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1. I.B.M. Withdraws $7 Billion Offer for Sun Microsystems (nytimes.com)
85 points by neilc on April 5, 2009 | 28 comments
2. Sleep is Garbage Collection (discovermagazine.com)
57 points by soundsop on April 5, 2009 | 29 comments
3. Radiohead to Testify Against the RIAA (torrentfreak.com)
51 points by vaksel on April 5, 2009 | 4 comments
4. Obie Fernandez: My Reasoned Response about Scala at Twitter (obiefernandez.com)
45 points by tortilla on April 5, 2009 | 44 comments
5. Easy AI with Python (blip.tv)
42 points by malvosenior on April 5, 2009 | 1 comment
6. J.K. Rowling: The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination (harvardmagazine.com)
42 points by markbao on April 5, 2009 | 3 comments
7. Grok This: Forget The Business Books, Go Sci-Fi To Stoke Your Imagination (techcrunch.com)
42 points by blackswan on April 5, 2009 | 47 comments
8. Online Brokerage Zecco Pretends To Give Away Millions, Panics When People Start Spending (consumerist.com)
40 points by peter123 on April 5, 2009 | 19 comments
9. Bruce Sterling requests assistance proving the validity of his marriage (wired.com)
38 points by haasted on April 5, 2009 | 13 comments
10. How Baseball Players Catch Fly Balls (livescience.com)
37 points by sobriquet on April 5, 2009 | 7 comments
11. Google is just an amoral menace (guardian.co.uk)
38 points by raju on April 5, 2009 | 62 comments
12. Startup Weekend: Problems (startupweekend.com)
36 points by transburgh on April 5, 2009 | 20 comments
13. Why the U.S. carrier group is scrap metal (exiledonline.com)
35 points by bokonist on April 5, 2009 | 78 comments
14. Dubai: How not to build a city (thestar.com)
32 points by peter123 on April 5, 2009 | 26 comments
15. Ask HN: Choosing a college
29 points by v3rt on April 5, 2009 | 84 comments
16. Ask HN: How to spend a marketing budget of $US 2k per month?
27 points by yeti on April 5, 2009 | 26 comments
17. Open Source Shooter Nexuiz 2.5 Released (alientrap.org)
24 points by _mocc on April 5, 2009 | 9 comments
18. Ext Core 3.0 vs jQuery, a comparison (sporcic.org)
24 points by jrnkntl on April 5, 2009 | 27 comments
19. An Aesthetics Reading List for Programmers (urbanhonking.com)
24 points by atduskgreg on April 5, 2009 | 3 comments
20. Becoming my own OpenID provider with 99.999% downtime (bogomips.org)
23 points by ericwong on April 5, 2009 | 7 comments
21. Ask HN: MAC vs PC for a developer?
21 points by anon87 on April 5, 2009 | 97 comments
22. Luxim LIFI plasma light bulb more efficient than LED/CFL (treehugger.com)
18 points by floatingatoll on April 5, 2009 | 7 comments
23. Will your application scale? (hacksushi.com)
18 points by bandhunt on April 5, 2009 | 10 comments
24. Court Rules Part Of Copyright Act Unconstitutional (techdirt.com)
17 points by vaksel on April 5, 2009
25. Specialist vs. Generalist: Who Wins? (sitepoint.com)
16 points by johns on April 5, 2009 | 23 comments
26. The Rise and Fall of Thinking Machines Corporation (1995) (inc.com)
15 points by asciilifeform on April 5, 2009 | 2 comments
27. Learning new languages makes you a master of none?
15 points by drhowarddrfine on April 5, 2009 | 17 comments
28. Eric Ries: Lean Startup Presentation For Web 2.0 Expo (slideshare.net)
15 points by ivankirigin on April 5, 2009 | 3 comments
29. A natural language date and time parser for Common Lisp (github.com/chaitanyagupta)
15 points by zaph0d on April 5, 2009 | 7 comments
30. Web Site Makes Millions by Connecting Cheaters (npr.org)
15 points by jasonlbaptiste on April 5, 2009 | 25 comments

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