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1.
Doom engine code review (fabiensanglard.net)
265 points by franze on April 22, 2011 | 28 comments
2.
Questions you’ll (probably) get asked at your YC interview (hyperinkpress.com)
196 points by kevingao1 on April 22, 2011 | 39 comments
3.
Why Twilio Wasn’t Affected by Today’s AWS Issues (twilio.com)
183 points by johndbritton on April 22, 2011 | 36 comments
4.
Super Mario 64 was built with a system written in Lisp (franz.com)
165 points by old_sound on April 22, 2011 | 50 comments
5.
Basics of Compiler Design (diku.dk)
158 points by cygwin98 on April 22, 2011 | 10 comments
6.
Court rules Linux kernel infringes on patents. Lawsuit avalanche to follow. (zdnet.com)
152 points by iwwr on April 22, 2011 | 65 comments
7.
The Dark Side of Hadoop (backtype.com)
132 points by nadahalli on April 22, 2011 | 41 comments
8.
Amazon’s problem isn’t the outage, it’s the communication (geekwire.com)
135 points by webwright on April 22, 2011 | 30 comments
9.
Show HN: Amazon EC2 instance comparison table (ec2instances.info)
122 points by powdahound on April 22, 2011 | 33 comments
10.
Review: Learn You a Haskell for Great Good (jerf.org)
115 points by dons on April 22, 2011 | 18 comments
11.
Why Retired Aircraft are Stored in the Desert (murderousmusings.blogspot.com)
110 points by patrickk on April 22, 2011 | 38 comments
12.
What the future of browsers looked like when IE6 was released (t3.org)
109 points by jeffwidman on April 22, 2011 | 25 comments
13.
Show HN: my boilerplate CSS code for new designs, written in Less. (mgeraci.github.com)
108 points by mgeraci on April 22, 2011 | 19 comments
14.
There Is No Magic (deconstructinggenius.wordpress.com)
107 points by robertk on April 22, 2011 | 26 comments
15.
Elon Musk's space ship Dragon 'can land on Mars' (theregister.co.uk)
103 points by sasvari on April 22, 2011 | 32 comments
16.
Firefox 4: 100 million downloads in 1 month (glow.mozilla.com)
102 points by melling on April 22, 2011 | 58 comments
17.
WebGL Sonic the Hedgehog Game Engine (sonicretro.org)
101 points by brianshumate on April 22, 2011 | 18 comments
18.
SPDY server on node.js (github.com/donnerjack13589)
100 points by indutny on April 22, 2011 | 5 comments
19.
$1.39 for 1000 decoded CAPTCHAs (deathbycaptcha.com)
101 points by marcog1 on April 22, 2011 | 52 comments
20.
Lasers to replace spark plugs in gasoline engines (scienceblog.com)
93 points by iwwr on April 22, 2011 | 43 comments
21.
Announcing the Founder's Library (swombat.com)
88 points by tomh- on April 22, 2011 | 20 comments
22.
Sequoia Leads $4.7 Million Investment in Humble Bundle (YC W11) (cnn.com)
85 points by matthew-wegner on April 22, 2011 | 38 comments
23.
Inside Google's Secretive Data Centers (mashable.com)
82 points by ssclafani on April 22, 2011 | 24 comments
24.
The one second war: Finding a lasting solution to the leap seconds problem (acm.org)
81 points by wgrover on April 22, 2011 | 27 comments
25.
Programmer salary in mainland Europe?
77 points by socialist_coder on April 22, 2011 | 113 comments
26.
Scalable SQL: How do large-scale sites and applications remain SQL-based? (acm.org)
72 points by yarapavan on April 22, 2011 | 39 comments
27.
Jedberg on Reddit's most recent outage (reddit.com)
59 points by zacharycohn on April 22, 2011 | 24 comments
28.
VorePad - Convore for iPad (jazzychad.net)
56 points by jazzychad on April 22, 2011 | 16 comments
29.
On Cascading Failures and Amazon's Elastic Block Store (joyeur.com)
53 points by timf on April 22, 2011 | 8 comments
30.
Mark Suster: The Entrepreneur Thesis (bothsidesofthetable.com)
49 points by staunch on April 22, 2011 | 3 comments

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