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1. Meditation: Why Bother? (vipassana.com)
84 points by PieSquared on May 16, 2009 | 70 comments
2. Danger Mouse's EMI-killed CD will be released as a blank CD-R, just add download (bbc.co.uk)
66 points by Xichekolas on May 16, 2009 | 52 comments
3. Lamson The Python SMTP Server (lamsonproject.org)
65 points by iamelgringo on May 16, 2009 | 21 comments
4. Heroku: Best money ever spent (elctech.com)
56 points by tortilla on May 16, 2009 | 9 comments
5. Wolfram - what is the speed of an unladen swallow? (wolframalpha.com)
53 points by dhotson on May 16, 2009 | 49 comments
6. Solaris + ZFS = The Perfect Home File/Media Server (st0w.com)
47 points by j2d2 on May 16, 2009 | 38 comments
7. Scott Aaronson tears NKS apart [pdf] (scottaaronson.com)
42 points by pookleblinky on May 16, 2009 | 37 comments
8. Confessions of an Introverted Traveler (worldhum.com)
38 points by absconditus on May 16, 2009 | 23 comments
9. Evserver - Lightweight Asynchronous Python WSGI Server (code.google.com)
34 points by ntoshev on May 16, 2009
10. The Usability of Passwords (baekdal.com)
34 points by csomar on May 16, 2009 | 10 comments
11. The Codex Seraphinianus: Man and woman copulate, turn into alligator (believermag.com)
33 points by silentbicycle on May 16, 2009 | 16 comments
12. Altman says Loopt to be profitable in 2009 (bloomberg.com)
28 points by cominatchu on May 16, 2009 | 21 comments
13. "America's War on Science" - Do you have a license for that beaker? (memepunks.blogspot.com)
28 points by asciilifeform on May 16, 2009 | 15 comments
14. How the Mighty Fall: A Primer on the Warning Signs (businessweek.com)
26 points by agrinshtein on May 16, 2009 | 2 comments
15. The World's First Web Server (flickr.com)
24 points by vaksel on May 16, 2009 | 4 comments
16. Duck Duck go on CNN top story as a logo (gabrielweinberg.com)
23 points by darwinw on May 16, 2009 | 9 comments
17. Github's fork queue is dangerous (manxome.org)
23 points by toni on May 16, 2009 | 14 comments
18. Erlang is pragmatic (12monkeys.co.uk)
21 points by hassy on May 16, 2009 | 14 comments
19. Ask HN: Rate my startup, Nrds (nrds.co.uk)
21 points by jparicka on May 16, 2009 | 23 comments
20. Living abroad gives you a creative edge (economist.com)
21 points by __ on May 16, 2009 | 19 comments
21. Ask HN: Using personal code at work
20 points by jskopek on May 16, 2009 | 21 comments
22. The Odds of Winning Solitaire (roziturnbull.com)
20 points by soundsop on May 16, 2009 | 7 comments
23. How to build a Universal Answer Engine: ten vital principles (trueknowledge.com)
19 points by epi0Bauqu on May 16, 2009 | 1 comment
24. How Casinos Can Find and Target Their Favorite Customers: The Biggest Losers (upenn.edu)
17 points by newmediaclay on May 16, 2009 | 21 comments
25. Wolfram Alpha: The Wikipedia Killer (25hoursaday.com)
17 points by darwinw on May 16, 2009 | 21 comments
26. Ask HN: Please review my new social learning site (cafecourses.com)
17 points by bdmac97 on May 16, 2009 | 31 comments
27. Facebook raises $150 million more to cash out employees (venturebeat.com)
16 points by peter123 on May 16, 2009 | 11 comments
28. Darwin's Nightmare (technologyreview.com)
15 points by razorburn on May 16, 2009 | 3 comments
29. Google gets patent on floating data centers (asserttrue.blogspot.com)
13 points by techdog on May 16, 2009 | 14 comments
30. Thoughts from a startup on getting accepted into new incubator from TheFunded (jedwhite.com)
13 points by jedwhite on May 16, 2009 | 22 comments

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