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1.Renowned reverse engineer Fravia says goodbye (fravia.com)
126 points by ilitirit on May 5, 2009 | 52 comments
2.Getting Buzz: From 0 to (maybe) Forbes in under a week (kyro.posterous.com)
81 points by mariorz on May 5, 2009 | 41 comments
3.JQuery Plugin: Facebook Style Tokenizing Input Box (loopj.com)
77 points by foobar2k on May 5, 2009 | 9 comments
4.Posterous (YC S08) launches group blogs that are also email lists (mashable.com)
68 points by rantfoil on May 5, 2009 | 17 comments
5.Scaling Django - Michael Malone, Euro Django Con [pdf]
71 points by samueladam on May 5, 2009 | 4 comments
6.Fix a bug in Ruby’s configure.in and get a ~30% performance boost (timetobleed.com)
60 points by vaksel on May 5, 2009 | 11 comments
7.Create online UML diagrams in seconds (yuml.me)
57 points by flexterra on May 5, 2009 | 18 comments
8.What MySQL Founder Michael Widenius said about Oracle acquiring Sun (monty-says.blogspot.com)
52 points by edw519 on May 5, 2009 | 10 comments
9.Ask HN: Explain AWS
50 points by gsmaverick on May 5, 2009 | 31 comments
10.Rule-Based Programming in Interactive Fiction (eblong.com)
47 points by krs on May 5, 2009 | 6 comments
11.How to beat that exhausted feeling (guardian.co.uk)
47 points by cake on May 5, 2009 | 31 comments
12.Request for Arc Bugs (arclanguage.org)
46 points by pg on May 5, 2009
13.The Britney Spears Problem (americanscientist.org)
44 points by edw519 on May 5, 2009 | 7 comments
14.Does your monitor hurt your eyes at night? Auto-adjust your color temperature. (stereopsis.com)
40 points by chaosmachine on May 5, 2009 | 21 comments
15.Face transplant patient is revealed (nytimes.com)
39 points by raheemm on May 5, 2009 | 19 comments
16.Opening in SF hacker house (divvyshot.com)
37 points by mwerty on May 5, 2009 | 10 comments
17.Notification Strategies for Social Networks (w/ math) (20bits.com)
36 points by snakelemma on May 5, 2009 | 9 comments
18.Designer/Writer Selling Everything She Owns (goodbyewafflemaker.com)
35 points by tortilla on May 5, 2009 | 25 comments
19.Apple drives iPhone app developers to the brink (theregister.co.uk)
35 points by Quarrelsome on May 5, 2009 | 29 comments
20.HBC: Hierarchical Bayes Compiler (utah.edu)
35 points by morpheism on May 5, 2009 | 4 comments
21.Bypassing the VC: Funding Your Business with Deferred Revenue (markenomics.com)
35 points by mediaman on May 5, 2009 | 11 comments
22.Why Twitter catches on: No guilt (businessweek.com)
34 points by peter123 on May 5, 2009 | 13 comments
23.Quitting your day job to make video games.
30 points by mparent61 on May 5, 2009 | 19 comments
24.Allison Randal -- Parrot VM (talk from JVM Lang Summit 2008) (video.google.com)
30 points by draegtun on May 5, 2009 | 1 comment
25.What's the story behind the name of your startup/company ?
25 points by Stasyan on May 5, 2009 | 45 comments
26.Computer Musings by Professor Donald E. Knuth (stanford.edu)
24 points by andymoe on May 5, 2009 | 3 comments
27.Inspirational Video on Entrepreneurialism (grasshopper.com)
24 points by dcharlton on May 5, 2009 | 5 comments
28.Mozilla platform to use separate processes for UI and web content (wiki.mozilla.org)
23 points by edw519 on May 5, 2009 | 10 comments
29.The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu Studio 9.04 (howtoforge.com)
23 points by joschi on May 5, 2009 | 16 comments
30.Apple's Interest In Gaming Isn't Casual (forbes.com)
22 points by nickb on May 5, 2009 | 18 comments

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