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How to handle 1000s of concurrent users on a 360MB VPS (markmaunder.com)
255 points by joelg87 on May 28, 2011 | 78 comments
2.
How Facebook pushes updates to the site (facebook.com)
220 points by creativityhurts on May 28, 2011 | 40 comments
3.
Show HN: IMDb Top 250 available on Netflix Instant (paulisageek.com)
195 points by ptarjan on May 28, 2011 | 67 comments
4.
Can We Kill This Myth That The Internet Is A Wild West That Needs To Be Tamed? (techdirt.com)
186 points by ygreek on May 28, 2011 | 47 comments
5.
Pastebin abused (michielovertoom.com)
171 points by lehmannro on May 28, 2011 | 50 comments
6.
What would a teaspoonful of neutron star do to you? (io9.com)
161 points by rizumu on May 28, 2011 | 38 comments
7.
Speeding up Rails startup time (rhnh.net)
152 points by ddagradi on May 28, 2011 | 31 comments
8.
A Refrigerator that Runs Without Electricity (celsias.com)
147 points by stretchwithme on May 28, 2011 | 60 comments
9.
Your Commute Is Killing You (slate.com)
126 points by kmfrk on May 28, 2011 | 85 comments
10.
Discover the Patterns Of Successful Internet Startups (startupgenome.cc)
124 points by bjoernlasseh on May 28, 2011 | 31 comments
11.
How Javascript Prototypal Inheritance Really works (vjeux.com)
115 points by vjeux on May 28, 2011 | 49 comments
12.
Samsung’s lawyers demand to see the iPhone 5 and iPad 3 (thisismynext.com)
114 points by acrum on May 28, 2011 | 37 comments
13.
Waiting 100+ Years for Version 2.0 (techdirt.com)
107 points by grellas on May 28, 2011 | 57 comments
14.
Report on Air France 447 crash deepens mystery (newscientist.com)
91 points by ColinWright on May 28, 2011 | 49 comments
15.
Anatomy of a Mashup: Definitive Daft Punk visualised (themaninblue.com)
84 points by janektm on May 28, 2011 | 13 comments
16.
Its About The Hashbangs (danwebb.net)
82 points by bentlegen on May 28, 2011 | 31 comments
17.
Iran Vows to Unplug Internet (wsj.com)
66 points by huetsch on May 28, 2011 | 45 comments
18.
How language shapes thought (scientificamerican.com)
63 points by philh on May 28, 2011 | 42 comments
19.
Functional languages will rule (but not this year) (goodstuff.im)
63 points by harryh on May 28, 2011 | 44 comments
20.
How Twitter and a community put a smackdown on Urban Outfitters (myaimistrue.com)
58 points by monirz77 on May 28, 2011 | 16 comments
21.
The Revolution will not be on Youtube (raganwald.com)
54 points by raganwald on May 28, 2011 | 25 comments
22.
Coding a Tetris AI using a Genetic Algorithm (luckytoilet.wordpress.com)
48 points by mukyu on May 28, 2011 | 12 comments
23.
The four categories of NoSQL databases (rebelic.nl)
46 points by wspruijt on May 28, 2011 | 25 comments
24.
Stanford CS Education Library (stanford.edu)
41 points by helwr on May 28, 2011
25.
Simple Type Inference in 21 Lines of Clojure (gist.github.com)
39 points by swannodette on May 28, 2011 | 11 comments
26.
Software Contracting and Legal Matters (sealedabstract.com)
36 points by ColinWright on May 28, 2011 | 15 comments
27.
Distributed systems course at UIUC (uiuc.edu)
36 points by helwr on May 28, 2011 | 8 comments
28.
Vibrations of the soundboard of a guitar visualized (bbc.co.uk)
34 points by Marge on May 28, 2011 | 5 comments
29.
Happy anniversary to Turing's seminal paper (rjlipton.wordpress.com)
34 points by fogus on May 28, 2011 | 1 comment
30.
Startup Visa Endorsed by US Chamber of Commerce's Center for Entrepreneurship (uschamber.com)
33 points by HistoryInAction on May 28, 2011 | 10 comments

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