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1.		The first in-depth technical analysis of VP8 (multimedia.cx)
		275 points by DarkShikari on May 19, 2010 \| 61 comments
2.		Google Code Blog: Introducing the Google Font API & Google Font Directory (googlecode.blogspot.com)
		268 points by boundlessdreamz on May 19, 2010 \| 59 comments
3.		Zuckerberg accused of securities fraud (venturebeat.com)
		201 points by bjonathan on May 19, 2010 \| 70 comments
4.		WebM - an open web media project (webmproject.org)
		181 points by tswicegood on May 19, 2010 \| 46 comments
5.		S4 - $12 for 1 year of 1 TB write-only storage (supersimplestorageservice.com)
		154 points by ulvund on May 19, 2010 \| 67 comments
6.		Try Clojure (try-clojure.org)
		140 points by raju on May 19, 2010 \| 60 comments
7.		Google Wave Available for Everyone (googlewave.blogspot.com)
		138 points by smikhanov on May 19, 2010 \| 36 comments
8.		Microsoft patent trolls Salesforce (37signals.com)
		120 points by jfi on May 19, 2010 \| 67 comments
9.		How We Moved From Microsoft ASP.NET to Rails and NoSQL (infoq.com)
		110 points by robconery on May 19, 2010 \| 98 comments
10.		Don’t bite the shit sandwich (unicornfree.com)
		105 points by fadr on May 19, 2010 \| 46 comments
11.		DuckDuckGo Searches Are Not Anonymous (grepular.com)
		104 points by mike-cardwell on May 19, 2010 \| 83 comments
12.		Google Previews Chrome Web Store — An App Store For The Web (techcrunch.com)
		99 points by CitizenKane on May 19, 2010 \| 69 comments
13.		8-bit StarCraft (youtube.com)
		94 points by cloudkj on May 19, 2010 \| 19 comments
14.		You can do anything at Zombo.com in HTML5 (html5zombo.com)
		90 points by ssclafani on May 19, 2010 \| 22 comments
15.		Google Storage for Developers (googlecode.blogspot.com)
		91 points by mcantelon on May 19, 2010 \| 25 comments
16.		Mastering The Fourier Transform in One Day (dspdimension.com)
		89 points by signa11 on May 19, 2010 \| 11 comments
17.		VP8, WebM, and HTML5 video (zencoder.com)
		86 points by Heff on May 19, 2010 \| 21 comments
18.		Reddit releases fully functional VM with their source code (reddit.com)
		86 points by jedberg on May 19, 2010 \| 49 comments
19.		Firefox will support VP8 (aka WebM) (hacks.mozilla.org)
		83 points by AndrewHampton on May 19, 2010 \| 16 comments
20.		IE9 will support VP8 and H.264 video (windowsteamblog.com)
		82 points by zaatar on May 19, 2010 \| 34 comments
21.		Google Webfont Directory (code.google.com)
		76 points by adamhowell on May 19, 2010 \| 29 comments
22.		The Demoscene -- an Overview (rhizome.org)
		70 points by jgv on May 19, 2010 \| 32 comments
23.		Yandex Search Engine has beed launched (yandex.com)
		68 points by holoomix on May 19, 2010 \| 34 comments
24.		Google IO streaming live (youtube.com)
		66 points by agotterer on May 19, 2010 \| 14 comments
25.		An Oracle branded VirtualBox Released - Oracle aren't going to kill this project (virtualbox.org)
		60 points by edd on May 19, 2010 \| 37 comments
26.		Poor Man's Explanation of Kalman Filtering [pdf] (rit.edu)
		59 points by kqr2 on May 19, 2010 \| 11 comments
27.		Failure to communicate: Inability to write clearly is costly in the digital age (boston.com)
		59 points by whitegloveapps on May 19, 2010 \| 47 comments
28.		Google Launches BigQuery and (AI/ML) Prediction API (googlecode.blogspot.com)
		61 points by timr on May 19, 2010 \| 11 comments
29.		The Economics of Software (sun.com)
		53 points by adamc on May 19, 2010 \| 16 comments
30.		Word Fails Me - Why doesn’t Microsoft’s writing tool actually help writers? (thebigmoney.com)
		53 points by chwolfe on May 19, 2010 \| 51 comments
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