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1.
Distributed Facebook replacement Diaspora pledged 2x the funding it requested (kickstarter.com)
222 points by JayNeely on May 11, 2010 | 132 comments
2.
Life is Beautiful (zeldman.com)
177 points by ihodes on May 11, 2010 | 33 comments
3.
The technology behind the new Google Docs editor (googledocs.blogspot.com)
175 points by yanw on May 11, 2010 | 39 comments
4.
Better performance in App Engine with new Lisp language Clojure (googlecode.blogspot.com)
173 points by mattyb on May 11, 2010 | 85 comments
5.
Wolfire open sourcing Aquaria, Gish, Lugaru HD, and Penumbra Overture (wolfire.com)
130 points by mcantelon on May 11, 2010 | 22 comments
6.
How did Facebook guess my email address? (reddit.com)
126 points by iamdave on May 11, 2010 | 58 comments
7.
Why Snakebites Are About to Get a Lot More Deadly (popularmechanics.com)
124 points by cwan on May 11, 2010 | 129 comments
8.
Music Notation with HTML5 Canvas (0xfe.blogspot.com)
107 points by brolewis on May 11, 2010 | 14 comments
9.
Increase conversion rate by making your site ugly (conversionvoodoo.com)
85 points by aresant on May 11, 2010 | 43 comments
10.
Iron Man 2's Secret Sauce: 3-D Printing (fastcompany.com)
83 points by binarymax on May 11, 2010 | 45 comments
11.
Google Android Outsells Apple iPhone In The U.S. (sfgate.com)
71 points by jacquesm on May 11, 2010 | 53 comments
12.
For the Win, Cory Doctrow's new novel about economics and gaming blackmarket (craphound.com)
70 points by rick_2047 on May 11, 2010 | 12 comments
13.
Reddit's May 2010 "State of the Servers" report (reddit.com)
69 points by pavs on May 11, 2010 | 16 comments
14.
SR-71 Blackbird Flight Manual (sr-71.org)
68 points by ibejoeb on May 11, 2010 | 23 comments
15.
Paypal and Authorize.net: Help End the Credit Card Hostage Situation (braintreepaymentsolutions.com)
68 points by browser411 on May 11, 2010 | 51 comments
16.
Beautiful Image Hover Effect Using Only Webkit CSS (No JS) (nikesh.me)
65 points by theone on May 11, 2010 | 48 comments
17.
Anand retains world chess championship title (chessvibes.com)
63 points by juanefren on May 11, 2010 | 26 comments
18.
Data, data everywhere (economist.com)
63 points by helwr on May 11, 2010 | 16 comments
19.
Lugaru Goes Open-Source (wolfire.com)
62 points by kevinh on May 11, 2010 | 8 comments
20.
Etherpad Foundation (etherpad.org)
60 points by pixelcort on May 11, 2010 | 14 comments
21.
New HTML5 parser in Firefox 4 – SVG in HTML, faster parsing, and more (hacks.mozilla.org)
58 points by mbrubeck on May 11, 2010 | 6 comments
22.
Yelp Security Hole Puts Facebook User Data At Risk (techcrunch.com)
57 points by bjonathan on May 11, 2010 | 27 comments
23.
No upvotes? No problem. (diveintothepool.wordpress.com)
53 points by sosuke on May 11, 2010 | 30 comments
24.
The Road from Serfdom - an interview with F.A. Hayek (reason.com)
52 points by limist on May 11, 2010 | 36 comments
25.
MongoDB: 8m ops/s on 25 servers (320k per server) (snailinaturtleneck.com)
53 points by dmytton on May 11, 2010 | 17 comments
26.
Design Guidelines: Why doesn't every site/company have this? (stanford.edu)
49 points by NIL8 on May 11, 2010 | 29 comments
27.
The High Frequency Trading Scam (2009) (seekingalpha.com)
48 points by aliston on May 11, 2010 | 37 comments
28.
Square mobile payment system goes live on iPhone, iPad, and Android this week (engadget.com)
46 points by there on May 11, 2010 | 45 comments
29.
Things that Saved Apollo 13 (universetoday.com)
46 points by semmons on May 11, 2010 | 2 comments
30.
Wikipedia's getting a new look (wikipedia.org)
46 points by shivam14 on May 11, 2010 | 27 comments

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