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1. Github founder on how to become a famous^Wgood Rails developer (gist.github.com)
137 points by aditya on May 6, 2009 | 19 comments
2. Amazon releases the rumoured large-screen Kindle (amazon.com)
112 points by jrockway on May 6, 2009 | 106 comments
3. Ask HN: Why no love for PHP?
99 points by ironkeith on May 6, 2009 | 145 comments
4. 198 people (ycombinator.posterous.com)
92 points by pg on May 6, 2009 | 32 comments
5. Sid Meier's Rules (designer-notes.com)
94 points by iamelgringo on May 6, 2009 | 7 comments
6. The Last Question -- Isaac Asimov (multivax.com)
74 points by mariorz on May 6, 2009 | 24 comments
7. Student's Wikipedia hoax quote used worldwide in newspapers (irishtimes.com)
65 points by vaksel on May 6, 2009 | 26 comments
8. Can you trust Paul Graham with your password? (jgc.org)
65 points by MaysonL on May 6, 2009 | 74 comments
9. Going Dutch (nytimes.com)
64 points by ido on May 6, 2009 | 66 comments
10. I Just Logged In As You: How It Happened (codinghorror.com)
64 points by sant0sk1 on May 6, 2009 | 33 comments
11. Introductory course to iphone development (csail.mit.edu)
58 points by geeko on May 6, 2009 | 14 comments
12. Poll: What is your highest educational qualification?
58 points by naish on May 6, 2009 | 128 comments
13. Magic sucks, Django Rocks (christopherroach.com)
56 points by vthakr on May 6, 2009 | 39 comments
14. A Better BART Kiosk Interface (bartkiosk.com)
49 points by bluefish on May 6, 2009 | 33 comments
15. Debian is switching to EGLIBC (aurel32.net)
47 points by tsally on May 6, 2009 | 13 comments
16. Bringing Traffic with Google Adwords (metajack.im)
46 points by _pius on May 6, 2009 | 4 comments
17. Poll: Which cloud host do you use?
42 points by merrick33 on May 6, 2009 | 82 comments
18. How P2 Changed Automattic (ma.tt)
40 points by peter123 on May 6, 2009 | 13 comments
19. Poll: Do you smoke?
39 points by brandon272 on May 6, 2009 | 155 comments
20. A thought: disposable realtime notifications for webapps (dustincurtis.com)
40 points by dcurtis on May 6, 2009 | 29 comments
21. Ten Things Twitter is Not (seldo.com)
37 points by seldo on May 6, 2009 | 25 comments
22. New Amazon EC2 competitor - SoftLayer launches CloudLayer (softlayer.com)
37 points by sadiq on May 6, 2009 | 23 comments
23. Face Detection on iPhone (including source code) (beetlebugsoftware.com)
36 points by jcollins on May 6, 2009 | 14 comments
24. The Tao Of Programming (canonical.org)
35 points by muon on May 6, 2009 | 11 comments
25. Canon Cat (wikipedia.org)
35 points by ido on May 6, 2009 | 15 comments
26. Creative minds: the links between mental illness and creativity (independent.co.uk)
35 points by hko on May 6, 2009 | 36 comments
27. The Haskell Platform: a single, standard Haskell distribution for every system (haskell.org)
34 points by jlhamilton on May 6, 2009 | 18 comments
28. Best practices for programming in C (ibm.com)
33 points by twampss on May 6, 2009 | 11 comments
29. Ask Freelancers: How much do you charge?
32 points by grinich on May 6, 2009 | 24 comments
30. Building a Mini Google: High Performance computing in Ruby (scribd.com)
31 points by jcapote on May 6, 2009 | 5 comments

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