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1.The Montessori Mafia (wsj.com)
263 points by danielvnzla on April 6, 2011 [ext] | 151 comments [ext]
2.Meet news:yc, the open source Hacker News client for your iPhone. (newsyc.me)
261 points by news-yc on April 6, 2011 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
3.Must Read CS Books For Self Self-Taught Programmers [ext]
251 points by stefanve on April 6, 2011 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
4. The Cybersecurity Stack Was Built on Assumptions AI Just Broke ()
486 points by gtm4646 84 days ago | hide | 150 comments
4.Plain Text Offenders - Did you just email me back my own password? (plaintextoffenders.com)
234 points by omervk on April 6, 2011 [ext] | 141 comments [ext]
5.The traveling German carpenters (intellum.com)
180 points by luccastera on April 6, 2011 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
6.GNOME 3 Released (gnome3.org)
178 points by sciurus on April 6, 2011 [ext] | 98 comments [ext]
7. Blind Spots in the West: Why Every Chinese VC Studies Our Podcasts (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 218 days ago | hide | 175 comments
7.Writing code with MS Paint (min.us)
167 points by jitbit on April 6, 2011 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
8."A JVM Does What?" (jeremymanson.blogspot.com)
166 points by fogus on April 6, 2011 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
9.Firefox Add-ons with the Slowest Start-up (addons.mozilla.org)
167 points by there on April 6, 2011 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
10. Actor-critic loops and lean tools: field notes from agent builders (app.build)
357 points by foz4677 265 days ago | hide | 148 comments
10.Richard Branson Announces Virgin Oceanic Submarine (dailytech.com)
135 points by bakbak on April 6, 2011 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
11.The developer of the indie-game Minecraft is doing an AMA on reddit (reddit.com)
117 points by ulvund on April 6, 2011 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
12.I support Gus (supportgus.dk)
110 points by stephenson on April 6, 2011 [ext] | 72 comments [ext]
13. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
13.Show HN: NationBuilder, my startup just launched (nationbuilder.com)
109 points by jgilliam on April 6, 2011 [ext] | 93 comments [ext]
14.π = 3 (sometimes) for Nobel laureate (metafilter.com)
105 points by starpilot on April 6, 2011 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
15.WSJ: "India Graduates Millions But Too Few Are Fit to Hire" - Yes, But ..... (zoho.com)
105 points by kingsley_20 on April 6, 2011 [ext] | 73 comments [ext]
16. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
16.Creepy iPhone bug: front facing camera takes pictures by itself. (discussions.apple.com)
101 points by monochromatic on April 6, 2011 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
17.LinkedIn Announces New Platform (linkedin.com)
103 points by gammarator on April 6, 2011 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
18.Latest Everything: Bot shows signs of consciousness (sixwoffers.blogspot.com)
97 points by Husafan on April 6, 2011 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
19. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 489 days ago | hide | 26 comments
19.10,000-core Linux supercomputer built in Amazon cloud (networkworld.com)
94 points by jbrodkin on April 6, 2011 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
20.Competition Doesn't Matter. Look at Dropbox. (waxman.me)
93 points by waxman on April 6, 2011 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
21.Mono for Android released with Visual Studio 2010 integration (mono-android.net)
90 points by hanifvirani on April 6, 2011 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
22. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 59 days ago | hide | 65 comments
22.An Engineer's Explanation of the Fukushima Incident (docs.google.com)
84 points by Tom_Chippendale on April 6, 2011 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
23.Hacker News Guidelines (ycombinator.com)
82 points by franze on April 6, 2011 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
24.CKAN - The CPAN of data (ckan.net)
77 points by ig1 on April 6, 2011 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
25. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 251 days ago | hide | 170 comments
25.The Unix Tree (tuhs.org)
74 points by fogus on April 6, 2011 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
26.Is Stealth Mode Stupid? (eladgil.com)
74 points by eladgil on April 6, 2011 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
27.Fundamental Guidelines Of E-Commerce Checkout Design (smashingmagazine.com)
70 points by gulbrandr on April 6, 2011 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
28. Inside Shopify's Multi-Year Playbook Behind Tobi Lütke's Viral AI Memo (firstround.com)
253 points by paz1543 250 days ago | hide | 127 comments
28.Clever CSS Easter Egg: Search Google For “Tilt” Or “Askew” On Your Smartphone (thenextweb.com)
70 points by jeffwidman on April 6, 2011 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
29.Unqualified Names in the SSL Observatory (eff.org)
67 points by there on April 6, 2011 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
30.Netflix: Run Consistency Checkers All The Time To Fixup Transactions (highscalability.com)
66 points by yarapavan on April 6, 2011 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
31. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 251 days ago | hide | 128 comments

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