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1.
Why the US can beat China: The Facts about SpaceX Costs (spacex.com)
259 points by cwan on May 7, 2011 | 100 comments
2.
Einstein for Everyone (pitt.edu)
216 points by urbannomad on May 7, 2011 | 18 comments
3.
Bitcoin app rejected by Apple (bitcoin.org)
206 points by hfinney on May 7, 2011 | 94 comments
4.
“Inside Apple” Reveals Steve Jobs Anecdotes, Apple’s Little Known Facts (macstories.net)
172 points by stevenj on May 7, 2011 | 43 comments
5.
Understanding the code inside Tornado, the asynchronous web server (golubenco.org)
151 points by dhotson on May 7, 2011 | 42 comments
6.
The Class that built Apps, and Fortunes (nytimes.com)
126 points by dr_ on May 7, 2011 | 10 comments
7.
Speaking of the British (moreover.com)
123 points by surfingdino on May 7, 2011 | 80 comments
8.
Why the new guy can't code (techcrunch.com)
117 points by vineet on May 7, 2011 | 42 comments
9.
Fossil Versus Git (fossil-scm.org)
104 points by dfox on May 7, 2011 | 85 comments
10.
My Knuth reward check (arcfn.com)
99 points by chrismealy on May 7, 2011 | 23 comments
11.
FSF announces publication of two new books by Richard Stallman (fsf.org)
88 points by Tsiolkovsky on May 7, 2011 | 34 comments
12.
AMD commits to coreboot (amd.com)
78 points by biehl on May 7, 2011 | 13 comments
13.
What's the best launch strategy for a web startup? (quora.com)
60 points by ssclafani on May 7, 2011 | 6 comments
14.
Java.next() - The Groovy Programming Language (batsov.com)
60 points by bozhidar on May 7, 2011 | 32 comments
15.
Reversible Migrations in Rails 3.1 (edgerails.info)
53 points by rohitarondekar on May 7, 2011 | 34 comments
16.
Why Skype is Evil (2007) (ultraparanoid.wordpress.com)
50 points by rl1987 on May 7, 2011 | 26 comments
17.
The most surprising demographic crisis (economist.com)
49 points by spottiness on May 7, 2011 | 39 comments
18.
The Fc.exe command does not work when files differ every 128th byte (support.microsoft.com)
49 points by tshtf on May 7, 2011 | 34 comments
19.
'Taxi wars' in France as new businesses try to compete [video] (bbc.co.uk)
47 points by petercooper on May 7, 2011 | 32 comments
20.
Ask HN: Books for soon to be Software Engineers
46 points by cdmcnamara on May 7, 2011 | 17 comments
21.
What makes a SEAL (vanityfair.com)
44 points by digamber_kamat on May 7, 2011
22.
Games Now Eligible for NEA Funding (escapistmagazine.com)
42 points by DanielRibeiro on May 7, 2011 | 9 comments
23.
16-year-old earns WSU degree without stepping on campus (nwsource.com)
35 points by ssclafani on May 7, 2011 | 35 comments
24.
Ask HN: It's 2011. Why is web encryption still coupled with verification?
34 points by noduerme on May 7, 2011 | 20 comments
25.
Portugal gets own Silicon Valley (euobserver.com)
33 points by base on May 7, 2011 | 22 comments
26.
American society is more unequal than those in most other OECD countries (economist.com)
31 points by known on May 7, 2011 | 82 comments
27.
What you should know about iTunes' 56-page legal terms (cnn.com)
30 points by jkaljundi on May 7, 2011 | 25 comments
28.
'We only hire the best' - I don't believe you (fragile.org.uk)
31 points by neiljohnson on May 7, 2011 | 27 comments
29.
Password Utilities as a Single Point of Failure (hashedapp.com)
28 points by nnutter on May 7, 2011 | 15 comments
30.
Neural Networks Simulate Schizophrenia with Hyperlearning Theory (livescience.com)
27 points by jgv on May 7, 2011 | 12 comments

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