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1.Phusion Passenger now supports Nginx (phusion.nl)
133 points by _pius on April 16, 2009 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
2.4chan hacker discusses the manipulation of the Time poll (musicmachinery.com)
120 points by mcantelon on April 16, 2009 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
3.Tales from the trenches: our Y Combinator Interview Experience (tomaitch.com)
101 points by tomaitch on April 16, 2009 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
4. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments
4.Water Front Apt. in San Mateo will trade for equity in Y Combinator startup (craigslist.org)
92 points by freemanindia on April 16, 2009 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
5.YouPorn is hiring. Apparently it's powered by Perl/Catalyst (perl.org)
91 points by vaksel on April 16, 2009 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
6.Is A Nomadic Lifestyle Cheaper Than Living In One Place? (locationindependent.com)
75 points by swombat on April 16, 2009 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
7. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 13 hours ago | hide | 47 comments
7.Catting weird things to /dev/audio (everything2.com)
72 points by mattyb on April 16, 2009 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
8.3mindme - Dead Simple Reminders (3mindme.com)
68 points by _pius on April 16, 2009 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
9.Obama Unveils Plan to Fund High-Speed Passenger Rail (wsj.com)
65 points by ph0rque on April 16, 2009 [ext] | 98 comments [ext]
10. Bots as Antitrust: Letting Code Negotiate on Your Behalf (continuations.com)
215 points by doz2675 593 days ago | hide | 76 comments
10.How to Raise Our I.Q. (nytimes.com)
60 points by tokenadult on April 16, 2009 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
11.Writing Physics (cornell.edu)
58 points by DaniFong on April 16, 2009 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
12.Tim Ferriss on his approach to learning [video] (ted.com)
50 points by derwiki on April 16, 2009 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
13. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 104 days ago | hide | 48 comments
13.Non-Universality in Computation: The Myth of the Universal Computer (queensu.ca)
46 points by ewakened on April 16, 2009 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
14.Why airplane doors can't be opened mid-flight (everything2.com)
38 points by mattyb on April 16, 2009 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
15.Build a Low-Cost, High-End Class-D Amplifier (ieee.org)
38 points by naish on April 16, 2009 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
16. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
16.Haskell: It’s like Klingon, but with math (sdtimes.com)
37 points by iamelgringo on April 16, 2009 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
17.Evidence suggests first zombie Mac botnet is active (arstechnica.com)
37 points by tvon on April 16, 2009 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
18.When crime prevention strategies are effectively crime promotion (nytimes.com)
34 points by alexandros on April 16, 2009 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
19. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 59 days ago | hide | 65 comments
19.Evils of the For Loop in Ruby (grayproductions.net)
32 points by wolfish on April 16, 2009 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
20.The secrets of really, really lucky companies (boston.com)
32 points by robg on April 16, 2009 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
21.The Monster List of Freelance Job Sites (freelanceswitch.com)
31 points by collistaeed on April 16, 2009 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
22. The Three Ingredients Behind Jitse Groen's Takeaway.com Conquest Of Europe (linkedin.com)
154 points by krz3514 373 days ago | hide | 13 comments
22.Parallel DBMSs faster than MapReduce (brown.edu)
32 points by finin on April 16, 2009 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
23.Coding Horror: Is Open Source Experience Overrated? (codinghorror.com)
30 points by twampss on April 16, 2009 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
24.How to Save $5000 on Your Logo (jimleff.blogspot.com)
26 points by cjwestbrook on April 16, 2009 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
25. Why fully automated AI cedes a more valuable design space (readwise.io)
73 points by nan9853 265 days ago | hide | 77 comments
25.$20,000 Per Source Line of Code (stevekrenzel.com)
25 points by nreece on April 16, 2009 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
26.Facebook rejects funding at $4 billion valuation, may not raise more (venturebeat.com)
25 points by drusenko on April 16, 2009 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
27.Boomerang: A bidirectional programming language for ad-hoc data (upenn.edu)
24 points by durana on April 16, 2009 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
28. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 251 days ago | hide | 170 comments
28.Ruby 1.9 compatibility: a three step ladder to bliss (elctech.com)
26 points by _pius on April 16, 2009 [ext] | 2 comments [ext]
29.National Geographic's Infinite Photograph will mesmerize you (cnet.com)
23 points by chrisconley on April 16, 2009 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
30.Should Twitter remove its follower count? (techcrunch.com)
22 points by andr on April 16, 2009 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
31. Structure Over Style: How Knowledge and Practice Beat Natural Speaking Talent (m.youtube.com)
81 points by pom4591 229 days ago | hide | 180 comments

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