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1.How to Be Jason Bourne: Multiple Passports, Swiss Banking, and Crossing Borders (fourhourworkweek.com)
140 points by mattjaynes on March 5, 2009 | 64 comments
2.Why Mahalo employed a felon hacker (calacanis.com)
128 points by azharcs on March 5, 2009 | 52 comments
3.Using evolving images for image compression: 256x256 image in 1k (screamingduck.com)
96 points by jkkramer on March 5, 2009 | 23 comments
4.Wolfram|Alpha Is Coming (wolfram.com)
86 points by bdfh42 on March 5, 2009 | 38 comments
5.White House picks Vivek Kundra to be the first US CIO (nytimes.com)
64 points by bdotdub on March 5, 2009 | 38 comments
6.Divvyshot [YC W09]: Photo-sharing for groups (divvyshot.com)
64 points by vlad on March 5, 2009 | 65 comments
7.Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share (electronista.com)
51 points by nategraves on March 5, 2009 | 26 comments
8.Switched from Capistrano to (Python) Fabric (stii.co.za)
46 points by mace on March 5, 2009 | 5 comments
9.A Different Kind of Recession - HBS Student Reflects on Visit to India (zacharyclayton.com)
40 points by JoelSutherland on March 5, 2009 | 15 comments
10.Y Combinator’s Airbed&Breakfast Casts A Wider Net For Housing Rentals As AirBnB (techcrunch.com)
39 points by thepanister on March 5, 2009 | 12 comments
11.Why Are iPhone Users Willing to Pay for Content? (nytimes.com)
35 points by robg on March 5, 2009 | 24 comments
12.Who needs funding when you have creativity? (mixergy.com)
34 points by oliviakuhn on March 5, 2009 | 8 comments
13.The way to make a program faster is to never let it get slower. (webkit.org)
33 points by helium on March 5, 2009 | 18 comments
14.Should We Do "Computer Science"? (perl.org)
33 points by epall on March 5, 2009 | 13 comments
15.Justin.tv live stream of AngelConf (starts 1:30 PST) (justin.tv)
32 points by pg on March 5, 2009 | 15 comments
16.Francisco's (of 280 North, YC W08) FOWA presentation (vimeo.com)
29 points by tlrobinson on March 5, 2009
17.Mercurial 1.2 out with translations, a pure Python implementation, and more (selenic.com)
31 points by gecko on March 5, 2009 | 5 comments
18.Poll: Does your startup use pirated software?
29 points by vaksel on March 5, 2009 | 55 comments
19.1975 (ranprieur.com)
26 points by divia on March 5, 2009 | 20 comments
20.Tipjoy's experiment in virality on Twitter: Happy birthday Shaq (happybirthdayshaq.com)
26 points by ivankirigin on March 5, 2009 | 21 comments
21.Twitter Ain't Search (marksonland.com)
24 points by trs90 on March 5, 2009 | 27 comments
22.Remove cap on H-1B: LinkedIn CEO (indiatimes.com)
22 points by nreece on March 5, 2009 | 22 comments
23.Y Combinator’s Divvyshot Launches Dead Simple Group Photo Sharing (techcrunch.com)
21 points by thepanister on March 5, 2009 | 3 comments
24.iminlikewithyou is now OMGPOP (omgpop.com)
21 points by ivankirigin on March 5, 2009 | 30 comments
25.Stimulus: A history of folly (commentarymagazine.com)
21 points by gaius on March 5, 2009 | 11 comments
26.Startup Founded by Apple Vets Aims to Develop Business Apps for iPhone (xconomy.com)
20 points by bobbud on March 5, 2009 | 11 comments
27.New Vaginal Gel Prevents AIDS Virus Transmission (webmd.com)
19 points by chaostheory on March 5, 2009 | 15 comments
28.Google Launches New Service - TipJar: a collection of money saving tips (moderator.appspot.com)
19 points by vaksel on March 5, 2009 | 17 comments
29.SEC charges E*Trade, 5 others, for front running (reuters.com)
19 points by tortilla on March 5, 2009 | 9 comments
30.PlentyOfFish Starts Charging Premium Membership Fees (onlinedatingpost.com)
18 points by jwesley on March 5, 2009 | 20 comments

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