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1.What's up, bot? Google tries new Captcha method (cnet.com)
58 points by nickb on April 18, 2009 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
2.Bruce Sterling: Poor folk love their cellphones (nytimes.com)
54 points by shalmanese on April 18, 2009 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
3.Tarsnap and the prepaid billing model (daemonology.net)
47 points by cperciva on April 18, 2009 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
4. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 60 days ago | hide | 65 comments
4.Damien Katz: CouchDB in the Browser (damienkatz.net)
43 points by newsit on April 18, 2009 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
5.Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (cs.berkeley.edu)
42 points by kqr2 on April 18, 2009 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
6.Ask YC: Would HN readers be interested in a HN events site? [ext]
42 points by iamelgringo on April 18, 2009 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
7. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments
7.Things that do not make sense (2005) (newscientist.com)
41 points by quoderat on April 18, 2009 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
8.GitHub Developer site (develop.github.com)
37 points by _pius on April 18, 2009 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
9.On Being Sufficiently Smart (dadgum.com)
36 points by blasdel on April 18, 2009 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
10. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
10.A look inside the Y Combinator interview room. (dailybooth.com)
37 points by j0ncc on April 18, 2009 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
11.Bedroom Startups (businessweek.com)
35 points by fallentimes on April 18, 2009 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
12.If you want war, work for justice (daviddfriedman.blogspot.com)
33 points by jacoblyles on April 18, 2009 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
13. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
13.Mathematical trick wiki Terrence Tao blogged about is now live - Tricki (tricki.org)
33 points by vang3lis on April 18, 2009 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
14.Data analysis: more money == less sex, for the young (tableausoftware.com)
33 points by nod on April 18, 2009 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
15.VC Investment in Internet Deals Did Not Fall Off A Cliff (readwriteweb.com)
32 points by catone on April 18, 2009 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
16. Why you care for your dog better than yourself β€” and the fix (web.archive.org)
420 points by guz3550 602 days ago | hide | 25 comments
16.Book of Ruby Completed: 425 pages, 300+ Sample Programs, free (sapphiresteel.com)
29 points by nickb on April 18, 2009 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
17.Google Book Search settlement gives Google a virtual monopoly over literature (boingboing.net)
29 points by anuraggoel on April 18, 2009 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
18.The Atom Publishing Protocol is a failure (bitworking.org)
28 points by Anon84 on April 18, 2009 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
19. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 85 days ago | hide | 122 comments
19.The Year of the Scrappy Start-Up (uservoice.com)
27 points by peter123 on April 18, 2009 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
20.Before test of rote memorization move your eyes from side to side for about 30 seconds. (scienceblogs.com)
25 points by amichail on April 18, 2009 [ext] | 2 comments [ext]
21.How To Live Forever (dansdata.com)
25 points by reitzensteinm on April 18, 2009 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
22. Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 432 days ago | hide | 93 comments
22.Ask HN: Sales book recommendation? [ext]
25 points by sdragon on April 18, 2009 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
23.Python Code for the new CRC ML Book -"Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective" (massey.ac.nz)
25 points by yarapavan on April 18, 2009 [ext] | 1 comment [ext]
24.Curse of the Social (unalone.tumblr.com)
24 points by markbao on April 18, 2009 [ext]
25. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
25.Things They Don’t Teach You In Design School (designreviver.com)
24 points by csomar on April 18, 2009 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
26.Venture Capital Down 50%. It’s Not Just the Recession, Folks. (techcrunch.com)
24 points by vaksel on April 18, 2009 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
27.Ask HN: best file manager for OS X? [ext]
23 points by nailer on April 18, 2009 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
28. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 114 days ago | hide | 68 comments
28.The Road to Mediocrity is Paved with Best Practices. (adambreckler.com)
22 points by damada2 on April 18, 2009 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
29.Plain Language Contracts Built for Web Designers (24ways.org)
20 points by weaksauce on April 18, 2009 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
30.Crowdsourcing the semantic web (lexandera.com)
20 points by nimbix on April 18, 2009 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
31. From Shortlist to Shipped: A Tournament Method for Picking Life's Work (guzey.com)
110 points by coz850 602 days ago | hide | 97 comments

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