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1. The Pond (randsinrepose.com)
96 points by naish on April 15, 2009 | hide | 12 comments
2. SQLite As The MP3 Of Data (gobansaor.com)
69 points by rams on April 15, 2009 | hide | 31 comments
3. A Non-Local Revolution (aaronsw.com)
69 points by ph0rque on April 15, 2009 | hide | 28 comments
4. Gmail Sidesteps the App Store (technologyreview.com)
68 points by zen53 on April 15, 2009 | hide | 37 comments
5. The Failure of #amazonfail (shirky.com)
59 points by coglethorpe on April 15, 2009 | hide | 33 comments
6. PostgreSQL 8.4 Beta (lwn.net)
54 points by davidw on April 15, 2009 | hide | 10 comments
7. A movie recommendation service that actually works (nanocrowd.com)
49 points by noaharc on April 15, 2009 | hide | 24 comments
8. What happens if I don't pay my taxes? (slate.com)
47 points by kqr2 on April 15, 2009 | hide | 50 comments
9. ToneMatrix (flash) (andre-michelle.com)
46 points by kqr2 on April 15, 2009 | hide | 36 comments
10. The Future of Firefox: No Tabs, Built-In Ubiquity (readwriteweb.com)
45 points by nreece on April 15, 2009 | hide | 33 comments
11. Update: DiggBar will only be shown to logged-in Digg users (digg.com)
43 points by ryanwaggoner on April 15, 2009 | hide | 22 comments
12. Decision Time For Facebook: Term Sheets Received At $2 Billion Valuation (techcrunch.com)
43 points by vaksel on April 15, 2009 | hide | 58 comments
13. Characteristics Of Successful User Interfaces (usabilitypost.com)
39 points by puns on April 15, 2009 | hide | 6 comments
14. Getting Attention Is a Stupid Business Plan (chuckwestbrook.com)
39 points by qtask on April 15, 2009 | hide | 10 comments
15. Don’t Make Me Write HTML (linux-mag.com)
35 points by nreece on April 15, 2009 | hide | 35 comments
16. Dancing with Professors: the trouble with academic prose (ucdavis.edu)
35 points by frisco on April 15, 2009 | hide | 19 comments
17. Smiles Predict Marriage Success (yahoo.com)
33 points by mshafrir on April 15, 2009 | hide | 31 comments
18. Bacon-powered blowtorch cuts through metal (popsci.com)
32 points by Pistos2 on April 15, 2009 | hide | 5 comments
19. Heapy: Memory profiling and analysis for Python programs. (sourceforge.net)
32 points by mace on April 15, 2009 | hide
20. Ever run into one of those bugs where you begin to doubt your basic assumptions? (funcall.blogspot.com)
31 points by l0stman on April 15, 2009 | hide | 6 comments
21. The “desktop” metaphor for computers is outdated. What can take its place? (stevenf.tumblr.com)
31 points by harpastum on April 15, 2009 | hide | 33 comments
22. Laconica, the Twitter clone software, is one step closer to the version 1.0 (mytestbox.com)
32 points by mg1313 on April 15, 2009 | hide | 45 comments
23. Google search referer changes (niallkennedy.com)
28 points by joao on April 15, 2009 | hide | 4 comments
24. The Sokal Affair (wikipedia.org)
26 points by TravisLS on April 15, 2009 | hide | 15 comments
25. Apple: Macbook Air isn't suitable for simultaneous use of Xcode and external display (scribd.com)
26 points by TimH on April 15, 2009 | hide | 33 comments
26. Hardware Hackers - Resources To Make Your Projects Beautiful (replicatorinc.com)
25 points by replicatorblog on April 15, 2009 | hide | 11 comments
27. How to prevent XSS attacks (amix.dk)
25 points by amix on April 15, 2009 | hide | 12 comments
28. Learn to Think Better: Tips from a Savant (sciam.com)
24 points by jwb119 on April 15, 2009 | hide | 9 comments
29. Taskfox -- Firefox Interface Video (vimeo.com)
24 points by samueladam on April 15, 2009 | hide | 4 comments
30. How I Got Skype High Quality Video Working (gabrielweinberg.com)
24 points by epi0Bauqu on April 15, 2009 | hide | 1 comment

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