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1.
Working with the Chaos Monkey (codinghorror.com)
310 points by CWIZO on April 25, 2011 | 41 comments
2.
7% of Americans Subscribe to Netflix, Now Larger than any Cable Company (cnn.com)
299 points by mmcconnell1618 on April 25, 2011 | 143 comments
3.
Never say “no,” but rarely say “yes.” (asmartbear.com)
295 points by SRSimko on April 25, 2011 | 36 comments
4.
The Guantanamo Files (wikileaks.ch)
262 points by dsplittgerber on April 25, 2011 | 56 comments
5.
The Merge Button (github.com/blog)
254 points by tmm1 on April 25, 2011 | 18 comments
6.
SurveyMonkey to buy Wufoo (YC W06) for $35m (allthingsd.com)
249 points by sriramk on April 25, 2011 | 60 comments
7.
Tanking the YC interview, some lessons learned (naivehack.com)
188 points by vantran on April 25, 2011 | 41 comments
8.
How I got into YC as a non-technical single founder (alexkrupp.typepad.com)
181 points by Alex3917 on April 25, 2011 | 40 comments
9.
SurveyMonkey Acquires Wufoo (YC W06) (wufoo.com)
183 points by unfoldedorigami on April 25, 2011 | 22 comments
10.
Show HN: Hacker Typer [joke] (duiker101.tk)
160 points by duiker101 on April 25, 2011 | 34 comments
11.
John Resig's CSS optimization for F7U12 SubReddit (more than 6x improvement) (reddit.com)
151 points by DanielRibeiro on April 25, 2011 | 25 comments
12.
Sitting All Day: Worse For You Than You Might Think (npr.org)
146 points by matth on April 25, 2011 | 92 comments
13.
Dr. Stallman responded to my open letter (alexeymk.com)
143 points by AlexeyMK on April 25, 2011 | 132 comments
14.
Show HN: Codr.cc - Etherpad meets Pastebin Meets Notepad.cc: live code sharing (codr.cc)
135 points by jmonegro on April 25, 2011 | 79 comments
15.
The cost of cloud hosting vs. colocation (chrischandler.name)
127 points by squanderingtime on April 25, 2011 | 91 comments
16.
How SmugMug survived the Amazonpocalypse (smugmug.com)
115 points by onethumb on April 25, 2011 | 24 comments
17.
Man Unveils Interactive Toothpick Sculpture of SF That Took 35 Years to Create (thoughtcatalog.com)
113 points by vamsee on April 25, 2011 | 22 comments
18.
Joi Ito Named Director of the MIT Media Lab (web.mit.edu)
110 points by hornokplease on April 25, 2011 | 18 comments
19.
A GeekDad’s 8-Year Old Daughter Reinvents Chess (wired.com)
111 points by nreece on April 25, 2011 | 22 comments
20.
Inspired use of QR code on resume (mobileinc.co.uk)
102 points by muratmutlu on April 25, 2011 | 54 comments
21.
Barnes & Noble treats Nook Color to Froyo; unveils Nook Apps (zdnet.com)
93 points by rkudeshi on April 25, 2011 | 56 comments
22.
Nintendo confirms launching new console in 2012, playable at E3 (arstechnica.com)
86 points by spaetzel on April 25, 2011 | 52 comments
23.
What does your .gitconfig contain? (stackoverflow.com)
78 points by j2d2j2d2 on April 25, 2011 | 7 comments
24.
How JavaScript Timers Work (ejohn.org)
72 points by shawndumas on April 25, 2011 | 6 comments
25.
IMF: The Age of America About to End
69 points by pjy04 on April 25, 2011 | 61 comments
26.
Amazon EC2 outage: summary and lessons learned (rightscale.com)
66 points by sarahbacon on April 25, 2011 | 22 comments
27.
Smalltalk on the JVM (redline.st)
65 points by cubicle67 on April 25, 2011 | 5 comments
28.
Yale Law student takes a look at Bitcoin (draft of legal paper) (ssrn.com)
60 points by spenvo on April 25, 2011 | 12 comments
29.
Theory and Practice of making games - I used to write this (flipcode.com)
59 points by EGreg on April 25, 2011 | 14 comments
30.
Information Physics: The New Frontier (arxiv.org)
59 points by heydenberk on April 25, 2011 | 12 comments

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