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1.
JQuery 1.6 released (jquery.com)
320 points by potomak on May 3, 2011 | 41 comments
2.
How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub (preston-werner.com)
295 points by jseliger on May 3, 2011 | 53 comments
3.
Slicehost accounts will be converted to Rackspace cloud accounts (rackspace.com)
198 points by jsprinkles on May 3, 2011 | 151 comments
4.
Stack Overflow Makes Slow Pages 100x Faster By Simple SQL Tuning (highscalability.com)
175 points by jpmc on May 3, 2011 | 124 comments
5.
Anatomy of a Fake Quotation (theatlantic.com)
174 points by bjonathan on May 3, 2011 | 25 comments
6.
Tor project decides to fork Firefox (torproject.org)
171 points by aj700 on May 3, 2011 | 18 comments
7.
Why I still don’t contribute to open source (brandonhays.com)
170 points by phiggy on May 3, 2011 | 97 comments
8.
Woman removes SIM card from smart energy meter, uses $193k of 3G data (themercury.com.au)
166 points by mambodog on May 3, 2011 | 201 comments
9.
I take illegal drugs for inspiration (susanblackmore.co.uk)
160 points by ulvund on May 3, 2011 | 102 comments
10.
Linode launches native IPv6 support (linode.com)
148 points by tasaro on May 3, 2011 | 49 comments
11.
Jason Fried: How to Hire an Assistant (inc.com)
110 points by gatsby on May 3, 2011 | 39 comments
12.
The German School of Lisp ("Fluchtpunkt Lisps") (fogus.me)
106 points by cemerick on May 3, 2011 | 32 comments
13.
Eureqa - detecting equations and hidden mathematical relationships in data (cornell.edu)
103 points by phreeza on May 3, 2011 | 20 comments
14.
The 10 commandments of good source control management (troyhunt.com)
102 points by hanszeir on May 3, 2011 | 52 comments
15.
Google plays ball with carriers to kill tethering apps (thisismynext.com)
98 points by msravi on May 3, 2011 | 69 comments
16.
Building Your Own Dropbox Equivalent (cloudfs.org)
99 points by jnoller on May 3, 2011 | 23 comments
17.
Colourlovers Raises $1 Million To Make Everyone An Artist (techcrunch.com)
98 points by citizenkeys on May 3, 2011 | 29 comments
18.
Getting Started with Android Development (jeanhsu.com)
96 points by razin on May 3, 2011 | 8 comments
19.
8 bit crop circle hack (dailygrail.com)
93 points by jgamman on May 3, 2011 | 11 comments
20.
"Take a Photo; It’ll Last Longer" (koralatov.com)
89 points by superchink on May 3, 2011 | 50 comments
21.
Hacker Pwns Police Cruiser and Lives to Tell the Tale (theregister.co.uk)
84 points by TheloniusPhunk on May 3, 2011 | 36 comments
22.
Bill Gates On Nuclear Energy: Compared To Coal, It Is Still Safer (techcrunch.com)
84 points by k33l0r on May 3, 2011 | 109 comments
23.
High-Speed Video Shows How Hummingbirds Really Drink (wired.com)
82 points by mukyu on May 3, 2011 | 12 comments
24.
Wall Street's Cult Calculator Turns 30 (wsj.com)
77 points by hornokplease on May 3, 2011 | 28 comments
25.
Attachmate lays off Mono employees (internetnews.com)
71 points by thesethings on May 3, 2011 | 32 comments
26.
Simon Schubert creates complex scenes in paper using creases (simonschubert.de)
66 points by cgs1019 on May 3, 2011 | 8 comments
27.
Hire Good Designers (bleikamp.com)
63 points by bkbleikamp on May 3, 2011 | 20 comments
28.
Tips from a Production MongoDB Deployment (attachmentsme.tumblr.com)
60 points by BenjaminCoe on May 3, 2011 | 6 comments
29.
Arguing for Immortality (vincentwoo.com)
59 points by akanet on May 3, 2011 | 89 comments
30.
Clojure Atlas, a visualization of the Clojure language & standard library (clojureatlas.com)
60 points by cemerick on May 3, 2011 | 12 comments

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