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1.Why are the east of cities usually poorer? (thejanuarist.com)
260 points by spxdcz on May 31, 2010 [ext] | 99 comments [ext]
2.Ballmer just opened the Second Envelope (mondaynote.com)
139 points by jlhamilton on May 31, 2010 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
3.Open source Rails apps to study and learn from (chrislowis.co.uk)
127 points by chrislo on May 31, 2010 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
4. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 85 days ago | hide | 177 comments
4.Got a startup idea? Validate it with the Startup Toolkit (thestartuptoolkit.com)
112 points by JarekS on May 31, 2010 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
5.The Cleverest Ways to Use Dropbox That You’re Not Using (lifehacker.com)
109 points by thekguy on May 31, 2010 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
6.Engineer #2 at Mint.com on when to join a startup (femgineer.com)
94 points by aditya on May 31, 2010 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
7. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 368 days ago | hide | 7 comments
7.What's a disease? Or: shoud fat/shy/alcoholic people be blamed or treated? (lesswrong.com)
91 points by brazzy on May 31, 2010 [ext] | 95 comments [ext]
8.Java 7: Oracle pushes a first version of closures (baptiste-wicht.com)
85 points by budu on May 31, 2010 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
9.Marc Andreessen - Three Necessities for Start-up Success [video] (stanford.edu)
79 points by aditya on May 31, 2010 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
10. The Dota result Altman calls closest to real-world decision making (blog.samaltman.com)
487 points by htx5127 609 days ago | hide | 15 comments
10.List of Hacker Spaces Around the World (hackerspaces.org)
78 points by mahipal on May 31, 2010 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
11.The Coming War: ARM versus x86 (brightsideofnews.com)
75 points by signa11 on May 31, 2010 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
12.Parsing file uploads at 500 mb/s with node.js (debuggable.com)
74 points by felixge on May 31, 2010 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
13. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 85 days ago | hide | 122 comments
13.App Engine JavaScript SDK (appenginejs.org)
74 points by danh on May 31, 2010 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
14.How Andreessen Horowitz Evaluates CEOs (bhorowitz.com)
73 points by dwynings on May 31, 2010 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
15.Triple Your Google AdWords CTR Overnight by Doing Nothing (seobook.com)
68 points by danielhodgins on May 31, 2010 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
16. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 602 days ago | hide | 193 comments
16.Clojure Protocols & Datatypes — A sneak peek (freegeek.in)
67 points by budu on May 31, 2010 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
17.What Is Intelligence, Anyway? (talentdevelop.com)
64 points by rick_2047 on May 31, 2010 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
18.Is Twitter censoring #flotilla? (twitter.com/search)
58 points by _zzlv on May 31, 2010 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
19. 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
19.Lisp is Poetry and Most Programmers Want Prose (2006) (adventnet.com)
57 points by ananthrk on May 31, 2010 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
20.A Tale of Two Students (wsj.com)
53 points by robg on May 31, 2010 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
21.Lasersaur: The Open Source Laser Cutter (kickstarter.com)
53 points by sown on May 31, 2010 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
22. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 19 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
22.Apple Sold 2 Million iPads In 59 Days (techcrunch.com)
51 points by acangiano on May 31, 2010 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
23.Canon Hack Development Kit (wikia.com)
49 points by J3L2404 on May 31, 2010 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
24.IPad: $1 Billion Later, What Do You Think of It Now? (readwriteweb.com)
48 points by Anon84 on May 31, 2010 [ext] | 93 comments [ext]
25. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
25.Living in denial: Why sensible people reject the truth (newscientist.com)
46 points by rubinelli on May 31, 2010 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
26.Google I/O 2010 session videos will be released tomorrow (googlecode.blogspot.com)
46 points by mcantelon on May 31, 2010 [ext]
27.Diaspora website redesign, now with more info about the project (joindiaspora.com)
45 points by ique on May 31, 2010 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
28. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 211 days ago | hide | 32 comments
28.GCC starts move towards implementation in C++ (gmane.org)
42 points by Anon84 on May 31, 2010 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
29.BP Knew of Deepwater Horizon Problems 11 Months Ago (nytimes.com)
41 points by tessro on May 31, 2010 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
30.A Crack in the Stoic’s Armor (nytimes.com)
40 points by robg on May 31, 2010 [ext] | 2 comments [ext]
31. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 60 days ago | hide | 65 comments

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