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1.
Our greatest shortcoming is our inability to understand the exponential function (youtube.com)
206 points by itistoday on May 27, 2010 | 124 comments
2.
Lessons learned from 13 failed software products (successfulsoftware.net)
175 points by hermitcrab on May 27, 2010 | 36 comments
3.
Programming: Attitude Trumps Intelligence (alarmingdevelopment.org)
170 points by malbiniak on May 27, 2010 | 60 comments
4.
Ask HN: I sold my company last month for $5m. What do I do with the money?
142 points by radicaltype on May 27, 2010 | 168 comments
5.
Richard Stallman agrees to do an AMA on reddit (reddit.com)
131 points by obsaysditto on May 27, 2010 | 70 comments
6.
Visualize the Deepwater oil spil over your hometown (beowulfe.com)
113 points by gcr on May 27, 2010 | 25 comments
7.
500MB download? Why didn't Wired Magazine use HTML5 for their iPad app? (interfacelab.com)
107 points by mcantelon on May 27, 2010 | 57 comments
8.
Posterous adds markdown and syntax highlighting support (blog.posterous.com)
103 points by rantfoil on May 27, 2010 | 35 comments
9.
Ballmer Not appearing at WWDC - Microsoft (twitter.com/microsoft)
100 points by mootymoots on May 27, 2010 | 22 comments
10.
Betting on the Engineers (dilbert.com)
98 points by alexandros on May 27, 2010 | 51 comments
11.
You are Not the CEO (jacquesmattheij.com)
93 points by jacquesm on May 27, 2010 | 54 comments
12.
Palm loses their lead webOS designer to the Google Android team (mobilecrunch.com)
89 points by dzlobin on May 27, 2010 | 31 comments
13.
Interviewing programmers: coding test results. (solipsys.co.uk)
81 points by RiderOfGiraffes on May 27, 2010 | 129 comments
14.
Why Lawyers Don’t Run Startups (steveblank.com)
81 points by enra on May 27, 2010 | 32 comments
15.
One Sure-Fire Way to Improve Your Coding (fuelyourcoding.com)
74 points by sant0sk1 on May 27, 2010 | 26 comments
16.
Ballmer to announce VS 2010 will compile native Mac/iPhone apps at WWDC (theregister.co.uk)
72 points by cletus on May 27, 2010 | 94 comments
17.
When can startups be called successful, e.g. reddit, dropbox? (gabrielweinberg.com)
68 points by phsr on May 27, 2010 | 21 comments
18.
The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains (wired.com)
67 points by razorburn on May 27, 2010 | 30 comments
19.
Top kill animation from BBC - how BP oil well is being plugged (bbc.co.uk)
66 points by dctoedt on May 27, 2010 | 23 comments
20.
The mean streets of San Francisco (atomicwang.org)
61 points by cromulent on May 27, 2010 | 27 comments
21.
10 tips for writing perl one-liners (ksplice.com)
64 points by nelhage on May 27, 2010 | 18 comments
22.
A killer Android app (arcriley.blogspot.com)
59 points by pufuwozu on May 27, 2010 | 23 comments
23.
Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas (tonywright.com)
58 points by niallsmart on May 27, 2010 | 12 comments
24.
More Workers Start to Quit (wsj.com)
58 points by _delirium on May 27, 2010 | 27 comments
25.
Why I Switched from iPhone to Android (pcworld.com)
58 points by quizbiz on May 27, 2010 | 39 comments
26.
Blizzard Calls DRM a "Losing Battle" (1up.com)
52 points by SlyShy on May 27, 2010 | 28 comments
27.
DHH: Being at the right time at the right place is not the secret ingredient. (youtube.com)
51 points by div on May 27, 2010 | 43 comments
28.
Using your laptop to compute PageRank for millions of webpages (michaelnielsen.org)
50 points by helwr on May 27, 2010 | 6 comments
29.
VLC 1.1.0 1st release candidate, with VP8 and GPU decoding... (videolan.org)
44 points by jbk on May 27, 2010 | 12 comments
30.
Scala 2.8.0 RC3 is out (scala-lang.org)
42 points by whakojacko on May 27, 2010 | 4 comments

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