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1.		Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part II (tbbuck.com)
		340 points by mootothemax on April 27, 2011 \| 46 comments
2.		Why I, Jeff Bezos, Keep Spending Billions On Amazon R&D (sfgate.com)
		326 points by rrrgggrrr on April 27, 2011 \| 124 comments
3.		Your taste is why your work disappoints you. (kottke.org)
		322 points by entangld on April 27, 2011 \| 57 comments
4.		How to parse a sentence and decide if to answer "that's what she said"? (quora.com)
		256 points by fogus on April 27, 2011 \| 44 comments
5.		YouTube Founders Acquire Delicious (delicious.com)
		219 points by Isofarro on April 27, 2011 \| 17 comments
6.		Apple Q&A on gathering and use of location data (Apple Press Release) (apple.com)
		218 points by andysinclair on April 27, 2011 \| 148 comments
7.		Heroku's AWS outage post-mortem (heroku.com)
		202 points by mileszs on April 27, 2011 \| 80 comments
8.		Google’s secret perk? A private hackerspace (hackaday.com)
		199 points by yan on April 27, 2011 \| 53 comments
9.		Non-Libyan URL Shortener (gadaf.fi)
		180 points by pitdesi on April 27, 2011 \| 76 comments
10.		Netflix Is Killing BitTorrent in The US (torrentfreak.com)
		177 points by AndrewWarner on April 27, 2011 \| 98 comments
11.		IRC chat log of PSN hackers (pastebin.com)
		163 points by ssclafani on April 27, 2011 \| 39 comments
12.		IOS games using JavaScriptCore without WebKit (phoboslab.org)
		141 points by joehewitt on April 27, 2011 \| 28 comments
13.		Google docs for android (android.com)
		140 points by albemuth on April 27, 2011 \| 23 comments
14.		Tumblr "Disappears" Microsoft's Danah Boyd (zephoria.org)
		133 points by petercooper on April 27, 2011 \| 93 comments
15.		Questions you should ask your interviewer (talentzoo.com)
		124 points by franze on April 27, 2011 \| 52 comments
16.		PSN Users Reporting Hundreds of Dollars Stolen From Them (vgn365.com)
		112 points by cooldeal on April 27, 2011 \| 48 comments
17.		Anime Site Treats Piracy as Market Failure (arstechnica.com)
		106 points by jcr on April 27, 2011 \| 39 comments
18.		Tina Fey chats with Eric Schmidt (itworld.com)
		104 points by abennett on April 27, 2011 \| 18 comments
19.		How long does it take to install and try Quicklisp? (a gif screencast) (quicklisp.org)
		93 points by vrsmn on April 27, 2011 \| 16 comments
20.		Lucene's FuzzyQuery is 100 times faster in 4.0 (mikemccandless.com)
		92 points by amnigos on April 27, 2011 \| 45 comments
21.		Show HN: Instafilm -- it's like Instapaper for videos (instafilm.com)
		87 points by mahipal on April 27, 2011 \| 51 comments
22.		It's the Latency, Stupid (stanford.edu)
		87 points by olalonde on April 27, 2011 \| 27 comments
23.		Weapons of Mass Assignment: Patio11 on Diaspora (acm.org)
		84 points by michael_dorfman on April 27, 2011 \| 28 comments
24.		Amazon has gone from 26,100 to 37,900 employees in just one year (mashable.com)
		85 points by ck2 on April 27, 2011 \| 22 comments
25.		Redis and Scripting (antirez.com)
		81 points by antirez on April 27, 2011 \| 32 comments
26.		Barnes & Noble Charges Microsoft with Misusing Patents (groklaw.net)
		83 points by wglb on April 27, 2011 \| 30 comments
27.		Video of Google All-Hands Meeting Circa 1999 (techcrunch.com)
		80 points by dshankar on April 27, 2011 \| 5 comments
28.		Visa Makes A Strategic Investment In Disruptive Mobile Payments Startup Square (techcrunch.com)
		77 points by Straubiz on April 27, 2011 \| 31 comments
29.		The CEO’s CEO (bhorowitz.com)
		76 points by jayliew on April 27, 2011 \| 2 comments
30.		The Algebra of Data and the Calculus of Mutation (lab49.com)
		72 points by thekguy on April 27, 2011 \| 10 comments
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