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1. The Banker Who Said No (forbes.com)
135 points by dangoldin on April 4, 2009 | 63 comments
2. Some perspective on a destroyed career (rondam.blogspot.com)
126 points by lisper on April 4, 2009 | 23 comments
3. How to Improve Typography In Your Designs (smashingmagazine.com)
83 points by kivivi on April 4, 2009 | 9 comments
4. Mending the Bitter Absence of Reasoned Technical Discussion (al3x.net)
69 points by madmotive on April 4, 2009 | 51 comments
5. Almost Perfect - The Rise and Fall of WordPerfect (wordplace.com)
68 points by soundsop on April 4, 2009 | 24 comments
6. World’s Fastest Broadband at $20 Per Home (nytimes.com)
65 points by hko on April 4, 2009 | 38 comments
7. Ask YC: How do you get your press?
55 points by iamelgringo on April 4, 2009 | 24 comments
8. Mothers, Don't Let Your Children Grow Up to Be Game Developers (playthisthing.com)
38 points by kqr2 on April 4, 2009 | 16 comments
9. Rails framework upgrades with git-bisect (brad.posterous.com)
37 points by bradgessler on April 4, 2009 | 7 comments
10. Adobe Flex Builder 3 Professional for unemployed developers (adobe.com)
35 points by chaostheory on April 4, 2009 | 14 comments
11. REIA language designer on Twitter/Ruby/Scala discussion (unlimitednovelty.com)
32 points by garethr on April 4, 2009 | 32 comments
12. D.C. (School) Vouchers: Better Results at a Quarter the Cost (cato-at-liberty.org)
24 points by chaostheory on April 4, 2009 | 68 comments
13. Philip Greenspun reviews "The Life You Can Save" by Peter Singer (law.harvard.edu)
24 points by rglovejoy on April 4, 2009 | 9 comments
14. You Are Not Your Brain (salon.com)
23 points by colins_pride on April 4, 2009 | 27 comments
15. Popcuts (YC S08): Buying Music Has Never Been So Profitable (hyveup.tv)
20 points by drm237 on April 4, 2009 | 9 comments
16. Amazon.com Door Desk With a Twist (leftnode.com)
21 points by leftnode on April 4, 2009 | 14 comments
17. IBM And Sun: There Will Be Blood (forbes.com)
21 points by vaksel on April 4, 2009 | 8 comments
18. Native Google Chrome on Mac OS X: First Impressions (manu-j.com)
20 points by boundlessdreamz on April 4, 2009 | 10 comments
19. Military robots and the future of war [TED] (ted.com)
19 points by kvh on April 4, 2009 | 32 comments
20. The Google Ventures Cheat Sheet (techcrunch.com)
19 points by transburgh on April 4, 2009 | 6 comments
21. Ask HN: What virtual-team software do you use?
20 points by axeman on April 4, 2009 | 26 comments
22. No Backbone As Google Bows To Korean Government And Bans Users With Fake Names (siliconvalleywatcher.com)
19 points by Mgreen on April 4, 2009 | 6 comments
23. JRuby - Quick and Dirty (logustus.com)
19 points by jamesbritt on April 4, 2009 | 2 comments
24. Ask HN: Domain name searching
18 points by phd_student on April 4, 2009 | 15 comments
25. 'Eureka machine' works out laws of nature (guardian.co.uk)
16 points by echair on April 4, 2009 | 3 comments
26. Why goofing off boosts productivity (computerworld.com)
16 points by peter123 on April 4, 2009 | 3 comments
27. Facebook wants you to give credit where credit is due (venturebeat.com)
15 points by peter123 on April 4, 2009 | 12 comments
28. iPhone development using static compilation in Mono (tirania.org)
14 points by seren6ipity on April 4, 2009
29. Lipton's April fool's factoring joke, part 2 (rjlipton.wordpress.com)
13 points by jibiki on April 4, 2009 | 1 comment
30. Tips for starting a student hacker group at school (jtame05.wordpress.com)
13 points by jmtame on April 4, 2009 | 4 comments

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