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1. There Is No Such Thing as Nuclear Waste (wsj.com)
162 points by ivankirigin on April 30, 2009 | 117 comments
2. An Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation (hivelogic.com)
124 points by tortilla on April 30, 2009 | 46 comments
3. Lessons from a failed startup (venturebeat.com)
103 points by jasonlbaptiste on April 30, 2009 | 37 comments
4. Screenshots of Twitter's internal admin interface (businessinsider.com)
88 points by danielh on April 30, 2009 | 54 comments
5. How Facebook stores its billions of photos (facebook.com)
80 points by anirudh on April 30, 2009 | 15 comments
6. In Major Shift, Apple Builds Its Own Team to Design Chips (wsj.com)
71 points by Anon84 on April 30, 2009 | 34 comments
7. YC Terms are Poor (goldenson.com)
70 points by rokhayakebe on April 30, 2009 | 70 comments
8. Collection: Design Patterns (flickr.com)
68 points by jmtame on April 30, 2009 | 7 comments
9. Clojure: It’s About the Libraries (stuartsierra.com)
68 points by coglethorpe on April 30, 2009 | 69 comments
10. The Power That is GNU Emacs (sigusr2.net)
64 points by apgwoz on April 30, 2009 | 20 comments
11. Are Commercial Databases Worth It? (codingthewheel.com)
63 points by haasted on April 30, 2009 | 42 comments
12. What If Scientists Didn’t Compete? (nytimes.com)
54 points by tokenadult on April 30, 2009 | 26 comments
13. Django File Browser (code.google.com)
52 points by j2d2 on April 30, 2009 | 5 comments
14. “Where do you get your ideas?” by Charles Stross (tor.com)
49 points by zzkt on April 30, 2009 | 12 comments
15. Zynga Pushing Nine Figures In Revenues Thanks To Micro-Transactions (techcrunch.com)
42 points by peter123 on April 30, 2009 | 9 comments
16. Create Python GUIs using HTML (And Webkit and GTK) (aclevername.com)
40 points by skorgu on April 30, 2009 | 10 comments
17. How PostgreSQL Processes a Query (postgresql.org)
39 points by mattculbreth on April 30, 2009 | 1 comment
18. Murky: A Mercurial Client App for OS X (mooseyard.com)
38 points by joao on April 30, 2009 | 3 comments
19. Peter Thiel on the future of Libertarianism, politics, and technology (cato-unbound.org)
37 points by sama on April 30, 2009 | 53 comments
20. Compiled Web vs. Interpreted Web (bitsandbuzz.com)
35 points by bbuffone on April 30, 2009 | 5 comments
21. Now Hiring If You're Young (1998) (nytimes.com)
34 points by gourneau on April 30, 2009 | 33 comments
22. Google Likes To Steal Others' Thunder (marksonland.com)
32 points by trs90 on April 30, 2009 | 12 comments
23. RescueTime on CNBC this morning (cnbc.com)
30 points by dannyv on April 30, 2009 | 7 comments
24. RWW Writeup of Duck Duck Go (readwriteweb.com)
30 points by bdotdub on April 30, 2009 | 4 comments
25. Ask PG: What if I forget my password?
29 points by csomar on April 30, 2009 | 45 comments
26. OpenBSD 4.5 released (undeadly.org)
29 points by there on April 30, 2009 | 20 comments
27. Transcendent Man Wows At Tribeca Film Festival Premier (singularityhub.com)
28 points by kkleiner on April 30, 2009 | 26 comments
28. Steve Blank: SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards (steveblank.com)
28 points by lrm242 on April 30, 2009 | 2 comments
29. Why Firefox Has Jumped the Shark (pcworld.com)
28 points by dragonquest on April 30, 2009 | 45 comments
30. The Biology of B-Movie Monsters (uchicago.edu)
25 points by mshafrir on April 30, 2009 | 1 comment

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