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1.
Birth and Death of Microsoft Bing (myprasanna.posterous.com)
322 points by domino on April 8, 2011 | 123 comments
2.
Why Can't Developers Estimate Time? (patchspace.co.uk)
250 points by ashleymoran on April 8, 2011 | 126 comments
3.
We need a GitHub of Science (marciovm.com)
246 points by marciovm123 on April 8, 2011 | 62 comments
4.
Why T-shirts matter at tech companies (adamnash.com)
243 points by rondevera on April 8, 2011 | 141 comments
5.
 Why do apps from the same company look worse on Android than on iPhone? (android-gripes.tumblr.com)
219 points by awalker on April 8, 2011 | 130 comments
6.
YouTube is going Live (youtube-global.blogspot.com)
195 points by Uncle_Sam on April 8, 2011 | 79 comments
7.
Lorempixum: Generate placeholder images (not just gray boxes) (lorempixum.com)
180 points by rondevera on April 8, 2011 | 34 comments
8.
My startup story: from big idea to thriving business in 8 short years (traysoft.com)
165 points by jv22222 on April 8, 2011 | 19 comments
9.
Google acquires ITA Software (googleblog.blogspot.com)
162 points by rondevera on April 8, 2011 | 76 comments
10.
Meet the IOIO - USB breakout board for android w/48 digital+analog IO pins (ytai-mer.blogspot.com)
143 points by JonnieCache on April 8, 2011 | 30 comments
11.
Larry Page completes major reorganization of Google (latimes.com)
136 points by rea on April 8, 2011 | 34 comments
12.
We mistakenly marked about 50 applications as late
126 points by pg on April 8, 2011 | 55 comments
13.
The JavaScript Age (metamarketsgroup.com)
119 points by hanifvirani on April 8, 2011 | 50 comments
14.
Mint’s Original Marketing Plan (circa 2007) (thestartupfoundry.com)
113 points by g0atbutt on April 8, 2011 | 14 comments
15.
New engine shakes up auto industry (msn.com)
107 points by pjy04 on April 8, 2011 | 44 comments
16.
Fighting to Shut Out the Real India (nytimes.com)
107 points by mjfern on April 8, 2011 | 86 comments
17.
Google has developed speech-recognition technology that actually works. (slate.com)
101 points by pelf on April 8, 2011 | 49 comments
18.
Recommender Systems: We're doing it (all) wrong (technocalifornia.blogspot.com)
85 points by getp on April 8, 2011 | 35 comments
19.
Dropbox + git = Designer Luv (pivotallabs.com)
83 points by dko on April 8, 2011 | 40 comments
20.
Are grains making us fat? If so, we should be much thinner than 1914. (theatlantic.com)
77 points by yummyfajitas on April 8, 2011 | 79 comments
21.
How would you store 500TB of stuff you don't need everyday?
74 points by Corrado on April 8, 2011 | 65 comments
22.
Formerly good at math, but I've lost my skills. Any advice to grow them back? (math.stackexchange.com)
75 points by gulbrandr on April 8, 2011 | 43 comments
23.
English as a second language: Test results on the most fluent countries (economist.com)
71 points by JCB_K on April 8, 2011 | 77 comments
24.
NASA Gives Up on LISA (discovermagazine.com)
67 points by turnersauce on April 8, 2011 | 40 comments
25.
Nikki and the Robots: Open Source Videogame Written in Haskell (joyridelabs.de)
66 points by swannodette on April 8, 2011 | 15 comments
26.
List Comprehensions in C (benlynn.blogspot.com)
63 points by fogus on April 8, 2011 | 8 comments
27.
Avoiding Arbitrary Code Execution with nginx and php-fastcgi (nealpoole.com)
61 points by nbpoole on April 8, 2011 | 15 comments
28.
Pinpointing your location to Within 690 Meters (schneier.com)
53 points by eapen on April 8, 2011 | 12 comments
29.
Free hosting for static websites (coralrift.com)
54 points by dpieri on April 8, 2011 | 18 comments
30.
Relativistic Statistical Arbitrage (cfreer.org)
54 points by yummyfajitas on April 8, 2011 | 17 comments

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