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Stories from May 4, 2009
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1.The "C is Efficient" Language Fallacy (scienceblogs.com)
157 points by silentbicycle on May 4, 2009 | 124 comments
2.Clojure 1.0 Released (groups.google.com)
139 points by drewr on May 4, 2009 | 31 comments
3.Oberon, a delightfully insane system (ignorethecode.net)
128 points by blasdel on May 4, 2009 | 30 comments
4.Malcolm Gladwell: How David Beats Goliath (newyorker.com)
116 points by mlinsey on May 4, 2009 | 36 comments
5.Dear Mozilla community: I screwed up. Big time. (hackademix.net)
124 points by robin_reala on May 4, 2009 | 40 comments
6.I Just Logged In As You (codinghorror.com)
102 points by bdfh42 on May 4, 2009 | 50 comments
7.NIN Reaction to iPhone App Store Rejection (nin.com)
86 points by ironkeith on May 4, 2009 | 45 comments
8.IsNSFW.com - The Safe For Work way to share Not Safe For Work links (isnsfw.com)
84 points by grexican on May 4, 2009 | 52 comments
9.The Problem With Young Web Entrepreneurs (igorfaletski.com)
58 points by ig0rskee on May 4, 2009 | 45 comments
10.Without Warning, Twitter Kills StatTweets (statsheet.com)
58 points by RobbieStats on May 4, 2009 | 37 comments
11.Facebook pays 150 employees ~$50K to keep the site clean (newsweek.com)
55 points by breck on May 4, 2009 | 38 comments
12.Clojure 1.0 (clojure.blogspot.com)
51 points by remvee on May 4, 2009 | 5 comments
13.FreeBSD 7.2 released (freebsd.org)
48 points by mattyb on May 4, 2009 | 11 comments
14.Fred Wilson: The End of the IPO Drought is Coming (avc.com)
45 points by dwynings on May 4, 2009 | 5 comments
15.How to work on cool stuff (planeterlang.org)
44 points by coglethorpe on May 4, 2009 | 10 comments
16.Ruby on Rails on Google App Engine (jruby-rack.appspot.com)
41 points by EvilTrout on May 4, 2009 | 10 comments
17.Poll: funded or not funded?
40 points by jmtame on May 4, 2009 | 28 comments
18.Seven questions for Nate Silver (economist.com)
40 points by kf on May 4, 2009 | 4 comments
19.Procedural City Generation - Developer's Log (shamusyoung.com)
40 points by jerf on May 4, 2009 | 9 comments
20.Distributed systems primer (evanweaver.com)
39 points by sant0sk1 on May 4, 2009 | 12 comments
21.Is Haskell a good choice for web applications? (jekor.com)
39 points by jamongkad on May 4, 2009 | 11 comments
22.Algorithmic Problems Around the Web (yury.name)
38 points by paraschopra on May 4, 2009 | 3 comments
23.Some thoughts about the PSD format (adobe.com)
37 points by sanj on May 4, 2009 | 12 comments
24.Researchers hijack botnet, score 56,000 passwords in an hour (arstechnica.com)
36 points by alexandros on May 4, 2009 | 8 comments
25.How CarsForAGrand.com Generated PR and Half a Million Visitors (knofun.com)
36 points by merrick33 on May 4, 2009 | 14 comments
26.Bruce Schneier on Mathematical Illiteracy (schneier.com)
35 points by billswift on May 4, 2009 | 14 comments
27.Geek business myths (rondam.blogspot.com)
34 points by prakash on May 4, 2009 | 42 comments
28.Frogmetrics, OMGPOP, Posterous, Scribd, Inkling, Xobni, and Loopt nominated for TiE50 Awards (tie50.net)
34 points by jeremymims on May 4, 2009 | 10 comments
29.Let's Take a Trivial Problem and Make it Hard (dadgum.com)
31 points by mbrubeck on May 4, 2009 | 29 comments
30.How to Escape Mundanity (openforum.com)
25 points by luckystrike on May 4, 2009 | 1 comment

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