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1.Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month? (quora.com)
264 points by ljdk on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 121 comments [ext]
2.How Little Sleep Can You Get Away With? (nytimes.com)
229 points by robg on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 88 comments [ext]
3.Why Microsoft bought Skype (cringely.com)
188 points by evo_9 on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 87 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.Maybe Americans aren't dumb enough to keep buying houses? (law.harvard.edu)
184 points by spottiness on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 165 comments [ext]
5.What Every C Programmer Should Know About Undefined Behavior #2/3 (llvm.org)
172 points by ryannielsen on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
6.America's License Raj (economist.com)
144 points by tokenadult on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
7. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 114 days ago | hide | 68 comments
7.Lockitron (YC S09) Lets You Unlock Your Door With Your Phone (techcrunch.com)
130 points by RyanAmos on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 99 comments [ext]
8.Beats Drum Machine (beatsdrummachine.com)
129 points by thmzlt on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
9.Pay Enough or Don't Pay at All (behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com)
129 points by Panos on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
10. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 211 days ago | hide | 32 comments
10.Sony: The Company That Kicked the Hornet's Nest (businessweek.com)
124 points by daniel02216 on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 79 comments [ext]
11.Namecoin: Distributed (p2p) domain registration system based on bitcoin (dot-bit.org)
102 points by elliottcarlson on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
12.Comments Are Dead. We Need You to Help Reinvent Them (pbs.org)
99 points by miraj on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 86 comments [ext]
13. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
13.Learning to Love JavaScript (ontwik.com)
88 points by ahmicro on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
14.HN: I want to trade my finance knowledge for python/django mentorship [ext]
78 points by zallarak on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
15.Ben Horowitz on the Skype acquisition (bhorowitz.com)
77 points by geoffschmidt on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
16. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 91 days ago | hide | 148 comments
16.The Dark Side of C++ (2007) (fefe.de)
76 points by KonradKlause on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
17.America's Achilles' heel: the Mississippi River's Old River Control Structure (wunderground.com)
74 points by cypherpunks01 on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
18.GNU SIP Witch 1.0 released for peer-to-peer next gen VoIP (planet.gnu.org)
68 points by Grauwolf on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
19. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
19.Thoughts on Learning Emacs (wideaperture.net)
54 points by codeup on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
20.Conway's Game of Life in one line of APL (catpad.net)
53 points by rbanffy on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
21.Why C++ is vastly superior to C (povusers.org)
48 points by tree_of_item on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 119 comments [ext]
22. The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 170 days ago | hide | 48 comments
22.Is Rejection Painful? Actually, It Is (nytimes.com)
46 points by robg on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
23. Following the White Rabbit: Software Attacks Against Intel VT-d (theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com)
37 points by wglb on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
24.Should Smallpox Be Put To Death? (uchicago.edu)
36 points by davi on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
25. Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 432 days ago | hide | 93 comments
25.Forget Me Not - How to win the U.S. memory championship. (slate.com)
36 points by senthil_rajasek on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
26.Parc Fires Back at New Yorker, Claims Gladwell Misses How Innovation Works (xconomy.com)
35 points by robertbud1 on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
27.The Arduino project gets a core memory accessory (thinq.co.uk)
35 points by ColinWright on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
28. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
28.Splinter: Python tool for acceptance tests on web applications (franciscosouza.com)
29 points by rbanffy on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
29.Google Go on App Engine (theregister.co.uk)
31 points by hanszeir on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
30.Apple's Open Source Releases (opensource.apple.com)
28 points by playhard on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
31. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 479 days ago | hide | 22 comments

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