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1. China's Google Maps (zoom out for best effect) (edushi.com)
132 points by pc on April 28, 2009 | 40 comments
2. How 4chan hacked ReCAPTCHA to win the TIME 100 Poll (musicmachinery.com)
127 points by mariorz on April 28, 2009 | 37 comments
3. Ubuntu brings advanced Screen features (arstechnica.com)
102 points by mblakele on April 28, 2009 | 36 comments
4. Why People Don't Like Nerds or Programmers (In School) (rorymarinich.tumblr.com)
85 points by inglorian on April 28, 2009 | 143 comments
5. Hacking for fun and profit with Mathematica and the Google Analytics API (collison.ie)
85 points by ktom on April 28, 2009 | 5 comments
6. Ignore Y Combinator at Your Own Risk (fool.com)
73 points by SwellJoe on April 28, 2009 | 16 comments
7. Ask HN: I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions?
64 points by anonymous1618 on April 28, 2009 | 140 comments
8. A Painful Decision (afreshcup.com)
59 points by ph0rque on April 28, 2009 | 73 comments
9. Record-Breaking Amateur Rocket Launch (popularmechanics.com)
58 points by robg on April 28, 2009 | 16 comments
10. Skew, The Frontend Engineer's Misery (lethain.com)
55 points by twampss on April 28, 2009 | 9 comments
11. Hacker News (wikipedia.org)
49 points by eru on April 28, 2009 | 46 comments
12. Are expensive running shoes a waste of money? (dailymail.co.uk)
47 points by terpua on April 28, 2009 | 37 comments
13. Guido's final word on Tail Calls (neopythonic.blogspot.com)
47 points by uggedal on April 28, 2009 | 22 comments
14. JSConf2009 Wrapup (michaelharrison.ws)
44 points by geuis on April 28, 2009 | 13 comments
15. Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages (oreilly.com)
43 points by 10ren on April 28, 2009 | 28 comments
16. Designer/Developer matching service (collabfinder.com)
41 points by nir on April 28, 2009 | 13 comments
17. The Best Entrepreneurs Know How To Fail Fast (feld.com)
41 points by peter123 on April 28, 2009 | 15 comments
18. Opera adds a splash page to celebrate 15 years of web innovation (opera.com)
39 points by melito on April 28, 2009 | 18 comments
19. Keep it simple, startup (techcrunch.com)
36 points by CalmQuiet on April 28, 2009 | 3 comments
20. Stop acting like a sissy and market your company (ideasonideas.com)
35 points by karjaluoto on April 28, 2009 | 5 comments
21. How I finally understood the Y Combinator (noeit.wordpress.com)
34 points by dragonquest on April 28, 2009 | 8 comments
22. Two wheels good (economist.com)
33 points by jeffesp on April 28, 2009 | 29 comments
23. Edward Tufte on iPhone Visual Design (edwardtufte.com)
30 points by grinich on April 28, 2009 | 7 comments
24. Geocities: Lessons So Far (textfiles.com)
30 points by edw519 on April 28, 2009 | 7 comments
25. The last great swine flu epidemic (salon.com)
28 points by peter123 on April 28, 2009 | 13 comments
26. Teralys: New $825m Fund announced in QC, Canada (montrealtechwatch.com)
28 points by mtw on April 28, 2009 | 4 comments
27. Embedding Clojure in an Existing Application (ianp.org)
27 points by coglethorpe on April 28, 2009
28. Google: What we talk about when we talk about cloud computing (googleenterprise.blogspot.com)
27 points by peter123 on April 28, 2009 | 6 comments
29. Write better Perl with Perl::Critic (damienlearnsperl.blogspot.com)
28 points by chorny on April 28, 2009 | 6 comments
30. Google now searches public data (googleblog.blogspot.com)
26 points by coglethorpe on April 28, 2009 | 5 comments

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