| 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] |
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| 2. | | How Little Sleep Can You Get Away With? (nytimes.com) |
| 229 points by robg on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 88 comments [ext] |
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| 3. | | Why Microsoft bought Skype (cringely.com) |
| 188 points by evo_9 on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 87 comments [ext] |
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Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat () |
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71 points by fin781 263 days ago | hide | 11 comments
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| 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] |
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| 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] |
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| 6. | | America's License Raj (economist.com) |
| 144 points by tokenadult on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 64 comments [ext] |
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A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com) |
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488 points by gon322 114 days ago | hide | 68 comments
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| 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] |
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| 8. | | Beats Drum Machine (beatsdrummachine.com) |
| 129 points by thmzlt on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 31 comments [ext] |
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| 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] |
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A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu) |
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129 points by bsk2489 211 days ago | hide | 32 comments
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| 10. | | Sony: The Company That Kicked the Hornet's Nest (businessweek.com) |
| 124 points by daniel02216 on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 79 comments [ext] |
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| 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] |
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| 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] |
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The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph) |
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469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
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| 13. | | Learning to Love JavaScript (ontwik.com) |
| 88 points by ahmicro on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 4 comments [ext] |
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| 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] |
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| 15. | | Ben Horowitz on the Skype acquisition (bhorowitz.com) |
| 77 points by geoffschmidt on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 18 comments [ext] |
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When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev) |
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380 points by orz1950 91 days ago | hide | 148 comments
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| 16. | | The Dark Side of C++ (2007) (fefe.de) |
| 76 points by KonradKlause on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 53 comments [ext] |
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| 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] |
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| 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] |
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Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe) |
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229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
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| 19. | | Thoughts on Learning Emacs (wideaperture.net) |
| 54 points by codeup on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 21 comments [ext] |
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| 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] |
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| 21. | | Why C++ is vastly superior to C (povusers.org) |
| 48 points by tree_of_item on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 119 comments [ext] |
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The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com) |
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195 points by dem3275 170 days ago | hide | 48 comments
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| 22. | | Is Rejection Painful? Actually, It Is (nytimes.com) |
| 46 points by robg on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 13 comments [ext] |
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| 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] |
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| 24. | | Should Smallpox Be Put To Death? (uchicago.edu) |
| 36 points by davi on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 28 comments [ext] |
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Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com) |
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327 points by lrm6947 432 days ago | hide | 93 comments
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| 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] |
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| 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] |
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| 27. | | The Arduino project gets a core memory accessory (thinq.co.uk) |
| 35 points by ColinWright on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 6 comments [ext] |
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A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com) |
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54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
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| 28. | | Splinter: Python tool for acceptance tests on web applications (franciscosouza.com) |
| 29 points by rbanffy on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 9 comments [ext] |
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| 29. | | Google Go on App Engine (theregister.co.uk) |
| 31 points by hanszeir on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 3 comments [ext] |
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| 30. | | Apple's Open Source Releases (opensource.apple.com) |
| 28 points by playhard on May 14, 2011 [ext] | 10 comments [ext] |
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Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com) |
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