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1.		Why most people don't like jazz (dyske.com)
		181 points by RevRal on March 19, 2010 \| 225 comments
2.		Google's Python Class (Video, Notes & Exercises) (code.google.com)
		161 points by jamesk2 on March 19, 2010 \| 17 comments
3.		How to disappear in America without a trace (skeptictank.org)
		124 points by chaosmachine on March 19, 2010 \| 32 comments
4.		Express: A Node.js web development framework (expressjs.com)
		124 points by adamhowell on March 19, 2010 \| 17 comments
5.		Tell HN : Wordpress.com exploit
		110 points by sandaru1 on March 19, 2010 \| 57 comments
6.		You Suck (On web apps that mismanage text) (raganwald.com)
		102 points by raganwald on March 19, 2010 \| 75 comments
7.		Why is JSON so popular? Developers want out of the syntax business (stereolambda.wordpress.com)
		94 points by fogus on March 19, 2010 \| 113 comments
		yes
		93 points \| parent
9.		Notifo (YC W10) Is A Simple Mobile Notifications Platform For Anything (techcrunch.com)
		93 points by jazzychad on March 19, 2010 \| 66 comments
10.		Responding to jacquesm's challenge (jgc.org)
		83 points by jgrahamc on March 19, 2010 \| 49 comments
11.		Hope You Enjoy the Smell of Napalm in the Morning (Apple vs. Google) (daringfireball.net)
		82 points by georgekv on March 19, 2010 \| 57 comments
12.		Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine (longnow.org)
		81 points by alfredp on March 19, 2010 \| 23 comments
13.		Algorithmic Graph Theory Book 0.3 Released (mvngu.wordpress.com)
		72 points by kikibobo69 on March 19, 2010 \| 2 comments
14.		"No Dashes Or Spaces" Hall of Shame (unixwiz.net)
		72 points by vijaydev on March 19, 2010 \| 62 comments
15.		Get notifoed when people reply to your comments on Hacker News
		62 points by pg on March 19, 2010 \| 55 comments
16.		Crocodoc (YC W10) Sets Its Sights On Adobe Acrobat With New Update (techcrunch.com)
		65 points by rdamico on March 19, 2010 \| 13 comments
		patio11 on March 19, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Why is JSON so popular? Developers want out of the... Sorry we were late to the party, guys, we just got so wrapped up in writing software that people actually use.
18.		Apple iPad? How about a little German innovation instead (techcrunch.com)
		62 points by biafra on March 19, 2010 \| 83 comments
19.		The hidden dangers of working in IT (debugreality.blogspot.com)
		62 points by Debugreality on March 19, 2010 \| 69 comments
20.		Good code needs few unit tests (andreyf.tumblr.com)
		59 points by andreyf on March 19, 2010 \| 39 comments
		no
		51 points \| parent
22.		Writer Peter Watts Guilty Verdict in Border Incident (rifters.com)
		50 points by mikecane on March 19, 2010 \| 43 comments
23.		Spanner: Google’s next Massive Storage and Computation infrastructure (royans.net)
		49 points by paulsb on March 19, 2010 \| 4 comments
24.		Compiled or Bust? (codinghorror.com)
		49 points by fogus on March 19, 2010 \| 23 comments
		froo on March 19, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Sceptic challenges guru to kill him live on TV "The holy man then said he needed to conduct a ritual that could only be done at night, outdoors, and after he had slept with a woman, drunk alcohol and rubbed himself in ash." If your credibility is going to be finished, might aswell go out with a bang.
		sp332 on March 19, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Why most people don't like jazz Wynton Marsalis says "When the music stopped being about dancing, people stopped listening." I never completely bought it, but I like the sentiment anyway :-)
27.		The 2010 Lisp Game Design Challenge (dto.github.com)
		43 points by fogus on March 19, 2010 \| 18 comments
28.		A free graph theory book by David Joyner, Minh Van Nguyen, and Nathann Cohen (code.google.com)
		42 points by mononcqc on March 19, 2010 \| 11 comments
29.		A Rosetta Stone for jQuery & YUI3 (bueno.org)
		41 points by aristus on March 19, 2010 \| 14 comments
		regularfry on March 19, 2010 \| parent \| context \| on: Writer Peter Watts Guilty Verdict in Border Incide... "...I cannot begrudge the jury their verdict. Their job is not to rewrite laws, or ignore stupid ones..." Surely the existence of jury nullification argues that this is precisely their job?
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