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1.
Redditor Explains Why Apple Continue Making Frail Power Cables (reddit.com)
350 points by kmfrk on June 10, 2011 | 161 comments
2.
Why we are unlikely to ever leave the solar system. (antipope.org)
302 points by shalmanese on June 10, 2011 | 179 comments
3.
How to replace 30 laptops (and $10,000) with 150 sheets of paper (ruk.ca)
249 points by alxp on June 10, 2011 | 94 comments
4.
For Google, iCloud Is Annoying; For Microsoft, It's A Humiliation (sfgate.com)
215 points by sandipc on June 10, 2011 | 172 comments
5.
Coding tricks I learnt at Apple (joemoreno.com)
192 points by whiskers on June 10, 2011 | 95 comments
6.
Facebook Acquires Sofa (madebysofa.com)
179 points by muratmutlu on June 10, 2011 | 82 comments
7.
The man who screwed an entire country (economist.com)
158 points by pier0 on June 10, 2011 | 97 comments
8.
The checkered past of Groupon's chairman (cnn.com)
155 points by bjonathan on June 10, 2011 | 68 comments
9.
Protolol Jokes (protolol.com)
151 points by angadsg on June 10, 2011 | 39 comments
10.
Reflections on Trusting Trust (Ken Thompson's Turing Award speech) (bell-labs.com)
147 points by dlo on June 10, 2011 | 34 comments
11.
How I Learned to Live Google-free (ieee.org)
129 points by ssn on June 10, 2011 | 76 comments
12.
Taking Cold Showers (jasonshen.com)
125 points by jasonshen on June 10, 2011 | 119 comments
13.
Chartio develops non-blocking MySQL queries using Tornado (chart.io)
118 points by jdavis on June 10, 2011 | 33 comments
14.
How I doubled the price of my software product and sold ten times as many copies (startupproject.org)
113 points by kanebennett on June 10, 2011 | 57 comments
15.
Apple files motion to intervene in Lodsys case (moconews.net)
113 points by martingordon on June 10, 2011 | 13 comments
16.
Buy Newegg gear using Bitcoin (bitspend.com)
106 points by randall on June 10, 2011 | 70 comments
17.
Free 60-minute 'How to Build a Startup' video series (thinkvitamin.com)
97 points by ryancarson on June 10, 2011 | 27 comments
18.
Australian built Hoverbike prepares for takeoff (gizmag.com)
94 points by yock on June 10, 2011 | 43 comments
19.
PHP Hacking aka trying to push PHP internals forwards (xarg.org)
92 points by grumpycanuck on June 10, 2011 | 61 comments
20.
Introducing Stud (open source secure gateway) (bu.mp)
92 points by jmintz on June 10, 2011 | 16 comments
21.
LulzSec hacks NHS. (bbc.co.uk)
91 points by martswite on June 10, 2011 | 42 comments
22.
Quantum computing for the determined (michaelnielsen.org)
85 points by mblakele on June 10, 2011 | 2 comments
23.
Google’s Les Paul Doodle consumes record 5.3M hours, RescueTime estimates (geekwire.com)
82 points by webwright on June 10, 2011 | 29 comments
24.
Rapportive just turned Gmail into a really useful Twitter client (thenextweb.com)
79 points by rahulvohra on June 10, 2011 | 18 comments
25.
Joy of using linux (minhajuddin.com)
73 points by minhajuddin on June 10, 2011 | 62 comments
26.
Google ChromeBook Review: ChromeBomb? (stefanweitz.wordpress.com)
72 points by Stefandweitz on June 10, 2011 | 51 comments
27.
The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why? (nybooks.com)
69 points by d0mine on June 10, 2011 | 40 comments
28.
Twilio SMS price halved to a penny per message (twilio.com)
68 points by jonknee on June 10, 2011 | 31 comments
29.
V8 is faster than GCC (wingolog.org)
68 points by wingo on June 10, 2011 | 24 comments
30.
Announcing BlogFire - new from Notifo (YC W10) (jazzychad.net)
64 points by jazzychad on June 10, 2011 | 25 comments

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