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1.		HTC sides with consumers: No more locked bootloaders in Android phones (facebook.com)
		402 points by drivebyacct2 on May 27, 2011 \| 77 comments
2.		It’s OK to make an extra $2k per month if you’re a programmer. Here’s how. (markmaunder.com)
		325 points by mmaunder on May 27, 2011 \| 173 comments
3.		On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning (norvig.com)
		313 points by EdiX on May 27, 2011 \| 107 comments
4.		These are things in PHP which make me sad (phpsadness.com)
		243 points by johnkary on May 27, 2011 \| 212 comments
5.		Let's just use Emacs (beastwithin.org)
		220 points by codeup on May 27, 2011 \| 160 comments
6.		Screw Hashbangs: Building the Ultimate Infinite Scroll (tumbledry.org)
		214 points by hung on May 27, 2011 \| 48 comments
7.		Microsoft makes 5 times more income from Android than from Windows Phone (asymco.com)
		218 points by woobar on May 27, 2011 \| 66 comments
8.		The problem is we don't understand the problem (azarask.in)
		172 points by cynusx on May 27, 2011 \| 19 comments
9.		PayPal sues Google + ex-PayPal VP for Google Wallet (thepaypalblog.com)
		166 points by zengr on May 27, 2011 \| 71 comments
10.		Voronoi Polygonal Map Generation (stanford.edu)
		161 points by Luyt on May 27, 2011 \| 5 comments
11.		What Really Keeps Poor People Poor (jonbischke.com)
		164 points by jonbischke on May 27, 2011 \| 144 comments
12.		Forgotten Soviet Moon Rover Beams Light Back to Earth (ieee.org)
		160 points by jcr on May 27, 2011 \| 32 comments
13.		Ideas Matter (k9.vc)
		135 points by sneakersneaker on May 27, 2011 \| 47 comments
14.		How to intercept Skype calls (scmagazine.com.au)
		107 points by maskofsanity on May 27, 2011 \| 30 comments
15.		Implementing a fast interpreter without resorting to assembly (emulators.com)
		93 points by mad on May 27, 2011 \| 15 comments
16.		Google Responds To PayPal Lawsuit: People Have The Right To Seek Better Jobs (techcrunch.com)
		88 points by ssclafani on May 27, 2011 \| 44 comments
17.		World’s first commercial quantum computer sold to Lockheed Martin (venturebeat.com)
		77 points by malvosenior on May 27, 2011 \| 31 comments
18.		How Zynga Uses Ghetto Testing, A/B Testing, Minimum Viable Products (grattisfaction.com)
		75 points by DanielRibeiro on May 27, 2011 \| 20 comments
19.		Mixpanel (YC S09) Raises $1.25 Million From Sequoia, Rabois, Levchin, And Birch (techcrunch.com)
		71 points by ssclafani on May 27, 2011 \| 19 comments
20.		Google Translate API is now deprecated. (code.google.com)
		69 points by Klonoar on May 27, 2011 \| 16 comments
21.		Differences between German and British manners (bbc.co.uk)
		68 points by ireadzalot on May 27, 2011 \| 75 comments
22.		Computational Linguistics became an open access journal (mitpressjournals.org)
		66 points by rbanffy on May 27, 2011 \| 5 comments
23.		House - an operating system written in Haskell (pdx.edu)
		63 points by fogus on May 27, 2011 \| 9 comments
24.		Following the 1st link on Wikipedia leads to 'Philosophy' for 93.4% of pages (kevinstock.org)
		61 points by p4bl0 on May 27, 2011 \| 31 comments
25.		How a band got into Y Combinator: The Earbits story (YC W11) (thestartupfoundry.com)
		60 points by g0atbutt on May 27, 2011 \| 9 comments
26.		What the Highest-Paid Programmers Earn (adtmag.com)
		58 points by msredmond on May 27, 2011 \| 43 comments
27.		Blorgit: Org-Mode based, git amenable, blogging engine (orgmode.org)
		57 points by chalst on May 27, 2011 \| 8 comments
28.		Fate of Data.gov Revealed; US Gov Almost Completely Drops the Ball (readwriteweb.com)
		56 points by helwr on May 27, 2011 \| 16 comments
29.		Friends to Gmail (friendstogmail.com)
		50 points by sahillavingia on May 27, 2011 \| 21 comments
30.		Deploying a Rails 3.1 app in production (moocode.com)
		46 points by vijaydev on May 27, 2011 \| 13 comments
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