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1.		Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups and Log-Ins (smashingmagazine.com)
		416 points by cwan on May 5, 2011 \| 175 comments
2.		DHS asks Mozilla to take down MafiaaFire add-on (lockshot.wordpress.com)
		368 points by akavlie on May 5, 2011 \| 75 comments
3.		Mysterious US Helicopter Used in Bin Laden Raid (wired.com)
		282 points by Element_ on May 5, 2011 \| 128 comments
4.		Hacking Hacker News Headlines (metamarketsgroup.com)
		275 points by th0ma5 on May 5, 2011 \| 34 comments
5.		A $4.8M model airport with computer controlled vehicles (news.com.au)
		214 points by mmcconnell1618 on May 5, 2011 \| 46 comments
6.		The story of George — ayttm's most prolific non-developing contributor (bluesmoon.info)
		212 points by bluesmoon on May 5, 2011 \| 8 comments
7.		British hackers: stop voting for lizards; start voting for people today (reprog.wordpress.com)
		199 points by MikeTaylor on May 5, 2011 \| 101 comments
8.		Sony was running unpatched Apache with no firewall for months before breach (consumerist.com)
		188 points by joshes on May 5, 2011 \| 65 comments
9.		Silicon Milkroundabout: Forget the banks, come and join a London startup (siliconmilkroundabout.com)
		169 points by lucraft on May 5, 2011 \| 147 comments
10.		Front End Development Guidelines (taitems.tumblr.com)
		154 points by taitems on May 5, 2011 \| 49 comments
11.		Oracle Ordered to Reduce Claims Against Google From 132 to 3 (groklaw.net)
		142 points by gluegadget on May 5, 2011 \| 38 comments
12.		52 Years and $750 Million Prove Einstein Was Right (nytimes.com)
		134 points by jonburs on May 5, 2011 \| 31 comments
13.		Leveling Up: Career Advancement for Software Developers (peterlyons.com)
		129 points by focusaurus on May 5, 2011 \| 39 comments
14.		New stable release of Go (golang.org)
		129 points by uriel on May 5, 2011 \| 80 comments
15.		How to Beat High Airfares (nytimes.com)
		129 points by aaronbrethorst on May 5, 2011 \| 133 comments
16.		8GB MicroSD Atari 810 disk drive, built to scale (rossum.posterous.com)
		127 points by a1k0n on May 5, 2011 \| 9 comments
17.		What are some startup ideas that persistently fail? (quora.com)
		121 points by helwr on May 5, 2011 \| 91 comments
18.		Why linux doesn't have a "wheel" group (administratosphere.wordpress.com)
		118 points by j_baker on May 5, 2011 \| 62 comments
19.		LastPass requesting password reset after facing unknown anomaly (lastpass.com)
		111 points by sathyabhat on May 5, 2011 \| 63 comments
20.		FBI chastened by court for lying about existence of surveillance records (eff.org)
		109 points by grellas on May 5, 2011 \| 13 comments
21.		Thrift vs. Protocol Buffers (floatingsun.net)
		108 points by peterb on May 5, 2011 \| 24 comments
22.		Amazon's Jeff Bezos Backs Nuclear Startup General Fusion (gigaom.com)
		103 points by hornokplease on May 5, 2011 \| 47 comments
23.		The Myth of the Rule of Law (msb.edu)
		100 points by ataggart on May 5, 2011 \| 35 comments
24.		Steve Wozniak Calls Paul Allen A Patent Troll (itproportal.com)
		90 points by chanks on May 5, 2011 \| 18 comments
25.		The Wall Street Journal Launches a WikiLeaks Competitor, SafeHouse (theatlantic.com)
		89 points by ssclafani on May 5, 2011 \| 78 comments
26.		Go at Heroku - build your own Chubby (theregister.co.uk)
		96 points by timclark on May 5, 2011 \| 21 comments
27.		Facebook considering $3-4Bn buyout of Skype (mashable.com)
		84 points by pitdesi on May 5, 2011 \| 62 comments
28.		How decompilers work (archfinch.com)
		82 points by drx on May 5, 2011 \| 59 comments
29.		Mark Suster on Seattle and how a few key people can transform a community (techcrunch.com)
		78 points by daryn on May 5, 2011 \| 35 comments
30.		Rails 3.1 beta 1 released (rubyonrails.org)
		77 points by chanks on May 5, 2011 \| 15 comments
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