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1.
DuckDuckGo: Escape your search engine filter bubble (dontbubble.us)
548 points by senko on June 20, 2011 | 214 comments
2.
Why I've built an alternative to Github (codeplane.com)
473 points by fnando on June 20, 2011 | 192 comments
3.
Fish don't know they're in water (sivers.org)
316 points by sahillavingia on June 20, 2011 | 109 comments
4.
New security issue at Dropbox (pastebin.com)
270 points by davewiner on June 20, 2011 | 109 comments
5.
Google discontinues support for IE7 in Google Apps (google.com)
241 points by Yrlec on June 20, 2011 | 142 comments
6.
ICANN Approves generic top-level domains (icann.org)
200 points by gert on June 20, 2011 | 136 comments
7.
Dropbox Cofounder & CTO Arash Ferdowsi responds to yesterday's bug (dropbox.com)
196 points by chaz on June 20, 2011 | 109 comments
8.
Coding Horror: Performance is a Feature (codinghorror.com)
168 points by swah on June 20, 2011 | 17 comments
9.
Depixelizing Pixel Art (research.microsoft.com)
168 points by wmwong on June 20, 2011 | 33 comments
10.
You don't understand something until you think it's obvious. (mebassett.blogspot.com)
139 points by mebassett on June 20, 2011 | 71 comments
11.
Google's "Chrome Frame" plugin for IE no longer requires admin rights (chromium.org)
130 points by joshuacc on June 20, 2011 | 23 comments
12.
The “walled garden” becomes a prison for reality (ibiblio.org)
118 points by octopus on June 20, 2011 | 53 comments
13.
Bank robber demands $1 from teller in order to get free healthcare in prison (gastongazette.com)
115 points by acangiano on June 20, 2011 | 89 comments
14.
Consumers Don't Want Tablets, They Want iPads (allthingsd.com)
114 points by ssclafani on June 20, 2011 | 134 comments
15.
Poll: HNSearch Contest Voting
124 points by andres on June 20, 2011 | 25 comments
16.
Data-Driven Enhancement of Facial Attractiveness (leyvand.com)
103 points by sheffield on June 20, 2011 | 40 comments
17.
Great People Are Overrated (hbr.org)
101 points by bchjam on June 20, 2011 | 95 comments
18.
Announcing my first e-book "Awk One-Liners Explained" (catonmat.net)
107 points by pkrumins on June 20, 2011 | 24 comments
19.
Uber drops fares for SF Taxi strike (uber.com)
91 points by BornInTheUSSR on June 20, 2011 | 80 comments
20.
Hammocks Make Sleep Easier, Deeper (npr.org)
89 points by pitdesi on June 20, 2011 | 77 comments
21.
AVM violating license of the Linux kernel (gpl-violations.org)
88 points by biafra on June 20, 2011 | 15 comments
22.
U.S. Government Wants to Double Prison Sentences for Hackers (readwriteweb.com)
81 points by bproper on June 20, 2011 | 48 comments
23.
iPhone 4-digit passcodes more secure when containing only 3 unique digits (mindyourdecisions.com)
81 points by tobtoh on June 20, 2011 | 37 comments
24.
Benchmark: C++ vs C# (codeproject.com)
78 points by prog on June 20, 2011 | 35 comments
25.
US nuke regulators weaken safety rules to keep old reactors running (yahoo.com)
75 points by reirob on June 20, 2011 | 35 comments
26.
Visualizing Hacker News (hnmood.com)
74 points by r3570r3 on June 20, 2011 | 27 comments
27.
Calling R lovers to work together on “The R Programming wikibook” (r-statistics.com)
74 points by TalGalili on June 20, 2011 | 11 comments
28.
Anonymity has real value, both in comments and elsewhere (gigaom.com)
73 points by ignifero on June 20, 2011 | 15 comments
29.
Lulzsec Declares 'Operation Anti-Security' (pastebin.com)
69 points by itcmcgrath on June 20, 2011 | 39 comments
30.
Design patterns aren't (plover.com)
69 points by henning on June 20, 2011 | 30 comments

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