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1.
Why Some People Can Run on Little Sleep and Get So Much Done (wsj.com)
286 points by pkarbe on April 5, 2011 | 125 comments
2.
Writing Clear, Concise, Sentences (wisc.edu)
272 points by Panoramix on April 5, 2011 | 71 comments
3.
Georgify: Hacker News meets beautiful typography (chrome.google.com)
235 points by tuhin on April 5, 2011 | 94 comments
4.
Where can I get large datasets open to the public? (quora.com)
215 points by helwr on April 5, 2011 | 37 comments
5.
OpenSSL memory use in Node.js (querna.org)
196 points by jcsalterego on April 5, 2011 | 14 comments
6.
What skills do self-taught programmers commonly lack? (quora.com)
181 points by thenicepostr on April 5, 2011 | 144 comments
7.
The Prime That Wasn’t (zmievski.org)
176 points by fogus on April 5, 2011 | 32 comments
8.
Self-Taught Programmers vs CS-Educated Programmers (chezpete.posterous.com)
169 points by freshfunk on April 5, 2011 | 132 comments
9.
Tell HN: Khan Academy is hiring full-time devs
163 points by kamens on April 5, 2011 | 33 comments
10.
India Graduates Millions, But Too Few Are Fit to Hire (wsj.com)
162 points by mrzerga on April 5, 2011 | 150 comments
11.
SpaceX Falcon Heavy announced: 53 metric tons to low earth orbit (spacex.com)
155 points by veastley on April 5, 2011 | 99 comments
12.
Things You Must Do Every Week As Startup CEO (betashop.com)
157 points by betashop on April 5, 2011 | 22 comments
13.
Let us pay for this service so it won't go down (marco.org)
129 points by harscoat on April 5, 2011 | 64 comments
14.
Starting Up Silicon Valley Style (youtube.com)
128 points by StudyAnimal on April 5, 2011 | 19 comments
15.
Dapper.NET - "micro-ORM" that poweres StackOverflow goes opensource (code.google.com)
120 points by jitbit on April 5, 2011 | 25 comments
16.
Source for Predator Object Tracking (OpenCV) (github.com/abelsson)
116 points by helwr on April 5, 2011 | 31 comments
17.
Stop Panhandling your Ideas (bennesvig.com)
109 points by bennesvig on April 5, 2011 | 18 comments
18.
Learn MongoDB (mongly.com)
108 points by fogus on April 5, 2011 | 8 comments
19.
Feynman Algorithm (c2.com)
91 points by alexitosrv on April 5, 2011 | 35 comments
20.
High-Performance Web Applications in Haskell (qconlondon.com)
90 points by fogus on April 5, 2011 | 30 comments
21.
Wozniak: Tablet is the PC for 'normal people' (networkworld.com)
84 points by alphadoggs on April 5, 2011 | 75 comments
22.
From reddit to Hipmunk: if it ain't broke, don't fix it. (meetthefounders.com)
84 points by misstatiana on April 5, 2011 | 10 comments
23.
TI buys National Semiconductor for $6.5B (computerworld.com)
81 points by ubasu on April 5, 2011 | 19 comments
24.
MongoDB Interactive Geospatial Tutorial (mongly.com)
79 points by latch on April 5, 2011 | 24 comments
25.
Zed Shaw's Advanced Network Architectures With ZeroMQ at Pycon 2011 [video] (vodpod.com)
75 points by atarashi on April 5, 2011 | 13 comments
26.
Moving a Production MySQL Database to Amazon RDS with Minimal Downtime (geehwan.posterous.com)
75 points by modsearch on April 5, 2011 | 8 comments
27.
Evercookie (wikipedia.org)
75 points by chaosmachine on April 5, 2011 | 17 comments
28.
Steve Jobs Interview about the Blue Box Story (youtube.com)
67 points by wave on April 5, 2011 | 28 comments
29.
The Gandhi Nobody Knows (1983) (waybackmachine.org)
66 points by asciilifeform on April 5, 2011 | 40 comments
30.
DotCloud gets NodeJS support (dotcloud.com)
72 points by shykes on April 5, 2011 | 19 comments

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