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1. Some Brutally Honest iPhone App Sales Numbers: $32k Spent vs $535 Revenue (streamingcolour.com)
128 points by twampss on March 12, 2009 | 53 comments
2. iPhone OS 3.0 is coming, preview on March 17th (engadget.com)
99 points by jasonlbaptiste on March 12, 2009 | 53 comments
3. French police: we saved millions of euros by adopting Ubuntu (arstechnica.com)
86 points by terpua on March 12, 2009 | 16 comments
4. Announcing Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances (aws.typepad.com)
80 points by jeffbarr on March 12, 2009 | 40 comments
5. What caused that outage
74 points by pg on March 12, 2009 | 62 comments
6. Did You Know: BeautifulSoup's bits are rotting (crummy.com)
72 points by andrewljohnson on March 12, 2009 | 37 comments
7. Why is there Anti-Intellectualism? (uwgb.edu)
72 points by asciilifeform on March 12, 2009 | 60 comments
8. Rackspace (via Mosso) to Launch Cloud Servers at 1.5 cents/hour ($10.95/month) Monday (mosso.com)
71 points by mdasen on March 12, 2009 | 34 comments
9. "Now that you've finished SICP, time to move onto CTM" Online Book (ulb.ac.be)
72 points by jules on March 12, 2009 | 18 comments
10. JQuery gestures (friggeri.net)
69 points by bdfh42 on March 12, 2009 | 25 comments
11. HN: 33K visitors = 32,500 random tire kickers. But it also = 500 new hackers
59 points by raganwald on March 12, 2009 | 40 comments
12. Datacenter Security: A Cautionary Tale from Last.fm (garrett.co.uk)
59 points by danw on March 12, 2009 | 15 comments
13. Bit Twiddling Hacks (stanford.edu)
49 points by mroman on March 12, 2009 | 6 comments
14. Has anyone realized Google is creating a Social network right under your feet? (google.com)
47 points by peregrine on March 12, 2009 | 34 comments
15. RescueTime: Daylight Savings Time costs the United States $480,000,000 (rescuetime.com)
43 points by ivankirigin on March 12, 2009 | 38 comments
16. Introduction to the ad auction (googleblog.blogspot.com)
42 points by Anon84 on March 12, 2009 | 5 comments
17. Despite the downturn, entrepreneurs are enjoying a renaissance the world over (economist.com)
35 points by HSO on March 12, 2009 | 14 comments
18. Operating System Interface Design Between 1981 and 2009 (webdesignerdepot.com)
38 points by tsally on March 12, 2009 | 9 comments
19. Interactive map of Linux kernel (makelinux.net)
37 points by kqr2 on March 12, 2009 | 4 comments
20. Sergey Brin has a mutation of the LRRK2 gene. (too.blogspot.com)
35 points by wyclif on March 12, 2009 | 15 comments
21. What Do You Tell People You Are? (thecodist.com)
34 points by r11t on March 12, 2009 | 67 comments
22. Releasing early and often... how it failed for us [extended version] (timmyontime.com)
31 points by dan_sim on March 12, 2009 | 17 comments
23. Comparison of data analysis packages: R, Matlab, SciPy, Excel, SAS, SPSS, Stata (anyall.org)
31 points by lrajlich on March 12, 2009 | 9 comments
24. Optimum Monopoly Strategy Based on Payback Period/ROI (amnesta.net)
31 points by lionhearted on March 12, 2009 | 3 comments
25. Google announces Google Voice (googleblog.blogspot.com)
30 points by rogercosseboom on March 12, 2009 | 3 comments
26. Releasing early and often... how it failed for us (timmyontime.com)
29 points by dan_sim on March 12, 2009 | 42 comments
27. A New Battery That Charges In Seconds (nature.com)
27 points by keltecp11 on March 12, 2009 | 9 comments
28. Machine Language For Beginners (atariarchives.org)
28 points by mroman on March 12, 2009 | 4 comments
29. Python Library for Google Search (catonmat.net)
26 points by Anon84 on March 12, 2009 | 3 comments
30. I have a question about organizing projects (github.com/raganwald)
24 points by raganwald on March 12, 2009 | 18 comments

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