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1.		Facebook designers' novel approach to the usual name tag problems (fontsinuse.com)
		249 points by toni on March 25, 2011 \| 21 comments
2.		What Larry Page really needs to do to return Google to its startup roots (slacy.com)
		212 points by smlacy on March 25, 2011 \| 76 comments
3.		Burned by Twitter, Developers Launch Distributed Microblogging Service (readwriteweb.com)
		207 points by rwwmike on March 25, 2011 \| 90 comments
4.		Flux: Better Lighting for Your Mac (applegrad.com)
		184 points by taylorbuley on March 25, 2011 \| 98 comments
5.		CAPTCHAs decrease conversion rates (90percentofeverything.com)
		185 points by harrybr on March 25, 2011 \| 115 comments
6.		Did the Microsoft Stack Kill MySpace? (highscalability.com)
		177 points by dolinsky on March 25, 2011 \| 195 comments
7.		Microsoft Shuts off HTTPS in Hotmail for Over a Dozen Countries (eff.org)
		179 points by there on March 25, 2011 \| 43 comments
8.		How I got sued by Facebook (2010) (petewarden.typepad.com)
		175 points by helwr on March 25, 2011 \| 37 comments
9.		My Year as an Amateur Android Game Developer (kerebus.com)
		171 points by wallflower on March 25, 2011 \| 71 comments
10.		Erik Meijer’s suggestions for further reading in functional programming (kshetri.com)
		169 points by fogus on March 25, 2011 \| 14 comments
11.		Why O'Reilly Media doesn't use DRM (forbes.com)
		148 points by rnicholson on March 25, 2011 \| 49 comments
12.		Android openness withering as Google withholds Honeycomb (arstechnica.com)
		145 points by gamble on March 25, 2011 \| 115 comments
13.		Bullet-proof Node.js coding (laurenzo.org)
		141 points by ideamonk on March 25, 2011 \| 28 comments
14.		A Behind the Scenes Look at Y Combinator's Demo Day (earbitscom.posterous.com)
		127 points by earbitscom on March 25, 2011 \| 5 comments
15.		Timeboxing: You Will Work Like Never Before (mostlymaths.net)
		118 points by gnosis on March 25, 2011 \| 26 comments
16.		Popcorn.js: The HTML5 Video Framework (popcornjs.org)
		111 points by creativityhurts on March 25, 2011 \| 33 comments
17.		Show HN: Notepag.es - Markdown/LaTeX editor for quick technical documents. (notepag.es)
		100 points by vmind on March 25, 2011 \| 20 comments
18.		The Anatomy of a Y Combinator Demo Day Pitch (bryce.vc)
		98 points by jkopelman on March 25, 2011 \| 30 comments
19.		So you want to do the SICP... (uponmyshoulder.com)
		100 points by pluies on March 25, 2011 \| 33 comments
20.		CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire .NET programmers (expensify.com)
		98 points by ayu on March 25, 2011 \| 75 comments
21.		Intellectual Ventures Paid Consultant To Get Unions To Fight Patent Reform (techdirt.com)
		96 points by yanw on March 25, 2011 \| 40 comments
22.		Samsung Introduces Completely Solar-Powered, Transparent TV (ecogeek.org)
		96 points by mromano on March 25, 2011 \| 29 comments
23.		Android Honeycomb not immediately open sourced (theregister.co.uk)
		90 points by rpledge on March 25, 2011 \| 73 comments
24.		iOS device and OS version stats from Instapaper 3.0 (marco.org)
		83 points by sahillavingia on March 25, 2011 \| 12 comments
25.		An Architect Squeezes 24 Rooms Into 344 Square Feet (Video) (theatlantic.com)
		81 points by BrentRitterbeck on March 25, 2011 \| 30 comments
26.		Donald Knuth's IFAQ (stanford.edu)
		80 points by mite-mitreski on March 25, 2011 \| 40 comments
27.		Show HN: What worked for us. With actual data, screenshots, and tips. (qbix.com)
		78 points by EGreg on March 25, 2011 \| 8 comments
28.		Poll: Would you like tags implemented on HN
		73 points by RiderOfGiraffes on March 25, 2011 \| 93 comments
29.		Stupid Data Miner Tricks: Overfitting the S&P 500 (nerdsonwallstreet.typepad.com)
		70 points by herrherr on March 25, 2011 \| 17 comments
30.		The real story behind Arch Linux package signing (toofishes.net)
		67 points by For_Iconoclasm on March 25, 2011 \| 30 comments
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