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1.Y Combinator Numbers (ycombinator.com)
506 points by pg on June 1, 2011 [ext] | 115 comments [ext]
2.Previewing Windows 8 (Video) (microsoft.com)
364 points by desigooner on June 1, 2011 [ext] | 202 comments [ext]
3.Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (June 2011) [ext]
326 points by whoishiring on June 1, 2011 [ext] | 327 comments [ext]
4. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
4.GitHub: Block the Bullies (github.com/blog)
255 points by remi on June 1, 2011 [ext] | 141 comments [ext]
5.Google open sourcing voice and video engine for the web (sites.google.com)
228 points by gaika on June 1, 2011 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
6.Open source remakes of games you're still loving (osgameclones.com)
208 points by murkt on June 1, 2011 [ext] | 82 comments [ext]
7. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 114 days ago | hide | 68 comments
7.Battleships: a ridiculous but awesome idea (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
205 points by fogus on June 1, 2011 [ext] | 157 comments [ext]
8.Blunt and necessary review of programming language books. (drdobbs.com)
200 points by thewonggei on June 1, 2011 [ext] | 109 comments [ext]
9.Google uncovers major account-hijacking campaign targeting senior US officials (googleblog.blogspot.com)
183 points by raldi on June 1, 2011 [ext] | 85 comments [ext]
10. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 85 days ago | hide | 177 comments
10.We want software patents abolished (askforit.com)
165 points by ajennings on June 1, 2011 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
11.Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation (zdnet.co.uk)
162 points by rb01usa on June 1, 2011 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
12."I trust Redis-on-disk every day less." --Salvatore (groups.google.com)
137 points by techscruggs on June 1, 2011 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
13. Structure Over Style: How Knowledge and Practice Beat Natural Speaking Talent (m.youtube.com)
81 points by pom4591 230 days ago | hide | 180 comments
13.Stopping Screenlock Smudge Attacks On Android (whispersys.com)
127 points by moxie on June 1, 2011 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
14.How much GNU is there in GNU/Linux? (pedrocr.net)
125 points by pedrocr on June 1, 2011 [ext] | 126 comments [ext]
15.5 ways to reboot a PC. None of them reliable. (mjg59.livejournal.com)
124 points by beza1e1 on June 1, 2011 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
16. 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
16.Google +1 button for websites (googleblog.blogspot.com)
123 points by abraham on June 1, 2011 [ext] | 95 comments [ext]
17.A way to take out spammers? 3 banks process 95% of spam transactions (arstechnica.com)
121 points by stonemetal on June 1, 2011 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
18.Bitcoin is not decentralized (ezyang.com)
119 points by ezyang on June 1, 2011 [ext] | 77 comments [ext]
19. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 71 days ago | hide | 174 comments
19.Intrade CEO dies climbing Mt. Everest (intrade.com)
111 points by lbrdn on June 1, 2011 [ext] | 110 comments [ext]
20.Google Apps dropping support for older browsers (feedproxy.google.com)
104 points by spaetzel on June 1, 2011 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
21.Autodidactism for the chronically lazy and hyperactive (somebeautifulplace.tumblr.com)
101 points by lhnz on June 1, 2011 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
22. Bots as Antitrust: Letting Code Negotiate on Your Behalf (continuations.com)
215 points by doz2675 594 days ago | hide | 76 comments
22.Heisting the App Store: 500,000 Paid Downloads in 1 Week (taptaptap.com)
99 points by Encosia on June 1, 2011 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
23.Making Sense of Our First Look at Windows 8 (allthingsd.com)
98 points by Flemlord on June 1, 2011 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
24.Comcast Decided To Shut Down SearchYC (searchyc.com)
94 points by stevenj on June 1, 2011 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
25. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
25.Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (June 2011) [ext]
90 points by whoishiring on June 1, 2011 [ext] | 69 comments [ext]
26.Show HN: Ducksboard, from nothing to private beta in four months (ducksboard.com)
92 points by wulczer on June 1, 2011 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
27.Museum of me - A museum made from your own facebook data
88 points by ThomPete on June 1, 2011 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
28. Why Most Marketplace Network Effects Are Surprisingly Easy to Replicate ()
257 points by pen4647 497 days ago | hide | 50 comments
28.The Harder I Work, The Luckier I Get (bothsidesofthetable.com)
86 points by happyfeet on June 1, 2011 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
29.HaNS is a pure Haskell network stack: 802.3, IPv4, ..., UDP, and TCP. (haskell.org)
82 points by thesz on June 1, 2011 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
30.EFF Files Petition Opposing Proposed AT&T/T-Mobile Merger (eff.org)
68 points by there on June 1, 2011 [ext] | 3 comments [ext]
31. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 263 days ago | hide | 183 comments

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