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1. Wolfram Alpha: Our First Impressions (readwriteweb.com)
93 points by functional-tree on April 26, 2009 | 24 comments
2. Honda Insight's immersive ad on Vimeo (vimeo.com)
90 points by marcusbooster on April 26, 2009 | 20 comments
3. Apollo Astronauts Didn't Need Heavy Boots (ufl.edu)
83 points by frisco on April 26, 2009 | 55 comments
4. Ask Entrepreneurs: Productivity tips for a chronic procrastinator?
72 points by GeneralMaximus on April 26, 2009 | 62 comments
5. A few comments on pandemic influenza (fluidinfo.com)
70 points by ivankirigin on April 26, 2009 | 29 comments
6. The Portuguese Experiment: Did Drug Decriminalization Work? (time.com)
64 points by EGF on April 26, 2009 | 30 comments
7. Ask HN: Learning C
62 points by FiveFiftyOne on April 26, 2009 | 65 comments
8. Ask PG: Can you paste paperwork used to get YC startups incorporated?
60 points by newbcoder on April 26, 2009 | 16 comments
9. Processing in JS is beautiful (processingjs.org)
59 points by bcx on April 26, 2009 | 2 comments
10. Ask HN: Best Python graphing and reporting libraries for web app
46 points by TJensen on April 26, 2009 | 10 comments
11. Keeping Abreast of Pornographic Research in Computer Science (homelinux.org)
36 points by nreece on April 26, 2009 | 15 comments
12. Richard Feynman's Works of Art (museumsyndicate.com)
35 points by Rod on April 26, 2009 | 6 comments
13. Crunchy - Python Tutorials in the Browser (code.google.com)
34 points by mattmcknight on April 26, 2009 | 8 comments
14. Why NPR is Thriving (They’re Not Afraid of Digital Media) (ikiw.org)
34 points by madh on April 26, 2009 | 16 comments
15. The embarrassment of American broadband (macworld.com)
34 points by pmikal on April 26, 2009 | 24 comments
16. The making of Playstation (edge-online.com)
33 points by Keyframe on April 26, 2009 | 6 comments
17. Steve Jobs On The Value Of Stock Options (techcrunch.com)
29 points by vaksel on April 26, 2009 | 8 comments
18. Engine Yard’s in great hands, and I’ve done what I wanted to do (lancewalley.wordpress.com)
28 points by aditya on April 26, 2009 | 6 comments
19. Are your "peers" in academia worse than your boss in industry?
23 points by amichail on April 26, 2009 | 16 comments
20. The moral panic over Twitter (upenn.edu)
23 points by rglovejoy on April 26, 2009
21. Ask HN: What do you think of my new site? (foosurvey.com)
23 points by ftse on April 26, 2009 | 29 comments
22. Design and the Google brain (fawny.org)
23 points by herdrick on April 26, 2009 | 7 comments
23. Swine flu: Twitter's power to misinform (foreignpolicy.com)
22 points by swombat on April 26, 2009 | 16 comments
24. Celebrating Aggregation (avc.com)
18 points by mattmcknight on April 26, 2009 | 2 comments
25. In defense of common English (chronicle.com)
15 points by quoderat on April 26, 2009 | 1 comment
26. Performance comparison: key/value stores for language model counts (anyall.org)
14 points by cgbystrom on April 26, 2009 | 12 comments
27. Ask HN: UCLA or UCSD for Computer Science?
14 points by s_baar on April 26, 2009 | 30 comments
28. Javascript template engine for users of HTML::Template released on github (dmclaughlin.com)
13 points by chorny on April 26, 2009 | 2 comments
29. Keynote Kung-fu Two (randsinrepose.com)
13 points by swombat on April 26, 2009 | 1 comment
30. Multimethods (and other syntactic fun) in Perl (jrock.us)
16 points by jrockway on April 26, 2009

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