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1.		A Rough Guide to Social Skills for Awkward Smart People (techno-anthropology.blogspot.com)
		273 points by KennethMyers on April 30, 2011 \| 126 comments
2.		Wikileaks: Police Arrested Movie Pirate As “A Personal Favor” To Movie Official (torrentfreak.com)
		197 points by there on April 30, 2011 \| 41 comments
3.		Rootkit on a Brand new Toshiba laptop (jitbit.com)
		188 points by jitbit on April 30, 2011 \| 52 comments
4.		Patent 5,893,120 reduced to mathematical formulae (paulspontifications.blogspot.com)
		177 points by dchest on April 30, 2011 \| 39 comments
5.		PyPy 1.5 Released: Catching Up (morepypy.blogspot.com)
		147 points by jnoller on April 30, 2011 \| 70 comments
6.		The investment that didn't happen (k9.vc)
		144 points by sneakersneaker on April 30, 2011 \| 38 comments
7.		Bitcoin hits US$ 4, after being mentioned on CNN yesterday (mtgox.com)
		144 points by TheCoreh on April 30, 2011 \| 92 comments
8.		New order of animals discovered? (scientificamerican.com)
		142 points by MaysonL on April 30, 2011 \| 28 comments
9.		Bitcoin exchange account of Coinpal shut down by Paypal (bitcoin.org)
		142 points by tshtf on April 30, 2011 \| 74 comments
10.		Microsoft Support: Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music (support.microsoft.com)
		141 points by urbannomad on April 30, 2011 \| 34 comments
11.		Simple description of popular open source licenses (pbagwl.com)
		112 points by pbagwl on April 30, 2011 \| 13 comments
12.		Building a Thinking Room (wsj.com)
		108 points by fun2have on April 30, 2011 \| 18 comments
13.		Ask HN: Can you recommend some directories to list your app?
		97 points by auston on April 30, 2011 \| 23 comments
14.		Introducing Druid: Real-Time Analytics at a Billion Rows Per Second (metamarketsgroup.com)
		95 points by Anon84 on April 30, 2011 \| 44 comments
15.		Optimizing Nginx for High Traffic Loads (martinfjordvald.com)
		95 points by ichilton on April 30, 2011 \| 22 comments
16.		Unity Asset Store: $3000 revenue in 5 days from a spline drawing tool (juhakiili.com)
		94 points by dirtyaura on April 30, 2011 \| 7 comments
17.		Life Lessons I’ve Learned in 38 Years (zenhabits.net)
		93 points by willyg on April 30, 2011 \| 26 comments
18.		The "book" is dead (diveintomark.org)
		91 points by brianwillis on April 30, 2011 \| 28 comments
19.		Have you read your Python Docs Lately? (jessenoller.com)
		87 points by jnoller on April 30, 2011 \| 12 comments
20.		Why You Should Think Twice About Opting-In to the Delicious-AVOS Transfer (zdnet.com)
		78 points by samoa on April 30, 2011 \| 24 comments
21.		Great Data Structure & Algorithm Visualization Tool (5mins.wordpress.com)
		59 points by Goodstuff on April 30, 2011 \| 6 comments
22.		List of current and upcoming cloud platforms (huchunhao.com)
		59 points by andypants on April 30, 2011 \| 13 comments
23.		Software Patents as Innovation Tax, Rather Than Catalyst for Innovation (thenoisychannel.com)
		56 points by powertower on April 30, 2011 \| 12 comments
24.		The road ahead for Rust (pcwalton.blogspot.com)
		54 points by icey on April 30, 2011 \| 6 comments
25.		All-time greatest failed Internet startup (quora.com)
		51 points by mg1313 on April 30, 2011 \| 32 comments
26.		Did the Sale of Pyrex Hurt the Crack-Cocaine Industry? (freakonomics.com)
		48 points by bjonathan on April 30, 2011 \| 28 comments
27.		Ask PG: Disconnecting Distraction progress?
		45 points by hella on April 30, 2011 \| 12 comments
28.		Ask HN: Have you written a book?
		44 points by nbashaw on April 30, 2011 \| 54 comments
29.		Show HN: crawl a website and store it in S3 from your browser (github.com/spullara)
		43 points by spullara on April 30, 2011 \| 12 comments
30.		Ask HN: ______ is to Python as K&R is to C?
		42 points by HedgeMage on April 30, 2011 \| 50 comments
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