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1.Paul Buchheit: Make your site faster and cheaper to operate in one easy step (paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
186 points by paul on April 17, 2009 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
2.Why Being Smart Won't Get You Laid (alternet.org)
172 points by alexitosrv on April 17, 2009 [ext] | 147 comments [ext]
3.Just How Important is the Valley? Let's Look at some Data. (tonywright.com)
83 points by webwright on April 17, 2009 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
4. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 85 days ago | hide | 122 comments
4.Sun JVM gets incremental, compacting GC (infoq.com)
56 points by oconnor0 on April 17, 2009 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
5.Singletasking by Caterina Fake (photo) (flickr.com)
55 points by coglethorpe on April 17, 2009 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
6.Twitter XSS Worm writer Mikeey gets hacked (seclists.org)
52 points by janitha on April 17, 2009 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
7. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
7.FireDiff - track changes to a page's DOM and CSS (incaseofstairs.com)
48 points by bisceglie on April 17, 2009 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
8.BBC iPlayer serves nearly 1000 requests per second with Catalyst (bbc.co.uk)
42 points by SwellJoe on April 17, 2009 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
9.ReBoxed - a collaborative inbox organization tool built in 77 hours (remail.com)
40 points by gaborcselle on April 17, 2009 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
10. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 115 days ago | hide | 193 comments
10.Welcome To Our Site, Sorry You Can’t Use It (nytimes.com)
37 points by ilamont on April 17, 2009 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
11.HN/YC BBQ -- Saturday April 18th (anyvite.com)
38 points by NathanielMc on April 17, 2009 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
12.Google is replacing conference room paper schedules with solar-powered LCD's, updated via 802.15 (code.google.com)
37 points by andreyf on April 17, 2009 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
13. Asymmetric leverage how Iran holds twenty percent of global oil supply hostage (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 1 day ago | hide | 150 comments
13.Ask HN: How do you learn to be creative? [ext]
36 points by quizbiz on April 17, 2009 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
14.Posterous (YC S08) Takes On TwitPic With New API (techcrunch.com)
35 points by rantfoil on April 17, 2009 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
15.We need the eggs (github.com/raganwald)
32 points by raganwald on April 17, 2009 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
16. Bots as Antitrust: Letting Code Negotiate on Your Behalf (continuations.com)
215 points by doz2675 594 days ago | hide | 76 comments
16.Ask HN: Anyone else notice a higher churn rate for the front page? [ext]
30 points by bsaunder on April 17, 2009 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
17.Can anyone recommend a good collection agency? [ext]
28 points by optik on April 17, 2009 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
18.Alan Kay: The PC Must Be Revamped (2007) (cioinsight.com)
27 points by Radix on April 17, 2009 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
19. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
19.Coding Horror: Exception-Driven Development (codinghorror.com)
28 points by Anon84 on April 17, 2009 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
20.Functional programming with python (united-coders.com)
27 points by Anon84 on April 17, 2009 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
21.Y Combinator is prohibited [ext]
26 points by vnuk on April 17, 2009 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
22. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 57 days ago | hide | 155 comments
22.Open Source Robotic Arm (thingiverse.com)
25 points by iamelgringo on April 17, 2009 [ext] | 1 comment [ext]
23.4Chan's Plan to Game Twitter (The Race to 1 Million) (readwriteweb.com)
24 points by calvin on April 17, 2009 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
24.Ask HN: Best Command Line Email Client? [ext]
24 points by buggy_code on April 17, 2009 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
25. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
25.Caterina Fake shares some Hunch data (caterina.net)
24 points by _pius on April 17, 2009 [ext] | 2 comments [ext]
26.Gmail Now Tells You Who You Want To Email (techcrunch.com)
24 points by vaksel on April 17, 2009 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
27.Fun Numbers - Ruby and Perl (Massive difference in core test suite size) (perl.org)
24 points by draegtun on April 17, 2009 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
28. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
28.Rubygems now has plugins (zenspider.com)
23 points by _pius on April 17, 2009 [ext] | 2 comments [ext]
29.The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life (amazon.com)
22 points by tokenadult on April 17, 2009 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
30.Lungs breathing outside of the body (nextbigfuture.com)
22 points by quoderat on April 17, 2009 [ext]
31. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 92 days ago | hide | 70 comments

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