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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 | 106 comments
2.The scariest pricing idea ever. That works. (thefreelancery.com)
264 points by pw on April 20, 2010 | 71 comments
3.Why 42? - Douglas Adams Explains (groups.google.com)
209 points by instantramen on April 20, 2010 | 64 comments
4.Google reveals statistics on government requests of its data (google.com)
201 points by michaelfairley on April 20, 2010 | 53 comments
5.Why Teenagers Are Growing Up So Slowly Today (newsweek.com)
162 points by anuleczka on April 20, 2010 | 100 comments
πŸ“š. Six Principles for Production AI Agents (app.build)
8 min read | by Arseni Kravchenko | saved 224 days ago | archive
6.JavaScript Things I Wish I Knew Much Earlier In My Career (smashingmagazine.com)
161 points by fogus on April 20, 2010 | 68 comments
7.Why Perl 6 is different (perl.org)
152 points by fogus on April 20, 2010 | 99 comments
8.Building Highly Reliable Websites For Small Companies (kalzumeus.com)
121 points by patio11 on April 20, 2010 | 23 comments
9.Richard Stallman: "I Wished I Had Killed Myself" (opendotdotdot.blogspot.com)
101 points by Sandman on April 20, 2010 | 108 comments
10.Anti-Cancer Agent Stops Metastasis In Its Tracks (bnl.gov)
101 points by cwan on April 20, 2010 | 13 comments
πŸ“š. Honda Needs a Tune-Up (davidsd.org)
22 min read | by davidsd.org | saved 112 days ago | archive
11.2 Steps to Becoming a Great Developer (theadmin.org)
83 points by jmonegro on April 20, 2010 | 10 comments
12.Web start-ups almost always fail. So why are these guys launching one? (slate.com)
80 points by tptacek on April 20, 2010 | 19 comments
13.An Economy of Liars (wsj.com)
78 points by watchandwait on April 20, 2010 | 98 comments
14.Woman Gives Her Autistic 9-Year-Old Marijuana (slate.com)
76 points by pw0ncakes on April 20, 2010 | 38 comments
15.How To Design Like Apple (pragmaticmarketing.com)
75 points by asimjalis on April 20, 2010 | 8 comments
πŸ“š. Patrick Collison (patrickcollison.com)
7 min read | by patrickcollison.com | saved 211 days ago | archive
16."I decided to add "inertial" scrolling, where you gave the image a push..." (folklore.org)
74 points by vark on April 20, 2010 | 18 comments
17.Cheat sheet for Lisp dialects (Common Lisp, Scheme, Clojure, Emacs Lisp) (wikidot.com)
74 points by alrex021 on April 20, 2010 | 11 comments
18.SproutCore: Introducing GreenHouse (sproutcore.com)
72 points by joegaudet on April 20, 2010 | 20 comments
19.Did rubyonrails.org get hijacked? (rubyonrails.org)
68 points by fretlessjazz on April 20, 2010 | 26 comments
20.Free 6 Week Android Development Course by O'Reilly (creativelive.com)
68 points by mcantelon on April 20, 2010 | 3 comments
πŸ“š. Does the Bitter Lesson Have Limits? (dbreunig.com)
8 min read | by Drew Breunig | saved 220 days ago | archive
21.Danger signs to search for in your writing (io9.com)
66 points by RiderOfGiraffes on April 20, 2010 | 29 comments
22.Cyberattack on Google Said to Hit Password System (nytimes.com)
62 points by asnyder on April 20, 2010 | 4 comments
23.Please... No rockstars (darrylsiry.posterous.com)
64 points by fromedome on April 20, 2010 | 46 comments
24.No Shit in the App Store? Oh Please (designbygravity.wordpress.com)
61 points by cschanck on April 20, 2010 | 22 comments
25.The pragmatic programmer tips (pragprog.com)
60 points by kunqiana on April 20, 2010 | 9 comments
πŸ“š. Worse than Marxism (archive.ph)
22 min read | by Matt Levine | saved 44 days ago | archive
26.iPhone Developer Websites (appstorm.net)
58 points by collistaeed on April 20, 2010 | 7 comments
27.World Bank Open Data (worldbank.org)
57 points by mcantelon on April 20, 2010 | 2 comments
28.Geek Power: Steven Levy Revisits Tech Titans, Hackers, Idealists (wired.com)
53 points by mkuhn on April 20, 2010
29.Steve Jobs β€œFolks who want porn can buy an Android phone” (techcrunch.com)
52 points by TheBurningOr on April 20, 2010 | 60 comments
30.Brief Meditative Exercise Shown to Improve Cognition (sciencedaily.com)
50 points by mahipal on April 20, 2010 | 8 comments
πŸ“š. AI Can Manage Your Mutual Fund (archive.is)
16 min read | by Matt Levine | saved 3 days ago | archive

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