37 points by ALee on April 6, 2009 | 30 comments
17. The recession may be lifting (economist.com)
35 points by nopinsight on April 6, 2009 | 46 comments
18. Finding freelance jobs: Sites for talented techies (itworld.com)
34 points by abennett on April 6, 2009 | 22 comments
19. Ask PG: When will YC selectees be notified?
33 points by jdileo on April 6, 2009 | 51 comments
20. Ask HN: Feedback Please - TapInko.com (tapinko.com)
34 points by keltecp11 on April 6, 2009 | 57 comments
21. Sharp Variables (thejit.org)
32 points by philogb on April 6, 2009 | 15 comments
22. Coming soon: 37signals University (37signals.com)
31 points by _pius on April 6, 2009 | 30 comments
23. 6 Months of free DropBox Pro (getdropbox.com)
32 points by mikeyur on April 6, 2009 | 23 comments
24. Our Sentiments, Exactly (acm.org)
29 points by njrc on April 6, 2009 | 4 comments
25. PayPal, Visa rival Revolution Money gets $42 mln from Goldman, others (reuters.com)
29 points by ivankirigin on April 6, 2009 | 9 comments
26. The current database debate and graph databases (neo4j.org)
28 points by Anon84 on April 6, 2009 | 32 comments
27. Amazon to no longer pay for paid search referrals (amazon.ca)
25 points by r7000 on April 6, 2009 | 11 comments
28. A.P. Moving to Halt Use of Newspaper Articles on Web Sites (nytimes.com)
24 points by senthil_rajasek on April 6, 2009 | 47 comments
29. A web service to unshorten short URLs, in modern Perl (jrock.us)
24 points by jrockway on April 6, 2009 | 21 comments
30. George Soros: US Recovery Is Far Off, Banks Are 'Basically Insolvent' (cnbc.com)
23 points by noor420 on April 6, 2009 | 15 comments

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