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1.
Germany sets new solar-power record (reuters.com)
269 points by siavosh on May 26, 2012 | 219 comments
2.
The Real War 1939-1945, by Paul Fussell (1989) (theatlantic.com)
223 points by gruseom on May 26, 2012 | 78 comments
3.
Apple And Microsoft Behind Patent Troll Armed With Thousands Of Nortel Patents (techdirt.com)
189 points by pooriaazimi on May 26, 2012 | 88 comments
4.
The Shapes of CSS (css-tricks.com)
188 points by matt1 on May 26, 2012 | 33 comments
5.
Learn R two minutes at a time (twotorials.com)
180 points by kermatt on May 26, 2012 | 38 comments
6.
MIT Builds A Needle-Free Drug Injector (npr.org)
165 points by JumpCrisscross on May 26, 2012 | 41 comments
7.
Govt of India proposes to ban SSH (Or wants you to use 40 bit keys) (dot.gov.in)
163 points by shabda on May 26, 2012 | 64 comments
8.
The "bat signal" for the Internet (internetdefenseleague.org)
143 points by mayop100 on May 26, 2012 | 21 comments
9.
If Money Doesn't Make You Happy, Consider Time (stanford.edu)
137 points by rjb on May 26, 2012 | 45 comments
10.
Don't use Scatterplots (chrisstucchio.com)
135 points by yummyfajitas on May 26, 2012 | 73 comments
11.
Elon Musk's determination (dcurt.is)
131 points by mattrichardson on May 26, 2012 | 37 comments
12.
Eve Online spaceship viewer uses WebGL (eveonline.com)
123 points by lloeki on May 26, 2012 | 47 comments
13.
Elon Musk and the future of spaceflight (newscientist.com)
117 points by nkoren on May 26, 2012 | 32 comments
14.
Bitcoinica lost customer database, has no up to date record of trading balances (bitcointalk.org)
110 points by Estragon on May 26, 2012 | 125 comments
15.
Meth Labs and Dead Dogs: How the Founder of McAfee Antivirus Went on the Run (gizmodo.co.uk)
100 points by pier0 on May 26, 2012 | 19 comments
16.
Favicons Next To External Links (css-tricks.com)
97 points by nantes on May 26, 2012 | 17 comments
17.
Show HN: Drapache - serve a dynamic website from your dropbox (github.com/louissobel)
98 points by sobel on May 26, 2012 | 31 comments
18.
Show HN: Snaketron, online multiplayer Snake (snaketron.com)
96 points by lopatin on May 26, 2012 | 55 comments
19.
Iterated prisoner's dilemma contains evolutionary opponent dominating strategies (pnas.org)
95 points by ryanmolden on May 26, 2012 | 26 comments
20.
Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 14 Notes Essay (blakemasters.tumblr.com)
80 points by huetsch on May 26, 2012 | 16 comments
21.
Anonymous hacks RCom servers, warns Indian government against web censorship (indiatimes.com)
75 points by v33ra on May 26, 2012 | 19 comments
22.
Portal game in CoffeeScript (glinden.blogspot.com)
74 points by necrodome on May 26, 2012 | 14 comments
23.
The Experience Economy (cdixon.org)
69 points by adahm on May 26, 2012 | 29 comments
24.
A small fast and cute web framework in Python. (bottlepy.org)
66 points by kghose on May 26, 2012 | 37 comments
25.
How Can I Turn Small Talk Into a Conversation? (lifehacker.com)
58 points by rmah on May 26, 2012 | 58 comments
26.
Face detection using HTML5, javascript, webrtc, websockets, Jetty and OpenCV (smartjava.org)
56 points by Juha on May 26, 2012 | 10 comments
27.
Back of the Envelope [Physics] Problems (dickinson.edu)
57 points by lmarinho on May 26, 2012 | 8 comments
28.
Mustafa's Space Drive: An Egyptian Student's Quantum Physics Invention (fastcompany.com)
49 points by mikeleeorg on May 26, 2012 | 23 comments
29.
Ask HN: Do quality web graphics, design and layout actually help businesses?
48 points by piotr_krzyzek on May 26, 2012 | 49 comments
30.
How many Apple IDs should your family have? (gigaom.com)
45 points by iProject on May 26, 2012 | 35 comments

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