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1. 6 Line EventMachine Bugfix = 2x faster GC, 13x requests/sec (timetobleed.com)
107 points by EvilTrout on April 29, 2009 | 35 comments
2. Bootstrapping Technology For Eight Bucks a Day (interfacelab.com)
90 points by jawngee on April 29, 2009 | 19 comments
3. News News: Faster, Fewer Flamewars (ycombinator.com)
82 points by pg on April 29, 2009 | 58 comments
4. WebKit gets a new JavaScript profiler courtesy of 280 North (YC W08) (alertdebugging.com)
80 points by boucher on April 29, 2009 | 16 comments
5. American excess: A Wall Street trader tells all (independent.co.uk)
80 points by winanga on April 29, 2009 | 29 comments
6. Python Autocompletion for Vim, Emacs and TextMate (code.google.com)
76 points by jenningsjason on April 29, 2009 | 15 comments
7. JWZ, on Garbage Collection (jwz.org)
74 points by abstractbill on April 29, 2009 | 29 comments
8. Beej's Guide to Network Programming (beej.us)
72 points by streblo on April 29, 2009 | 22 comments
9. Not Smart: Warner Music Issues DMCA Takedown On Larry Lessig Presentation (techdirt.com)
67 points by jasonlbaptiste on April 29, 2009 | 26 comments
10. A Selection Of Thoughts From Actual Women (regarding GoGaRuCo) (hackety.org)
66 points by sant0sk1 on April 29, 2009 | 145 comments
11. How to Work the Room (gigaom.com)
62 points by Celcius on April 29, 2009 | 19 comments
12. Flight Control (#1 paid app) iPhone Game Sales Numbers (firemintgames.blogspot.com)
54 points by defunkt on April 29, 2009 | 11 comments
13. Generalizing from one example (lesswrong.com)
53 points by jibiki on April 29, 2009 | 6 comments
14. Ask YC: Cheap alternatives to Aeron chairs?
52 points by ashishk on April 29, 2009 | 69 comments
15. Reddit.TV launches - what do you think, Hacker News? (reddit.tv)
50 points by kn0thing on April 29, 2009 | 33 comments
16. Python: Intro to Decorators (tds.net)
48 points by dgallagher on April 29, 2009 | 3 comments
17. Examples of “Lazy Registration” (webjackalope.com)
45 points by tortilla on April 29, 2009 | 25 comments
18. 60% of Twitter Users Quit Within the First Month (mashable.com)
43 points by jasonlbaptiste on April 29, 2009 | 44 comments
19. Great funding model: Adopt a line of code (getmiro.com)
41 points by geeko on April 29, 2009 | 27 comments
20. SHA1 collisions down to 2^52 [pdf] (cr.yp.to)
40 points by durin42 on April 29, 2009 | 23 comments
21. An email from a very confused guy who can’t find a job (iwillteachyoutoberich.com)
38 points by oscardelben on April 29, 2009 | 39 comments
22. India buys 250k OLPCs (guardian.co.uk)
35 points by nigelbruin on April 29, 2009 | 12 comments
23. Talk about StackOverflow (joelonsoftware.com)
35 points by twampss on April 29, 2009 | 2 comments
24. TextMate Basics Tutorial (serenity.de)
35 points by twampss on April 29, 2009 | 15 comments
25. Perl saved my vacation (moertel.com)
34 points by mudge on April 29, 2009 | 14 comments
26. Ask HN : How can I estimate my market?
33 points by csomar on April 29, 2009 | 9 comments
27. How Scala Changed My Programming Style (artima.com)
33 points by coglethorpe on April 29, 2009 | 20 comments
28. Acxiom: the company that knows if you own a cat or if you're right-handed (telegraph.co.uk)
30 points by vaksel on April 29, 2009 | 11 comments
29. Is Fatigue Really Just All In Our Heads? (seedmagazine.com)
29 points by peter123 on April 29, 2009 | 14 comments
30. Ask YC/PG: Quantitative success of YC so far?
27 points by ryanwaggoner on April 29, 2009 | 10 comments

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