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1.
Success, and Farming vs. Mining (wilshipley.com)
271 points by aaronbrethorst on April 2, 2011 | 41 comments
2.
Top Gear responds to Tesla (topgear.com)
271 points by vaksel on April 2, 2011 | 118 comments
3.
Why incorporating my startup was my worst mistake (heyhamza.com)
192 points by chamza on April 2, 2011 | 95 comments
4.
Ask HN: Help me, I fuck around on the Internet too much
187 points by vain on April 2, 2011 | 145 comments
5.
Show HN: CSS3 Animated Glowing Forms (kaylarose.github.com)
182 points by kaylarose on April 2, 2011 | 57 comments
6.
Why Is It Rocket Science That Laws Should Apply Online Too? (torrentfreak.com)
154 points by Uncle_Sam on April 2, 2011 | 97 comments
7.
Android (avc.com)
151 points by cwan on April 2, 2011 | 85 comments
8.
Gmail Motion April Fools' gag inevitably turned into reality using Kinect (engadget.com)
147 points by stevederico on April 2, 2011 | 30 comments
9.
Why Paying Bribes Should Be Legal (npr.org)
106 points by kqr2 on April 2, 2011 | 82 comments
10.
Node.js Tutorials (readwriteweb.com)
103 points by dshankar on April 2, 2011 | 8 comments
11.
Learning Ruby and Rails, where would you start? (ontwik.com)
100 points by ahmicro on April 2, 2011 | 49 comments
12.
Latest HN traffic stats: 100k uniques on weekdays, 1.1m pageviews (ycombinator.com)
88 points by pg on April 2, 2011 | 16 comments
13.
Some rules kids won't learn in school (1996) (ime.usp.br)
83 points by RiderOfGiraffes on April 2, 2011 | 67 comments
14.
Mozilla to crack down on add-ons that slow down Firefox (blog.mozilla.com)
77 points by there on April 2, 2011 | 40 comments
15.
Ask HN: Programming Problems for Plane Rides
76 points by andrewparker on April 2, 2011 | 28 comments
16.
Remembering LineDrive: forgotten, beautiful driving directions (somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com)
72 points by joshwa on April 2, 2011 | 12 comments
17.
Realtime heatmap with canvas & js (patrick-wied.at)
73 points by dgarner on April 2, 2011 | 7 comments
18.
Gleick's new book on information theory (around.com)
64 points by isomorph on April 2, 2011 | 25 comments
19.
Building a Maze by Destroying Walls Efficiently (codehowtos.blogspot.com)
61 points by abyx on April 2, 2011 | 8 comments
20.
Minnesota’s First Tech Accelerator Now Taking Applications (tech.mn)
57 points by shotgun on April 2, 2011 | 53 comments
21.
CSS Pivot - From idea to 20k hits in 7 days (csspivot.com)
57 points by metachris on April 2, 2011 | 17 comments
22.
Why did the social prestige of science and engineering decline in the US? (cogsciresearch.blogspot.com)
57 points by scritic on April 2, 2011 | 96 comments
23.
Ask HN: What to read instead of Techcrunch?
51 points by Apocryphon on April 2, 2011 | 32 comments
24.
Going After Google (chovanec.wordpress.com)
49 points by vamsee on April 2, 2011 | 3 comments
25.
Real-time map of Dutch rail traffic (flyabb.com)
48 points by malte on April 2, 2011 | 13 comments
26.
Ask HN: What is a good, simple project for teaching yourself Python?
45 points by joeguilmette on April 2, 2011 | 37 comments
27.
Node.js 0.4.5 Released w/ many bug fixes (nodejs.org)
43 points by chapel on April 2, 2011 | 19 comments
28.
Ask HN: Moving to San Francisco: Best way to find an appartment
40 points by rmanocha on April 2, 2011 | 38 comments
29.
Why Working On Tasks In Parallel is A Pipe Dream (calebelston.com)
37 points by dkasper on April 2, 2011 | 12 comments
30.
Tor Project Wins Award for Role in Middle East Revolutions (mashable.com)
34 points by Garbage on April 2, 2011 | 2 comments

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