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1. Pirate Bay Founder Devises DDo$ Attack (blogpirate.org)
89 points by mcantelon on May 12, 2009 | 34 comments
2. How David Beats Goliath (newyorker.com)
78 points by christonog on May 12, 2009 | 22 comments
3. Free Programming Books (e-booksdirectory.com)
75 points by buluzhai on May 12, 2009 | 11 comments
4. What Makes Us Happy? (theatlantic.com)
74 points by toffer on May 12, 2009 | 31 comments
5. How I Spent A Million Bucks And Ended Up With These Two Chairs. (mixergy.com)
67 points by merrick33 on May 12, 2009 | 38 comments
6. Google Squared (techcrunch.com)
61 points by secret on May 12, 2009 | 41 comments
7. Balsamiq hires 2nd empoyee (balsamiq.com)
53 points by BvS on May 12, 2009 | 20 comments
8. The Programming Language with the Happiest Users (doloreslabs.com)
53 points by lukas on May 12, 2009 | 42 comments
9. Norwegian ISP: dig your own fiber trench, save $400 (arstechnica.com)
51 points by tewks on May 12, 2009 | 17 comments
10. I drink, therefore I can (prospect-magazine.co.uk)
51 points by theoneill on May 12, 2009 | 15 comments
11. Stack Overflow DevDays (joelonsoftware.com)
46 points by babakian on May 12, 2009 | 22 comments
12. Twitter Porn Names Scam (pcworld.com)
45 points by coglethorpe on May 12, 2009 | 25 comments
13. My toughest job-interview question ever (asserttrue.blogspot.com)
45 points by techdog on May 12, 2009 | 78 comments
14. Fear is the mind-killer (startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com)
42 points by _pius on May 12, 2009 | 6 comments
15. Yasnippet: TextMate snippets for Emacs (code.google.com)
40 points by pookleblinky on May 12, 2009 | 5 comments
16. Other Worlds and Wasted Talents (daviddfriedman.blogspot.com)
38 points by jlhamilton on May 12, 2009 | 9 comments
17. Pattern matching in Python (monkey.org)
38 points by mariusae on May 12, 2009 | 6 comments
18. Twitter invented in 1935? (infomarketingblog.com)
38 points by loumf on May 12, 2009 | 10 comments
19. Hadoop sorts a petabyte in 16.25 hours and a terabyte in 62 seconds (yahoo.net)
36 points by voberoi on May 12, 2009 | 16 comments
20. The Importance of Simplicity (abcdefu.wordpress.com)
36 points by abi on May 12, 2009 | 15 comments
21. Google Announces Support for Microformats and RDFa (oreilly.com)
34 points by Anon84 on May 12, 2009 | 8 comments
22. In Attics and Closets, 'Biohackers' Discover Their Inner Frankenstein (wsj.com)
33 points by scott_s on May 12, 2009 | 28 comments
23. Is anyone actually using Xcode? (warpspire.com)
32 points by geeko on May 12, 2009 | 35 comments
24. Daydreamers might solve problems faster (theage.com.au)
31 points by nreece on May 12, 2009 | 19 comments
25. Porn at work = felony hacking? (wired.com)
31 points by knieveltech on May 12, 2009 | 30 comments
26. Mendeley comes out of stealth with its "Last.fm for academic research" (techcrunch.com)
30 points by wheels on May 12, 2009 | 15 comments
27. A new alternative to git submodules: git subtree (alumnit.ca)
29 points by Xichekolas on May 12, 2009 | 7 comments
28. The Glider: A Universal Hacker Emblem (catb.org)
27 points by twoz on May 12, 2009 | 28 comments
29. Processing.js: How to create links with Custom fonts (processingjs.org)
26 points by f1lt3r on May 12, 2009 | 20 comments
30. MonaTweeta II: Trying to encode images in Twitter's 140 character limit (flickr.com)
25 points by joshwa on May 12, 2009 | 11 comments

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