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31.		Chomsky was wrong: evolutionary analysis shows languages obey few rules (arstechnica.com)
		76 points by evo_9 on April 13, 2011 \| 69 comments
32.		Building a human-powered airplane in only six months (37signals.com)
		74 points by yannickmahe on April 13, 2011 \| 5 comments
33.		Greplin opensources Lucene Utils and Bloom Filters (greplin.com)
		71 points by smanek on April 13, 2011 \| 27 comments
34.		Erlang vs Java memory architecture (javacodegeeks.com)
		71 points by javacodegeeks on April 13, 2011 \| 29 comments
35.		Apple Announces Final Cut Pro X (macstories.net)
		67 points by rondevera on April 13, 2011 \| 22 comments
36.		Building Teams: Hire People, Not Skills (bostinnovation.com)
		67 points by chezral on April 13, 2011 \| 23 comments
37.		Security Incident (blog.wordpress.com)
		65 points by sucuri2 on April 13, 2011 \| 12 comments
38.		Ask HN: What are your side projects?
		63 points by kmccarth on April 13, 2011 \| 112 comments
39.		Zencoder Raises $2M for Video Encoding in the Cloud (gigaom.com)
		62 points by rdamico on April 13, 2011
40.		Entrepreneur Manual: Paul Graham's Essays in ePub Format (github.com/davidyang)
		57 points by dy on April 13, 2011 \| 19 comments
41.		New Zealand to sneak in Internet disconnection with quake emergency legislation (boingboing.net)
		57 points by follower on April 13, 2011 \| 5 comments
42.		If you want to build something great, it shouldn't matter where you live. (mexican.vc)
		54 points by DFectuoso on April 13, 2011 \| 18 comments
43.		Drowning in a C of Interviews (bitquabit.com)
		54 points by rockhymas on April 13, 2011 \| 23 comments
44.		2011: Current And Future Programming Languages For Videogames (c0de517e.blogspot.com)
		54 points by hanifvirani on April 13, 2011 \| 12 comments
45.		Things overheard on the WiFi from my Android smartphone (freedom-to-tinker.com)
		54 points by akent on April 13, 2011 \| 16 comments
46.		Neo4j Graph Database re-licensed under GPLv3 (neotechnology.com)
		53 points by LiveTheDream on April 13, 2011 \| 15 comments
47.		Even Great Mathematicians Guess Wrong (rjlipton.wordpress.com)
		54 points by fogus on April 13, 2011 \| 10 comments
48.		Opera embraces Google's open source JPEG killer (theregister.co.uk)
		54 points by sasvari on April 13, 2011 \| 29 comments
49.		The MIT Mood Meter (kdivvela.posterous.com)
		54 points by kdivvela on April 13, 2011 \| 6 comments
50.		Mozilla Introduces Aurora, The Pre-Beta, Post-Nightly Firefox (techcrunch.com)
		52 points by thankuz on April 13, 2011 \| 21 comments
51.		Asteroids played on an Oscilloscope - Tek Contest (bcove.me)
		47 points by joeyhagedorn on April 13, 2011 \| 29 comments
52.		Google admits Android 'both open and closed' (theregister.co.uk)
		43 points by barista on April 13, 2011 \| 55 comments
53.		Programming Contests, Algorithms, and the Real World Steven Skiena (sunysb.edu)
		44 points by thenicepostr on April 13, 2011 \| 11 comments
54.		What do you want to know about a company to work there?
		41 points by tfadp on April 13, 2011 \| 26 comments
55.		PHP Performance by Rasmus Lerdorf (ontwik.com)
		41 points by ahmicro on April 13, 2011 \| 4 comments
56.		Hacker 'handshake' hole found in common firewalls (networkworld.com)
		40 points by asymptotic on April 13, 2011 \| 17 comments
57.		Ask HN: What weekend projects actually make money
		40 points by bluekite2000 on April 13, 2011 \| 6 comments
58.		Show HN: Implementing durability for in-memory databases, on SSDs (eferm.com)
		40 points by Emore on April 13, 2011 \| 4 comments
59.		DRM authentication servers stop Dragon Age: Origins from working (arstechnica.com)
		39 points by martey on April 13, 2011 \| 14 comments
60.		Show HN: My weekend project for those who obsessively follow AAPL, GOOG & MSFT (tech3some.com)
		39 points by magsafe on April 13, 2011 \| 22 comments
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