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1.The greatest enemy of the programmer: hemorrhoids (cubeofm.com)
163 points by maxklein on March 29, 2010 | 109 comments
2.The war on WikiLeaks and why it matters (salon.com)
145 points by bootload on March 29, 2010 | 72 comments
3.Marketing Lessons from A/B Testing a Homeless Man's Sign (dailyconversions.com)
136 points by aresant on March 29, 2010 | 40 comments
4.Judge: Gene Patents Are Invalid (techdirt.com)
129 points by yanw on March 29, 2010 | 22 comments
5.Squaring two digit numbers in your head (jgc.org)
127 points by jgrahamc on March 29, 2010 | 30 comments
6.Ask HN: Interesting (Non software) books?
118 points by froo on March 29, 2010 | 182 comments
7.Introducing "Aristo", A jQuery UI Theme/Experiment (taitems.tumblr.com)
115 points by taitems on March 29, 2010 | 25 comments
8.Don’t be a Grin Fucker (bothsidesofthetable.com)
104 points by bhousel on March 29, 2010 | 23 comments
9.Never trust a programmer who says he knows C++ (lbrandy.com)
87 points by skorks on March 29, 2010 | 92 comments
10.Space Shuttle computer has 1MB of RAM (cosmobc.com)
83 points by MikeCapone on March 29, 2010 | 58 comments
11.Solaris is no longer free (cuddletech.com)
72 points by ax0n on March 29, 2010 | 31 comments
12.Functional Fluid Dynamics in Clojure (bestinclass.dk)
66 points by khingebjerg on March 29, 2010 | 19 comments
13.Result of Giving Poor Households Computer Vouchers (marginalrevolution.com)
64 points by mhb on March 29, 2010 | 56 comments
14.How Microsoft Bob ended up being a part of every copy of Windows XP (technet.microsoft.com)
62 points by latif on March 29, 2010 | 10 comments
15.Writing Tips from 6 All-time Great Writers (bighow.com)
59 points by pramit on March 29, 2010 | 16 comments

My parents were quite irresponsible, and let me waste my time playing video games and reading escapist fiction, instead of doing valuable effortful practice. When I went to MIT, I found that many of my classmates had been neglected in the same manner.
17.Thousands of private fotos leaked, privacy disaster for Quiptxt.com users (reddit.com)
55 points by dsplittgerber on March 29, 2010 | 55 comments
18.The incredible power of a 16 year old video blogger (22michaels.com)
54 points by ALee on March 29, 2010 | 22 comments
19.A collection of high performance c-string transformations (code.google.com)
53 points by skorks on March 29, 2010 | 10 comments
20.Deploying Django sites with Fabric, Pip and virtualenv: Ryan Williams (ryanwilliams.org)
52 points by Goosey on March 29, 2010 | 12 comments

I think you should realize that it may turn out you will actually primarily cater to dog owners looking for dates with other dog owners.
22.Every time you use CSS, you're doing Aspect-Oriented Programming (plpatterns.com)
50 points by jonnytran on March 29, 2010 | 16 comments
23.Points I took from Rework (superamit.tumblr.com)
49 points by superamit on March 29, 2010 | 8 comments
24.There's only one homeless man left in Times Square (nytimes.com)
48 points by budu3 on March 29, 2010 | 57 comments
25.The Emotional Bank Account - Establishing Good Credit With Coworkers/Employees (roachblog.com)
49 points by shabadoozie on March 29, 2010 | 5 comments
26.Tim O'Reilly on The State of the Internet Operating System (oreilly.com)
45 points by estherschindler on March 29, 2010 | 5 comments
27.Dynamic_cast(C)++ (teamten.com)
44 points by jlangenauer on March 29, 2010 | 14 comments
28.YouTube's original sin (slate.com)
43 points by mattyb on March 29, 2010 | 20 comments
29.Mac OS X 10.6.3 Released (tuaw.com)
43 points by kvs on March 29, 2010 | 14 comments
30.Ask HN: Review my side project - Reel Roulette (reelroulette.net)
41 points by trevorturk on March 29, 2010 | 29 comments

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