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1.Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups and Log-Ins (smashingmagazine.com)
416 points by cwan on May 5, 2011 [ext] | 175 comments [ext]
2.DHS asks Mozilla to take down MafiaaFire add-on (lockshot.wordpress.com)
368 points by akavlie on May 5, 2011 [ext] | 75 comments [ext]
3.Mysterious US Helicopter Used in Bin Laden Raid (wired.com)
282 points by Element_ on May 5, 2011 [ext] | 128 comments [ext]
4. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
4.Hacking Hacker News Headlines (metamarketsgroup.com)
275 points by th0ma5 on May 5, 2011 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
5.A $4.8M model airport with computer controlled vehicles (news.com.au)
214 points by mmcconnell1618 on May 5, 2011 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
6.The story of George — ayttm's most prolific non-developing contributor (bluesmoon.info)
212 points by bluesmoon on May 5, 2011 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
7. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 105 days ago | hide | 48 comments
7.British hackers: stop voting for lizards; start voting for people today (reprog.wordpress.com)
199 points by MikeTaylor on May 5, 2011 [ext] | 101 comments [ext]
8.Sony was running unpatched Apache with no firewall for months before breach (consumerist.com)
188 points by joshes on May 5, 2011 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
9.Silicon Milkroundabout: Forget the banks, come and join a London startup (siliconmilkroundabout.com)
169 points by lucraft on May 5, 2011 [ext] | 147 comments [ext]
10. Why you care for your dog better than yourself — and the fix (web.archive.org)
420 points by guz3550 602 days ago | hide | 25 comments
10.Front End Development Guidelines (taitems.tumblr.com)
154 points by taitems on May 5, 2011 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
11.Oracle Ordered to Reduce Claims Against Google From 132 to 3 (groklaw.net)
142 points by gluegadget on May 5, 2011 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
12.52 Years and $750 Million Prove Einstein Was Right (nytimes.com)
134 points by jonburs on May 5, 2011 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
13. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
13.Leveling Up: Career Advancement for Software Developers (peterlyons.com)
129 points by focusaurus on May 5, 2011 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
14.New stable release of Go (golang.org)
129 points by uriel on May 5, 2011 [ext] | 80 comments [ext]
15.How to Beat High Airfares (nytimes.com)
129 points by aaronbrethorst on May 5, 2011 [ext] | 133 comments [ext]
16. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
16.8GB MicroSD Atari 810 disk drive, built to scale (rossum.posterous.com)
127 points by a1k0n on May 5, 2011 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
17.What are some startup ideas that persistently fail? (quora.com)
121 points by helwr on May 5, 2011 [ext] | 91 comments [ext]
18.Why linux doesn't have a "wheel" group (administratosphere.wordpress.com)
118 points by j_baker on May 5, 2011 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
19. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments
19.LastPass requesting password reset after facing unknown anomaly (lastpass.com)
111 points by sathyabhat on May 5, 2011 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
20.FBI chastened by court for lying about existence of surveillance records (eff.org)
109 points by grellas on May 5, 2011 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
21.Thrift vs. Protocol Buffers (floatingsun.net)
108 points by peterb on May 5, 2011 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
22. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 91 days ago | hide | 148 comments
22.Amazon's Jeff Bezos Backs Nuclear Startup General Fusion (gigaom.com)
103 points by hornokplease on May 5, 2011 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
23.The Myth of the Rule of Law (msb.edu)
100 points by ataggart on May 5, 2011 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
24.Steve Wozniak Calls Paul Allen A Patent Troll (itproportal.com)
90 points by chanks on May 5, 2011 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
25. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 602 days ago | hide | 193 comments
25.The Wall Street Journal Launches a WikiLeaks Competitor, SafeHouse (theatlantic.com)
89 points by ssclafani on May 5, 2011 [ext] | 78 comments [ext]
26.Go at Heroku - build your own Chubby (theregister.co.uk)
96 points by timclark on May 5, 2011 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
27.Facebook considering $3-4Bn buyout of Skype (mashable.com)
84 points by pitdesi on May 5, 2011 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
28. How a PVC rig in a Dallas garage became a $500M chemicals company (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 600 days ago | hide | 170 comments
28.How decompilers work (archfinch.com)
82 points by drx on May 5, 2011 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
29.Mark Suster on Seattle and how a few key people can transform a community (techcrunch.com)
78 points by daryn on May 5, 2011 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
30.Rails 3.1 beta 1 released (rubyonrails.org)
77 points by chanks on May 5, 2011 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
31. Structure Over Style: How Knowledge and Practice Beat Natural Speaking Talent (m.youtube.com)
81 points by pom4591 230 days ago | hide | 180 comments

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