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31.Google Code Jam 2011 Language Popularity (go-hero.net)
57 points by hanszeir on May 8, 2011 | 33 comments
32.Wearable Cat Ears Controlled By Your Brain [video] (presurfer.blogspot.com)
54 points by brudgers on May 8, 2011 | 16 comments
33.The future of old: If you’re 30 now, what can you expect at 80? (boston.com)
45 points by wallflower on May 8, 2011 | 39 comments
34.Google Tests a New Search Interface (googlesystem.blogspot.com)
38 points by Osiris on May 8, 2011 | 14 comments
35.How to Gracefully Compensate for an Incorrectly Set Clock (spideroak.com)
37 points by flashingpumpkin on May 8, 2011 | 13 comments
πŸ“š. A new chapter begins for EV batteries with the expiry of key LFP patents (shoosmiths.com)
3 min read | by shoosmiths.com | saved 110 days ago | 31% read | archive
36.Sony Encourages Linux On Their Phones (sonyericsson.com)
34 points by Garbage on May 8, 2011 | 13 comments
37.Ask HN: french start-up in a difficult situation, looking for feedback/ideas.
33 points by Personne on May 8, 2011 | 33 comments
38.Colloquial catchy statements encoding serious mathematics (mathoverflow.net)
31 points by J3L2404 on May 8, 2011 | 1 comment
39.Runit For Ruby And Everything Else (rubyists.github.com)
30 points by bougyman on May 8, 2011 | 8 comments
40.Blast from the past: Hacker Test. Score? (hungry.com)
27 points by solarmist on May 8, 2011 | 23 comments
πŸ“š. Fake Trading Is Hard Work (archive.ph)
14 min read | by Matt Levine | saved 41 days ago | archive
41.Optimizing Page Speed - Actionable Tips For SEOs and Web Developers (seomoz.org)
26 points by duck on May 8, 2011 | 5 comments
42.Google Talk and AIM to Become Interoperable (googlesystem.blogspot.com)
26 points by Osiris on May 8, 2011 | 11 comments
43.Slovak media goes behind paywall (bbc.co.uk)
24 points by Aqwis on May 8, 2011 | 13 comments
44.Couchapp 0.8 released (groups.google.com)
23 points by benoitc on May 8, 2011 | 5 comments
45.World population projections: Growing pains (economist.com)
19 points by tokenadult on May 8, 2011 | 7 comments
πŸ“š. 21 observations from people watching (skincontact.substack.com)
7 min read | by skincontact.substack.com | saved 300 days ago | 4% read | archive
46.Major Flood Coming Down the Mississippi River (xkcd.com)
18 points by jackowayed on May 8, 2011 | 1 comment
47.Ask HN: what do you do to stay productive?
18 points by bzupnick on May 8, 2011 | 12 comments
48.And then, design became a commodity (stylej.am)
16 points by stylejam on May 8, 2011 | 13 comments
49.Poll: What is the size of your laptop/netbook?
16 points by gsivil on May 8, 2011 | 32 comments
50.Poisoned Google image searches becoming a problem (net-security.org)
18 points by pwg on May 8, 2011 | 6 comments
πŸ“š. Patrick Collison (patrickcollison.com)
3 min read | by patrickcollison.com | saved 186 days ago | archive
51.Looseleaf: Lightweight blog engine for NodeJS (looseleafjs.org)
13 points by Smrchy on May 8, 2011 | 3 comments
52.An attempt from a new Googler to improve Google's reaction on user feedback (ripper234.com)
13 points by egor83 on May 8, 2011
53.Laptop size, weight, and power (marco.org)
13 points by joao on May 8, 2011 | 2 comments
54.Phono, the jQuery Webphone, is now available as a Google Chrome Extension (chrome.google.com)
13 points by cmatthieu on May 8, 2011 | 3 comments
55.Ask HN: What do you read?
13 points by ianthiel on May 8, 2011 | 19 comments
πŸ“š. Building a web search engine from scratch in two months with 3 billion neural embeddings (blog.wilsonl.in)
33 min read | by Wilson Lin | saved 207 days ago | 1% read | archive
56.Apple could adopt ARM for laptops, but why would it? (arstechnica.com)
13 points by Osiris on May 8, 2011 | 21 comments
57.'We are all disempowered slaves locked to a giant machine screen' - Adam Curtis (guardian.co.uk)
13 points by JonnieCache on May 8, 2011 | 2 comments
58.IterIO (Haskell IO library providing an alternative to lazy IO) (stanford.edu)
13 points by adulau on May 8, 2011
59.Ask HN: What would Steve Jobs have done after NeXT if Apple hadn't bought him?
11 points by erikpukinskis on May 8, 2011 | 10 comments
60.Twitter and Facebook Both Quietly Kill RSS, Completely (staynalive.com)
10 points by garethr on May 8, 2011
πŸ“š. Predicting the Big Game (archive.is)
16 min read | by Matt Levine | saved 1 day ago | archive

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