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1.Dragon has successfully achieved splashdown (bbc.co.uk)
405 points by jgrahamc on May 31, 2012 [ext] | 110 comments [ext]
2.The girl with the ANSI tattoo (oracle-wtf.blogspot.co.uk)
367 points by ocirion on May 31, 2012 [ext] | 150 comments [ext]
3.Chromebox (google.com)
367 points by zoowar on May 31, 2012 [ext] | 297 comments [ext]
4. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 84 days ago | hide | 122 comments
4.My GF learned to code in 3 months. This is what she came up with. (nukaco.la)
309 points by mntmn on May 31, 2012 [ext] | 108 comments [ext]
5.Humble Indie Bundle 5: pay what you want for video games (humblebundle.com)
293 points by jeff18 on May 31, 2012 [ext] | 106 comments [ext]
6.Latency numbers every programmer should know (gist.github.com)
265 points by friggeri on May 31, 2012 [ext] | 134 comments [ext]
7. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
7.Google Blockly - a visual programming language (code.google.com)
258 points by antichaos on May 31, 2012 [ext] | 123 comments [ext]
8.Why I Left Google (spencertipping.com)
224 points by InfinityX0 on May 31, 2012 [ext] | 212 comments [ext]
9.Let's Not Call It "Computer Science" If We Really Mean "Computer Programming" (codemanship.co.uk)
205 points by vetler on May 31, 2012 [ext] | 196 comments [ext]
10. The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 169 days ago | hide | 48 comments
10.Megaupload Demands Return of Millions of Dollars From U.S. Govt. (torrentfreak.com)
191 points by Garbage on May 31, 2012 [ext] | 90 comments [ext]
11.You Should Probably Send More Email Than You Do (kalzumeus.com)
191 points by spatulon on May 31, 2012 [ext] | 78 comments [ext]
12.Meteor (YC S11) gets $9M in funding (gigaom.com)
156 points by dko on May 31, 2012 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
13. The Three Ingredients Behind Jitse Groen's Takeaway.com Conquest Of Europe (linkedin.com)
154 points by krz3514 373 days ago | hide | 13 comments
13.Neil Gaiman Commencement Speech: Make Great Things. Learn From Failure. (uarts.edu)
139 points by rblion on May 31, 2012 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
14.Google will start warning Chinese users about problematic search terms (insidesearch.blogspot.com)
132 points by raldi on May 31, 2012 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
15.LibreOffice 3.5.4 released with up to 100% performance improvements (documentfoundation.org)
130 points by Garbage on May 31, 2012 [ext] | 74 comments [ext]
16. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
16.Light Table: 24 Hours to Get Another $7000 in the Kickstarter for Python Support (kickstarter.com)
122 points by gburt on May 31, 2012 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
17.Lucid dreaming: Rise of a nocturnal hobby (bbc.co.uk)
112 points by gps408 on May 31, 2012 [ext] | 95 comments [ext]
18.The politics of Wi-Fi names (opensignalmaps.com)
113 points by JamesCRR on May 31, 2012 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
19. The two-phrase playbook behind China's industrial dominance (high-capacity.com)
177 points by fix6357 475 days ago | hide | 135 comments
19.Workplace experiments: A month to yourself (37signals.com)
108 points by ksat on May 31, 2012 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
20.25 years of HyperCard—the missing link to the Web (arstechnica.com)
106 points by evo_9 on May 31, 2012 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
21.Show HN: My first personal app - HackerNews for iPhone/iPad (hackerno.de)
107 points by nodemaker on May 31, 2012 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
22. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 478 days ago | hide | 22 comments
22.SpaceX Dragon Ship Falls Back to Earth (bbc.co.uk)
102 points by sparknlaunch on May 31, 2012 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
23.Those Who Have a Job, Want to Quit. Those Who Want a Job, Can’t Find One. (pointsandfigures.com)
101 points by robbiea on May 31, 2012 [ext] | 85 comments [ext]
24.Collusion - iPad pen productivity solved (kickstarter.com)
98 points by orionvmjoseph on May 31, 2012 [ext] | 69 comments [ext]
25. Inside Shopify's Multi-Year Playbook Behind Tobi Lütke's Viral AI Memo (firstround.com)
253 points by paz1543 251 days ago | hide | 127 comments
25.Apple's iOS is "deceptively fast" (reddit.com)
96 points by xkcdfanboy on May 31, 2012 [ext] | 79 comments [ext]
26.Why Linux Doesn’t Need Defragmenting (howtogeek.com)
96 points by plessthanpt05 on May 31, 2012 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
27.The Paxos algorithm for consensus in a distributed system (yale.edu)
95 points by ColinWright on May 31, 2012 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
28. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 11 hours ago | hide | 47 comments
28. Google wins crucial API ruling, Oracle's case decimated (arstechnica.com)
91 points by alsothings on May 31, 2012 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
29.Windows 8 Release Preview ready for download (windows.microsoft.com)
88 points by tnash on May 31, 2012 [ext] | 89 comments [ext]
30.Dear Startups, Lobster is the new Comic Sans (5in5nyc.com)
87 points by ericskiff on May 31, 2012 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
31. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 199 days ago | hide | 18 comments

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