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1.
Dear Dr. Stallman: An Open Letter (alexeymk.com)
493 points by AlexeyMK on April 23, 2011 | 199 comments
2.
Company was hosting cardiac patient monitoring on EC2 (amazon.com)
442 points by jln on April 23, 2011 | 80 comments
3.
A minimalistic desk to handle cables and electronic clutter elegantly (elzr.com)
294 points by elzr on April 23, 2011 | 45 comments
4.
Finally someone makes sense of JavaScript's this keyword (javascriptweblog.wordpress.com)
239 points by legomatic on April 23, 2011 | 52 comments
5.
Joel Spolsky: Can your programming language do this? (joelonsoftware.com)
222 points by krat0sprakhar on April 23, 2011 | 110 comments
6.
Ask PG: How has voting habit/volume changed since being hidden?
144 points by scorchin on April 23, 2011 | 74 comments
7.
Google Tech Talks: "All Questions Answered" by Donald Knuth (clicker.com)
130 points by tjr on April 23, 2011 | 16 comments
8.
The Linux Security Circus: On GUI isolation (theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com)
126 points by wglb on April 23, 2011 | 47 comments
9.
Python for Android | Linux Journal (linuxjournal.com)
110 points by db42 on April 23, 2011 | 12 comments
10.
MLPY - high-performance Python library for predictive modeling (fbk.eu)
102 points by helwr on April 23, 2011 | 9 comments
11.
Mozilla JavaScript 2011 (blog.mozilla.com)
100 points by kinetik on April 23, 2011
12.
Dropbox as a CMS - DropPages (droppages.com)
100 points by sebkomianos on April 23, 2011 | 11 comments
13.
Why you should use talloc for your next C project (fedoraproject.org)
98 points by bluetech on April 23, 2011 | 57 comments
14.
Warren Buffett is now betting against the US dollar (washingtonpost.com)
95 points by ck2 on April 23, 2011 | 82 comments
15.
Ask HN: How Would You Architect Around Potential AWS Failures?
88 points by byoung2 on April 23, 2011 | 40 comments
16.
Complexity is the enemy (neugierig.org)
86 points by slig on April 23, 2011 | 26 comments
17.
The curious case of the number 3435 (republicofmath.com)
81 points by wglb on April 23, 2011 | 14 comments
18.
Interview with a cracker (successfulsoftware.net)
77 points by pw on April 23, 2011 | 15 comments
19.
Githits (githits.me)
79 points by helwr on April 23, 2011 | 45 comments
20.
Linux Power Usage Regression in 2.6.38+ (phoronix.com)
65 points by tagx on April 23, 2011 | 16 comments
21.
Startups: How to Hustle with AngelList in 10 Steps (quora.com)
64 points by turoczy on April 23, 2011 | 5 comments
22.
On Meeting People from the Internet (zaccohn.com)
61 points by zacharycohn on April 23, 2011 | 21 comments
23.
Remembering the Magic of Supreme Court Briefs Before Technology Took Over (blogs.forbes.com)
59 points by grellas on April 23, 2011 | 7 comments
24.
How Libya's phone network evaded shutdown (aljazeera.net)
57 points by smutticus on April 23, 2011
25.
Libstdc++ has a "diagnostics" mode that suggests alternate containers (gcc.gnu.org)
57 points by dhruvbird on April 23, 2011 | 4 comments
26.
Google Code Jam 2011 (code.google.com)
49 points by helwr on April 23, 2011 | 5 comments
27.
Sony Confirms PlayStation Network Outage Caused By ‘External Intrusion’ (techcrunch.com)
46 points by ssclafani on April 23, 2011 | 43 comments
28.
GPS satellites get a serious upgrade (physorg.com)
45 points by cwan on April 23, 2011 | 31 comments
29.
The AWS Outage: The Cloud's Shining Moment (oreilly.com)
44 points by turoczy on April 23, 2011 | 8 comments
30.
How our small startup survived the Amazon EC2 cloud-pocalypse (stanford.edu)
43 points by esilverberg2 on April 23, 2011 | 10 comments

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