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1.Facebook is a Ponzi Scheme (jperla.com)
213 points by ljlolel on April 25, 2010 [ext] | 111 comments [ext]
2.Why Mark Suster is wrong about not hiring job hoppers (pauldix.net)
176 points by ropiku on April 25, 2010 [ext] | 80 comments [ext]
3.What if you had bought Apple stock instead of that iPod? (kyleconroy.com)
161 points by Derferman on April 25, 2010 [ext] | 85 comments [ext]
4. Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com)
292 points by ksk4362 203 days ago | hide | 110 comments
4.How to permanently delete Facebook account (wikihow.com)
134 points by sushi on April 25, 2010 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
5.Don’t talk to aliens, warns Stephen Hawking (timesonline.co.uk)
130 points by chaostheory on April 25, 2010 [ext] | 97 comments [ext]
6.The Facebook F8 Story No one is writing: Nothing works. (lianza.org)
129 points by tlianza on April 25, 2010 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
7. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 105 days ago | hide | 48 comments
7.Ask HN: Are you an information addict? [ext]
121 points by ghotli on April 25, 2010 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
8.Three.js: Javascript 3D engine (github.com/mrdoob)
118 points by mcantelon on April 25, 2010 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
9.This is what people you know like on the Internet right now (likebutton.me)
105 points by dwynings on April 25, 2010 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
10. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 490 days ago | hide | 26 comments
10. x264 project announces first open source Blu-ray encoder (multimedia.cx)
99 points by DarkShikari on April 25, 2010 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
11.Android 2.2 (Froyo) features (zdnet.com)
91 points by mberube on April 25, 2010 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
12.Slides and notes from my three hour Redis tutorial (simonwillison.net)
87 points by simonw on April 25, 2010 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
13. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 57 days ago | hide | 155 comments
13.How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters (3quarksdaily.com)
83 points by jaybol on April 25, 2010 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
14.VMKit: JVM and .Net runtimes for LLVM (llvm.org)
71 points by prog on April 25, 2010 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
15.Why I'm Becomming a JavaScript Convert (benjamincoe.com)
69 points by 3pt14159 on April 25, 2010 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
16. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
16.104 year old video of San Francisco (altgate.com)
66 points by fnazeeri on April 25, 2010 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
17.Don’t believe the hype on GM’s loan repayment (edmondsun.com)
63 points by dwwoelfel on April 25, 2010 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
18.Launch of secret US space ship masks even more secret launch of new weapon (timesonline.co.uk)
62 points by jaybol on April 25, 2010 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
19. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
19.Matchure: pattern matching library for Clojure (atomicobject.com)
58 points by liebke on April 25, 2010 [ext]
20.A physicist argues that information is at the root of everything (economist.com)
57 points by michael_dorfman on April 25, 2010 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
21.Hydroponic Edible Gardens for Urban Windows (windowfarms.org)
57 points by boucher on April 25, 2010 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
22. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 263 days ago | hide | 183 comments
22.WarGames: A Look Back at the Film That Turned Geeks and Phreaks Into Stars (wired.com)
57 points by atestu on April 25, 2010 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
23.Simple, reliable 2.5D photography (coredump.cx)
55 points by eplanit on April 25, 2010 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
24.Stephen Hawking: Aliens Exist, but Talking to them is too Dangerous (timesonline.co.uk)
52 points by Alex3917 on April 25, 2010 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
25. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 85 days ago | hide | 122 comments
25.Ask HN: I accidentally downvoted a good comment. What now? [ext]
51 points by natch on April 25, 2010 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
26.Writing correct code, part 1: whatever happened to invariants? (reprog.wordpress.com)
49 points by MikeTaylor on April 25, 2010 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
27.How to manipulate people with font type? (scientificamerican.com)
49 points by JarekS on April 25, 2010 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
28. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
28.Eric Ries and Steve Blank discuss minimum viable product (nytimes.com)
49 points by jamesbirchler on April 25, 2010 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
29.Dan Savage declares May 20th "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" (thestranger.com)
48 points by tome on April 25, 2010 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
30.Notes from Startup Lessons Learned Conf (docs.google.com)
44 points by white_eskimo on April 25, 2010 [ext] | 2 comments [ext]
31. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 114 days ago | hide | 68 comments

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