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1.OAuth Will Murder Your Children (zachholman.com)
380 points by holman on Jan 25, 2011 [ext] | 99 comments [ext]
2.Mythbusting: Why Firefox 4 won’t score 100 on Acid3 (limi.net)
269 points by ssclafani on Jan 25, 2011 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
3.An USB plug that goes both ways (yankodesign.com)
265 points by hernan7 on Jan 25, 2011 [ext] | 132 comments [ext]
4. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 104 days ago | hide | 48 comments
4.37Signals to retire OpenID for logins on May 1 (37signals.com)
227 points by clintecker on Jan 25, 2011 [ext] | 113 comments [ext]
5.Startup Suicide -- Rewriting the Code (steveblank.com)
217 points by terrisv on Jan 25, 2011 [ext] | 111 comments [ext]
6.How the iPhone mail app decides when to show you new mail (theinvisibl.com)
189 points by andre3k1 on Jan 25, 2011 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
7. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 10 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
7.Why I Wrote a Programmer's Text Editor (rsms.me)
177 points by pgebhard on Jan 25, 2011 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
8."Nothing like this will be built again": a tour of a working nuclear reactor (antipope.org)
160 points by gjm11 on Jan 25, 2011 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
9.What if Visual Studio had Achievements? (whiletrue.com)
155 points by varunsrin on Jan 25, 2011 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
10. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 114 days ago | hide | 193 comments
10.Forget Quora, New York's Stack Overflow Is Killing It (observer.com)
140 points by bjonathan on Jan 25, 2011 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
11.Neat trick for getting private info for Facebook, GMail, Twitter and Digg users (grepular.com)
141 points by redsaiddead on Jan 25, 2011 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
12.Hacker News app for Android (with login, voting, and commenting) (jazzychad.net)
140 points by jazzychad on Jan 25, 2011 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
13. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 262 days ago | hide | 11 comments
13.Design for Hackers: Why You Hate Comic Sans (kadavy.net)
136 points by kadavy on Jan 25, 2011 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
14.Close Tab Behaviour in Google Chrome (theinvisibl.com)
133 points by solipsist on Jan 25, 2011 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
15.HTML4 logo (dribbble.com)
126 points by coderdude on Jan 25, 2011 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
16. Discord's Real Lesson: The Meta-Layer Enterprise Slack Can't Build (kwokchain.com)
448 points by aok168 431 days ago | hide | 83 comments
16.Help wanted: Google hiring in 2011 (googleblog.blogspot.com)
119 points by shawndumas on Jan 25, 2011 [ext] | 114 comments [ext]
17.Real-Life Massive Multi-Player Spy Game (blue74.com)
115 points by captaincrunch on Jan 25, 2011 [ext] | 99 comments [ext]
18.How To: WordPress to Jekyll (paulstamatiou.com)
104 points by PStamatiou on Jan 25, 2011 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
19. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
19.Pixelmator Grosses $1 Million on the Mac App Store (pixelmator.com)
97 points by shawndumas on Jan 25, 2011 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
20.Obama Nominates RIAA Lawyer for Solicitor General (wired.com)
89 points by yanw on Jan 25, 2011 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
21.An inspirational collection of UI details/hacks (littlebigdetails.com)
84 points by Floriz on Jan 25, 2011 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
22. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 367 days ago | hide | 7 comments
22.The End Of Facebook and Free Software's Quiet Revolution (appleseedproject.org)
83 points by michaelchisari on Jan 25, 2011 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
23.Twitter Can Predict The Stock Market (wired.com)
80 points by pmorici on Jan 25, 2011 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
24.System Admins R.I.P.? (mulesoft.org)
76 points by danielle17 on Jan 25, 2011 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
25. Why fully automated AI cedes a more valuable design space (readwise.io)
73 points by nan9853 265 days ago | hide | 77 comments
25.“Let The Hacking Begin” Declares Person Who Hacked Zuckerberg’s Facebook Page (techcrunch.com)
72 points by remi on Jan 25, 2011 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
26.CPython to LLVM to Javascript - Python in the browser (syntensity.com)
68 points by martian on Jan 25, 2011 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
27.World's first solar sail unfurled in orbit (nasa.gov)
69 points by joshrule on Jan 25, 2011 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
28. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
28."2001": The Monolith and the Message (Roger Ebert, April 21, 1968) (suntimes.com)
66 points by davesailer on Jan 25, 2011 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
29.Poll: Have you ever applied to work at Google? [ext]
65 points by thetrumanshow on Jan 25, 2011 [ext] | 99 comments [ext]
30.How to increase conversions with a stellar landing page (kissmetrics.com)
64 points by str on Jan 25, 2011 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
31. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 592 days ago | hide | 193 comments

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