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1.
Hacking The Status Game (amirkhella.com)
309 points by amirkhella on April 18, 2011 | 90 comments
2.
DuckDuckGo and Wolfram Alpha are now official partners (gabrielweinberg.com)
297 points by admp on April 18, 2011 | 56 comments
3.
Oracle gives up on OpenOffice after community forks the project (arstechnica.com)
287 points by creativityhurts on April 18, 2011 | 74 comments
4.
New CSS Techniques and Tools (smashingmagazine.com)
237 points by cwan on April 18, 2011 | 3 comments
5.
Dropbox Hits 25 Millions Users, 200 Million Files Per Day (techcrunch.com)
199 points by ssclafani on April 18, 2011 | 74 comments
6.
Insight From Dropbox: Failure Is Not The Worst Outcome, Mediocrity Is (onstartups.com)
187 points by yoseph on April 18, 2011 | 73 comments
7.
Spine -- A lightweight framework for building JavaScript web applications (maccman.github.com)
170 points by jashkenas on April 18, 2011 | 47 comments
8.
Git can't be made consistent (bramcohen.livejournal.com)
166 points by mark_h on April 18, 2011 | 36 comments
9.
Peter Thiel Is Wrong About Higher Education (It’s Worse Than A Bubble) (robinoula.com)
164 points by jlangenauer on April 18, 2011 | 140 comments
10.
Show HN: An isometric marble run build in CoffeeScript (marbleo.us)
141 points by robert-boehnke on April 18, 2011 | 25 comments
11.
Jon Bentley's Programming Pearls: 25 years old, still brilliant (reprog.wordpress.com)
136 points by MikeTaylor on April 18, 2011 | 26 comments
12.
A PHP clone of Panic's status board (github.com/anchepiece)
128 points by adulau on April 18, 2011 | 19 comments
13.
Future Timeline (futuretimeline.net)
117 points by drKarl on April 18, 2011 | 45 comments
14.
Web development is just broken (dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.c...)
111 points by Yoric on April 18, 2011 | 106 comments
15.
Web scale: Facebook's architecture (quora.com)
107 points by jpren on April 18, 2011 | 10 comments
16.
Comparing images in pure Ruby (and how Github's image diff works) (jeffkreeftmeijer.com)
105 points by jkreeftmeijer on April 18, 2011 | 3 comments
17.
Lispy - Code-as-data in Ruby, without the metaprogramming madness. (github.com/ryan-allen)
90 points by chrislloyd on April 18, 2011 | 38 comments
18.
Righthaven reeling: secret doc could doom a copyright troll (arstechnica.com)
89 points by evo_9 on April 18, 2011 | 13 comments
19.
Bridge.me meetings that call you (bridg.me)
86 points by dusing on April 18, 2011 | 40 comments
20.
The Downside of "Demo Day" (jordancooper.wordpress.com)
85 points by jordancooper on April 18, 2011 | 21 comments
21.
Why HTTP Streaming? (rubyonrails.org)
84 points by ab9 on April 18, 2011 | 33 comments
22.
The Haskell Heap (ezyang.com)
83 points by johngunderman on April 18, 2011 | 9 comments
23.
The Unbearable Triviality Of Social Networking (blogs.forbes.com)
82 points by itg on April 18, 2011 | 35 comments
24.
Moving bikes stay upright but not for the reasons we thought (arstechnica.com)
79 points by DanielRibeiro on April 18, 2011 | 22 comments
25.
Power On/Off: Symbology Explained (unplggd.com)
75 points by wallflower on April 18, 2011 | 12 comments
26.
Twitter in Talks to Buy TweetDeck (wsj.com)
74 points by GlitchyRobot on April 18, 2011 | 34 comments
27.
Pure python bitcoin miner to understand how it works (github.com/jgarzik)
70 points by clay on April 18, 2011 | 22 comments
28.
Thoughts on Software Quality (facebook.com)
69 points by daveman692 on April 18, 2011 | 20 comments
29.
Raskin about how plane wings lift (karmak.org)
63 points by acqq on April 18, 2011 | 36 comments
30.
Why OS X just doesn't cut it (cloudhead.io)
62 points by cloudhead on April 18, 2011 | 84 comments

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