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1.
What iPads Did To My Family (emc.com)
270 points by mjfern on May 7, 2010 | 122 comments
2.
Thursday = Thor's day (sivers.org)
245 points by CitizenKane on May 7, 2010 | 185 comments
3.
The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook (mattmckeon.com)
166 points by kareemm on May 7, 2010 | 26 comments
4.
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (james-iry.blogspot.com)
163 points by donw on May 7, 2010 | 13 comments
5.
Psychological manipulation - what I learned trying to save money on a sandwich (inklingmarkets.com)
131 points by nate on May 7, 2010 | 49 comments
6.
Full Version of Metropolis Found (nytimes.com)
117 points by mbateman on May 7, 2010 | 18 comments
7.
Facebook is Dying (baekdal.com)
112 points by silkodyssey on May 7, 2010 | 92 comments
8.
The App Store Spam Problem (marco.org)
96 points by ssclafani on May 7, 2010 | 51 comments
9.
Latexlab: web based LaTeX editor (code.google.com)
93 points by mcantelon on May 7, 2010 | 14 comments
10.
JQuery 1.4 (HTML5 Presentation) (ihumanable.com)
92 points by ihumanable on May 7, 2010 | 33 comments
11.
Simply beyond ridiculous (H265 proposal testing) (multimedia.cx)
90 points by chadaustin on May 7, 2010 | 15 comments
12.
Zynga Gunning Up (And Lawyering Up) For War Against Facebook With Zynga Live (techcrunch.com)
81 points by chegra on May 7, 2010 | 46 comments
13.
Thank you Hacker News - You are all invited to Scribd's party tonight in SF
77 points by trip on May 7, 2010 | 18 comments
14.
Apple developing Flash alternative named Gianduia (appleinsider.com)
77 points by mikecane on May 7, 2010 | 42 comments
15.
Nowmov (YC W10): Sit Back, Relax, And Watch An Endless Stream of Videos (techcrunch.com)
72 points by thomaspun on May 7, 2010 | 65 comments
16.
What it means to be a hacker (2008) (nettime.org)
73 points by chiquita on May 7, 2010 | 3 comments
17.
Linux users contribute twice as much as Windows users (wolfire.com)
70 points by fserb on May 7, 2010 | 16 comments
18.
What happens after dark in Disney's theme park (latimes.com)
69 points by cwan on May 7, 2010 | 18 comments
19.
Natural Language Processing/AI video lectures with transcripts from Stanford (stanford.edu)
67 points by coderdude on May 7, 2010 | 4 comments
20.
The distraction society (bbc.co.uk)
66 points by pier0 on May 7, 2010 | 21 comments
21.
New attacks today against Wordpress (lots of sites hacked) (sucuri.net)
66 points by sucuri2 on May 7, 2010 | 74 comments
22.
Patterns in Python (suttoncourtenay.org.uk)
63 points by limist on May 7, 2010 | 24 comments
23.
Homemade 16TB NAS - BlackDwarf (willudesign.com)
63 points by Ghost_Noname on May 7, 2010 | 45 comments
24.
Facebook considers your current IP address to be "public information" as well (jwz.livejournal.com)
60 points by ams1 on May 7, 2010 | 13 comments
25.
What has Apple got against Eastern Europe? (economist.com)
56 points by jkaljundi on May 7, 2010 | 46 comments
26.
Tell HN: New Google homepage, A/B testing gone crazy.
55 points by Loic on May 7, 2010 | 43 comments
27.
C Language Quirks (danielvik.com)
52 points by instantramen on May 7, 2010 | 5 comments
28.
Million dollar baby: Making millions selling open source hardware. (makezine.com)
49 points by nickpinkston on May 7, 2010 | 10 comments
29.
Periodic table of typefaces (quicklycode.com)
48 points by quicklycode on May 7, 2010 | 15 comments
30.
Patent: Compiler independent bit-field macros (freepatentsonline.com)
47 points by codesink on May 7, 2010 | 38 comments

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