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1.How AirBnB Became a Billion Dollar Company (davegooden.com)
654 points by cabinguy on May 31, 2011 [ext] | 186 comments [ext]
2.You don't get shit you don't ask for (humbledmba.com)
387 points by jaf12duke on May 31, 2011 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
3.What I Learned From Fixing my Laptop's Motherboard (spinellis.gr)
342 points by llimllib on May 31, 2011 [ext] | 81 comments [ext]
4. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 263 days ago | hide | 11 comments
4.Zed Shaw: Github's Favorite Joke (sheddingbikes.com)
286 points by pufuwozu on May 31, 2011 [ext] | 136 comments [ext]
5.The Revolutionary Birth Control Method for Men (wired.com)
280 points by spottiness on May 31, 2011 [ext] | 157 comments [ext]
6.New Algorithm Impressively Depixelates Pixel Art (geekosystem.com)
188 points by wslh on May 31, 2011 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
7. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 251 days ago | hide | 170 comments
7.The Matt Cutts Debunking Flowchart (searchengineland.com)
182 points by tristanperry on May 31, 2011 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
8.Productivity tips for the easily distracted (jacquesmattheij.com)
175 points by dailo10 on May 31, 2011 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
9.Building a Startup: 12 Priceless Tools for Launching Your MVP (nashcoding.com)
147 points by tansey on May 31, 2011 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
10. The Three Ingredients Behind Jitse Groen's Takeaway.com Conquest Of Europe (linkedin.com)
154 points by krz3514 374 days ago | hide | 13 comments
10.Heroku Announces New Version: “Celadon Cedar” (heroku.com)
137 points by krohrbaugh on May 31, 2011 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
11.Apple to unveil iCloud Monday, June 6 (engadget.com)
123 points by shawndumas on May 31, 2011 [ext] | 90 comments [ext]
12.We need an AirBNB for Mentorship--not $35k a year wasted on college (launch.is)
121 points by jasonmcalacanis on May 31, 2011 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
13. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 199 days ago | hide | 18 comments
13.Resources are being utterly and completely wasted on mining bitcoins (colorfulwolf.com)
118 points by rheide on May 31, 2011 [ext] | 150 comments [ext]
14.Do Social News Sites Deteriorate? (Analysis of 1.8M HN Comments) (effectcheck.com)
110 points by tansey on May 31, 2011 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
15.Show HN: I wrote a .NET to JS compiler. Here's an XNA demo compiled to JS. (luminance.org)
103 points by kg on May 31, 2011 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
16. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
16.What Makes A Great Programmer? (thinkvitamin.com)
107 points by commondream on May 31, 2011 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
17.Lodsys Responds to Apple, Files Lawsuits Against App Developers (macrumors.com)
102 points by hamedh on May 31, 2011 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
18.Google Chrome – Why I Hate It And Continue To Use It (jtaby.com)
101 points by jtaby on May 31, 2011 [ext] | 107 comments [ext]
19. How a PVC rig in a Dallas garage became a $500M chemicals company (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 600 days ago | hide | 170 comments
19.Economist's View: "The Mathematics Generation Gap" (economistsview.typepad.com)
96 points by ColinWright on May 31, 2011 [ext] | 96 comments [ext]
20.Glasgow’s parking lot thugs get entrepreneurial (matthiasmcgregor.com)
95 points by matthias on May 31, 2011 [ext] | 82 comments [ext]
21.GPU Password Cracking (mytechencounters.wordpress.com)
90 points by ctingom on May 31, 2011 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
22. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 210 days ago | hide | 32 comments
22.Clojure on Heroku Cedar stack (gist.github.com)
92 points by weavejester on May 31, 2011 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
23.Why Java folks should look forward to Scala (dhananjaynene.com)
88 points by fogus on May 31, 2011 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
24.How to do deliberate practice (thetalentcode.com)
87 points by cwb on May 31, 2011 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
25. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 16 hours ago | hide | 47 comments
25.Imperative vs Functional Programming (apocalisp.wordpress.com)
81 points by gtani on May 31, 2011 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
26.Email Reputation Causes Penalties in Google Search Results (lockergnome.com)
77 points by joahua on May 31, 2011 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
27.How to get shell access with a .htaccess file (github.com/wireghoul)
77 points by bartman on May 31, 2011 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
28. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
28.The reverse brain drain (bbc.co.uk)
76 points by cubix on May 31, 2011 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
29.Lessons from Argentina's Crazy Economy (inc.com)
76 points by mchafkin on May 31, 2011 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
30.AdGrok is joining Twitter (adgrok.com)
74 points by mceachen on May 31, 2011 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
31. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments

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