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1.Dotjs — hack the web (defunkt.io)
309 points by duck on June 29, 2011 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
2.The Tale of OpenGL vs. Direct3D (programmers.stackexchange.com)
266 points by tilltheis on June 29, 2011 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
3.Why is European broadband faster and cheaper? Blame the government (engadget.com)
207 points by d0ne on June 29, 2011 [ext] | 139 comments [ext]
4. The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 169 days ago | hide | 48 comments
4.First Night With Google Plus: This is Very Cool (readwriteweb.com)
184 points by Garbage on June 29, 2011 [ext] | 79 comments [ext]
5.Guide to Programming Clojure For Beginners (blackstag.com)
183 points by swannodette on June 29, 2011 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
6.Show HN: Can anonymous chat within identified groups create better discussions? (freeversation.com)
165 points by akharris on June 29, 2011 [ext] | 104 comments [ext]
7. What Happens When You Hand GPT-5 and Claude Real Money (nof1.ai)
454 points by esn516 151 days ago | hide | 8 comments
7.Global Interpreter Lock, or how to kill it (morepypy.blogspot.com)
165 points by kingkilr on June 29, 2011 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
8.JsPlumb - pipe your UI elements together (jsplumb.org)
156 points by toni on June 29, 2011 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
9.Wizards of bullshit: How Forbes turned $6.5 million into $20 billion (37signals.com)
157 points by joshuacc on June 29, 2011 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
10. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments
10."The legal profession is undergoing a massive structural shift" (abajournal.com)
152 points by grellas on June 29, 2011 [ext] | 110 comments [ext]
11.What Google Learned from Wave and Buzz (smarterware.org)
152 points by cjoh on June 29, 2011 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
12.CA Amazon Tax Signed Into Law (latimes.com)
144 points by cmod on June 29, 2011 [ext] | 106 comments [ext]
13. The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 332 days ago | hide | 88 comments
13.Local Food or Less Meat? Data Tells The Real Story (hbr.org)
139 points by xbryanx on June 29, 2011 [ext] | 90 comments [ext]
14.Linus Torvalds on userspace filesystems (spinics.net)
135 points by sasvari on June 29, 2011 [ext] | 98 comments [ext]
15.Death By Regulation: FaceCash Is Shutting Down in California (facecash.com)
132 points by thinkcomp on June 29, 2011 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
16. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
16.Amazon will end affiliate program in California if new law passes (boingboing.net)
131 points by richcollins on June 29, 2011 [ext] | 161 comments [ext]
17.MySpace Acquired: Email From CEO Mike Jones To Employees (techcrunch.com)
130 points by hydrazine on June 29, 2011 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
18.Android-x86 Project - Run Android on Your PC (android-x86.org)
121 points by pixdamix on June 29, 2011 [ext] | 28 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
19.2000 shell companies at one address in Wyoming (yahoo.com)
113 points by hendler on June 29, 2011 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
20.Show HN: Overlap.me - a new way to meet people & share your identity online (overlap.me)
112 points by h34t on June 29, 2011 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
21.555 Timer footstool (evilmadscientist.com)
111 points by gorloth on June 29, 2011 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
22. Blind Spots in the West: Why Every Chinese VC Studies Our Podcasts (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 218 days ago | hide | 175 comments
22.Moving to New York: a Guide for Software Engineers (dblock.org)
100 points by dblock on June 29, 2011 [ext] | 78 comments [ext]
23.California Startups: Legislative Emergency [ext]
90 points by kposehn on June 29, 2011 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
24.DNA (randsinrepose.com)
85 points by filament on June 29, 2011 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
25. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 489 days ago | hide | 26 comments
25.Windows 8 for software developers: the Longhorn dream reborn? (arstechnica.com)
83 points by hugorodgerbrown on June 29, 2011 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
26.How to Acquire Users for Free (spencerfry.com)
84 points by sachitgupta on June 29, 2011 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
27.Clever Foursquare Hack Turns New York City Into a Giant Game of Risk (mashable.com)
78 points by siculars on June 29, 2011 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
28. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 84 days ago | hide | 14 comments
28.Braintree Founder On Decision To Raise Capital vs. Continuing to Bootstrap (braintreepayments.com)
73 points by daniel_levine on June 29, 2011 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
29.IE10 Platform Preview 2 Released (msdn.com)
69 points by CurtHagenlocher on June 29, 2011 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
30.Paul Buchheit at Startup School 08. This talk continues to inspire me (youtube.com)
69 points by bemmu on June 29, 2011 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
31. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 251 days ago | hide | 170 comments

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