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1.Facebook designers' novel approach to the usual name tag problems (fontsinuse.com)
249 points by toni on March 25, 2011 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
2.What Larry Page really needs to do to return Google to its startup roots (slacy.com)
212 points by smlacy on March 25, 2011 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
3.Burned by Twitter, Developers Launch Distributed Microblogging Service (readwriteweb.com)
207 points by rwwmike on March 25, 2011 [ext] | 90 comments [ext]
4. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 84 days ago | hide | 14 comments
4.Flux: Better Lighting for Your Mac (applegrad.com)
184 points by taylorbuley on March 25, 2011 [ext] | 98 comments [ext]
5.CAPTCHAs decrease conversion rates (90percentofeverything.com)
185 points by harrybr on March 25, 2011 [ext] | 115 comments [ext]
6.Did the Microsoft Stack Kill MySpace? (highscalability.com)
177 points by dolinsky on March 25, 2011 [ext] | 195 comments [ext]
7. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 210 days ago | hide | 32 comments
7.Microsoft Shuts off HTTPS in Hotmail for Over a Dozen Countries (eff.org)
179 points by there on March 25, 2011 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
8.How I got sued by Facebook (2010) (petewarden.typepad.com)
175 points by helwr on March 25, 2011 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
9.My Year as an Amateur Android Game Developer (kerebus.com)
171 points by wallflower on March 25, 2011 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
10. The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 332 days ago | hide | 88 comments
10.Erik Meijer’s suggestions for further reading in functional programming (kshetri.com)
169 points by fogus on March 25, 2011 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
11.Why O'Reilly Media doesn't use DRM (forbes.com)
148 points by rnicholson on March 25, 2011 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
12.Android openness withering as Google withholds Honeycomb (arstechnica.com)
145 points by gamble on March 25, 2011 [ext] | 115 comments [ext]
13. When Peak AI Capability Arrives at Impractical Prices, Deployment Lags (tobyord.com)
290 points by oox1230 1 day ago | hide | 120 comments
13.Bullet-proof Node.js coding (laurenzo.org)
141 points by ideamonk on March 25, 2011 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
14.A Behind the Scenes Look at Y Combinator's Demo Day (earbitscom.posterous.com)
127 points by earbitscom on March 25, 2011 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
15.Timeboxing: You Will Work Like Never Before (mostlymaths.net)
118 points by gnosis on March 25, 2011 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
16. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 592 days ago | hide | 193 comments
16.Popcorn.js: The HTML5 Video Framework (popcornjs.org)
111 points by creativityhurts on March 25, 2011 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
17.Show HN: Notepag.es - Markdown/LaTeX editor for quick technical documents. (notepag.es)
100 points by vmind on March 25, 2011 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
18.The Anatomy of a Y Combinator Demo Day Pitch (bryce.vc)
98 points by jkopelman on March 25, 2011 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
19. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
19.So you want to do the SICP... (uponmyshoulder.com)
100 points by pluies on March 25, 2011 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
20.CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire .NET programmers (expensify.com)
98 points by ayu on March 25, 2011 [ext] | 75 comments [ext]
21.Intellectual Ventures Paid Consultant To Get Unions To Fight Patent Reform (techdirt.com)
96 points by yanw on March 25, 2011 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
22. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 104 days ago | hide | 48 comments
22.Samsung Introduces Completely Solar-Powered, Transparent TV (ecogeek.org)
96 points by mromano on March 25, 2011 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
23.Android Honeycomb not immediately open sourced (theregister.co.uk)
90 points by rpledge on March 25, 2011 [ext] | 73 comments [ext]
24.iOS device and OS version stats from Instapaper 3.0 (marco.org)
83 points by sahillavingia on March 25, 2011 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
25. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 84 days ago | hide | 122 comments
25.An Architect Squeezes 24 Rooms Into 344 Square Feet (Video) (theatlantic.com)
81 points by BrentRitterbeck on March 25, 2011 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
26.Donald Knuth's IFAQ (stanford.edu)
80 points by mite-mitreski on March 25, 2011 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
27.Show HN: What worked for us. With actual data, screenshots, and tips. (qbix.com)
78 points by EGreg on March 25, 2011 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
28. Your Suppliers Are Your Cheapest Growth Channel — Within Limits ()
292 points by atz2712 787 days ago | hide | 13 comments
28.Poll: Would you like tags implemented on HN [ext]
73 points by RiderOfGiraffes on March 25, 2011 [ext] | 93 comments [ext]
29.Stupid Data Miner Tricks: Overfitting the S&P 500 (nerdsonwallstreet.typepad.com)
70 points by herrherr on March 25, 2011 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
30.The real story behind Arch Linux package signing (toofishes.net)
67 points by For_Iconoclasm on March 25, 2011 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
31. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 90 days ago | hide | 148 comments

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