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1.Y Combinator Gets The Sequoia Capital Seal Of Approval (techcrunch.com)
153 points by vaksel on March 16, 2009 | 44 comments
2.How Rich Countries Die (law.harvard.edu)
135 points by lackbeard on March 16, 2009 | 45 comments
3.Six Lessons Learned from Domain Pigeon’s First Six Weeks (mattmazur.com)
122 points by matt1 on March 16, 2009 | 15 comments
4.Legalese: This Is How All User Agreements Should Be Displayed (consumerist.com)
88 points by kqr2 on March 16, 2009 | 32 comments
5.Rails 2.3: Templates, Engines, Rack, Metal, much more (rubyonrails.org)
80 points by sant0sk1 on March 16, 2009 | 22 comments
6.Concurrence: a Python framework to create massively concurrent network applications (hyves.org)
75 points by anuraggoel on March 16, 2009 | 7 comments
7.The Freehacker's Union (zedshaw.com)
69 points by jacktang on March 16, 2009 | 33 comments
8.Faking votes on Hacker News (xach.livejournal.com)
66 points by critic on March 16, 2009 | 58 comments
9.Nginx vs Apache performance (webfaction.com)
65 points by dangoldin on March 16, 2009 | 47 comments
10.Tech Startups Don’t Need the Valley Unless They Need VC (gigaom.com)
64 points by jasonlbaptiste on March 16, 2009 | 50 comments
11.How .NET Regular Expressions Really Work (moserware.com)
62 points by moserware on March 16, 2009 | 6 comments
12.Can Twitter Survive What is About to Happen to It? (twine.com)
53 points by nreece on March 16, 2009 | 37 comments

Not cool. We deliberately don't put that much effort into security, because this is a community based on trust, not a bank. And by choosing to publish this rather than e.g. simply sending me an email about it, he's inviting people to do this.
14.Indian Americans: The New Model Minority (forbes.com)
47 points by queensnake on March 16, 2009 | 47 comments

Here's a suggestion from an Indian American on immigration policy: Don't force skilled immigrants (even those with graduate degrees from US universities) to work at the same employer for 5-8 years just to get a permit to stay in the country.

I have to stay with the same employer on an H-1B visa while my application for a greencard is pending (currently, people who applied in 2001 with a bachelors degree or 2004 with a masters degree are being considered).

Half of my immigrant classmates (Indian or not) from gradschool would have started a startup if they didn't have to stay stuck with the same employers to be in this country.


Hilarious. The head of "Hacker News" is mad because his news has been hacked.
17.How Two Friends Built a $100 Million Company (inc.com)
46 points by Anon84 on March 16, 2009 | 5 comments
18.Why the wires behind your computer are a tangled mess. (pnas.org)
45 points by asciilifeform on March 16, 2009 | 9 comments
19.Let It Die: Rushkoff on the economy (arthurmag.com)
43 points by dangoldin on March 16, 2009 | 49 comments
20.Wikiid: Can Wikipedia make a Wikipedia page notable enough to avoid deletion? (wikipedia.org)
40 points by unalone on March 16, 2009 | 27 comments
21.Push Systems vs Pull Systems (heroku.com)
39 points by sant0sk1 on March 16, 2009 | 9 comments
22.Detroit's Beautiful, Horrible Decline (time.com)
37 points by cubix on March 16, 2009 | 17 comments
23.Ask HN: Feedback on Thymer - a GTD/project management app for teams
36 points by jdvh on March 16, 2009 | 49 comments
24.Why I Like PLT Scheme (2004) (kuro5hin.org)
36 points by rw on March 16, 2009 | 9 comments
25.The Game Business Is A Year From Irrelevance (boesky.blogspot.com)
35 points by teej on March 16, 2009 | 8 comments
26.Gapminder.org - For a fact based world view. (gapminder.org)
33 points by durana on March 16, 2009 | 6 comments
27.Happy Cogs Redesign Mozilla (redesignmozilla.org)
34 points by daleharvey on March 16, 2009 | 25 comments

this is one of the best posts I've read on Hacker News.

I love how you're open about your numbers. How you (debatably) made mistakes, and how you recovered -- and how I remember when you launched DomainPigeon :)

Keep up the great work, and tell more stories.

29.Construction of Radio Equipment in a Japanese POW Camp (zerobeat.net)
31 points by bd on March 16, 2009 | 8 comments
30.JavaScript molecule simulator (blahbleh.com)
31 points by rogercosseboom on March 16, 2009 | 8 comments

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