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1.Soldier in Wikileaks video of 2007 Apache attack reveals what happened that day (wired.com)
361 points by mawhidby on April 20, 2010 [ext] | 106 comments [ext]
2.The scariest pricing idea ever. That works. (thefreelancery.com)
264 points by pw on April 20, 2010 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
3.Why 42? - Douglas Adams Explains (groups.google.com)
209 points by instantramen on April 20, 2010 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
4. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 368 days ago | hide | 7 comments
4.Google reveals statistics on government requests of its data (google.com)
201 points by michaelfairley on April 20, 2010 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
5.Why Teenagers Are Growing Up So Slowly Today (newsweek.com)
162 points by anuleczka on April 20, 2010 [ext] | 100 comments [ext]
6.JavaScript Things I Wish I Knew Much Earlier In My Career (smashingmagazine.com)
161 points by fogus on April 20, 2010 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
7. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
7.Why Perl 6 is different (perl.org)
152 points by fogus on April 20, 2010 [ext] | 99 comments [ext]
8.Building Highly Reliable Websites For Small Companies (kalzumeus.com)
121 points by patio11 on April 20, 2010 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
9.Richard Stallman: "I Wished I Had Killed Myself" (opendotdotdot.blogspot.com)
101 points by Sandman on April 20, 2010 [ext] | 108 comments [ext]
10. Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com)
292 points by ksk4362 203 days ago | hide | 110 comments
10.Anti-Cancer Agent Stops Metastasis In Its Tracks (bnl.gov)
101 points by cwan on April 20, 2010 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
11.2 Steps to Becoming a Great Developer (theadmin.org)
83 points by jmonegro on April 20, 2010 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
12.Web start-ups almost always fail. So why are these guys launching one? (slate.com)
80 points by tptacek on April 20, 2010 [ext] | 19 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.An Economy of Liars (wsj.com)
78 points by watchandwait on April 20, 2010 [ext] | 98 comments [ext]
14.Woman Gives Her Autistic 9-Year-Old Marijuana (slate.com)
76 points by pw0ncakes on April 20, 2010 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
15.How To Design Like Apple (pragmaticmarketing.com)
75 points by asimjalis on April 20, 2010 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
16. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
16."I decided to add "inertial" scrolling, where you gave the image a push..." (folklore.org)
74 points by vark on April 20, 2010 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
17.Cheat sheet for Lisp dialects (Common Lisp, Scheme, Clojure, Emacs Lisp) (wikidot.com)
74 points by alrex021 on April 20, 2010 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
18.SproutCore: Introducing GreenHouse (sproutcore.com)
72 points by joegaudet on April 20, 2010 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
19. From Shortlist to Shipped: A Tournament Method for Picking Life's Work (guzey.com)
110 points by coz850 602 days ago | hide | 97 comments
19.Did rubyonrails.org get hijacked? (rubyonrails.org)
68 points by fretlessjazz on April 20, 2010 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
20.Free 6 Week Android Development Course by O'Reilly (creativelive.com)
68 points by mcantelon on April 20, 2010 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
21.Danger signs to search for in your writing (io9.com)
66 points by RiderOfGiraffes on April 20, 2010 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
22. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 114 days ago | hide | 68 comments
22.Cyberattack on Google Said to Hit Password System (nytimes.com)
62 points by asnyder on April 20, 2010 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
23.Please... No rockstars (darrylsiry.posterous.com)
64 points by fromedome on April 20, 2010 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
24.No Shit in the App Store? Oh Please (designbygravity.wordpress.com)
61 points by cschanck on April 20, 2010 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
25. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 1 day ago | hide | 47 comments
25.The pragmatic programmer tips (pragprog.com)
60 points by kunqiana on April 20, 2010 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
26.iPhone Developer Websites (appstorm.net)
58 points by collistaeed on April 20, 2010 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
27.World Bank Open Data (worldbank.org)
57 points by mcantelon on April 20, 2010 [ext] | 2 comments [ext]
28. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 479 days ago | hide | 22 comments
28.Geek Power: Steven Levy Revisits Tech Titans, Hackers, Idealists (wired.com)
53 points by mkuhn on April 20, 2010 [ext]
29.Steve Jobs “Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone” (techcrunch.com)
52 points by TheBurningOr on April 20, 2010 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
30.Brief Meditative Exercise Shown to Improve Cognition (sciencedaily.com)
50 points by mahipal on April 20, 2010 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
31. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments

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