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1. My Manhattan Project: How I helped build the bomb that blew up Wall Street. (clickability.com)
260 points by gaika on March 30, 2009 | 43 comments
2. Python switching to Mercurial (python.org)
138 points by davidw on March 30, 2009 | 59 comments
3. How a month and a half on Paxil taught me to love being shy. (slate.com)
132 points by vaksel on March 30, 2009 | 54 comments
4. How to make PCBs at home in 1 hour without special materials (riccibitti.com)
131 points by ph0rque on March 30, 2009 | 30 comments
5. Don't Be Evil but Intentionally Deceptive is OK (diorex.com)
107 points by Gibbon on March 30, 2009 | 56 comments
6. The Ugly American Programmer (codinghorror.com)
79 points by worthlessgenius on March 30, 2009 | 68 comments
7. Performance Tuning PostgreSQL (revsys.com)
73 points by twampss on March 30, 2009 | 6 comments
8. A man, a vision, and the swimming pool he built in his garage (urbanitebaltimore.com)
71 points by shard on March 30, 2009 | 44 comments
9. JSON Template (googlecode.com)
71 points by judofyr on March 30, 2009 | 11 comments
10. Western internet censorship: The beginning of the end or the end of the beginning? (wikileaks.org)
58 points by vaksel on March 30, 2009 | 16 comments
11. What they Used to Teach You at Stanford Business School (portfolio.com)
52 points by noor420 on March 30, 2009 | 4 comments
12. How My Startup Failed (storylog.com)
50 points by inglorian on March 30, 2009 | 20 comments
13. DHH: Doing a Start Up in the Real World [video] (carsonified.com)
47 points by sant0sk1 on March 30, 2009 | 25 comments
14. Why I'm Missing the iPhone gold rush (jeff-vogel.blogspot.com)
46 points by pushcx on March 30, 2009 | 22 comments
15. Cash is not king (startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com)
44 points by ivankirigin on March 30, 2009 | 6 comments
16. Atwood rebuttal: Mandarin Chinese programmer communites (odwks.com)
44 points by jhancock on March 30, 2009 | 27 comments
17. Ride the Snake: reddit keynote at PyCon 09 (slideshare.net)
43 points by jast on March 30, 2009 | 11 comments
18. Cool Things in Rails 2.3 (railspikes.com)
41 points by 100k on March 30, 2009 | 6 comments
19. Measuring download speed by embedding a GIF inside a JavaScript comment (jgc.org)
37 points by jgrahamc on March 30, 2009 | 6 comments
20. How to Choose and Learn a New Programming Language (micahelliott.com)
34 points by Anon84 on March 30, 2009 | 14 comments
21. JK Rowling Attacks Scribd For Pirated Content (techcrunch.com)
33 points by pclark on March 30, 2009 | 58 comments
22. Planarity - a game with planar graphs (planarity.net)
33 points by infinity on March 30, 2009 | 14 comments
23. PyCon: PyCon 2009 Videos (pycon.blogspot.com)
32 points by arthurk on March 30, 2009 | 1 comment
24. Single player PC game developers: We're All Charity Cases Now (ign.com)
29 points by ChrisXYZ on March 30, 2009 | 14 comments
25. The Word "Hacker" (2004) (paulgraham.com)
28 points by messel on March 30, 2009 | 29 comments
26. Skype Changes the Game and Releases the iPhone App (siliconangle.com)
27 points by mcxx on March 30, 2009 | 16 comments
27. The thrill of a new technology: CouchDB (tempe.st)
27 points by intinig on March 30, 2009 | 47 comments
28. Jawed Karim: How YouTube Took Off (2006) (gigaom.com)
25 points by alexitosrv on March 30, 2009 | 5 comments
29. Sailing into the Wind, or Faster than the Wind (terrytao.wordpress.com)
25 points by DaniFong on March 30, 2009 | 13 comments
30. Is a Shorter Web Address Worth Big Money? bit.ly Raises $2M (allthingsd.com)
25 points by peter123 on March 30, 2009 | 23 comments

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