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1. Where Have All the Hackers Gone? (strydehax.blogspot.com)
97 points by ciscoriordan on April 17, 2010 | 20 comments
2. A world without planes (bbc.co.uk)
92 points by v4us on April 17, 2010 | 80 comments
3. So, you need a typeface... (inspirationlab.wordpress.com)
90 points by Sukotto on April 17, 2010 | 11 comments
4. FreeBSD built with clang now selfhosting - testers wanted (gmane.org)
87 points by durin42 on April 17, 2010 | 20 comments
5. When to use Excel, when to use R? (michaelmilton.net)
84 points by rams on April 17, 2010 | 43 comments
6. Processing.js Mini-IDE for iPad, iPhone, Android, Chrome (jepstone.net)
80 points by MaysonL on April 17, 2010 | 11 comments
7. The Unix Haters Handbook (washington.edu)
67 points by ehsanul on April 17, 2010 | 28 comments
8. HW Hacker Andrew "Bunnie" Huang on The Setup (usesthis.com)
63 points by shmichael on April 17, 2010 | 29 comments
9. Steve Jobs Admits Apple Made a Mistake (nytimes.com)
63 points by rooshdi on April 17, 2010 | 50 comments
10. Things HR Won't Tell You (wsj.com)
62 points by georgecmu on April 17, 2010 | 30 comments
11. RethinkDB: Why Start a New Database Company in 2010? (MySQLConf) (blip.tv)
49 points by mace on April 17, 2010 | 10 comments
12. VP8: The Savior Codec (multimedia.cx)
56 points by mansr on April 17, 2010 | 22 comments
13. The Jakarta Incident, or Rebooting 747 Engines In Flight (wikipedia.org)
52 points by rubyrescue on April 17, 2010 | 14 comments
14. The closest thing we'll ever get to an official Apple blog (stevemail.tumblr.com)
51 points by barredo on April 17, 2010 | 22 comments
15. SEC wants python code for simulations of financial instruments. See; Accelerando (jrvarma.wordpress.com)
52 points by etherael on April 17, 2010 | 17 comments
16. Out of the loop in Silicon Valley (nytimes.com)
48 points by credo on April 17, 2010 | 35 comments
17. Programming books I have read and somewhat liked (mostlymaths.net)
45 points by RBerenguel on April 17, 2010 | 29 comments
18. Video Games Can Never Be Art (suntimes.com)
43 points by tptacek on April 17, 2010 | 64 comments
19. The Lenna story (cmu.edu)
41 points by motters on April 17, 2010 | 12 comments
20. HTML5 Readiness : A visualisation of HTML5/CSS3 browser support (html5readiness.com)
39 points by deepakjois on April 17, 2010 | 20 comments
21. Biotime Reverses the Aging of Human Cells (nextbigfuture.com)
39 points by ca98am79 on April 17, 2010 | 11 comments
22. Moral judgments can be altered ... by magnets (web.mit.edu)
37 points by ca98am79 on April 17, 2010 | 54 comments
23. K-Sketch: The Kinetic Sketch Pad (k-sketch.org)
35 points by duck on April 17, 2010 | 9 comments
24. Why the GNU Affero GPL (gnu.org)
32 points by tjr on April 17, 2010 | 66 comments
25. The Examined Life, Age 8 (nytimes.com)
32 points by robg on April 17, 2010 | 2 comments
26. Why ads stopped working (alexblom.com)
30 points by kgermino on April 17, 2010 | 41 comments
27. More data and charts in Top Search Queries (googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
30 points by kbrower on April 17, 2010 | 4 comments
28. Google's unorthodox press release raises questions (theglobeandmail.com)
30 points by MikeCapone on April 17, 2010 | 21 comments
29. Apple in advance discussions to adopt AMD chips (appleinsider.com)
29 points by ssp on April 17, 2010 | 13 comments
30. The Future of Lisp Games, Part 1 (lispgamesdev.blogspot.com)
29 points by zephyrfalcon on April 17, 2010

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