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1.		100 years ago, people paid money to see a fat man in a circus sideshow. (modeledbehavior.com)
		251 points by yummyfajitas on April 16, 2010 \| 136 comments
2.		Obama administration wanted warrantless access rights to most US email (cnet.com)
		191 points by miked on April 16, 2010 \| 92 comments
3.		Bill Gates Bans iTunes From Windows (pluggio.com)
		165 points by njrc on April 16, 2010 \| 85 comments
4.		Non-Apple's Mistake (loper-os.org)
		148 points by zephyrfalcon on April 16, 2010 \| 137 comments
5.		7,500 Online Shoppers Unknowingly Sold Their Souls (foxnews.com)
		130 points by willphipps on April 16, 2010 \| 28 comments
6.		App Store Bans Pulitzer-Winning Satirist. For Satire (wired.com)
		126 points by pinstriped_dude on April 16, 2010 \| 110 comments
7.		Torvalds: git vs CVS (marc.info)
		111 points by helwr on April 16, 2010 \| 111 comments
8.		Thousands of webcam images have been found in the school district being sued (philly.com)
		109 points by obsaysditto on April 16, 2010 \| 57 comments
9.		How I Cured my RSI Pain (aaroniba.net)
		99 points by prakash on April 16, 2010 \| 75 comments
10.		Page Rank 0 to 4 in Under Four Months, How I did it (whyspam.me)
		98 points by thinkbohemian on April 16, 2010 \| 56 comments
		spamizbad on April 16, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: App Store Bans Pulitzer-Winning Satirist. For Sati... Eagerly anticipating a post from John Gruber explaining how satire is an inferior form of humor that drags a platform's comedic potential down.
12.		$3 Cutting-Edge Healing Device, Field Tested in Haiti (fastcompany.com)
		84 points by hariis on April 16, 2010 \| 24 comments
		gfodor on April 16, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: 100 years ago, people paid money to see a fat man ... Except in Wall-e
14.		How to write to stderr so people will like you (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		73 points by keyist on April 16, 2010 \| 29 comments
15.		Tech sector in hiring drive (wsj.com)
		72 points by adamhowell on April 16, 2010 \| 25 comments
		dpapathanasiou on April 16, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: SEC Charges Goldman Sachs With Fraud 3a. If fail, have taxpayer pay for it That's the most disturbing part of all this: profits are kept private, but losses are socialized. It's the equivalent of "heads, I win; tails, you lose".
		startuprules on April 16, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: SEC Charges Goldman Sachs With Fraud 1. Sell doomed products to stupid clients 2. Short those products 3. Profit X 2 ! 3a. If fail, have taxpayer pay for it
18.		Htop - better top (sourceforge.net)
		70 points by juvenn on April 16, 2010 \| 28 comments
19.		It’s Not the Control, It’s the Secrecy (daringfireball.net)
		66 points by mrshoe on April 16, 2010 \| 45 comments
20.		Mac OS X SSD tweaks (nullvision.com)
		62 points by bensummers on April 16, 2010 \| 37 comments
21.		Online tutorials for LaTeX (tug.org.in)
		62 points by samratjp on April 16, 2010 \| 19 comments
22.		I'm going to be on Mixergy today at 11am PDT (ycombinator.posterous.com)
		58 points by jl on April 16, 2010 \| 27 comments
23.		The Future is Movie OS (danhon.com)
		53 points by danhon on April 16, 2010 \| 56 comments
		clammer on April 16, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: App Store Bans Pulitzer-Winning Satirist. For Sati... Creating an iPhone version of my app just got even lower on my todo list.
25.		ITunes for Research Papers (mendeley.com)
		51 points by samratjp on April 16, 2010 \| 21 comments
26.		Retailer adds 'immortal soul' clause to sale conditions (news.com.au)
		50 points by RiderOfGiraffes on April 16, 2010 \| 27 comments
		ytilibitapmoc on April 16, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Obama administration wanted warrantless access rig... If only the silence meant that people were sharpening their pitchforks. Unfortunately, this is the USA -- we would rather die by a thousand paper-cuts than stand up and say "No!"...
28.		DOJ abandons warrantless attempt to read e-mail (cnet.com)
		48 points by metamemetics on April 16, 2010 \| 12 comments
		greenlblue on April 16, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: App Store Bans Pulitzer-Winning Satirist. For Sati... This new direction apple is taking seems completely wrong on a visceral level.
30.		U.S. Accuses Goldman Sachs of Fraud (nytimes.com)
		46 points by samratjp on April 16, 2010 \| 2 comments
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