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1. The problems with url shorteners (schachter.org)
94 points by joshu on April 3, 2009 | 56 comments
2. Sources: Google In Talks To Acquire Twitter (techcrunch.com)
90 points by johns on April 3, 2009 | 59 comments
3. Open letter to Blackboard: $1M to charity if you drop patent litigation (desire2learn.com)
87 points by paulgb on April 3, 2009 | 55 comments
4. Twitter, Ruby on Rails, Scala and people who don’t RTFA (ikaisays.com)
85 points by mileszs on April 3, 2009 | 64 comments
5. Tiny computers + wireless mesh network + Python → Awesome (pycon.org)
71 points by mdakin on April 3, 2009 | 11 comments
6. Linux is Obsolete [1992] (groups.google.com)
69 points by vinutheraj on April 3, 2009 | 46 comments
7. Ask HN: What Paid Services Do You Use For Your Startup?
64 points by quellhorst on April 3, 2009 | 93 comments
8. IBM On The Verge of Buying Sun for $7 billion (nytimes.com)
61 points by ojbyrne on April 3, 2009 | 24 comments
9. Chat startup Chatterous (YC W08) throws gauntlet down against proprietary closed chat widgets (venturebeat.com)
52 points by rantfoil on April 3, 2009 | 1 comment
10. E Text Editor: Releasing the Source (e-texteditor.com)
51 points by bdfh42 on April 3, 2009 | 22 comments
11. Announcing HackStars (techstars.org)
49 points by brianculler on April 3, 2009 | 105 comments
12. Lessons in Graphic Design Theory (tutsplus.com)
48 points by kivivi on April 3, 2009 | 2 comments
13. Erlang Doesn’t Fit The JVM (hypotheticalabs.com)
44 points by newsit on April 3, 2009 | 49 comments
14. Posterous (YC S08) launches Twitter commenting/tweetback and oAuth (blog.posterous.com)
38 points by rantfoil on April 3, 2009 | 11 comments
15. Rails Template: Create a Twitter Application in Seconds (intridea.com)
37 points by sant0sk1 on April 3, 2009 | 15 comments
16. How Geico Wastes $90MM a Year on SEM (tippingpointlabs.com)
36 points by tplDrew2 on April 3, 2009 | 31 comments
17. Google Is Not in “Late-Stage Talks” to Acquire Twitter (allthingsd.com)
36 points by nickb on April 3, 2009 | 9 comments
18. Simple and Impressive Design Techniques (smashingmagazine.com)
33 points by _pius on April 3, 2009 | 2 comments
19. Proposed Bill Gives President Emergency Authority To Halt Web Traffic; Access Private Data (motherjones.com)
30 points by mdasen on April 3, 2009 | 30 comments
20. Bill Venners chats with the Twitter developers, in Twitter on Scala (artima.com)
30 points by jpedrosa on April 3, 2009 | 3 comments
21. Reddit pycon keynote video (blip.tv)
28 points by dood on April 3, 2009 | 2 comments
22. Dice.com Shows 45% Drop In Tech Jobs (techcrunch.com)
28 points by epi0Bauqu on April 3, 2009 | 23 comments
23. Trying out 'Amazon Remembers' (theruchi.blogspot.com)
27 points by kirubakaran on April 3, 2009 | 7 comments
24. UserVoice founder on how to build a killer site by listening to feedback (mixergy.com)
26 points by oliviakuhn on April 3, 2009 | 2 comments
25. Wrong Tomorrow (idlewords.com)
25 points by prakash on April 3, 2009 | 4 comments
26. Three libraries, a framework and an API - how ContentTagger got built in 7 hours (jaggeree.com)
25 points by danw on April 3, 2009 | 2 comments
27. Contacts considered crappy (yorksranter.wordpress.com)
24 points by barry-cotter on April 3, 2009 | 6 comments
28. Human Evolution and Frameshift Mutations (gmilburn.ca)
23 points by pg on April 3, 2009 | 13 comments
29. Investigating the people behind those sketchy flat-stomach ads. (thebigmoney.com)
22 points by peter123 on April 3, 2009 | 4 comments
30. John Carmack surprises fans (and his CEO) with Wolfenstein 3D for the iPhone (venturebeat.com)
23 points by peter123 on April 3, 2009 | 14 comments

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